Timeshift - Season 6
Season 6
Network
Episodes18
DatesApr 1, 2006 - May 22, 2006
Episodes
Season 6Episode 160 min
Switch Off Something
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.
Apr 1, 2006
Season 6Episode 260 min
Creating Life on Mars
The creators of Life on Mars (2006) discuss the series and how it was made.
Apr 2, 2006
Season 6Episode 360 min
The Da Vinci Code: The Greatest Story Ever Sold
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.
May 1, 2006
Season 6Episode 460 min
Carry On Campus
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.
May 10, 2006
Season 6Episode 560 min
Machine Men
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.
May 13, 2006
Season 6Episode 660 min
Oz and Them
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.
Aug 1, 2006
Season 6Episode 760 min
Spy Stories: British Espionage in Fact and Fiction
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.
Aug 29, 2006
Season 6Episode 860 min
Planet Ping Pong
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.
Sep 11, 2006
Season 6Episode 960 min
Parallel Worlds: A User's Guide
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.
Nov 28, 2006
Season 6Episode 1060 min
Transylvania Babylon
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.
Dec 28, 2006
Season 6Episode 1160 min
The New Middle Classes
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.
Mar 4, 2007
Season 6Episode 1260 min
Rover: The Long Goodbye
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.
Mar 20, 2007
Season 6Episode 1360 min
First Rites: From the Cradle to the Prom
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.
Mar 24, 2007
Season 6Episode 1460 min
Wedding Rites: In Sickness and in Health
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.
Mar 25, 2007
Season 6Episode 1560 min
Goodbye Children Everywhere
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.
May 26, 2007
Season 6Episode 1860 min
The British Space Race
May 22, 2006
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