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The Best Episodes of Coast

Every episode of Coast ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Coast!

The nation's love affair with the coast will be reawakened for this entertaining and ambitious exploration of the entire UK coastline. Every part of the 9,000-mile coast is covered to explore how we've shaped it

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Coast Season 1 Episode 1 - The Frontline: Dover To Exmouth
    0.0/10(14 votes)

    #1 - The Frontline: Dover To Exmouth

    S1:E1

    Traditionally the South coast of England is where we've fought our battles, and defended ourselves. A hop, skip and a jump away from the continent, divided only by the narrow stretch of the English Channel. It is Britain's front line.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Coast Season 1 Episode 2 - The Wild West: Exmouth To Bristol
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    #2 - 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!

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Coast Season 1 Episode 3 - Times and Tides: Bristol To Cardigan Bay
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    #3 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Coast Season 1 Episode 4 - The Travellers Coast: Cardigan Bay To The Dee
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    #4 - The Travellers Coast: Cardigan Bay To The Dee

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    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Coast Season 1 Episode 5 - Shifting Sands: Liverpool To Solway Firth
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    #5 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Coast Season 1 Episode 6 - The Troubled Coast: The Northern Ireland Coast
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    #6 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Coast Season 1 Episode 7 - Islands And Inlets: West Coast Of Scotland And Western Isles
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    #7 - Islands And Inlets: West Coast Of Scotland And Western Isles

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    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Coast Season 1 Episode 8 - Life On The Edge: Cape Wrath To Orkney
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    #8 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Coast Season 1 Episode 9 - The Working Coast: John O'Groats To Berwick
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    #9 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Coast Season 1 Episode 10 - The Forgotten Coast: Berwick To Whitby
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    #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.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Coast Season 1 Episode 11 - The Inventive Coast: Robin Hood's Bay To The Wash
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    #11 - 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!

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Coast Season 1 Episode 12 - The Vanishing Coast: The Wash To Dover
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    #12 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Coast Season 1 Episode 13 - The Future Coast
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    #13 - The Future Coast

    S1:E13

    The final programme examines coastal issues highlighted in earlier episodes: sea level rise and erosion; the health of our seas and wildlife, power generation; and access to our coast; as well as development.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Coast Season 1 Episode 14 - Coast Revisited: West of Scotland - Dover
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    #14 - Coast Revisited: West of Scotland - Dover

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    Director:Unknown
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  15. Coast Season 2 Episode 1 - Dover To Isle of Wight
    0.0/10(15 votes)

    #15 - Dover To Isle of Wight

    S2:E1

    The beautiful cliffs of Dover are a breathtaking sight. On this stretch of the coastline chalk has not only defined and shaped the landscape but has also been the starting point of many innovators and their pioneering work. Our guide Neil Oliver takes over from Nicholas Crane this series, and guides us along this journey of beautiful scenery and remarkable discoveries.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Coast Season 2 Episode 2 - Holyhead To Liverpool
    0.0/10(14 votes)

    #16 - Holyhead To Liverpool

    S2:E2

    Neil Oliver explores an inaccessible cave inlaid with beautiful stonework - who was the mystery builder? Nick shows us how to read the history of your local beach and Alice traces the story of a foreign boy washed up on the Welsh shore and how he changed the history of medicine.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Coast Season 2 Episode 3 - Arran To Gretna
    0.0/10(14 votes)

    #17 - Arran To Gretna

    S2:E3

    Why did Alfred Nobel, founder of the famous prizes, pick the South West of Scotland as the ideal site for the world's biggest explosives factory? Nicholas Crane discovers the remarkable use for the island of Ailsa Craig's beautiful granite.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Coast Season 2 Episode 4 - Cornwall & The Isles Of Scilly
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    #18 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Coast Season 2 Episode 5 - Dublin To Derry
    0.0/10(13 votes)

    #19 - Dublin To Derry

    S2:E5

    Discover why Dublin is the greatest coastal city, join Mark Horton as he goes in search of the wreck of the SS Great Britain and Miranda Krestovnikoff spends a day at the races. Alice Roberts visits a remarkable house designed to see the sea from every room.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Coast Season 2 Episode 6 - Newcastle To Hull
    0.0/10(12 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Coast Season 2 Episode 7 - The Outer Hebrides
    0.0/10(14 votes)

    #21 - 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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  22. Coast Season 2 Episode 8 - Felixstowe To Margate
    0.0/10(12 votes)

    #22 - 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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  23. Coast Season 3 Episode 1 - Shetland To Orkney
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    #23 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Coast Season 3 Episode 2 - Bournemouth To Plymouth
    0.0/10(12 votes)

    #24 - Bournemouth To Plymouth

    S3:E2

    Neil explores why Sandbanks in Poole Harbour has some of the world's most expensive houses. Alice builds her own coastal 'property' as she investigates the perfect sandcastle. Dick joins an American serviceman on an emotional journey, as he returns to the beach where he was given up for dead during World War Two.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Coast Season 3 Episode 3 - Southport To Whitehaven (Inc. The Isle Of Man)
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    #25 - Southport To Whitehaven (Inc. The Isle Of Man)

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    Miranda is in search of the biggest sharks in British waters. Mark sees the Royal Navy's next generation of top secret 'Attack' nuclear submarines and Alice meets a woman who as a child was in the Isle of Man's internment camps, where 'enemy aliens' in Britain were held during the Second World War.

    Director:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"The Frontline: Dover To Exmouth" is the best rated episode of "Coast". It scored /10 based on 14 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/22/2005. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Wild West: Exmouth To Bristol".