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📊 Series Specifications
Network BBC Two
Episode Runtime ~ min
Total Seasons 14
Total Episodes 323
Original Language EN
40 Minutes (1981) ⭐ 3.2 / 5 (5 votes) 🎬 14 Seasons 📼 323 Episodes 🏷️ Documentary 📡 Ended
⏱️ Series Status: This series has concluded and all seasons are available for tracking.
Ended Synopsis 40 Minutes was a BBC TV documentary strand broadcast on BBC Two between 1981 and 1994. The documentaries could be on any possible subject, the only connection being that they last forty minutes.
Some documentaries in the original series were revisited and updated in a 2006 version, Forty Minutes On.
Seasons & Episodes
🔒 Spoiler Guard: Active E1 Rough Justice
Portrait of a fractious Welsh village near Merthyr Tydfil.
✓ Watched E2 Sister Genevieve
Portrait of a Comprehensive School in the heart of the Falls Road, Belfast.
✓ Watched E3 Hijack
Story of a Hijack on Independence Day 1977 in New York.
✓ Watched E4 Give Us the Vote
Test case for inmates of mental hospital to get the vote.
✓ Watched E5 Lol: A Bona Queen of Fabularity
Life style of Quentin Crisp-esque 'Queen'.
✓ Watched E6 Marathon Man
Attempt to beat record run from John o' Groats to Land's End.
✓ Watched E7 Rocky Circus
Gary Glitter stars in Gerry Cottle's Circus.
✓ Watched E8 Gorilla G Gorilla
Gorilla N'Pongo gives birth to Kumi in Jersey Zoo.
✓ Watched E9 The Harrisons Don't Go to School
Hereford family educating children at home.
✓ Watched E10 Alison
Spastic girl's struggle to live a normal life.
✓ Watched E11 Sex, Drugs and the Vicar
Backstage at the News of the World.
✓ Watched E12 Children's Parties
An anthology of various children's parties.
✓ Watched E13 The Great Cover-up
The bald facts revealed: What men will do to counter hair loss.
✓ Watched E14 Brighton or Bust
The London to Brighton vintage car rally.
✓ Watched E15 The Last Resort
Glenthorne high security prison for youngsters.
✓ Watched E16 The George Formby Story
Biopic of renowned comedian and ukulelist.
✓ Watched E17 Burgled
Burglary - Britain's fastest growing industry.
✓ Watched E18 Bomber and Brendan
Sheffield's Herol 'Bomber' Graham and Brendan Ingle his trainer in bid for boxing glory.
✓ Watched E19 Mutiny
1943 Mutiny of British soldiers in Salerno.
✓ Watched E20 Saved in the Nick of Time
Artefacts saved from demolished buildings.
✓ Watched E21 Birth Reborn
Michel Odent and 'natural' childbirth at his clinic in Pithiviers France
✓ Watched E22 Hunt Saboteurs
Cameras follow shock troops of anti-hunt demonstrators disrupting hunt.
✓ Watched E23 Heart Transplant
Magdi Yacoub and his surgical team at work at Harefield Hospital.
✓ Watched E24 Heart Transplant: 2 - A Fight for Life
✓ Watched E26 Heart Transplant: 4 - Bruce Anderson, New Heart
✓ Watched E27 Heart Transplant: 5 - Recovery
✓ Watched E28 Heart Transplant: 6 - A Matter of Life and Death
✓ Watched