On the Edge of an Empire | FULL EPISODE | Time Team 

It is quite heart warming, after watching these early episodes from Season 1, and so on, where the guys are so nervous, and "raw", in front of the camera, and then watching the later episodes, to see how they have not only became accustomed to the camera "in their faces", but also how they became a great working Team in all the senses of the word. From sharing a drink, to a laugh, to the shear joy of finding even the minutest relic of forgotten History. Love it all.

Imagine this: Swedish 28 y/o discovering this series now during the pandemic in 2020. Golden days!

I can't say how much I have enjoyed Time Team over the years. From the first moment I saw my first episode on TV when visiting the UK. I am grateful to now be able to enjoy these episodes in high quality online. Thank you so very much.

Tony getting his hands on Vegetis's military manual was like watching a kid in a candy shop

Mick's explanation of the find to the young boy was sweet.

Nerds - salt of the earth. I love folks who are so interested in something that they explore to the point of trying to replicate. And thereby discover so much and educate the rest of us.

Oh my, they're all so young! John comes across as really sweet and Phil is much calmer than in later series.

“who were they afraid of…well not these two” Oh Tony, you joker 🤣 Mick turning a joke into a teaching moment and genuinely catching Tony off guard and in shock is epic and to me was one of his turning points in his career towards history presenting especially as he gave a right guess about the ditch that the others dismissed!

I love Time Team... not only that the digs are just fantastic, but also it is great to be able to see how much development there was since the beginning of it in terms of technical equipment. I am so happy to have discovered this gem back in 2009 and I don't know how often I have seen the episodes by now! I wished we had such a TV show in Austria...

Doing my part to stay isolated during the Covid-19 outbreak by watching Time Team! Thank you!

It’s almost 2020 and this is my favorite TV show.

truly one of the finest series ever filmed ...kudo's to the team for making it so. Even my Dad's watching it he's almost 90

I enjoy the fact that you all get along on camera. Living in 'Merica the producers would have you all at each others' throats.

Found this show last week and now I am binge watching😂 I love it!

Time Team has itself become archeology of a sort, over the years. Going back you see them young and fresh faced, then you can watch them get a little older (and wiser) as the series went on. Great stuff.

I absolutely love this show. Everyone is so so very young. Wow. I love this... Thank you for sharing Time Team with us...

I'm grateful for you adding these episodes as I used to watch this as a child, and i couldn't find any place to watch time team later as i grew up... and given i live in NZ, it was hard to predict when it would be shown. Thanks!

Wow, Tony looks so young in the first season. I've never seen these episodes, thank you so much for posting them online for us.

I love this older formula for the show so much better than the later formula.

Mick was being diplomatic. Leaving a possible tower for some date in the future was definitely the OTHER chap's idea. He wanted the fun stuff for his own team.

Ah, Victor! I'm so grateful these episodes are uploaded, so we can revisit the team! Like having a comfy chair and a good cuppa in a classroom!

my father's family is from east sussex, east grinstead, and this has been amazing introduction to the history of england. i knew a little bit already but his is icing on the cake.

Finally an episode I haven't seen before! Tony and the book are hilarious.

General Callus Tacticus What to Do When One Army Occupies a Well-Fortified Fortress on Superior Ground and the Other Does Not" "Endeavour to be the one inside." "It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country. This means that both he and you have exactly the same aim in mind."

Thank you thank you thank you!!! Watched and loved them back in the day. Saves all episodes but alas most were low-res and hard to find. Copied them on discs and the discs have been degrading horribly so I thought all lost. Wonderful to see them again in high quality and not having to scour torrentsites or buying (incomplete) dvd-series. Longtime fan made happy. Wish they would make a program like this in Holland, being a longtine archaeology fan.

To have such history everywhere: I am constantly astounded.

Thank you so much for posting these!!! During the covid-19 lockdowns it's meant food for the mind and soul! 🙏

All time favorite series - thank you Time Team. Time to root for Time Team 2020!

