The Guerilla Base of the King | FULL EPISODE | Time Team

Season 1 Episode 1: A trip to Athelney in Somerset uncovers secrets of Alfred The Great's defeat of the Danes. Join the Time Team for another dig into Britain's history.
#TimeTeam #Archaeology #Athelney
Tony and the Time Team travel to Athelney, Somerset to investigate a series of hills - once islands in a bog. After having lost consecutively to invading Vikings, could this have been Alfred The Great's attempt to build a fortress?
Time Team is a British TV series following specialists who dig deep to uncover as much as they can about Britain's archaeology and history.

[@trottyong]

I love this show having been introduced to it via KZbin here in the states. I have become quite adept at guessing which season it is based on Tony's hair and the length of Phil's cut-offs.

[@seanpaula8924]

Same lol 👍

[@Rose-jz6ix]

Here I am say Phil without a hat. Wow. When I saw Sir Tony's hair, I thought of Blackadder. Everyone is so much younger.

[@deborahbaker4770]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@meaghanwillmott3163]

Look out for Micks striped jumper in later episodes, colors look faded and gets a bit tatty in later episodes😆

[@barbaracunningham3968]

😂😂😂

[@trudys8198]

The tech, the fashion, the hairlines. What a difference a few decades make. Thanks Time Team for the history, the insights, and the fun.

[@peterbockholm3176]

I have been ill for a long time and TT has been a really nice companion giving me intelligent and educational programs. I have not seen all episodes, just some 240+, but I feel ready to buy a trowel and an ugly hat and get busy finding some viking-stuff here in Sweden. Thank you for the relief.

[@louiserose2609]

Good luck to you!

[@deborahdauray8933]

Go for it!!

[@l.m.4014]

> Peter, are you feeling any better, these days....? Have you finished all the Time Team episodes yet? I too, am unwell and have been watching numerous TT's excavations at ungodly hours of the morning, when I can't sleep. (3:17 a.m. here ) Do they even sell ugly hats in Sweden? Haha.

[@PlatinumIrishrose]

Peter, Sweden was on my bucket list but now I will have to just let you enjoy it for me. . .What is your favorite place there? I'm praying for you and your family and friends. 😌

[@dotcassilles1488]

Ugly hat that Phil wears is called an "Akubra" made from leather (sometimes made from kangaroo skin in local myths). It is an Australian company and the original brand can set you back around $200 Australian dollars for the basic hat. It started off being a farming necessity here in Australia, to keep the sun/dust/rain/flies and bugs out of your eyes and from running down the inside of your collar. Has become a fashion accessory now. Just look at the Australian country music stars. The Akubra hats are pretty comfy (if they don't fit right you can get them "blocked" to fit your head). As they age they will develop the distinctive sweat stains that phils hat shows in later years. I mean if you wear them while working. Blessings from South Eastern Australia, Dot

[@karinoshea3330]

It was interesting to watch a very young Time Team do an investigation without digging anything. Not only was the Team young, so was Phil's hat! I hadn't heard the singing of a dot matrix printer in decades.. made me a bit nostalgic ☺️ thank you for making these available! Much love from Oklahoma!

[@thelegion_within]

omg I know - mick has hair that isnt white, tony isnt balding. it's crazy!

[@prechagirl]

The first episode 1994

[@TheAquaticMandolin]

After being introduced to them at a later date it was trippy as hell to come and see them so young. And to see the show Dynamics be so different.

[@lawrencetate1329]

I agree, with everything. I never would have imagined a world where printers aren't needed at all, feasibly.

[@silva7493]

I couldn't find Phil's hat. I looked for it as I watched because I like hats a lot, and I'd love to see what that one looked like originally. Phil himself looked young and fresh and new. Very nice. Maybe it was there, but I didn't see it. This is such a wonderful episode, I know I'd watch it again though.😃

[@Libbathegreat]

"Guthram lives out his days peacefully as a Christian king, until he finally snuffs it." Robin did have a way with words. I missed him in the later Time Team seasons.

