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Chronicle

Chronicle(1966–1991)

June 18, 196626 Seasons · 144 Episodes

Ended

Documentary

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Overview

Chronicle is a BBC Television series shown monthly and then fortnightly on BBC Two from 18 June 1966 to its last broadcast in May 1991. Chronicle focused on popular archaeology and related subjects. The best remembered episodes of Chronicle were "The Lost Treasure of Jerusalem...?", "The Priest, the Painter and The Devil" and "The Shadow of The Templars". These were presented by Henry Lincoln who later went on to write Holy Blood Holy Grail with Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh. The BBC have made some editions available online

Seasons

Chronicle (1966) | Couchpile

1967

11 Episodes

1967

E01

The Finds of the Year

2/11/1967

E02

The Other Conquest/The City That Vanished

3/11/1967

E03

Diagnosis: A.D. 70/Iron Age Autopsy

4/8/1967

E04

The Lost Leonardos/The Gate of Hell

5/13/1967

E05

Arthur: The Peerless King

6/10/1967

E06

The Claws of the Griffin/Dragons' Bones

7/8/1967

E07

Collision Course/Shall the Waters Prevail?

8/5/1967

E08

Cast for Posterity/Searching for Sheba

9/30/1967

E09

6,000 Working Dives

10/28/1967

E10

The Fall of Constantinople/Lepenski Vir/South Cadbury

11/25/1967

E11

The Last Days of Minos

12/23/1967

1968

13 Episodes

1968

E01

Faces of the Moon/Cave Cemetery of Niah

1/20/1968

E02

Finders and Keepers

2/17/1968

E03

The Death of the High King

3/23/1968

The Silbury Dig + The Man Who Was Given a Gasworks

E04

The Silbury Dig + The Man Who Was Given a Gasworks

4/20/1968

• Chronicle's first live broadcast from the excavation at Silbury Hill, less than a fortnight after it started. • The ongoing development of the Beamish open air museum in County Durham by Frank Atkinson.

E05

The Tomb Robbers

5/11/1968

E06

Sarajevo 1914/The Biggest Roman Handshake

6/1/1968

E07

The Shrine of the Bulls

6/29/1968

E08

The Silbury Dig: The Heart of the Mound

7/27/1968

E09

This Is the Wonderful Year

8/24/1968

E10

Abu Simbel Reborn

9/21/1968

E11

The Legend of the Borgias/The High Roman Style

10/19/1968

E12

Human Sacrifice/The Ghost Ship

11/16/1968

E13

Bring in the Big Hammer

12/14/1968

1966

8 Episodes

1966

E01

The Vikings in North America

6/18/1966·50m

Glyn Daniel, Magnus Magnusson and Gwyn Jones discuss the evidence for possible Viking travels to North America in the wake of the 1965 publication of the Vinland Map. Magnusson examines the Flatey Book at Denmark's Royal Library.[

E02

Nimrud: The Story of a Dig

7/16/1966

Professor Max Mallowan along with Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Dr R. D. Barnett and Gordon Waterfield present findings from the excavation of the one-time Assyrian capital city of Nimrud/Kalhu (in modern-day Iraq).

E03

Stonehenge: Prehistoric Computer?/The First European

8/13/1966

• Professor Gerald Hawkins's theory that Stonehenge was used for astronomy. • Dr. John Napier and Professor Kenneth Oakley discuss the Vértesszőlős skull, and claim it to be homo sapiens rather than homo erectus as originally believed.[

E04

Royal Ship/Royal Palace/Royal Grave

9/10/1966

The buried ship at Sutton Hoo, the possibility of Somerset's Cadbury Castle being Camelot of Arthurian legend, and the Irish burial mound of Newgrange

E05

The Invasion That Never Was.../... And the Last Invasion

10/8/1966

• General Sir Brian Horrocks on the fictional 1875 Battle of Dorking Gap and its effect on the popular imagination. • The Norman Conquest of England as shown by the Bayeux Tapestry

E06

London's Burning

11/5/1966

The Great Fire of London of 1666

E07

The Treasure of Priam

12/3/1966

Heinrich Schliemann's 1873 discovery of the Treasure of Priam at Hisarlik, and its disappearance from World War II era Berlin

E08

The Holy Sailors + The Roman Goose March

12/31/1966

• The evidence for pre-Norse settlement of Iceland by Irish monks. • Ancient Rome's best geese were reputedly sourced from northern Gaul. Daniel, aided by Olympic gold medalist Ann Packer, experiments to find the daily walking pace of geese, and shows the journey to take three months.

1972

1 Episode

1972

E01

The Lost World of the Maya

10/6/1972

1974

1 Episode

1974

E01

The Priest, the Painter and the Devil

10/30/1974

1969

12 Episodes

1969

E01

Carved for the Gods

1/11/1969

The Realms of Gold

E02

The Realms of Gold

2/8/1969

1970

5 Episodes

1970

E01

The Mad King?

1/15/1970

E02

The Catacombs of Sakkara

4/11/1970

1971

3 Episodes

1971

E01

Win a Second-Hand Crane

3/14/1971

E02

The Lost Treasure of Jerusalem?

1973

6 Episodes

1973

E01

Longbow

2/12/1973

E02

Sir Mortimer: Digging Up People

3/26/1973

E03

Thomas Becket

3/1/1969

E04

Lord Elgin and the Parthenon

3/29/1969

E05

Blood-Axe's Revenge

4/19/1969

E06

No Ordinary Monk

5/24/1969

E07

Silbury 1969: Part 1

7/19/1969

E08

Silbury 1969: Part 2

8/16/1969

E09

The Fate of the Armada

9/13/1969

E10

'There Is No Conqueror...': The Story of the Moors in Spain

10/11/1969

E11

The 100 Days

10/15/1969

E12

The Treasures from the Sacred Well

12/20/1969

E03

The Great Iron Ship

6/13/1970

E04

Atatürk - Father of the Turks

9/5/1970

E05

Cracking the Stone Age Code

10/31/1970·50m

3/31/1971

E03

Was This the Garden of Eden?

