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The Worst Episodes of Timeshift

Every episode of Timeshift ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Timeshift!

Worst episode
S7E12 Stuffed: The Great British Christmas Dinner
5.910 votes
Best episode
S13E7 How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
8.248 votes
Top season
Season 5
7.8avg
Binge time
7d 15h
184 episodes
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Timeshift Season 7 Episode 12 - Stuffed: The Great British Christmas Dinner
    5.9/10(10 votes)

    S7:E12

    It's the season of peace and goodwill to all, when we think of those less fortunate than ourselves. It's also the time of year when we stuff our faces and gorge and drink ourselves silly. Christmas dinner is served. Being the last great feast in the British culinary tradition, what role does it play today?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Timeshift Season 1 Episode 14 - Malcolm Muggeridge: Swimming Against the Stream
    5.8/10(9 votes)

    S1:E14

    The controversial broadcaster is profiled by Time Shift. How did the son of a Croydon clerk become one of TV's geniune originals? Interviewees include Cormac Murphy O'Connor.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Timeshift Season 13 Episode 6 - Hurricanes and Heatwaves: The Highs and Lows of British Weather
    6.0/10(10 votes)

    S13:E6

    A national obsession is explored in this archive-rich look at the evolution of the weather forecast from print via radio to TV and beyond - and at the changing weather itself.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Timeshift Season 14 Episode 1 - Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem
    6.4/10(16 votes)

    S14:E1

    A look back at the bank holiday 'battles of the beaches', when hundreds of mods and rockers flocked to seaside resorts on scooters and motorbikes in search of thrills and spills.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Timeshift Season 14 Episode 4 - Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest
    6.6/10(16 votes)

    S14:E4

    The story of how film-makers turned the conquest of Himalayan peaks into great propaganda by Imperial Britain, Nazi Germany and superpower America from the 1920s to the 1960s.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Timeshift Season 14 Episode 3 - Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain
    6.7/10(15 votes)

    S14:E3

    How a traditional working-class pub game became a national obsession during the 1970s and 80s, and how television played a key role in elevating its players into household names.

    Director:Matthew Thomas
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Timeshift Season 7 Episode 3 - Gagging For It: TV's Hunger for Radio Comedy
    6.4/10(7 votes)

    S7:E3

    Since its earliest days, television has looked to radio comedy for the 'next big thing'. Radio hits from Hancock's Half-Hour to Little Britain have become TV classics. But other long-running radio favourites have died a death on the screen. So what makes for a sure-fire transfer?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Timeshift Season 4 Episode 5 - The History of Pubs
    6.5/10(8 votes)

    S4:E5

    Time Shift examines the very special place occupied by the pub in British society. Arthur Smith narrates, with contributions from Jeremy Hardy , Rowan Pelling and Pete Brown.

    Director:Kate Thomas
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Timeshift Season 2 Episode 1 - The​ Great​ British​ Seaside​ Holiday​
    6.7/10(10 votes)

    S2:E1

    Timeshift presents a bank holiday celebration of the British seaside holiday experience from its Victorian origins and heyday in the 1950s to its slow decline and attempts at reinvention since. Interviewees including Jonathan Meades, Martin Parr and Bill Pertwee explain the way that the seaside has always been the place we all visit to lose our inhibitions and reveal a different side to ourselves.

    Director:Amanda Reilly
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Timeshift Season 3 Episode 8 - The Jet Set
    6.7/10(8 votes)

    S3:E8

    Rich, distant and opulent, the jet set fascinated the public as they waved to us from airplane doorways before winging their way across the skies heading for yachts and exotic locations that the rest of us could only dream of. They were the aristocrats, the high fliers and high earners whose lives and loves fascinated us long before celebrity became a dirty word.