Watching this in 2024 I can't help but notice the huge leaps forward in geophys technology & results. Real fun watching the early episodes, though.

is there any compilation of Victor Ambrus illustration work throughout this series? would be awesome to see

18:28 lol the garden Guy keeps interrupting Phil 😂 I would lose my patience so fast

John with a beard!

Crazy, seeing these folks so young. RIP Mick.

divorcing your husband and running away with his armor-bearer was the 3rd century equivalent of running away with your trainer

I love the archeology in the raw the way you can see it on Time Team. But what I really love is the Time Team--all of them! What a team! What a crew! After just (barely) surviving the Trump years in the States, watching the interaction and laughing disagreement that finally pulls a program together each week, and every week, restores my faith in the human race. Many thanks, to each and every one of you!

Episode 2 (Season 1, Episode 2) On the Edge of an Empire, Aired: January 23, 1994

Sadly jim Ridge passed away January 29th 2003

i have come across Time Team by accident and i am inhaling the episodes! its wonderful to watch how you guys have developped as a team and as a show through the years. My favorite episode is how Time Team found their first mosaic

Soooo funny! Been watching all day Season 8+ .. and now?! Soooo cool! Tony, Phil, the intro 😄😄😄👍👍 Really love it! Thx for sharing 🖖😊👍

Fascinating to see how the show format evolved over the seasons! Also, very cool to see the Ermine Street Guard in action and learn a little about them.

Wow jhon had a beard . cools .

Anyone remember Tony's other show "Stay Tooned!" from around the same time?

oh wow! phil had the most wonderful wavy blonde hair!

Season 1 Episode 2... This is the closest I have come to where it all began.

10:39 "oh look a roman column" lol these guys how didn't I knew about this show before!?

These old episodes are just glorious; they inspired me to take history at University

Remember when. I wonder if the time team looks back and says, "Dam, I can't remember ever looking that young."

Thank you.

I love these episodes 🇺🇲

I have real trouble deciding which eras I enjoy the most.

Talk about archaeology and historical objects: today the cars and the computers would count as such. Especially the black and green screens. From today's perspective they look positively ancient. And yes, I used them at the time as well. But still! 😂

How awesome is that!! Unbelievable

Man, Phil in his younger days reminds me of David Gilmour of Pink Floyd (being a bass player they are my number one group )

I've watched a couple of the revived series and seeing this, I can't believe how long it was when this show first aired. They're so young. John Gater had hair :P That Jim fellow definitely used to be a school teacher :P

Is our time team logo a profile of Carenza? I see her every time the logo pops up. What do you 🤔?

Daaang, everyone looks so young.

Part of the intimidation of the Roman army was that at the time many tribes were individual fighters fighting together but with no cohesion. The Roman army was built of units and fought as a unit, thereby gathering the strength not just thru their numbers but also thru the drill they had gone thru.

Watching these episodes does take me back to a different time.... to the days when i had FIRST discovered that RU-vid included a lot of really great programming, and I began eagerly watching dozens of documentary programs, especially on history of various time periods, nearly all of them produced in the UK. Reinforced my sense of inadequacy as an uncultured American, but immensely interesting. Time team was one of my favorites, and I really developed an fond attachment to each of the program’s characters, as more normal people would have done watching Seinfeld, or Cheers, or Friends (which i never did). So thanks for this! Nice to see some episodes i’ve never seen before, and to see the show’s early format, which did change somewhat over the years.

Still not use to seeing these older Time Team episodes where both Tony and Phil have lots of hair and has color to it!!! Lol

Wow. "Mick Aston, landscape archeologist". Not Professor yet when this was filmed. :-)

I wish that I had a bit of olde Roman forte in my back yard. :(

15.09 Does anyone know the title of the music ? This melody doesn't want to come out of my head.

I would to know if these soldiers, do they get like ice bricks in the metal Armour when you start getting wet? Or when it starts snowing? Curious Gran

Where did the earlier series playlists go??? I’ve been starting from the beginning and tonight I couldn’t find them. 😢

Wow: at 18:00 you can hear Bell Ringers in the background.

