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The Best Episodes of Coast

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Coast Season 1 Episode 11 - The Inventive Coast: Robin Hood's Bay To The Wash
    9.2/10(11 votes)

    #1 - The Inventive Coast: Robin Hood's Bay To The Wash

    S1:E11

    Nick retraces the steps of smugglers in Robin Hoods Bay; Neil goes to the first Butlins Holiday camp in Skegness; whilst Mark sets sail in a recreated bronze age boat; and Alice recreates alum crystals using stale urine!

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  2. Coast Season 3 Episode 1 - Shetland To Orkney
    9.2/10(13 votes)

    #2 - Shetland To Orkney

    S3:E1

    Over 230 islands make up the Northern Isles - The Shetland and Orkney. These magnificent islands are made up of rock stacks, secret inlets and spectacular scenery, surrounded by sometimes extreme sea and weather conditions that have shaped these islands. Neil Oliver joins an expedition climbing the Old Man of Hoy in Orkney and finds out about the Second World War freedom fighters who risked their lives running the "Shetland Bus". Miranda Krestovnikoff goes in search of an elusive octopus, Nicholas Crane finds evidence of a tsunami that devastated Britain 7,000 years ago and Alice Roberts unearths a mysterious skeleton that reveals more about the lives of ancient Shetlanders.

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  3. Coast Season 3 Episode 8 - The Channel Islands To Dover
    9.1/10(11 votes)

    #3 - The Channel Islands To Dover

    S3:E8

    Neil investigates the tragic story of the first channel swimmer. Alice explores Jersey's remarkable post war transformation from Nazi stronghold to 'Honeymoon Island'. Miranda enters secret caves and Mark reveals why the islanders on Guernsey remain loyal to the Queen, despite being outside the United Kingdom.

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  4. Coast Season 2 Episode 6 - Newcastle To Hull
    9.0/10(14 votes)

    #4 - Newcastle To Hull

    S2:E6

    The concrete and steel of the North East coast conceal a remarkable history of religious passion that transformed Britain and touched every corner of the world. Neil Oliver explores this ancient coastal landscape and also reveals its contribution to the abolition of the slave trade.

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  5. Coast Season 2 Episode 7 - The Outer Hebrides
    9.0/10(15 votes)

    #5 - The Outer Hebrides

    S2:E7

    At the outermost edge of the British Isles, we discover the struggle to survive in this harsh but stunningly beautiful myriad of islands big and small. Crystal clear water and powder white beaches conceal a history of human tragedy and joy.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Coast Season 3 Episode 4 - Cardiff To St David's
    9.0/10(11 votes)

    #6 - Cardiff To St David's

    S3:E4

    Neil discovers how a beach became the 'fastest place on earth' 80 years ago. Mark explores how Swansea's monopoly of the copper trade sped Nelson towards his Trafalgar victory. Miranda joins dolphins at the coast raising their young and Alice boards a dredger to discover how much sand we are consuming.

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  7. Coast Season 3 Episode 7 - King's Lynn To Felixstowe
    9.0/10(10 votes)

    #7 - King's Lynn To Felixstowe

    S3:E7

    Neil explores the site of an experimental Radar, built to spy on the Soviet Union. Alice tries to capture the beauty of Southwold in paint. Nicholas discovers how tides and weather can cause catastrophic floods and Hermione meets a woman who intercepted German radio messages from the Norfolk coast during World War 2.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Coast Season 1 Episode 2 - The Wild West: Exmouth To Bristol
    8.9/10(10 votes)

    #8 - The Wild West: Exmouth To Bristol

    S1:E2

    Dr Alice Roberts investigates how greed led to a village being washed into the sea; Nick unearths the history of slavery in Plymouth; while Neil and Mark try to wreck a ship with nothing but a candle; and Miranda comes face to face with a shark!

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  9. Coast Season 1 Episode 5 - Shifting Sands: Liverpool To Solway Firth
    8.9/10(10 votes)

    #9 - Shifting Sands: Liverpool To Solway Firth

    S1:E5

    Alice discovers 5,000 year old footprints on the beach; whilst Nick investigates our worst lifeboat disaster; Mark is on the track of the Roman conquest of Northern Europe in Maryport and Neil ventures onto the treacherous sands of Morecambe Bay.

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  10. Coast Season 1 Episode 10 - The Forgotten Coast: Berwick To Whitby
    8.9/10(10 votes)

    #10 - The Forgotten Coast: Berwick To Whitby

    S1:E10

    Nick explores the holy island of Lindisfarne; Alice helps rebuild Britain's first house in Howick; whilst Neil examines the tensions in South Shields that led to race riots in the 1930s and Miranda gets up close and personal with grey seals.

