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Time Team

1994–2014Channel 4Documentary

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Three days to excavate a site, with the clock running in the titles before anyone picks up a trowel.

Time Team opens with a main title sequence of 33 seconds.

It arrived on Channel 4 in 1994, when Brookside and Drop the Dead Donkey were also on the network.

1 sequence140th most looked up of 409 in the 1990sIMDb ↗
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The opening titles

Season 1

33s

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