Poll: What's your favourite Classic Special? (Just for fun)
Added 2023-12-07 09:23:44 +0000 UTC
We've now released 8 Classic Specials from the vaults (that's 4 on YouTube and 4 more on Patreon). There are plenty more on the way, but we'd like to know: which one have you enjoyed the most so far?
Let us know in our 'just for fun' poll. You can only choose one option (it will be submitted automatically once you click on the selection), so please choose carefully!
If you'd like, please let us know your top 3 from the list in the comments, explaining your reasoning behind the choices.
Find all the Classic Specials using the links below:
Patreon Collection: Click here
You can also use the comments to suggest other Classic Specials that you'd like to be re-released in future. (Please note: there are various permissions and processes involved before we can make old episodes available, but we are working on releasing more from the archive!)
Comments
I think my all time favorite show was when a Roman villa's mosaic floor was uncovered. I can't recall the name. My memory is bad now, but I was as excited as the diggers with every brush stroke revealing something new. Second to that of course is anything relating to ancient Britain stone rings, or barrows.
Marguerite Mikelyn Allred Crawford
2024-10-08 19:00:00 +0000 UTCit is a great honor to be able to support a show I ideally love, I am truly grateful for all the men and women who with all their knowledge, love, and respect for all the sites that they go to in order to make available to me such a great informative show. I want to thank you all very very much.
Lewis Davis
2024-03-14 12:30:42 +0000 UTCI must apologize for my phone having a mind of its own and changing words after I have edited what I want to send, and since I'm not very computer literate I am proud to say after six months I'm finally able to send you this text
Lewis Davis
2024-02-15 05:37:21 +0000 UTCbeing Navajo and A mix of other nationalities I've always been interested in where The neighborhood nation first originated. So from Egyptian mummies to the mummies of Brazil is very intriguing to watch such professionals dig with respect and pride not just mummies but the remains of those who were here thousands and thousand years ago, such as the metal buckets Which are rare and the men women and children you dug with such care Just reinforces my to learn all I can about a culture that is just about extinct. with love and respect I applaud all of you at time team
Lewis Davis
2024-02-15 05:33:25 +0000 UTCHi all, on the topic of my favourite broadcast. I can't cut it down to just one. Personally it's the ones that show archeology, as I believe it is, looking for stains in the ground. Even those where it's coming down to the last few hours, until they are able to get the real story and use the lumps and bumps in the fields to answer the request. So keep up the fantastic work.
Barry Jones
2024-02-10 11:51:38 +0000 UTCHi Kat, once you click on a selection the vote automatically goes through. Thanks for your choice, look out for more on the way!
Time Team
2024-01-12 18:01:41 +0000 UTCTrying to vote and it keeps not allowing the vote. The secretly garden is a favorite
Kat Monster
2024-01-07 00:03:30 +0000 UTCI have really enjoyed watching the end of year wrap up for 2023, and finding out what has been the favourite site for each of the TT members. Also the Secret Santa video, which was brilliant.
Helen L Robinson
2023-12-31 07:19:16 +0000 UTCInteresting that my choice (Secrets of the Stately Garden) seems to be among the least popular. It completely changed my thinking about castle gardens. I always saw them as extremely boring places (I blame all the school trips) - not so much now.
Jakub JΕ―zl
2023-12-20 16:03:09 +0000 UTCDifficult choice! Secrets of the Stately Garden was magical. The atmosphere and the story were superb. And a new avenue for TT to plunge in. My second π₯ is King of Bling, it was absolutely fascinating. And third π₯ Journey to Stonehenge. Lots has happened since then but still a soft spot.
Alex P.Real
2023-12-14 22:10:52 +0000 UTCI thoroughly enjoy watching all of your specials, but my favourite is the Bronze Age Mummies in Lower Hawksley. I have always had a fascination with prehistoric history and hope to one day travel to the Orkneys.
Helen L Robinson
2023-12-09 08:03:23 +0000 UTCAs a musician, the reconstruction of the lyre made the "King of Bling" my hands-down favorite. I couldn't give any other answer.
Eric Fretheim
2023-12-09 03:57:29 +0000 UTCYes! What Luke said π
Patricia Amero
2023-12-09 02:44:00 +0000 UTCI was able to join the dig at Lindisfarne with Dig Ventures this season (using my Time Team trowel, of course!). While I was there, I hiked all around Holy Island, toured Bamburgh Castle on a rare day off, and explored the surrounding countryside. So for me, Castle of the Saxon Kings will forever hold a very special place in my heart.
