40 Minutes
Documentary
October 1, 1981 – April 19, 1994
(began 45 years ago)
6.4/10
Ended
14 Seasons
322 Episodes
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.
S1
Season 1
29 episodes
October 1, 1981
S2
Season 2
25 episodes
October 7, 1982
S3
Season 3
26 episodes
October 30, 1983
S4
Season 4
25 episodes
November 1, 1984
S5
Season 5
26 episodes
October 10, 1985
S6
Season 6
27 episodes
October 9, 1986
S7
Season 7
27 episodes
November 5, 1987
S8
Season 8
27 episodes
October 20, 1988
S9
Season 9
26 episodes
October 19, 1989
S1
Season 10
24 episodes
October 25, 1990
S1
Season 11
24 episodes
October 17, 1991
S1
Season 12
15 episodes
February 16, 1993
S1
Season 13
21 episodes
November 16, 1993
S1
Season 14
Upcoming
Cast (23)
Directors
Producers
Editors
Original Language
en