[@richardlott579]

I have just started watching the show and really like Robin's input into the details. Did Robin pass away during the show?

[@Libbathegreat]

@@richardlott579 Robin "snuffed it" in 2010. The show was still on then but that was long after his departure.

[@richardlott579]

@@Libbathegreat awe sorry to hear that. He was great.

[@SyrinxofOz]

I think not having a historian/archivist later on was a loss to the show. All those primary sources! Interesting to see Tony a bit less frantic and less Devil's advocate. I really like it!

[@loganjohnson3589]

A few years ago I came across Time Team and when I have the time I binge watch it. Today I come across S1 E1 it's like finding the holy grail .I almost feel like an archaeologist who has studied history by watching the latest episode of the latest incarnation of Time Team and looking back thru time and seeing the changes of the people and their methods of doing things .Two things hold true throughout drinking is required and there are no bad episodes .

[@Spartan265]

I was a year old when this aired. Glad I found this show now. We don't have quality history shows like this in America anymore.

[@shainemaine1268]

It's boring, where's all the aliens at?

[@nickacelvn]

@@shainemaine1268 Easy does it. You're at the wrong show. You should be looking into "Jesus" or "Mohamed" or the "Jewish prophet." They all stem back to Abraham. Who leads us to Sumer and the Sumerians. From there if you care to look for yourself you will discover tales of the Anunaki (beings that came to earth from the sky or stars) and there you will find your Aliens, who have for thousands and thousands of years, (after creating modern humans in the first place) looked after us through our toughest times.

[@shainemaine1268]

@@nickacelvn I was actually just being super sarcastic... The real aliens are just behind the curtain.

[@d0lph1n63]

we do the issue is that too many people get too offended and trigger happy now.

[@johnaaron37]

We never did, don't kid yourself.

[@hannalowenherz4839]

Viktor's work is such an important part of the success of the show. I would love to learn more about how his work process was, in the later episodes the mostly show him drawing , but not many conversations with others like in this one. He really brings the archeology alive for the viewer. Much love to TT.

[@traveler804]

I love the fact that you get to watch them all age throughout the seasons..and Phil's style..keepin it long..let your man mane fly🤘

[@MosBikeShop]

Raksha and Matt didn't age though, what's up with that?

[@loricarter2394]

Robin Bush would make even the most boring book exciting, I love it!

[@WaterShowsProd]

"We'll make an archaeologist of him yet." 19 years later: arise, Sir Tony!

[@thegrimreaper1991]

19 years? Are you nuts? This was 1993 😂

[@weirdographic]

@@thegrimreaper1991 The show first aired in January 1994 and Tony was knighted in 2013. That's 19 years.

[@CearaRed]

my favorite part of this show is not a single trench was dug, especially considering the Morgan's have a working farm. sure they appreciated this, too

[@Jobotubular]

17:52 Carenza's first interruption 22:05 Mick interrupts Carenza, beginning a series of cross-interruptions between them (and equally distributed) 28:16 Mick's first "Strooth" 37:07 "we'll turn him into an archeologist yet." (Mick proving prophetic) other notes: Phil has no hat, and very little accent. And John Gater has a beard. Special appearance: Morgan, who wrote to Time Team

[@haplessasshole9615]

37:07 -- Yeah, I find it hilarious to see a militant atheist like Mick Aston turning prophet. I had watched a number of episodes of *Time Team* before stumbling across this one, so I was familiar with Prof. Aston's views. I nearly choked when he deadpanned that line. I think Sir Tony was an archaeologist before the end of the first season.

[@christophercook1631]

And dig John's tights...

[@tampaguy2395]

The life of a hill in England. One day you are a fort protecting the future unifier of England...the next, growing Brussel Sprouts.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

a step up!

[@Happyheretic2308]

@@bostonrailfan2427 heathen!