Mick Holden
2023-12-09 00:45:31 +0000 UTCVery hard call as they are all, in their various ways, pretty brilliant, it really did take me a while to decide. As my old mate Fish (of Marillion fame) once wrote, I was "trapped in the indecision of another fine menu" so thanks for providing me with such a fine menu. Keep up the good work.
Fergus Campbell
2023-12-08 20:48:49 +0000 UTCThis was tough to decide!
Victoria Gartman
2023-12-08 17:25:33 +0000 UTCThe Seahenge special was always my favourite. Itβs my strongest memory of when I first discovered Time Team. It was such an amazing structure - a henge, organic material, and an ancient above ground space that you could picture as it had been so very long ago - even without the modern reconstruction
Lewis Buckingham
2023-12-08 11:58:17 +0000 UTCπ Ely Special please... a mini update of 'preserved finds' & site wrap-up info would be incredible. I think it was called Island of the Eels?
Patricia Amero
2023-12-08 10:53:44 +0000 UTCYes please, I'm with you on the Ely Special, one of my all-time favs in the specials episodes and I super wish to see a site report follow-up by Tony or Dani. That was an awesome site π
Patricia Amero
2023-12-08 10:43:55 +0000 UTCI have enjoyed all of the Classic specials. Thank you for striving to provide us additional content.
Di
2023-12-08 08:36:28 +0000 UTCFor me it was Stonehenge. When the Stonehenge traveling exhibition came to Denver I went into the exhibit I watched some of the video pieces. And lo! There on the video was Phil! I felt like such an insider!
Theresa Cashin
2023-12-08 03:09:07 +0000 UTCI love the specials and hope you post other Time Team shows, like Time Signs, The Time Traveller, Time Team Extra, and all the full live programs.
Luke T Jacobs
2023-12-08 02:18:44 +0000 UTCSecrets of the Stately Garden was my choice. Just something about it that piques my interest.
Ryan Cole
2023-12-08 01:53:16 +0000 UTCI chose, Secrets of the Stately Garden & why, well Capability Brown has always fascinated me & I always wanted to know how he did it all. He was not only very good at being a gardener, but he was also in many ways a con artist. I never thought that tunnels would be found under his gardens & now I wonder if other members of his family were in the brick making & field tile making business, they too would have done well out of Brown's endeavours.
Bede Browne
2023-12-08 00:53:47 +0000 UTCI like all of the Specials. In some way, each of them could be my top one (I voted for Steel City) but I found the Bronze Age Mummies programme so informative that I used the knowledge gained as the basis for a short story which has been published!
Lynn Edwards
2023-12-07 23:08:12 +0000 UTCHi, all, i would like to see a revisit to some of the classic series sites.
Anne
2023-12-07 21:37:04 +0000 UTCWould love to see the Ely special.
Rick Shepard
2023-12-07 21:21:28 +0000 UTCJamestown - can you please add it to your list?
Kevin Hogan
2023-12-07 21:16:37 +0000 UTCIt was hard to pick!!
J. Andrew Lockhart
2023-12-07 20:32:27 +0000 UTCI'm enjoying seeing them all; the Specials are otherwise unavailable for viewing in the US. I voted for the Shakespeare's House episode, but like all of the others, too, even the Gardens episode, which isn't getting much love in the polling.
Greg Waselkov
2023-12-07 20:02:03 +0000 UTCThe Coventry Cathedral ones are my most memorable. I would love to see them again. And wasn't there one that found the oldest dock in Liverpool? That would be good to see again.
Wessex-Wyvern
2023-12-07 18:04:22 +0000 UTCNot fair I love so many. I also liked Bronze age mummies and Castle of Saxon Kings. Searching of Shakespeare's House is great too. Keep them coming.