    Director:Liz Baker
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Timeshift Season 15 Episode 4 - The People's Liners: Britain's Lost Pleasure Fleets
    6.8/10(8 votes)

    S15:E4

    A voyage in the company of passengers and crew of the vintage steamers, which were common sight on the rivers and coastal waters around Britain.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Timeshift Season 11 Episode 9 - Epic: A Cast of Thousands!
    6.8/10(7 votes)

    S11:E9

    Documentary which goes behind the scenes to tell the stories of the biggest film genre of them all - the epic, from Ben-Hur to The Ten Commandments and from El Cid to Cleopatra.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Timeshift Season 8 Episode 1 - How to Be a Good President
    7.0/10(12 votes)

    S8:E1

    Helped by contributors including Shirley Williams, Douglas Hurd and Simon Hoggart, journalist Jonathan Freedland attempts to define the qualities which make a great US president.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jonathan Freedland

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  14. Timeshift Season 11 Episode 11 - The Rules of Drinking
    7.0/10(10 votes)

    S11:E11

    Documentary which digs into the archive to discover the unwritten rules that have governed the way we drink in Britain, from 1940s pubs and clubs to drinking at home or at work.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Timeshift Season 15 Episode 1 - The Trains That Time Forgot: Britain's Lost Railway Journeys
    7.1/10(15 votes)

    S15:E1

    Author and railway enthusiast Andrew Martin travels the route of three famous named trains from bygone days, the Cornish Riviera Express, the Flying Scotsman, and the Brighton Belle, to examine why we used to name trains, and why express trains of today no longer provide the level of luxury VIP service that they used to.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Timeshift Season 14 Episode 2 - Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather
    7.0/10(8 votes)

    S14:E2

    Lucie Green looks back through Britain's most dramatic weather history and sees how our reactions helped forge a weather science that today allows us to predict the worst extremes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Timeshift Season 16 Episode 1 - Bridging the Gap: How the Severn Bridge Was Built
    7.0/10(8 votes)

    S16:E1

    A look at the engineering behind the construction of the Severn Bridge, and the impact the bridge had on communities on either side of the river.

    Director:Julian Mercer
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Timeshift Season 15 Episode 5 - Looking for Mr Bond: 007 at the BBC
    7.2/10(31 votes)

    S15:E5

    After more than 60 years tracking James Bond in print and on screen, the BBC opens up its vaults to reveal the forgotten files on the world's most famous secret agent. Featuring rare and candid interviews with all six actors to play 007, and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, this is James Bond unguarded, unrestricted and unseen.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Timeshift Season 12 Episode 6 - When Wrestling was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies
    7.2/10(29 votes)

    S12:E6

    Timeshift looks back to a time when British professional wrestling attracted huge TV audiences and made household names of the likes of Mick McManus, Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Timeshift Season 3 Episode 9 - Missing Believed Wiped
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    S3:E9

    The story of Britain's lost generation of TV entertainment, from the golden age of light entertainment in the 1950s, via the "sacrilegious" tape erasing of the 1960s and 1970s, to recent lucky finds.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Timeshift Season 11 Episode 7 - Antarctica - Of Ice and Men
    7.2/10(20 votes)

    S11:E7

    Documentary which looks at why the most inhospitable place on the planet has exerted such a powerful hold on the imagination of explorers, scientists, writers and photographers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. 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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  23. Timeshift Season 11 Episode 10 - The Smoking Years
    7.2/10(8 votes)

    S11:E10

    With contributions from Barry Cryer, Stuart Maconie and others, this documentary tells the unnatural history of the now-threatened creature that is 'the smoker'.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Timeshift Season 11 Episode 8 - The Golden Age of Trams: A Streetcar Named Desire
    7.2/10(7 votes)

    S11:E8

    Documentary exploring how the tram liberated overcrowded cities, mapping its journey from horse-drawn carriage on rails to steam and then electric power.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Timeshift Season 10 Episode 4 - Nordic Noir: The Story of Scandinavian Crime Fiction
    7.3/10(26 votes)

    S10:E4

    Documentary which investigates the success of Scandinavian crime fiction, from Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy to Henning Mankell's brooding Wallander series.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Stuffed: The Great British Christmas Dinner" is the worst rated episode of Timeshift. It scored 5.9/10 from 10 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on December 23, 2007.

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