[@wellington-rq2br]

Big shout out to Robin's "You can't judge people of the past by the standards of today." There is way too much of that at the moment.

[@pathwanderer1183]

its gets even better: people of today whose location, nationality or genetics coincide with those of people who did things we now deem 'undesirable' now get pressure to 'apologise' for deeds they had no part in, didnt condone, nor have any influence on and which happened decades or centuries before they were born...

[@beezball]

Amen!

[@hildahilpert5018]

That's absolutely true.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

same folks who demand apologies for past misdeeds ignore their own ancestors doing the exact same thing to their own rival tribes and clans…it’s ignorance at its finest

[@nephilimpower1351]

People arent better. Thats a judeo-christian myth, and you cant understand that historical devolopment unless youre willing to judge judeo-christian standards

[@lindak8664]

It finally occurred to me, sitting here near the end of 2023, to open their playlist and start at season 1, episode 1. Instead of randomly opening whichever episode pops up in my suggested playlist. My goodness, they are so young here! And look at all the wonderful, wonderful episodes i get to watch through. I can’t wait 😍

[@haplessasshole9615]

Oh, you're just gonna love watching the romance between graphic artists Sue Francis and Steve Breeze gradually unfold.

[@kelliv2995]

❤❤❤

[@Dovietail]

Here I am lying on my bed starving at 5 am in Arizona watching this episode, and the whole Time Team is up to its eyeballs in bacon butties and egg croissants for breakfast. Not fair!

[@michellemunn7959]

The geo physics print out!! Love how excited everyone is and u can totally date this just by the old printer!! From the side to side printing

[@RKHageman]

Yes, I keep replaying that bit just to see everyone’s joy to see the results... epic!

[@haplessasshole9615]

@@RKHageman Yeah, these days, it'd elicit a big yawn.

[@wackyd9863]

the best part of watching all of these in 2022 is you can really see the leaps and bounds technology has made since the start of this show to its end. what a time!

[@Dagarvs]

Effing glorious to see these in such great quality! Thank you!

[@omikronweapon]

How does time work in such a way that seeing a Tony WITH hair actually makes him feel older than balding Tony from the later seasons. Baldrick always had a full head of hair, yet I can't get over seeing Tony with brown full-length hair.

[@ErnestoBrausewind]

I absolutely love the scene at the pub, with all those characters sitting around - i mean stick them into costumes and give them wooden mugs and you instantly wait for Baldrick to say he has a cunning plan....

[@bobmetcalfe9640]

I watched some of the American version of Time Team. The most you could say about it was it was 'worthy'. Being covered in tattoos and piercings doesn't make you a character. I don't think anyone so much has cracked a joke the whole time I was watching.

[@haplessasshole9615]

@@bobmetcalfe9640 I agree entirely. I was eager to see the US version, but I gave up before the first ten minutes were over. I felt the same as you. It was as though, when casting the show, they said, "Yeah, your diggers have neon hair, piercings and tats? Well, ours have even _more!"_ The main reason I bailed, however, was the woman with the humongous silver earrings. Just seeing the way they weighed down her ears gave me a horrendous headache -- and heavy earrings actually do cause headaches. Maybe she wouldn't have been so nasty if she'd backed off on the jewelry.

[@lawrencetate1329]

I've watched a majority of later episodes. What's SO great about this very first one is that chemistry to come hasn't even begun yet, all SO young. I just found out this year that Tony is a peer of John Cleese. This world never ceases to amaze, then, as now.

[@rogershipman3578]

"and there's chaps on the top throwing scorn and derision at you, among other tings". Great stuff these guys.

[@sierramade8]

This is wonderful to see these heros so young forming the show and making history themselves. Thank you all

[@printedwit]

of all the things i've found since quarantine, this is one of the best. i'd give a figurative limb (now more than ever) to see some of these exciting sites in person. as someone who studied historical structural analysis in preparation for a career in renovating and restoring historic buildings, this is a delight. i love watching subject experts successfully navigate the tricky, quick "get in, get out" strategy that this show needs (and thrives on). i'm absolutely here for the education, the mystery, the story, and the personalities... and can't wait to get through everything else that you have on this channel.