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  11. Coast Season 1 Episode 12 - The Vanishing Coast: The Wash To Dover
    8.9/10(11 votes)

    #11 - The Vanishing Coast: The Wash To Dover

    S1:E12

    Nick investigates the freak floods of 1953; Alice explores the landbridge which joined us to the continent; whilst Nick meets Peter Boggis, a man trying to save his home from the sea; and Neil celebrates Trafalgar 200 examining an eye witness account of the battle.

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  12. Coast Season 2 Episode 8 - Felixstowe To Margate
    8.9/10(13 votes)

    #12 - Felixstowe To Margate

    S2:E8

    Alice Roberts savours the sea salt at Maldon, Miranda Krestovnikoff goes trawling on the Thames and we discover how the houses of Parliament can claim to be on the coast. We end the series with a remarkable cricket match miles out to sea on the eerie tidal landscape at Goodwin Sands.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Coast Season 3 Episode 6 - Galway To Baltimore
    8.9/10(13 votes)

    #13 - Galway To Baltimore

    S3:E6

    Neil discovers how mysterious flotsam inspired Columbus' journey to America. Alice explores the botanical puzzle of "The Burren" - where Arctic plants grow next to Mediterranean flowers. Miranda reveals the surprising secrets of seaweed that make it the special ingredient in everything from toothpaste to beer.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Coast Season 6 Episode 2 - The Netherlands
    8.9/10(8 votes)

    #14 - The Netherlands

    S6:E2

    The team's journey continues around the stunning shores of Devon and Cornwall. Nick Crane is on a fishing expedition on board one of the last remaining Brixham trawlers. He also explores how Henry VIII, fearing attack after his famous divorce, built a string of cleverly positioned forts all along the south coast. The Isles of Scilly are surrounded by lush, golden green underwater meadows of seagrass; Miranda Krestovnikoff explores the diverse wildlife of this natural sub-sea paradise. Mark Horton reveals the extraordinary story of how Lawrence of Arabia went to Plymouth, where he helped develop revolutionary fast rescue boats that saved countless lives in the Second World War. Dick Strawbridge learns the surprising secrets of the global steam power revolution pioneered in the tin mines of Cornwall some 200 years ago. And with the aid of some big wind machines, Alice Roberts creates her own perfect storm.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Coast Season 8 Episode 1 - Invaders of the Isles
    8.9/10(9 votes)

    #15 - Invaders of the Isles

    S8:E1

    The team returns to visit more locations around the nation's shoreline, beginning by exploring a diverse range of invasions. Nick Crane heads to the Channel Islands to learn about the German occupation of Guernsey during the Second World War, while Tessa Dunlop visits Norfolk to hear stories of a little-known Zeppelin bombing campaign on Britain during the Great War. Ruth Goodman goes to the Isle of Man to find out how it became the home of the TT motorcycle race, which attracts around 10,000 bikers from around the world each year, and Andy Torbet encounters a colony of water voles on a rocky outcrop in the seas off western Scotland.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Coast Season 1 Episode 3 - Times and Tides: Bristol To Cardigan Bay
    8.8/10(10 votes)

    #16 - Times and Tides: Bristol To Cardigan Bay

    S1:E3

    South Wales has the second highest tidal range in the world. It is the tidal surge that creates the Severn Bore: Nick follows the wave upstream; whilst Neil explores the history of Cardiff coal; and Alice gets acquainted with the Red Lady of Paviland.

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  17. Coast Season 1 Episode 4 - The Travellers Coast: Cardigan Bay To The Dee
    8.8/10(10 votes)

    #17 - The Travellers Coast: Cardigan Bay To The Dee

    S1:E4

    Neil discovers the story of a Welsh Atlantis lost beneath the waves; Miranda goes in search of leatherback turtles; whilst Alice descends into the caves of Great Orme and Nick canoes in the treacherous Menai Straits, to examine the bridges across to Anglesey.

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  18. Coast Season 1 Episode 7 - Islands And Inlets: West Coast Of Scotland And Western Isles
    8.8/10(11 votes)

    #18 - Islands And Inlets: West Coast Of Scotland And Western Isles

    S1:E7

    Neil joins the crew of the trident submarine HMS Vanguard; Miranda goes hunting for Minke whales; whilst Mark and Neil recreate the inter island rocket mail service; and Nick sails the beautiful Western Isles armed only with a 500 year guide book.

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  19. Coast Season 1 Episode 9 - The Working Coast: John O'Groats To Berwick
    8.8/10(11 votes)

    #19 - The Working Coast: John O'Groats To Berwick

    S1:E9

    Miranda heads to the Moray Firth, home to bottle nosed dolphins; Nick investigates the impact of the North Sea oil industry; whilst Neil meets a fishing family in Fraserburgh, facing a bleak future; and Alice reflects on the history of whaling in Dundee.

