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The Best Seasons of Timeshift

Every season of Timeshift ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of Timeshift!

Top season
Season 5
7.8avg
Best episode
S13E7 How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
8.248 votes
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WorstEpisodes
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#1

Season 5

22 Episodes

First Aired: May 2005

7.8/ 10
Average Rating
Best episodeE15 · A Study in Sherlock 7.8
#2

Season 16

5 Episodes

First Aired: Oct 2016

7.8/ 10
Average Rating
Best episodeE3 · Penny Blacks & Twopenny Blues: How Britain Got Stuck on Stamps 8.4
#3

Season 12

10 Episodes

First Aired: Sep 2012

7.7/ 10
Average Rating
Best episodeE6 · When Wrestling was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies 7.2

Other Seasons

#4

Season 9

9 Episodes

First Aired: Apr 2009

7.7/ 10
Average Rating
Best episodeE5 · How to Win at Chess 7.6
#5

Season 13

7 Episodes

First Aired: Oct 2013

7.6/ 10
Average Rating
Best episodeE7 · How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective 8.2
#6

Season 17

3 Episodes

First Aired: Apr 2017

7.5/ 10
Average Rating
Best episodeE3 · Dial 'B' for Britain: The Story of the Landline 7.5
#7

Season 10

9 Episodes

First Aired: Sep 2010

7.5/ 10
Average Rating
Best episodeE4 · Nordic Noir: The Story of Scandinavian Crime Fiction 7.3
#8

Season 8

8 Episodes

First Aired: Sep 2008

7.4/ 10
Average Rating
Best episodeE3 · Last Days of Steam 8.3
#9

Season 15

6 Episodes

First Aired: Sep 2015

7.4/ 10
Average Rating
Best episodeE5 · Looking for Mr Bond: 007 at the BBC 7.2
#10

Season 11

11 Episodes

First Aired: Apr 2011

7.3/ 10
Average Rating
Best episodeE6 · Dear Censor - The secret archive of the British Board of Film Classification 7.6
#11

Season 6

15 Episodes

First Aired: Apr 2006

7.3/ 10
Average Rating
Best episodeE12 · Rover: The Long Goodbye 7.3
#12

Season 3

13 Episodes

First Aired: Oct 2003

7.1/ 10
Average Rating
Best episodeE2 · The Kneale Tapes 7.5
#13

Season 4

21 Episodes

First Aired: Jun 2004

7.0/ 10
Average Rating
Best episodeE6 · Live on the Night: The Story of Live TV Drama 7.5
#14

Season 14

6 Episodes

First Aired: May 2014

6.8/ 10
Average Rating
Best episodeE5 · The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail 7.3
#15

Season 7

13 Episodes

First Aired: Apr 2007

6.8/ 10
Average Rating
Best episodeE5 · Emmylou Harris's Ten Commandments of Country 8.0
#16

Season 2

10 Episodes

First Aired: May 2003

6.7/ 10
Average Rating
Best episodeE1 · The​ Great​ British​ Seaside​ Holiday​ 6.7
#17

Season 1

16 Episodes

First Aired: Oct 2002

5.8/ 10
Average Rating
Best episodeE14 · Malcolm Muggeridge: Swimming Against the Stream 5.8

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Top-rated Timeshift episodes

  1. #1How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective S13E78.2
  2. #2The Engine That Powers the World S15E38.3
  3. #3Last Days of Steam S8E38.3
  4. #4The Golden Age of Liners S9E28.4
  5. #5Klezmer S12E38.4

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