[@limafive]

This is also great to watch. Building of a castle in France kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5XSg3SYpbyZebc

[@maisiesummers42]

Weird seeming them all so young. Especially Mick looking like a mere mad professor instead of the wize wizard he eventually became.

[@Bloopbliepbloop]

Obviously Phil Harding has yet to find his true accent. I’d expect he will excavate it in a dig somewhere in the region of Shammorrrrrrshet (Somerset)

[@Linda-yq8ew]

What beautiful young people they were! Dr. Ashton is as cute as a button, Phil has such a sweet face. His red hair transforms him into an eighth century farmer. Tony grows more handsome every year as he earned my trust and affection They ease my days as I hide from the modern Plague.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

Tony’s hair receded but made him look more distinguished, plus him forgoing glasses and the Baldric look made him more believable as a presenter

[@thegrimreaper1991]

Rip Mick Aston thank you for stirring my interest in history!!

[@AlannahRyane]

After decades of searching for and watching TT in Canada never thought to see so many I hadn't seen before.... thank you for your channel..and to all the other channels Ive been watching TT on for years ...

[@phantomkate6]

A fellow Canuck Time Team fan, eh?

[@gwadja]

Episode 1 (Season 1, Episode 1) The Guerrilla Base of the King, Aired: January 16, 1994

[@Books_Anime_92]

I was in my second year of college in 1994.

[@MrMaltheChannel]

The whole idea of England speaking Danish sounds wonderful to me ❤️ As a dane ❤️

[@gerbrand8132]

I have already seen all the episodes 3 or 4 times I think (yt reijer zaaijer) and when they were broadcast on geographic channel, but now that they can be seen in good quality I start again. I must add that say the the first 13 seasons are better than the last when a lot of other people (lesser ones) came in. This is really fantastic

[@jodylarson5317]

it's so cool to see these early episodes, with the landowners reading their letters 💖 and everyone looks 12! hahahaha

[@christianfreedom-seeker934]

Did you hear the 18th Century accent on the farmer? That alone would be worth it's own show! His accent almost says "Sorry, London and the BBC just didn't make a big impact here"

[@theknave4415]

Mick and Robin had extraordinary minds. The loss of such men is a loss to the human race.

[@Tom_Quixote]

All is not lost. We still have Phil among us.

[@Tom_Quixote]

"I couldn't even keep an eye on some cakes in the oven.. Now join me for a glorious charge against the Vikings!" Alfred the Great must have really been great if he could pull that off.

[@redthorne2836]

I've been loving both the show, and also watching the technology evolve over the years. We've gone from dot matrix printer to instant-on-screen-displays as time passed...lol

[@DavidArcuri]

This was the first one? I can't believe I haven't seen this show until just a few weeks ago. There's so much more stuff to dig up in the UK compared to the US!

[@bostonrailfan2427]

there’s a lot in the US and they even ventured there a couple of times and even had a whole single-season show with American archaeologists in it during the height of the show

[@allenra530]

The Mound Builders in the Ohio River Valley and down the Mississippi Valley are still not well understood. There is a lot to do there.

[@craemac]

Probably the best TT episode...to confirm history and bring the story to life...of Alfred, "the first literate King, which must have been a giant step forward..." Tony R... ROFL!

[@SindreGaaserod]

Such a great classic episode! We miss you, Robin and Mick.

[@haplessasshole9615]

And Victor. We miss Victor like crazy. Have you seen the *Time Team* tribute to him? It's lovely.