9/11/1971

E03

Sir Mortimer: The Viceroy Sent for Me

4/2/1973

E04

Prize Exhibit

4/16/1973

E05

The Ape Man That Never Was

5/7/1973

Piltdown Man. The story of the faked jaw and skull found in Sussex some 70 years ago. (1973)

E06

The Mystery of the Etruscans

7/9/1973

1976

9 Episodes

1976

E01

The Gold of the Thracian Horsemen

1/15/1976

E02

The Scrolls from the Son of a Star

2/12/1976

E03

Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

2/14/1976

E04

The Williamsburg File

3/11/1976

E05

The Wheels of War

4/7/1976

E06

A Fortnight in the Iron Age

4/29/1976

E07

Ideals and Realities

7/20/1976

E08

Digging with a Camera

9/2/1976

E09

Pompeii

11/21/1976

1978

8 Episodes

1978

E01

The Knights of Malta

4/25/1978

E02

Battle for the Acropolis

5/2/1978

E03

The Lost Ship of Kyrenia

5/9/1978

E04

The Great Glow-Curve Mystery

5/16/1978

E05

Aphrodite's Other Island

11/20/1978

E06

Italian Breakthrough

12/4/1978

E07

The Gilded Age of the Golden Isle

12/11/1978

E08

The Rescue Awards for Archaeology 1978

12/18/1978

1981

4 Episodes

1981

E01

The Crime of Captain Colthurst

4/27/1981

E02

Orpheus and the Gentleman Farmer

4/29/1981

E03

Omm Seti and Her Egypt

5/6/1981

E04

The Electric Revolution

5/13/1981

1982

8 Episodes

1982

E01

Ancient Mariners

2/3/1982

E02

For the Love of Egypt

2/10/1982

E03

Riot

2/24/1982

E04

China: Treasures of the Cultural Revolution

3/10/1982

E05

Search for a Century

3/17/1982

E06

Raising the Rose

10/10/1982

E07

The Man Behind the Mask

10/20/1982

E08

The Year They Raised the Rose

12/24/1982

A precis of the day the Mary Rose was lifted from the water and transferred to shore.

1987

1 Episode

1987

E01

The Plunderers

9/3/1987

1984

4 Episodes

1984

E01

On the Waterfront

2/7/1984

E02

The Wreck in Campese Bay

2/28/1984

E03

Chronicle 200

4/17/1984

E04

The Wreck of the Mary Rose - Part IV

5/16/1984·47m

Documentary on the raising, interpreting and conservation of finds from the Mary Rose

1990

3 Episodes

1990

E01

Macedonia: A Civilisation Uncovered

2/14/1990

E02

The Unlucky Voyage

5/9/1990

E03

The Cottage

8/21/1990

1983

2 Episodes

1983

E01

Jerash: Pompeii of the East

11/8/1983

E02

Life and Death in Ancient Egypt

11/29/1983

1988

9 Episodes

E01

Episode 1

E02

Episode 2

E03

Episode 3

E04

Episode 4

E05

Episode 5

E06

Episode 6

E07

Episode 7

E08

Episode 8

E09

Episode 9

1986

0 Episodes

1975

2 Episodes

1975

E01

The Oldest Wonder - The Pyramids

8/16/1975

E02

The Plunderers Treasure Trail

12/8/1975

1985

0 Episodes

1980

9 Episodes

1980

E01

Black Napoleon

4/23/1980

E02

The New Zimbabwe

4/30/1980

E03

The Metal Detectives

5/7/1980

E04

Sacred Rings

5/21/1980

E05

China: The Emperors Immortal Army

10/5/1980

E06

The Wreck of the Mary Rose

10/29/1980

E07

China: Travellers in the Celestial Empire

11/12/1980

E08

The Last Seam at Blaenavon

11/26/1980

E09

The Chaco Legacy

12/3/1980

1979

10 Episodes

1979

E01

Tomb of the Lost King

4/20/1979

E02

The Death of the Prince Imperial

5/4/1979

E03

Shipwreck

5/11/1979

E04

Search for the Master Carpenters

5/18/1979

E05

Digging from the Air

6/1/1979

E06

Santorini: The First Pompeii

6/8/1979

E07

Lost Kings of the Desert

10/30/1979

E08

The Shadow of the Templars

11/27/1979

E09

The Incas

12/4/1979

E10

The First Americans

12/11/1979

1989

9 Episodes

1989

E01

Images of Another World

4/19/1989

E02

The Skeletons of Spitalfields

5/17/1989

E03

The Vase

6/14/1989

E04

The Basque Whalers of Labrador

7/26/1989

E05

Sutton Hoo

8/16/1989

E06

Digging for Slaves

9/13/1989

E07

Past for Sale?

10/11/1989

E08

Nefertari: For Whom the Sun Shines

12/6/1989

E09

Romance in the Stones: The Curious Journeys of William Stukeley

12/20/1989

1977

5 Episodes

1977

E01

Prince Madoc and the Welsh Indians

3/1/1977

E02

Crossroads of the Orient: The Philippines

3/15/1977

E03

Pathway to the Gods

11/3/1977

E04

The Trial and Death of Jesus

11/17/1977

E05

The England of the Anglo-Saxons

12/1/1977

1991

1 Episode

1991

E01

Memphis, Capital of Egypt

5/29/1991

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