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The Best Episodes of Timeshift Season 9

Every episode of Timeshift Season 9 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Timeshift Season 9!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Timeshift Season 9 Episode 2 - The Golden Age of Liners
    8.4/10(12 votes)

    S9:E2

    Paul Atterbury travels around Britain finding out how the great ocean liners made such a mark on the popular imagination and why they continue to enchant.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Timeshift Season 9 Episode 5 - How to Win at Chess
    7.6/10(21 votes)

    S9:E5

    In a programme showing how to play better chess, British grandmasters Dan King and Ray Keene go through a demonstration game from opening gambit to checkmate.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Timeshift Season 9 Episode 8 - Bread: A Loaf Affair
    7.5/10(9 votes)

    S9:E8

    Documentary about the rise of the popular loaf in Britain. After the holy grail of affordable white bread was achieved, dietary experts began to trumpet the virtues of brown.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Timeshift Season 9 Episode 6 - Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
    7.2/10(14 votes)

    S9:E6

    A celebration of the life and work of Oliver Postgate, the man behind some of Britain's best-loved children's TV programmes, including Bagpuss, the Clangers and Ivor the Engine.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Timeshift Season 9 Episode 1 - Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S9:E1

    Documentary about the history of British food science meets a man who pioneered instant soup for Batchelors, and discovers how Quorn was invented to prevent a global food crisis.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Timeshift Season 9 Episode 3 - The Men Who Built the Liners
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S9:E3

    Documentary looking at the unique culture that grew up in the Clyde shipyards of Scotland, where the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth and the QE2 were built.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Timeshift Season 9 Episode 4 - The Last Days of the Liners
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S9:E4

    Documentary telling how, in the years after the Second World War and with national pride and prestige at stake, countries competed to launch the most magnificent passenger ships.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Timeshift Season 9 Episode 7 - Clement Freud: In His Own Words
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S9:E7

    Documentary which draws together interviews with the late Clement Freud - Liberal MP, cookery expert, newspaper columnist and author - from across four decades.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Timeshift Season 9 Episode 9 - Disappearing Dad
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S9:E9

    Novelist Andrew Martin takes a wry look at the way fathers are represented in fiction and film, and finds that they tend to be depicted as marginal, loopy or entirely absent.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 9 Ratings Summary

"The Golden Age of Liners" is the best rated episode of Timeshift season 9. It scored 8.4/10 from 12 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on October 22, 2009. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "How to Win at Chess".