[@Daehawk]

Sometimes I watch these from the mid 90s and think how primitive the tech was at the time. But back then I thought we had high tech lol. I really liked him saying you cant judge people from that time ago in terms of the present. Too many do that now days. id be curious to see how they made the actual copper wire in the 6th century. You couldn't just go buy a spool at the local inn to run lights with. This first ep lacked enough Phil. Also shame Geri wasn't shown more she was cute and smart.

[@ellenl.5581]

I have fallen in love with so many on this program. Phil, Mick, Tony, Victor, Matt, Credenza, Rac , Stewart, John, Henry and so on, it is heartbreaking. I just met you.

[@Jobotubular]

Carenza. "Credenza" is a desk. I'll bet she hears that a lot.

[@Missangie827]

I had a 3rd or 4th ggrandfather with the last name Barber-oddly enough he had an incredible beard that would put this Mr. Barbers facial hair to shame! I love these oldest episodes with Mick so young and healthy-Tony looks like a kid

[@RTAbram]

It would be nice to include the series and episode numbers. As the series progress, they start to assume that viewers know what the basics of archaeology and geophys are, and that might not be the case for new viewer. (plus it's hilarious to watch as fashions change - and Mick's hair gets longer while Tony's starts further back)

[@TimeTeamClassics]

Thanks for the suggestion. The series and episode numbers are listed in the description of every full episode.

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@TimeTeamClassics I know it wasn't deliberate but some of the episodes are mislabelled. For the benefit of others could you get them properly named.

[@RKHageman]

@@TimeTeamClassics That’s good- but if the Series and episode numbers were in the title, it would make it easier to view them in order without having to either memorize them or open thirty-seven episodes just to find the next one...

[@limafive]

Really like Geraldine, too bad she wasn't in later episodes.

[@carolinereynolds2032]

Did she vanish down a rabbit hole?

[@baongoc9889]

The computers and mobile phones in the earlier seasons are the archaeology themselves now. lol

[@LordTrilobite]

Wow, this is so nostalgic. Fantastic to see these old episodes on KZbin!

[@michellemunn7959]

I have been binging these episodes and the newer uploads on timeline. So glad to have found these old ones

[@Arthagnou]

kind of sad and happy to see all those who have passed and the younger versions of them making an appearance in this episode.

[@DarylSawatzky]

"Can't dig because of the new Badger Act you know. That wouldn't be helpful" LOL

[@CreatingwithWinglessAngel]

Badgers?? A vermin act? Really??

[@sharimullinax3206]

Badgers are indangered in Britian. And the aren't vermin.

[@renske2]

Love these early episodes. It must have been just a few years later that I first saw the program on Discovery Channel. Fell in love with it instantly. Unfortunately I only had access to the show for the first couple of seasons, but I always wanted to go back and watch all the years and years of episodes I missed after that. Thanks to this channel I have the opportunity now, starting with a rewatch of the very first episode!

[@classiclife7204]

Wow, so the very first episode of Time Team (minus the pilot). And not a divot was dug. I'm actually surprised they didn't run into more "scheduled" sites, as here, but then again I suppose that they made a point of not doing such episodes often. The geophys was clear enough to make an episode out of it. I echo other comments talking about how this first show itself has now entered history. Consider that when this aired in 1994, the Internet was, besides being a capitalized word, in its infancy as a common thing in our lives. That dot matrix printer, too. Whew! Time team, indeed.

[@slavi98]

The entire time team is legendary, thank you for producing such amazing content.

