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Gardeners' World (1968)

1968 GB 20 Seasons 224 Episodes

Documentary

Overview

Gardeners' World, a beloved BBC television program launched in 1968, continues to inspire gardening enthusiasts well into 2013. The inaugural episode, hosted by Ken Burras, took viewers on a journey through the Oxford Botanical Gardens. Accompanying the show is the magazine BBC Gardeners' World, which serves as a companion piece. Typically, episodes run for 30 minutes, although several special editions extend beyond this timeframe. Notably, the series adopted a 60-minute format during its 2008 and 2009 seasons, offering a deeper dive into the world of horticulture.

Cast

Monty Don Adam Frost Frances Tophill

1. The Guerrilla Base of the King - Athelney, Somerset

2. On the Edge of an Empire - Ribchester, Lancashire

3. The New Town of a Norman Prince - Much Wenlock, Shropshire

4. The Fortress in the Lake - Llangorse Lake, Powys

1. Lord of the Isles - Finlaggan, Islay

2. The Saxon Graves - Winterbourne Gunner, Wiltshire

3. The Lost Villa - Tockenham, Wiltshire

4. The Archbishop's Back Garden - Lambeth Palace, London

5. Medieval Dining Hall - Hylton Castle, Sunderland

1. Maryland, USA - St. Mary's City, Maryland, USA

2. Mystery of the Cornish Skeletons - Launceston, Cornwall

3. Steam-Powered Mint - Soho, Birmingham

4. 8th Century Church - Govan, Glasgow

5. Norman and Medieval Castles - Malton, North Yorkshire

6. Roman Villa - Netheravon, Wiltshire

1. Richmond Palace - Richmond, Surrey

2. Bronze-Age Trackway - Greylake, Somerset

3. Viking Graves - Orkney, Scotland

4. Roman Villa - Turkdean, Gloucestershire

5. Copper-Age Settlement - Mallorca, Spain

6. Aston Eyre Farmhouse - Aston Eyre, Shropshire

7. Cathedral Hill - Downpatrick, County Down

8. Deserted Medieval Village - High Worsall, North Yorkshire

1. Wedgwood's First Factory - Burslem, Stoke-On-Trent

2. Back Garden Roman Finds - Papcastle, Cumbria

3. Dominican Friary Church and Norman Cathedral - Thetford, Norfolk

4. Cooper's Hole - Cheddar Gorge, Somerset

5. Medieval Plympton - Plympton, Devon

6. Tudor Dockyard - Smallhythe, Kent

7. Golf Course Roman Bathhouse - Beauport Park, Sussex

8. Bombers In Reedham Marshes - Reedham, Norfolk

9. Back To Turkdean - Turkdean, Gloucestershire

10. Field Cropmarks - Kemerton, Worcestershire

11. Ruined Norman Church - Bawsey, Norfolk

12. Montravers Estate (Part 1) - Nevis, West Indies

13. Montravers Estate (Part 2) - Nevis, West Indies

1. A Muslim Port In Spain - Denia, Spain

2. The Mosaic at the Bottom of the Garden - Cirencester, Gloucestershire

3. One of the First Spitfires Lost in France - Wierre-Effroy, France

4. An Iron-Age Roundhouse and a Henge - Waddon, Dorset

5. Hadrian's Wall - Birdoswald, Cumbria

6. In Search of the Earliest Traces of Mankind - Elveden, Suffolk

7. The Missing Cathedral and the Diabetic Prior - Coventry, West Midlands

8. The Royalists' Last Stand - Basing House, Hampshire

9. A Bronze-Age Barrow and Walkway - Flag Fenn, Cambridgeshire

10. In Search of the Palace of King Offa - Sutton, Hereford

11. A Roman Temple in Sight of the Millennium Dome - Greenwich Park, London

12. Nuns in Northumbria - Hartlepool, County Durham

13. The Roman Fortress of Eboracum - York, Yorkshire

1. An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Normanton, Lincolnshire

2. The Man Who Bought a Castle - Alderton, Northamptonshire

3. The Celtic Spring - Llygadwy, Powys

4. A Waltham Villa - Waltham Field, Whittington, Gloucestershire

5. The Lost Viaduct - Blaenavon, Torfaen

6. A Palace Sold for Scrap - Rycote, Thame, Oxfordshire

7. An Iron-Age Roundhouse - Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire

8. The Bone Caves - Alveston, Gloucestershire

9. The Inter-City Villa - Basildon, Berkshire

