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- A group of archaeologists have 3 days to discover historical artifacts in different sites around Britain.
- On the surface it looks just like any other large Lincolnshire field. But when a pipe was laid across it a couple of years previously the trench dug then revealed a number of shallow graves.
- As well as being the British Army's biggest training ground it is one of Europe's most extensive areas of undisturbed archaeology believed to contain the remains of settlements spanning both the Iron Age and the Roman era.
- The bones in a cave are carbon dated and trenches reveal no archaeology, but do show a trackway to the cave. Cannibalism of the bones suggests humiliation rather than need.
- Time Team search for a Roman Villa complex on a 1950s housing estate in Ipswich. It should be easy as it was previously dug by an amateur archaeologist before the estate was built but his records and methods may not be all they seem.
- Trying to find evidence of a demolished village called Henderskelfe under the lawns of Castle Howard. Maps show where they should be but digging does not find them.
- The Team travel back to the Bronze Age to Flag Fen in Cambridgeshire. The fenland bog is home to one of the most important archaeological 'wet-sites' in the country, where the soggy conditions help preserve 3000-year-old buried timbers.
- The Time Team visit Greenwich Palace, built by Henry VIII father and extensively developed by the greatest of Tudor Kings. The team is looking for evidence of two major buildings, long since demolished to build the famous Greenwich hospital.
- Kew Garden home of George III favorite palace, however after 250 years all that remains of this wonderful building is a sundial. The Time team has only three days to survey the remains of the building, and unlock all its buried secrets. But first they have to find the building first
- In 3 days the team excavate an ancient Briton henge and dive a roughly circular crannog in the loch. In 1900 the Migdale hoard was found in a granite quarry nearby. But where exactly?
- On the edge of the river Thames, a series of posts driven into the riverbed have been found. Also 2 Bronze Age spearheads. Are these the remains of London's first bridge or the supports of a platform where Bronze-Age people made offerings.
- Waltham field, in the village of Whittington, five miles from Cheltenham. Alerted by Gloucester County Archaeology, the Team have come in search of a Roman villa.
- Time Team try to find the remains of a grand country house that once played host to five reigning monarchs. What was left of the original Tudor mansion, built in the 1520s and believed to have burnt down and been abandoned in 1745.
- High Ercall Hall, in Shropshire, is the very picture of rural tranquility today, but 355 years ago, at the height of the English Civil War, more than 200 Royalist troops were crammed inside the walls fighting for their lives.
- Around 1700 years ago, Corinium - modern day Cirencester - was the second most important city in Roman Britain after Londinium. Time Team arrive to excavate in the gardens of properties in Chester Street near to the centre of old Corinium.
- A local couple digging a fish pond in their back garden find a skeleton. Complete with a knife, pottery and a valuable buckle. Clearly Saxon the couple wonder if they have a cemetery in their garden.
- A team of archaeologists have just three days to excavate the site of an Elizabethan blast furnace after finding clues in a test pit dug as part of Time Team Big Dig. The team also explore medieval furnaces at nearby East Wall and try smelting their own iron.
- In this first ever episode of Time Team, Tony and the team travel to Athelney in Somerset to investigate a series of hills (once islands in a bog) that became Alfred The Great last defensive positions after a series of losses to invading Viking forces. It is also the place Alfred began the great rally that saw him re-conquer most Wessex and laid the foundations of the nation that was to become England
- Down a bridleway within a dense Sussex wood, a Roman bath house stands, with walls head-high, completely forgotten for centuries.
- The Time Team travel to Hadrian's Wall the world's longest Roman monument for the once in a lifetime investigation of A Roman burial site attached to the fort know as Birdoswald. While the excavation of the cemetery goes as expected they stumble on evidence of something far more exciting.
- The Time Team investigate a Roman Villa found at Blacklands Somerset. Conventional history tells that the Britons fought against the Romans and refused to allow many of their cultural standards to be Romanized. Rather than finding a culture in conflict they discover some things about the villa that may eventually rewrite the history of early Britain
- In the late 18th century, a young man opened his first factory in the village of Burslem, later part of Stoke-on-Trent. The man was Josiah Wedgwood. Time Team try and find if anything remained of these early ceramic manufacturing premises.
- Time Team was invited by the Marquess of Bath, owner of one side of the gorge, to investigate Cooper's Hole to see if they could find evidence of Palaeolithic human activity.
- The Time Team travel to a group of islands on the western side of Scotland to investigate a culture known as the "Lords of the Isls" - who ruled the islands 1000 years ago. The team joins a group from the Scottish National University who've been working in the area for some five years uncovering the history of these people. What the Time Team discovers throws the whole excavation into a new light and suggests people may have lived in the area thousands of years prior.