[@puckyta2]

I saw time team final chapters first so I find it amusing watching them being young and hairy jajajaja loved it

[@JenneeB927]

To see them all so young😍 I'm from Texas and just started watching on KZbin during quarantine. This is wonderful! In 94 my son was a year old and I was 23😂

[@maineeveryday3991]

I like Phil without his overzealous archeological look

[@deborahbaker4770]

The man who wrote the letter looked so proud every time you saw him with someone but ESPECIALLY WHEN EVERYONE WAS BROUGHT TOGETHER HE DEFINITELY LOOKED LIKE THE PROUDEST MAN THERE BECAUSE WHAT HE WANTED TO KNOW WAS FOUND OUT TO BE TRUE 👍🏻💯😊🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@PlatinumIrishrose]

When I watch these out of order, I think back and am able to remember all the lovely episodes I have seen and smile. The jokes about what historical figure may have said cracks me up😁🤣😂 and I wonder if that famous person is looking down from Heaven and Rolling in the clouds laughing their robes off! Time Team is sometimes quite a humorous show! I love the recipes and replicas that are made, we, here in the States, have forgotten the good stuff that can be made by hand, as well. ❤

[@BryonLape]

Geraldine should have been in more than two episodes.

[@gwennelson4565]

Thank you Time Team, been watching on You Tube for a few years now. And did not know about this classics channel til today !!!! Watching this first episode is great!!!! Where it all started and how the show evolved is great fun. I live in the U.S. but my Mother and her family came from Europe. Would love to visit Europe one day but since Time Team is on I can learn from my home. Cheers everyone !!!!!!

[@melaniecarver5719]

Glad to have found this show. Was getting a bit tired of watching New Detectives and such, so depressing. Something new and I love watching the team and their interactions.

[@okeycokey2000]

Watching these in 2021... what an absolute bliss ! Although my head hurts watching the 386 computers they are working with haha

[@granskare]

I have always liked Time Team - I am from USA

[@emk7132]

The blood eagle thing tho... that’s a myth: Viking atrocity and Skaldic verse: The Rite of the Blood-Eagle By Roberta Frank, English Historical Review, Vol.99, No.391 (1984)

[@bostonrailfan2427]

the fact that a word even existed for it proves that it existed, and there is at least one depiction of it from that era existing…so it’s not a myth but going after it by claiming that it is has become pretty popular

[@mercedes523]

What a wonderful group coming together working on the same project.

[@ATAATX]

OMG.... they got hair.... and lots of it too!

[@ianmedium]

Thank you so much for such excellent quality of video replay. I was at the teignmouth one and met them all, they were really nice people

[@KylaA5952]

Wow I started watching these in their later seasons, this is the first! Strong 1995 vibes in everyones style, crazy how much people age in 12 years. I wish every country had a time team like this

[@nicolejosan6364]

Nick: "We'll turn him (Tony) into an archeologist yet" (37:07). LOL, after 16 seasons or so, Tony described himself as an amateur archeologist.

[@BlackDragonWitheHawk]

as a non native speaker and history fan, this is a great way to practise my english, however the driving at the beginning fries my brain. (we drive on the right and it feels odd to see the opposite)

[@pathwanderer1183]

the british solve that by mostly having such narrow roads that there basically isnt a 'side' :)

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@pathwanderer1183 …darn you, that’s a great response!

[@pennymitchell8523]

My husbands ancestors come from Wedmore. When we were in Somerset a few weeks ago from Australia we visited Wedmore. This episode came up on my feed.😊

[@randomnickify]

Wait...is this an Official Time Team channel? Not some pirate stuff? 8o Because if it is .... its about Freaking Time!! I'll watch you from cover to cover :D

[@RichardDenRooyen1973]

omg, i remember this way back. seen the early years on i think Discovery here in the Netherlands... This is where KZbin was invinted for.... all seasons of Time Team 🤣

[@hannahbrown2728]

My favorite thing about the older episodes is that theyre a great time capsule in and of itself

[@fraserhenderson7839]

This ancient documentary is an artifact in it's own right, from a lost world, providing a kind of snapshot of the primitive technologies and personal fashions of that simple time, the nineties. Great Stuff!

[@thegray5730]

This aired Jan 16 1994, about a week after the Nancy Kerrigan was attacked...feel old yet?

[@nicolejosan6364]

Finally I found THIS. The first episode in a better quality. TT has been a gods end during the lockdown and beyond, where all we see were masked faces.

