Time Team Extra

Infobox television
show_name = Time Team Extra


format = Documentary
runtime = 30 minutes
(including adverts)
creator =
producer =
presenter = Robin Bush
country = United Kingdom
network = Channel 4
first_aired = 11 January
last_aired = 8 March 1998
num_episodes = 8
website =
imdb_id = 0959983
tv_com_id =
preceded_by = "Time Signs"
"Time Team"
related = "History Hunters"
"Time Team Digs"

"Time Team Extra" is a British television series that aired on Channel 4 in 1998. Presented by Robin Bush, it is a companion programme to the archaeology series "Time Team", that first aired on Channel 4 in 1994.

"Time Team Extra" is an eight-part series, with each episode accompanying an episode of "Time Team"'s fifth series. The episodes look more into the history of the site being excavated.

Production

The location footage for the series was filmed across the UK and Ireland, including Hampton Court Palace, Jorvik Viking Centre, Stonehenge and Mellifont Abbey. The interviews with the guest were filmed at Hughenden Manor in Buckinghamshire, in the library of Benjamin Disraeli.

Episodes

Each episode of "Time Team Extra" is thirty minutes long and originally aired from 11 January to 8 March 1998 on Channel 4.cite web|url=http://www.timeteam.k1z.com/index.php?pid=19|title=Time Team Extra|accessdate=2008-02-16|author=|last=|first=|year=|format=|work=|publisher=Unofficial Time Team Site] In each episode, historian Robin Bush and a guest look back at the week before's "Time Team" episode. "Time Team"'s fifth series aired from 4 January to 1 March 1998.cite web|url=http://www.timeteam.k1z.com/index.php?pid=5|title=The 1998 Series|accessdate=2008-02-16|author=|last=|first=|year=|format=|work=|publisher=Unofficial Time Team Site]

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