35:30 Yay Mick!

Wow, this is the earliest episode I have seen, never seen them so disrespectful to Tony before.

Archaeologists hundreds of years from now, researching 2021: Why were all of these people staying in their houses and not going out?

I'm surprised how short the tunics were. I didn't expect them to be long, but a bit closer to the knees at least.

Oh snap Tony with hair. I didn't recognize him.

I'm sure there are legal restrictions for the sake of preservation to the idea, but I would dig it out and incorporate it into my garden if I had that in my back yard, and if I were allowed to. Lol!

Robin Bush is oozing British, are we sure Phil wasn't in Led Zeppelin? Actually Phil and Kath look like a cool band. I accidentally called Carenza, credenza.

Besides the teams younger age nothing dates thus episode as much as the computers being used. If this was someones first time team they watched they would at least recognize the "ancient" tech

I’m interested in getting a copy of Tony’s “Dummies Guide for Roman Recruits and their Leaders”. His quotes were brilliant. Anybody know it’s title and/or where I could get a copy?

I love how the retired history teacher speaks at 2km/hr but everyone else speaks at 30 km/hr

Hum reminds me of Astárex and Obelex in britania playing football Against the romans😆

I noticed that a LOT of public houses in the UK are named from animals. Is there any significance to this historically?

Tony Robinson in this episode is a vision of Brian David Gilbert's future visage.

*smiles hugely* "It's quite heavy!" Ngl, little jelly... 🙃

Can we talk about the Mullet?

7:46 They seem pretty funny looking to me, I'm sure a roman soldier would not have shared my feelings.

Mick: This is Tony Robins...

💚

Where there's smoke...theres GEO PHYS

How long has this show been running? Hes got hair in this one. Wow they alll got hair! These guys have been doing this so long and still keep it so totally interesting

ONE OF THE ROMAN SOLDIER IS BLOODY HANDSOME !

23:30 roight, roight, roight, roight, roight, roiight.

Who knew John Lennon was into Geo Phys?

"I'm going to meditate about ancient Rome now. Back soon..." great modern euphemism!

My wife and I have a disagreement. That young roman soldier that Tony is reading the manual to is Matt, my wife disagrees. Anybody want to settle the question?

So much hair and almost none of it grey. In Australia we only got TT from about 2005 so never saw these early seasons, where's Tony's gut?

Omg look at his hair! He's so not younger looking but different lol

i prefer to see mr. harding wearing shorts.

revisiting in 2022 sadly only Carenza of the origonal team has joined the new TT

They're all children in this episiode 😁

History at my school was boring and unenthusiastic. The teacher Ms Gibbon would plop us all down with a book and made us read that, 1066 was the ONLY focus tho. Always Romulus and Remus building Rome. Thankfully my interest in the past didn't dwindle and I learned and am still learning a lot, every day something new. I'm in my 40's and still hoping to continue learning and pass on that passion.

Why does John keep playing with his beard?

Music is too loud and when they talk, the volume is barely loud enough to hear. These videos are wonderful but could use a bit of sound engineering help, please?

One thing for sure if I was there I would ask the Roman soldiers to put on Leopard Skin and the reason is because you see I play the base drum in a pipe and drum band that is named after the famous famous brave and mighty black watch which is a British Canadian and Scottish infantry regiment and its currently the 3rd battalion of the royal regiment of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and you see the leopard skin was used for protecting the uniform and the instruments because like a base drum can be scratched by uniform buttons and the leopard skin is not real leopard skin it’s synthetic fur but also if it’s cold outside the leopard skin is another layer of warmth and like back in the days of the Roman Empire the standard bearers would would wore animal skins over their uniforms.

Holy fuck how old is this one? :D he still has hair :D