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Tetricus is quite right. It's frustrating not being able to see the episodes because I live away from the channel area.
Robin Bush sent me this which is on my site... There is also a lot more information there should you wish to know more. Hope It helps:
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For over eleven years (1984-96) Robin Bush delivered some 600 weekly and other broadcasts on the history, archæology and folklore of Somerset on BBC Radio Bristol and BBC Somerset Sound which continue on an ad hoc basis.
Periodic appearances have been made on BBC Television (national and regional), TWW, HTV, Westward TV, TSW, Westcountry TV, Orchard FM, Radio Devon, Quayside Radio and Taunton Television, including programmes such as the late Brian Johnston’s Down Your Way, PM (national news on BBC Radio 4), the late Sir Harry Secombe’s Highway, Cliff Morgan’s Up the River (three episodes), Taming the Dragon (BBC 2) and Points West. He represented Taunton in various TV quiz shows on Westward TV in Plymouth (where he captained the team that won the final of The Inn Game) and HTV. His researches into the ancestry of Lord Rees-Mogg were used in a documentary on that peer screened by Granada TV.
Robin Bush has been described onscreen as ‘famous for his elegant bow ties and impressive historical knowledge’ (The Times, 22 October 1997), as the ‘plump, pink pukka man in a boater and bow tie’ (Independent on Sunday, 16 February 1997), and as ‘a man who looks like he wouldn’t get out of his leather arm chair for less than a bottle of vintage claret, but is never so happy as when poring over some musty manuscript in Middle English or Anglo Saxon’ (Emerald City, USA World Wide Web, February 1999).
He first appeared as the resident historian and archivist on Channel 4’s Time Team (whose format he helped to devise from January 1991) in a pilot programme (filmed at Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxon) and in four one-hour archæological action television programmes presented by Tony Robinson. These were screened weekly on Sundays at prime time in January/February 1994 (all repeated November/December 1994), filmed on location at sites in Somerset, Shropshire, Lancashire and mid Wales. This series won the international City of Basle Prize (for the best educational television programme in Europe) and also the British Archæological Association Award.
A second series of five programmes, recorded on location in Scotland, Sunderland, Wiltshire (twice) and London, was transmitted in January/February 1995 (all repeated September/October 1995) and a third series of six programmes was filmed during 1995 in Cornwall, Northern Ireland, Somerset, Devon, Oxfordshire and Suffolk and transmitted in January/February 1996 (all repeated July/August 1997).
The British Archæology Award was again received in 1996 for the best archæological television programme over the previous two years. A fourth series of six programmes was filmed in 1996, including one episode in Maryland, USA, and others in Cornwall, Birmingham, Glasgow, Yorkshire and Wiltshire, and was broadcast in January/February 1997, achieving the highest viewing figures (up to 3.24 million) for any documentary programme on Channel 4.
In October 1996 the Maryland Time Team episode was broadcast twice on the Learning Channel throughout America and worldwide. A fifth series of eight programmes was filmed between March and October 1997, transmitted from January to March 1998, although Robin Bush’s heart-bypass surgery in May/June 1997 meant that he was only included in programmes filmed in Somerset, Northern Ireland and Cleveland. These were followed by repeated broadcasts of part of the fourth series (three programmes) in March 1998. He also participated in a one-hour Christmas ‘special’ in Shropshire broadcast in December 1997. The first and second series of Time Team were repeated on the Discovery Channel between August and November 1998, and the Time Team Club was founded in the same year.
He personally presented his own eight half-hour programmes entitled Time Team Extra, transmitted nationally on Channel 4 from January to March 1998. These featured location filming at Hampton Court (Middx), the Jorvik Centre (York), Flag Fen (Cambs), Corinium Museum at Cirencester and Chedworth Roman Villa (Glos), Stonehenge (Wilts), Penshurst Place (Kent), Wharram Percy (Yorks) and Mellifont Abbey (Eire), and a series of interviews with leading archæologists and historians filmed in Disraeli’s library at Hughenden Manor (Bucks). These included Dr Simon Thurley (then Director, Museum of London, later Chief Executive of English Heritage), Prof John Hunter (Birmingham Univ), Prof Ronald Hutton (Bristol Univ), Dr Richard Hall and Dr Andrew (‘Bones’) Jones (York Archæological Trust), Dr Barbara Bender (University College, London), Dr Peter Harbison (Royal Irish Academy), Viscountess De L’Isle, Dr Mark Clay-Dove, Dr Francis Pryor (President of the Council for British Archæology), Prof Richard Bradley (Reading Univ), Guy de la Bédoyère, Prof Maurice Beresford, Dr Lindsay Allason-Jones (Newcastle Univ) and Dr Richard Lomas (Durham Univ).
In 1998 Time Team won a major Royal Television Society Award and was voted the best archæological programme of the previous 21 years at the British Archæological Awards. Robin Bush took part in four programmes of the sixth series of Time Team filmed in Devon, Kent, Stoke-on-Trent and the Island of Nevis during 1998 and broadcast from January to March 1999, registering audience figures of up to 3.54 million. He featured in an episode of Joe Public for London Weekend Television concerning a Tudor hat jewel probably lost by Henry VIII screened by Channel 4 on 22 November 1998, with location filming at Farnham Castle (Surrey) and Winchester Cathedral Library (Hants), and which was repeated on 24 November 1998.