Michelle Curiel
2023-12-07 18:00:23 +0000 UTCIn 1972 I visited a friend & her family in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. I was astonished at the Roman roads we drove on, so "normal", and the church still in use, now the COE. I found TIME TEAM in early-2000s and continue to view the episodes, repeatedly, always enjoying the comradery, and with each site, I learn illuminating aspects of our human history, as Modern Humans, and the extraordinary skill and sophistication of communities of Ancient Ancestors of thousands of years ago, as well as the social and cultural life indicated by the forensics of materials. Our Ancestors clearly had different goals, not of STEM but of Lifeways of Abundance and Enjoyment. We Moderns are so arrogant in thinking we've invented Progress, now collapsing our World, and dismissing our Ancient Ancestors as lacking what we think of as our superiority. Thank you Mick Aston thank you each and all and the New Time Team. Martha, Cultural Anthropologist, Texas
Martha Berryman
2023-12-07 16:59:12 +0000 UTCI like all of them. More modern history is not generally my favorite topic, but I really enjoyed "Secrets of the Stately Garden". Weaved the political thinking of the time, and what statements landscape architects were trying to make in different eras.
Dyana Mason
2023-12-07 16:42:14 +0000 UTCI watched all the available episodes and specials during covid, and found that there were some that weren't available here in the US. Those are the ones I would like to see.
Evelyn G Kimbrell
2023-12-07 15:38:18 +0000 UTCI liked all that I have watched! But as requested, top 3 from a non UK viewer who surely knows a lot less than most locals: Maybe recency bias (it's the latest I watched) but the Shakespeare's House one just somehow tickled me the most. My other two picks would be ones with topics I basically knew nothing of beforehand: Castle of the Saxon Kings and Secrets of the Stately Garden. The start of the latter episode, with the tunnels below the "natural" looking landscape and, well, the mention of the name of the designer Capability Brown (who is probably basic knowledge to most - but I finally understood the name of a particular Terry Pratchett character), really drew me in. And the scenery during the castle episode was just spectacular while the "plot" kept progressing all through the episode in true Time Team fashion.
Mika
2023-12-07 15:29:26 +0000 UTCWhichever one had the most of Phil Harding in it π¬
Carrie S
2023-12-07 14:56:54 +0000 UTCWhy choose one? I don't care for mummies much but they all are wonderful.
Priscilla Waller
2023-12-07 14:49:49 +0000 UTCI do enjoy all of the episodes, but a few stand out as my favorites... Friar's Wash - the Roman temples, and oh the Saxon great hall dig with Dr Hamerow (sp)
Gary Norman
2023-12-07 13:15:16 +0000 UTCFor future consideration - the one where the team went back to Coventry Cathedral to follow up on the massive amount of work that was done after the team did the initial 3-day investigation. It always amazed me how much was surviving just under the surface
Richard Stedall
2023-12-07 12:02:21 +0000 UTCThe highlight of most "specials" for me isn't the dig (better presented in the regular episodes) or even the background (often well-known subjects) but the experimental cameos. So I voted for Steel City because of the steel-making, but I also loved the unearthing of local workers' domestic lives.
doublespiraller
2023-12-07 11:55:14 +0000 UTCMUMMIES π§
Anna Γstman
2023-12-07 11:17:27 +0000 UTCThere all great really
Under The Bodie
2023-12-07 10:47:45 +0000 UTCSo hard to pick! I selected Journey to Stonehenge as my very favorite but could have also chosen Castle of the Saxon King. I have not seen any of the specials before, so canβt say what Iβd like to see next other than βall of themβ! π
Joanne Kellam
2023-12-07 10:39:20 +0000 UTCHard to choose. If I had to: war of the roses.
BlearyCabbage8
2023-12-07 10:24:51 +0000 UTCJourney to Stonehenge, which I happened to buy on DVD when it was released, was so helpful when I was studying for an Undergraduate Certificate in the Archaeology of Ancient Britain with Cambridge Uni's ICE. The experimental archaeology was very helpful in being able to visualise what places like Seahenge and Woodhenge would have looked like, and especially how it might have felt being inside such enclosures.
Kerry Hennigan
2023-12-07 09:54:13 +0000 UTCAll wonderful, especially if Phil Harding is in it ! x
Berengaria Fitzhamon-Davis
2023-12-07 09:46:21 +0000 UTCHard to choose just 1; love them all!
Melinda Zisko
2023-12-07 09:40:44 +0000 UTCThey were all great.....time team always does a great job.
Christina M Gravatt
2023-12-07 09:37:11 +0000 UTCThe unmasking of the fake archeological site! (Barbed wire under mediaeval sword)
David Hardy
2023-12-07 09:35:12 +0000 UTC
