As of July 2026, Timewatch Season 4 aired in 1985 with 12 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Timewatch Season 4

1985 12 Episodes Documentary ⭐ 7/10

Timewatch Season 4 is currently streaming on major platforms, and it treats its subject with more rigour than the format usually demands. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. The storytelling serves the subject rather than the other way around. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Timewatch Season 4 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. What makes Timewatch Season 4 work is a willingness to sit with complexity instead of resolving it neatly. Season 4 of Timewatch includes 12 episodes. It aired from January 1985 to December 1985. This season stars Peter France. Peter France leads a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1985. The restraint in Timewatch Season 4 is what makes it trustworthy — it does not need to editorialise to make its point. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

Documentary fans who value serious storytelling will find Timewatch Season 4 essential viewing. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. The access the production gets is remarkable, and the storytelling does full justice to it. Worth watching in order, from the beginning.

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🎬 Timewatch Season 4 — Episode Guide

E1
Episode 1
1985-01-09
REAGAN'S COWBOYS: Why have successive presidents celebrated the cowboy as all-American hero? THE AGE OF CHIVALRY IS DEAD: But did it ever flourish? How true is the picture painted of the knights in shining armour, enchanted castles and fabulous tournaments in medieval romance. THE HIDDEN HIPPOPOTA...
E2
Episode 2
1985-01-30
TAFF VALE: In 1900 the railway workers of Taff Vale embarked on a strike which has political implications to this day. Timewatch examines the first great clash between the Trades Unions and the law. THE ISLAND AND ITS PAST: How the people of the Isle of Dogs in the Thames Estuary are rediscovering ...
E3
Special: The Age of Charles II
1985-02-06
'Let not poor Nellie starve.' With those words Charles II, the 'Merry Monarch', died 300 years ago. Of all British sovereigns, this womanising, yachting, horse-racing king has a fond place in popular myth. During his 25-year reign England returned from the horrors of civil war to peace and plenty. D...
E4
Episode 4
1985-03-06
CHURCHILL AND ROOSEVELT exchanged 2,000 letters during the Second World War. Collected for the first time, they reveal the tensions behind the friendship and Britain's collapse as a great superpower. A BLACK AND TERRIBLE TROOP was the name given to a gang of burglars and forgers who terrorised West...
E5
Episode 5
1985-04-03
THE UNUSED WEAPON: By 1945 the Allies and the Nazis had stockpiled five times more chemical weapons than had been used throughout the First World War. They were never used. Why? Robert Harris reports. SUICIDE OF A CAVALIER: At the battle of Newbury in 1643, Lord Falkland charged headlong to his dea...
E6
The Battle for Berlin
1985-05-08
In April 1945, British and American troops were sweeping across Western Germany. Charles Wheeler was among them. They stopped 50 miles short of the German capital and Berlin became the prize of the Russian army. Forty years on. Charles Wheeler tells how the Soviet Union fought its bloodiest final ba...
E7
Aspects of War
1985-10-10
This month's programme comes from the centre of Oxford where Peter France introduces three stories which have their roots deep in the confused and bewildering fortunes of the Boer War. Film 1: Images of the later, tragic stages of the conflict were captured by the newly-invented Box Brownie camera,...
E8
Elements of Justice
1985-11-07
SUMMER OF THE HANGING JUDGE: An examination of the life and times of Judge George Jeffreys 300 years after he presided over the infamous Bloody Assizes which followed the Monmouth Rebellion. BIRTH OF THE EXPERT WITNESS: Christopher Andrew assesses the important developments in forensic evidence in ...
E9
Magic Circles
1985-12-05
Film 1: As the world waits for Halley's Comet, a recently discovered diary written by a 17th-century merchant from Rye in Sussex reveals the feelings of a man caught up in a scientific revolution, when the new discipline of astronomy shouldered aside the age-old belief in astrology. Author Aubrey Bu...
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Episode 98
E99
Episode 99

🎭 Cast of Timewatch Season 4

PF
Peter France
Self - Presenter

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