In August/September 1998 he was a guest panelist on three editions of the heritage quiz game, X marks the Spot, produced by Hewland International for BBC Radio 4, with Irene Thomas, formerly of Round Britain Quiz and Brain of Britain. He participated in two further episodes for the second series, broadcast in June 1999, appearing with Brian Sewell, the plummy-voiced Art critic, and Anne Ashworth, TV Mastermind Champion, and in two episodes of the third series, transmitted in August 2000. He recorded two episodes of the fourth series with Fred Housego (former Mastermind champion), Hilary Kay (of The Antiques Roadshow) and the ITN political journalist, John Sergeant, broadcast in September 2001.
He took part in the seventh series of Time Team, filmed during 1999, participating in seven programmes in Hampshire, Warwickshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, London, York and co. Durham: broadcast from January to March 2000. He also appeared in all six programmes of Time Team Live broadcast live from York in September 1999 (with Sandi Toksvig and Paul Thompson) and in a further one-hour Christmas Special, at Barley Hall in York, with location filming at the University of Bristol, broadcast in December 1999. In March 1999 Time Team won the Factual category in the Indie Awards (for television programmes produced by independent companies – which it won again in March 2000) and the award for Features Prime Time from the Royal Television Society. In April 1999 Time Team was one of only four programmes nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Feature Programme. Since 1999 the whole Time Team canon has been regularly repeated on the Home and Leisure Satellite Channel, including in December 1999 a five-hour slot of five programmes and, on the Discovery Channel, a similar three-hour stint in January 2000. In Time Team’s eighth series, screened from January to March 2001, Robin Bush was seen in episodes recorded in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Northants, mid Wales, Winchester and Shropshire (with five live broadcasts from Canterbury, with Sandi Toksvig and Liza Tarbuck, broadcast in August 2000 and an omnibus version of these broadcast in September) and recorded scenes at Ely and Cambridge University Library for a documentary on an excavation near Ely Cathedral (transmitted in May 2001).
Two further programmes on The Real King Arthur (with location filming at the Tower of London and the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth) and a Christmas Special (90 mins) entitled Time Team’s History of Britain (with location filming at Winchester Cathedral Library and on board The Matthew at Bristol), were broadcast in December 2000. The History was repeated in July 2001. The ninth series of Time Team was filmed during 2001 and transmitted early in 2002, Robin Bush appearing in episodes recorded in Bedfordshire, Shropshire, Scotland, Hampshire (including four ‘Live’ programmes with Sandi Toksvig broadcast in August/September 2001) and Warwickshire, and he participated in a special documentary on the Whitefriars site at Canterbury, with location filming in Canterbury Cathedral library and archives.
Individual programmes from earlier series were repeated on Channel 4 during the summer of 2001 and spring of 2002 under the title of Time Team Classics. Transmission of programmes from Series 4 and 6 began in the USA on the History Channel International in July 2001, and repeat broadcasts started in New Zealand in September 2001 and in Australia in 2002. Since 2001 episodes from the earlier series have been broadcast on the Discovery Channel three times a day every weekday and continued throughout 2003-05.
He hosted Time Team weekends for Hilton Hotels and the Ancient and Medieval History Book Club at Puckrup Hall, Tewkesbury, and St Ann’s Manor, Bracknell, two further weekends at Tewkesbury in 2002 and three at the Newbury Hilton in 2003. Three others followed in 2004 and two are planned for 2005. He was seen in all eight programmes of Time Team Digs, revisiting sites from different periods, screened on Channel 4 throughout November and December 2002 (and again from February 2005), and a further series of weekly repeats began in May 2003.
He has now left the regular Time Team series although he participated in the 100th programme filmed at Athelney in June 2002, transmitted in February 2003, and appeared in a documentary on 10 years of Time Team, filmed in October 2002 and broadcast that Christmas. He also featured in Time Team Digs – the Modern Age, broadcast in May 2005.
Robin Bush’s contribution to the Time Team programmes has been recorded in four best-selling books: Behind the Scenes at Time Team (1998), Time Team, the Ultimate Companion (1999) and Digging the Dirt with Time Team (2001), all by the Producer, Tim Taylor, and Mick’s Archaeology (2000) by Prof Mick Aston.
During 1999 and 2000 Time Team even featured in comic strips in the magazines Viz, Beano and Dandy, and the Dr Who novel, Autumn Mist by David A. McIntee!
Robin Bush contributed to a pilot history programme, Backtrackers, filmed by Multi Media Arts Ltd of Manchester for Channel 4 in October 2000. This was commissioned as Revealing Secrets, on which Robin Bush appeared regularly as the resident historian and documentary expert (billed as ‘Raider of the Lost Archives’) and fifty-five half-hour episodes were transmitted nationally on Channel 4 every weekday from the end of March 2001.
He also participated in a BBC Radio 4 series on Surnames, Genes and Genealogy, broadcast in July 2001.
He presented six half-hour programmes, The West at War, for ITV Westcountry, covering warfare from Roman times through to the present day. These started filming in August 2003, with location recording throughout Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset, and were transmitted weekly from 10 May 2005. There are plans for him to present a further six programmes, provisionally entitled Echoes, to begin filming in 2005.
Voice-overs have been contributed to a range of commercial videos and Somerset County Council audio-visual presentations, including a video to publicise the work of the County Council in the shadow of Local Government reorganisation in 1974. [For audio-cassettes of American lectures and Tales of Old Somerset see above under ‘Principal Published Works’.]
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