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.
Season 1
29 episodes
1981
Season 2
25 episodes
1982
Season 3
26 episodes
1983
Season 4
25 episodes
1984
Season 5
26 episodes
1985
Season 6
27 episodes
1986
Season 7
27 episodes
1987
Season 8
27 episodes
1988
Season 9
26 episodes
1989
Season 10
24 episodes
1990
Season 11
24 episodes
1991
Season 12
15 episodes
1993
Season 13
21 episodes
1993
Season 14
0 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.
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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…
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No, it ended in 1994.
October 1, 1981
Documentary