Chronicle

Synopsis

Chronicle is a BBC Television series shown monthly and then fortnightly on BBC Two from 18 June 1966 to its last broadcast in May 1991. Chronicle focused on popular archaeology and related subjects. The best remembered episodes of Chronicle were "The Lost Treasure of Jerusalem...?", "The Priest, the Painter and The Devil" and "The Shadow of The Templars". These were presented by Henry Lincoln who later went on to write Holy Blood Holy Grail with Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh. The BBC have made some editions available online

First Air Date: 1966-06-18

Last Air Date: 1991-05-29

Number of Seasons: 26

Number of Episodes: 144

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Top Cast

Glyn Daniel as Self - Presenter
Magnus Magnusson as Self - Presenter
Gwyn Jones as Self - Contributor
John Selwyn Gilbert as Self - Presenter
Andrew Faulds as Narrator - (Voice)
Alexander Thom as Self
Humphrey Case as Self
Jacquetta Hawkes as Self
Richard Atkinson as Self
Stuart Piggott as Self

Seasons

1966 (1966) - (8 Episodes)

1967 (1967) - (11 Episodes)

1968 (1968) - (13 Episodes)

1969 (1969) - (12 Episodes)

1970 (1970) - (5 Episodes)

1971 (1971) - (3 Episodes)

1972 (1972) - (1 Episodes)

1973 (1973) - (6 Episodes)

1974 (1974) - (1 Episodes)

1975 (1975) - (2 Episodes)

1976 (1976) - (9 Episodes)

1977 (1977) - (5 Episodes)

1978 (1978) - (8 Episodes)

1979 (1979) - (10 Episodes)

1980 (1980) - (9 Episodes)

1981 (1981) - (4 Episodes)

1982 (1982) - (8 Episodes)

1983 (1983) - (2 Episodes)

1984 (1984) - (4 Episodes)

1987 (1987) - (1 Episodes)

1988 (Unknown Year) - (9 Episodes)

1989 (1989) - (9 Episodes)

1990 (1990) - (3 Episodes)

1991 (1991) - (1 Episodes)

1966 (1966)

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Episodes:

Ep. 1: The Vikings in North America (1966-06-18)

Glyn Daniel, Magnus Magnusson and Gwyn Jones discuss the evidence for possible Viking travels to North America in the wake of the 1965 publication of the Vinland Map. Magnusson examines the Flatey Book at Denmark's Royal Library.[
Ep. 2: Nimrud: The Story of a Dig (1966-07-16)

Professor Max Mallowan along with Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Dr R. D. Barnett and Gordon Waterfield present findings from the excavation of the one-time Assyrian capital city of Nimrud/Kalhu (in modern-day Iraq).
Ep. 3: Stonehenge: Prehistoric Computer?/The First European (1966-08-13)

• Professor Gerald Hawkins's theory that Stonehenge was used for astronomy. • Dr. John Napier and Professor Kenneth Oakley discuss the Vértesszőlős skull, and claim it to be homo sapiens rather than homo erectus as originally believed.[
Ep. 4: Royal Ship/Royal Palace/Royal Grave (1966-09-10)

The buried ship at Sutton Hoo, the possibility of Somerset's Cadbury Castle being Camelot of Arthurian legend, and the Irish burial mound of Newgrange
Ep. 5: The Invasion That Never Was.../... And the Last Invasion (1966-10-08)

• General Sir Brian Horrocks on the fictional 1875 Battle of Dorking Gap and its effect on the popular imagination. • The Norman Conquest of England as shown by the Bayeux Tapestry
Ep. 6: London's Burning (1966-11-05)

The Great Fire of London of 1666
Ep. 7: The Treasure of Priam (1966-12-03)

Heinrich Schliemann's 1873 discovery of the Treasure of Priam at Hisarlik, and its disappearance from World War II era Berlin
Ep. 8: The Holy Sailors + The Roman Goose March (1966-12-31)

• The evidence for pre-Norse settlement of Iceland by Irish monks. • Ancient Rome's best geese were reputedly sourced from northern Gaul. Daniel, aided by Olympic gold medalist Ann Packer, experiments to find the daily walking pace of geese, and shows the journey to take three months.

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Chronicle (1966)