10. Holy Island - Lindisfarne, Northumberland

11. The Leaning Tower of Bridgnorth - Bridgnorth, Shropshire

12. Three Tales of Canterbury - Canterbury, Kent

13. The Leper Hospital - Winchester, Hampshire

1. In Search of the Brigittine Abbey - Syon House, London

2. A Roman Bath House and Edwardian Folly - Whitestaunton Manor, Somerset

3. The Crannog in the Loch - Loch Migdale, Scottish Highlands

4. Saxon Burials on the Ridge - South Carlton, Lincolnshire

5. The Roman Fort That Wasn't There - Syndale, Kent

6. An Iron-Age Trading Centre - Green Island, Dorset

7. A Medieval Blast Furnace - The Old Furnace, Oakamoor, Staffordshire

8. Rescuing a Mesolithic Foreshore - Goldcliff, Newport

9. Fertile Soils, Rich Archaeology - Wittenham Clumps, Oxfordshire

10. King Cnut's Manor - Nassington, Northamptonshire

11. Back-Garden Archaeology: Revisiting a Roman Villa - Ipswich, Suffolk

12. The Lost City of Roxburgh - Roxburgh, Scottish Borders

13. Brimming with Remains - Cranborne Chase, Dorset

1. The Manor That's Back to Front - Chenies Manor House, Buckinghamshire

2. The Monastery and the Mansion - Nether Poppleton, Yorkshire

3. The Bombers in the Marsh - Warton near Preston, Lancashire

4. Fighting On The Frontier - Drumlanrig, Dumfries and Galloway

5. A Neolithic Cathedral? - Northborough, Peterborough

6. In Search of Henry V's Flagship, Grace Dieu - Bursledon, Hampshire

7. Going Upmarket With The Romans - Standish, Gloucestershire

8. Picts And Hermits: Cave Dwellers Of Fife - Wemyss, Fife

9. Lost Centuries Of St Osyth - St Osyth, Essex

10. The Puzzle Of Picket's Farm - South Perrott, Dorset

11. Norman Neighbours - Skipsea, East Yorkshire

12. Tower Blocks And Togas - South Shields, Tyneside

13. Animal Farm - Hanslope, Milton Keynes

1. Finds on the Fairway - Isle of Man

2. There's No Place Like Rome - Blacklands, near Frome, Somerset

3. School Diggers Medieval - Hooke Court, Dorset

4. The Druids' Last Stand - Amlwch, Anglesey

5. Sharpe's Redoubt - Sandgate, Kent

6. A Port and Stilton - Stilton, Cambridgeshire

7. A Tale of Two Villages - Wicken, Northamptonshire

8. No Stone Unturned - Warburton, Greater Manchester

9. The Domesday Mill - Dotton, Devon

10. The Cheyne Gang - Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire

11. Road to the Relics - Godstone, Surrey

12. The Abbey Habit - Poulton, Cheshire

13. In the Shadow of the Tor - Bodmin Moor, Cornwall

1. The Trouble with Temples - Friars Wash, Hertfordshire

2. The Wedding Present - Scargill Castle, County Durham

3. Heroes’ Hill - Knockdhu, County Antrim

4. Toga Town - Caerwent, South Wales

5. Blood, Sweat and Beers - Rise Hill, Cumbria

6. Buried Bishops and Belfries - Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire

7. Anarchy in the UK - Radcot, Oxfordshire

8. Mystery of the Ice Cream Villa - Colworth, Bedfordshire

9. Hermit Harbour - Looe, Cornwall

10. Called to the Bar - Lincoln’s Inn, London

11. Beacon on the Fens - Chapel Head, Cambridgeshire

12. The Hollow Way - Ulnaby, County Durham

13. Skeletons in the Shed - Blythburgh, Suffolk

1. Corridors of Power - Westminster Abbey, London

2. A Saintly Site - Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides

3. Bridge over the River Tees - Piercebridge, County Durham

4. In the Halls of a Saxon King - Drayton, Oxfordshire

5. The Massacre in the Cellar - Hopton Castle, Shropshire

6. Potted History - Mildenhall, Wiltshire

7. Death and Dominoes: The First POW Camp - Norman Cross, Cambridgeshire

8. Something for the Weekend - Tregruk Castle, Llangybi, Monmouthshire

9. Governor's Green - Governor's Green, Portsmouth

10. Priory Engagement - Burford, Oxfordshire

11. There's a Villa Here Somewhere - Litlington, Cambridgeshire

12. Commanding Heights - Dinmore Hill, Herefordshire

13. Rooting for the Romans - Bedford Purlieus Wood, Cambridgeshire