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  20. Coast Season 2 Episode 4 - Cornwall & The Isles Of Scilly
    8.8/10(16 votes)

    #20 - Cornwall & The Isles Of Scilly

    S2:E4

    Neil Oliver discovers the network of cables under a Porthcurno beach which wrap around the world in a tale of invention, espionage and surprise. Mark Horton visits the Isles of Scilly to meet the two football teams battling it out in Britain's smallest league and Alice Roberts paints up a storm in St Ives.

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  21. Coast Season 5 Episode 3 - Brittany
    8.8/10(8 votes)

    #21 - Brittany

    S5:E3

    Neil Oliver explores the province of Finistère, "The End of the Earth", and meets a lighthouse keeper made famous by one of the world's most reproduced photographs. Nick Crane joins the "Onion Johnnies", who gave us our stereotypical image of a Frenchman, complete with stripy tee shirt, beret and bicycle laden with onions. Alice Roberts reveals the life saving chemical element that's locked away inside seaweed and Miranda Krestovnikoff dives for a seafood delicacy. At Carnac, Mark Horton wanders amongst the mysterious lines of standing stones, erected thousands of years before Stonehenge, to investigate their age old connection with Britain.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Coast Season 6 Episode 3 - Devon and Cornwall
    8.8/10(6 votes)

    #22 - Devon and Cornwall

    S6:E3

    Coast ventures out to brand new territory, the astonishing man-made shoreline of the Netherlands. Nick Crane explores how ingenious Dutch engineers created massive coastal defences like no others on earth following the great North Sea flood in 1953 which killed thousands of people in the Netherlands and Britain. Nick also discovers how, during the Second World War, traitors from the British Indian Army took part in the Nazi occupation of the tiny isle of Texel - the unlikely site for the last battle in Europe of the Second World War. Coast newcomer, historian Tessa Dunlop, is on the trail of Tulipmania, the extraordinary trade in tulip bulbs that's said to have nearly bankrupted the Dutch nation nearly 400 years ago. Mark Horton reveals the age old skills that have made the Dutch the Grand Masters at creating new living space from the sea. Adam Henson, himself a farmer, investigates why cows from the coastal plains of the northern Netherlands became the most sought after milk producers in the world, and one of the most familiar sights in the British countryside. Miranda Krestovnikoff experiences how the Dutch delight in devouring raw herring as a sea side snack!

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Coast Season 6 Episode 6 - Sweden and the Baltic
    8.8/10(6 votes)

    #23 - Sweden and the Baltic

    S6:E6

    For centuries Britons have charted a course to the glorious coast of Sweden for its treasure trove of riches, now for the first time Coast explores the British connections to this stunning shore on the edge of the Baltic Sea. Nick Crane's journey starts in one of the most picturesque parts of Sweden, the dramatic peaks of the High Coast are a wonder of the world and, remarkably, the mountains are still growing at the rate of one centimetre every year. Nick also finds out why Britain's early engineers had to come to Sweden for iron to help forge our Industrial Revolution. Alice Roberts explores the extraordinary story of how, during the Second World War, Britain's military effort almost ground to a halt without Swedish ball bearings and how brave British servicemen beat the German blockade of the country. Mark Horton visits the world's most remarkable shipwreck, The Vasa, which has been called the Tutankhamun of maritime archaeology. Dick Strawbridge climbs the rigging of one of the last great commercial sailing ships, known as the Windjammers. As recently as the 1940s these tall ships managed to give steamships a run for their money. Dick discovers how in the days of Empire, the Windjammers connected Britain to Australia with their legendary grain races. The team also explore Abba Island and search out moose in Sweden's frozen North.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Coast Season 1 Episode 6 - The Troubled Coast: The Northern Ireland Coast
    8.7/10(10 votes)

    #24 - The Troubled Coast: The Northern Ireland Coast

    S1:E6

    Nick investigates how the building of the Antrim Coast mirrors the troubled history of the province; Neil uses computer imagery to rebuild the Titanic; Alice heads to the Giants Causeway and Mark explores the wreck of a Spanish Armada treasure ship.

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  25. Coast Season 1 Episode 8 - Life On The Edge: Cape Wrath To Orkney
    8.7/10(13 votes)

    #25 - Life On The Edge: Cape Wrath To Orkney

    S1:E8

    Nick takes part in a NATO exercise at the Cape Wrath bombing range; Neil meets the descendants of the people displaced by the Highland Clearances; and the survivors of the worst loss of British Naval life in Scapa Flow; whilst Alice visits the Dounreay reactor.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Inventive Coast: Robin Hood's Bay To The Wash" is the best rated episode of "Coast". It scored 9.2/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/26/2005. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Shetland To Orkney".