[@vapingotter7518]

We always think we are at peak technology 🤣😂. So much "ooooh" and "aaaaaw" for a dot matrix printer 🤣😂

[@benediktmorak4409]

dont mind to watch this early episodes! suppose when one watches many episodes, as i do, one gets to - know - the people. but it is still nice that it is being explained who is - digging today - in the intro.

[@biancacastafiore383]

16:35 english breakfast before a day of some serious excavating in the trench... sounds like my kind of day

[@suzettepowell5162]

I've stumbled on your channel and absolutely love watching. My love of history is getting stronger watching these videos! Keep up the excellent work!

[@tombowen9861]

Season 1, Episode 1! Took me a year or so to get to it. Exciting to see the beginning.

[@jonjonmia]

I can’t believe for their first episode ever they didn’t dig a single trench. I mean don’t get me wrong this is a wonderful episode, just a ballsy decision

[@jespermayland571]

Great old episode! 🙏🏼🤗 As a Dane, I do need to point out, that the "Blood Eagle" is much debated about whether it WAS ever used in reality or just as a ritual in sagas..! It's not a certain thing! Could have been cool, if UK was the Danish provinse of "Danelaw" today! SKÅL! 😊🇩🇰💪🏼

[@philster611-ih8te]

There is definitely an old Viking Saga account of it being used on King Aella. The King of Northumbria. It was renacted in Vikings.But it is apparently written in the Sagas. Þáttr af Ragnars sonum

[@sebastianthomsen2225]

Hello Fellow dane ! 😉

[@fortheloveofmusic860]

The blood eagle ever really being used is very unlikely according to "The Norse Myths; A Guide to the Gods and Heroes" by Carolyne Larrington (Thames and Hutson, 2017). The story of King Ella is very likely a misinterpretation, where in fact a eagle, one of the Norse battle animals, landed on Ella's dead body and ripped into its back. The only other mentioning of a blood eagle is by Earl Torf-Einar of Orkney on a son of King Harald Fairhair.

[@philster611-ih8te]

@@fortheloveofmusic860 Do you think it was ever used?

[@fortheloveofmusic860]

@@philster611-ih8te I don't think it was. I only read a few books on norse mythology, but all information I have read about the blood eagle agree that it most likely is just legend and/or misinterpretation.

[@lindahughes2289]

Everyone looks so young and healthy ! Jesus bless them all and many thanks !

[@RatelHBadger]

At last, Episode 1. It all starts with Alfred the Great.... Because of course it does.

[@jeffmartin540]

Oh my goodness!! Look at Tony's hair!!

[@bostonrailfan2427]

the hair and glasses got me, i wasn’t used to him acting just his presenting so it threw me off…then i saw him in Blackadder and couldn’t believe he was the same guy!

[@pineywoods420]

This program has been incredible from day one.

[@ColtGColtG]

love to see them having a few drinks most episodes goes back to the very beginning!

[@junkabella6324]

These early episodes are so hygge! :)

[@quilliejones4314]

Those computers are Windows B.C.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

heyo!

[@kalvincroft5111]

Tony is always running.

[@christinecole330]

Lol poor Geophys not getting credit in the preshow ...

[@egamtubing]

I've been waiting to see early episodes for a long time, thank you so much from Norway, Time Team! :)

[@skivvy3565]

Seeing tony with hair and a Young Phil is just so much lol

[@XandruReguera]

The opening of Tony is a master piece.

[@GoblinOfGygaxinor]

The home owner looks like one of Victors drawings :D

[@rknowling]

Robin Bush reading from the sagas is a great highlight.

[@limafive]

too bad Geraldine was'nt in more episodes, really like her.

[@tessjuel]

I'm not sure but I think she changed her focus from enviromental to forensic archaeology and since Time Team wasn't doing much burial/cemetary excavations in the early days, that may have made her less relevant for the series.

[@Kitty-yx4ym]

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