NaN/100 votes#1 - MPs on the Box
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 5/19/2005
Time Shift looks at how satirists have portrayed politicians in such television creations as Yes Minister Spitting Image and The New Statesman.
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NaN/100 votes#2 - Je T'Aime... How We Learned to Love Europe
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 5/31/2005
Sixty years ago, postwar Europe was seen as a dirty, chaotic place where you couldn't drink the water. Now Brits dream of restoring crumbling chateaux in rural France - so what happened to change our minds?
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NaN/100 votes#3 - England Away
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 5/31/2005
Time Shift examines the history of English football fans travelling to Europe, and the attendant sub-culture of drinking and violence.
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#4 - Court on Camera
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 7/16/2005
A member of OJ Simpson's "dream team", plus the lawyer who defended nanny Louise Woodward , are among contributors to Time Shift's history of the camera in the courtroom.
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NaN/100 votes#5 - Apes in Hollywood
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 7/17/2005
Since King Kong broke box office records, apes have been big business. Time Shift takes a wry look at a neglected genre, from Tarzan and Planet of the Apes to B-movies and cult films, like Bedtime with Bonzo.
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#6 - Star Men
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 8/6/2005
Adam Hart-Davis explores the world of Britain's 40,000 amateur astronomers. While the last century saw amateurs eclipsed by high technology, increasingly sophisticated home equipment has seen the amateur community enter a new collaborative relationship with the professionals. Contributors include bestselling novelist Terry Pratchett, Colin Pillinger of the Beagle 2 project and the godfather of popular astronomy Patrick Moore.
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#7 - Black and White Minstrels Revisited
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 8/8/2005
Time Shift takes a look at the now notorious show, whose blacked-up singing and dancing routines ruled the weekend schedules for 21 years.
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#8 - Too Much, Too Young
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 9/9/2005
Time Shift charts the devastating effect on children - some as young as five - who care for infirm parents
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#9 - The Jitterbug Years
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 10/1/2005
Documentary recalling the social revolution which swept across Britain from 1946. A new dance craze, the Jitterbug, captured the mood of the country as years of war and austerity were cast off. The film uses archive footage and a soundtrack of classic hits, including music by Louis Jordan, Alma Cogan, Billie Holiday and Ray Charles.
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#10 - Play It Again
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 10/4/2005
Remembering the golden age of the TV panel game as What's My Line?, The Name's the Same and Ask Your Dad make their debuts during the years 1945-55. Narrated by Hugh Dennis
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#11 - The Battle for the Ashes
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 10/20/2005
The changing sporting fortunes of England and Australia as recounted in this Time Shift documentary.
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NaN/100 votes#12 - The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 10/25/2005
Time Shift investigates how Life magazine's opposition to Attlee's radical Labour government inspired them to suppress photographs of the 1950 general election.
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NaN/100 votes#13 - The Third Progamme: High Culture for All in Postwar Britain
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 10/25/2005
Francine Stock narrates the story of the Third Programme, a high-culture radio show launched in 1946, focusing on how the series influenced the British arts scene.
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#14 - Lost Road: Overland To Singapore
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 10/30/2005
In 1955 young producer of Travellers' Tales David Attenborough was persuaded by six Oxbridge undergraduates to give some money & filmstock so they could film their unique overland journey by Land Rover from London to Singapore.
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#15 - A Study in Sherlock
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/2005
Documentary explores the continuing appeal of Sherlock Holmes through his various screen incarnations, from early silent films through the classic portrayals by Basil Rathbone and Peter Cushing to the BBC's most recent Rupert Everett version. Contributors include Minette Walters, Kim Newman and Edward Hardwicke.
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NaN/100 votes#16 - Baker Street Babylon: The Bizarre Afterlife of Sherlock Holmes
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 12/26/2005
Time Shift presents clips of the strangest Sherlocks, with pastiche and parody from Roland Rat to John Cleese.
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NaN/100 votes#17 - Stephen Poliakoff: A Brief History of Now
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/15/2006
Robert Lindsay and Miranda Richardson guest in Time Shift's profile of the TV dramatist.
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#18 - The British Way of Death
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/6/2006
Daniela Nardini narrates a documentary exploring why the British funeral has acquired a new spirit of informality. Today's departed are just as likely to be sent on their way to the strains of Robbie Williams as they are to a classic hymn. A bewildering array of coffin styles is available, with even an environmentally-friendly wicker casket for the organically-minded. Are we improvising new rituals to fill a more profound vacuum in our secular society?
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#19 - Left of Frame: The Rise and Fall of Radical TV Drama
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/2006
Jimmy McGovern and Ken Loach are among those reflecting on left-wing drama of the 1960s and 70s, looking at works as diverse as Take Me Home and Our Friends in the North.
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#20 - Rude Britannia
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/13/2006
From Pygmalion to Paxman, Time Shift traces the cult of plain-speaking. Narrated by Tamsin Greig.
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#21 - The Sun and the Moon
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 3/6/2006
A quirky Time Shift compilation of TV appearances by these two heavenly bodies, including Patrick Moore 's meeting with a vicar who refuses to believe the Sun is hot.
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#22 - Pay Attention Britain! Public Information Films
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 3/30/2006
Marking 60 years of the Central Office of Information, Time Shift celebrates PIFs, from HIV awareness to "Charley Says".
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The Best Episodes of Timeshift Season 5
Every episode of Timeshift Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Timeshift Season 5!
Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Four
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"MPs on the Box" is the best rated episode of "Timeshift" season 5. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/19/2005. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Je T'Aime... How We Learned to Love Europe".