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The Best Episodes of Timeshift Season 6

Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Four

Every episode of Timeshift Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Timeshift Season 6!

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.
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  • Switch off Something - Britain and the Three Day Week
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    #1 - Switch off Something - Britain and the Three Day Week

    Season 6 Episode 1

    Aired 4/1/2006

    Welcome to 1973 - the year that saw the three-day week and the arrival of a fictional character from 2006 in the BBC1 drama Life on Mars. The success of the latter has acted as a springboard for a week-long BBC4 season. This excellent Time Shift concentrates on the winter of strikes and power cuts.

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  • Creating 'Life on Mars'
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    #2 - Creating 'Life on Mars'

    Season 6 Episode 2

    Aired 4/2/2006

    The creators of Life on Mars (2006) discuss the series and how it was made.

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  • The Da Vinci Code - The Greatest Story Ever Sold
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    #3 - The Da Vinci Code - The Greatest Story Ever Sold

    Season 6 Episode 3

    Aired 5/1/2006

    After The Da Vinci Code was cleared of plagiarism, this documentary explores the climate which has permitted it to make such an effective challenge to conventional history.

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  • Carry On Campus
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    #4 - Carry On Campus

    Season 6 Episode 4

    Aired 5/10/2006

    Nigel Planer narrates a documentary taking a fond look at the growing pains of the university through the eyes of the writers who immortalised it in the campus novel.

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  • Machine Men
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    #5 - Machine Men

    Season 6 Episode 5

    Aired 5/13/2006

    Documentary looking at the history of robots, androids and cyborgs in both fact and fiction. Contributors include sci-fi visionary Brian Aldiss and writer Kim Newman.

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  • Oz and Them
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    #6 - Oz and Them

    Season 6 Episode 6

    Aired 1/16/2007

    Documentary on the relationship between Australia and the UK since the Second World War, beginning with the Queen's 1954 visit to Australia and ending with the 2005 Ashes.

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  • Spy Stories: British Espionage in Fact and Fiction
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    #7 - Spy Stories: British Espionage in Fact and Fiction

    Season 6 Episode 7

    Aired 8/30/2006

    Bill Nighy narrates a documentary telling the story of the long and often extraordinary relationship between fact and fiction in the mysterious world of British espionage.

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  • Planet Ping Pong
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    #8 - Planet Ping Pong

    Season 6 Episode 8

    Aired 9/11/2006

    The story of table tennis and how it became the most popular sport in Asia. The programme revisits the glory days of the 30s and 40s, when thousands would cram into Wembley to watch top players do battle.

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  • Parallel Worlds: A User's Guide
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    #9 - Parallel Worlds: A User's Guide

    Season 6 Episode 9

    Aired 11/29/2006

    Playful viewer's guide to entering another dimension, narrated by Richard Ayoade, featuring some of TV and cinema's best-known alternate universes, from the likes of Star Trek, Sliders, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Futurama and Doctor Who.

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  • Transylvania Babylon
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    #10 - Transylvania Babylon

    Season 6 Episode 10

    Aired 12/28/2006

    A comic exploration of the cult of Dracula. From Bela Lugosi to bloodsucking bikes, with a Mexican tag-wrestling version thrown in for good measure, this ghoulish compilation is an entertaining homage to the vampire tradition gifted us by Bram Stoker's famous Count.

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  • The New Middle Classes
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    #11 - The New Middle Classes

    Season 6 Episode 11

    Aired 3/4/2007

    Where has a decade and more of rising prosperity across the social spectrum left Britain's middle class? Much bigger certainly. But does that mean we're all middle class now? Novelist Tim Lott takes a quirky and humorous journey through the new social landscape of Britain in search of some answers.

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  • Rover: The Long Goodbye
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    #12 - Rover: The Long Goodbye

    Season 6 Episode 12

    Aired 3/20/2007

    Documentary which traces the rise and fall of a great British brand, exploring how Rover cars went from defining their eras to becoming victims of their times.

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  • First Rites: From the Cradle to the Prom
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    #13 - First Rites: From the Cradle to the Prom

    Season 6 Episode 13

    Aired 3/24/2007

    Documentary which looks at how the rituals that mark our milestones in life - baptism, the first day at school, the first drink - are changing in today's society.

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  • Wedding Rites: In Sickness and in Health
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    #14 - Wedding Rites: In Sickness and in Health

    Season 6 Episode 14

    Aired 3/25/2007

    Documentary looking at how and why weddings are on the increase and divorce rates in decline in the UK, and if it's the end for traditions and rituals which go back centuries.

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  • Goodbye Children Everywhere
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    #15 - Goodbye Children Everywhere

    Season 6 Episode 15

    Aired 5/26/2007

    Documentary which celebrates the high and lows of children's TV and asks if the future of mainstream television be one where children are neither seen nor heard, as ITV cuts back on its commitment and the BBC now only makes programmes for under-11s.

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"Switch off Something - Britain and the Three Day Week" is the best rated episode of "Timeshift" season 6. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/1/2006. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Creating 'Life on Mars'".