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Shoreline Detectives

All Episodes 2017 - 2020

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  • 2017-06-30T00:00:00Z
  • 45m
  • 9h (12 episodes)
  • Documentary, Special Interest, History
Discover the history hidden along Britain's 11,000 miles of coastline with this fun and fascinating docuseries. Paleontologist Tori Herridge and historian Alex Langlands join coastal archaeologists to uncover amazing stories of shipwrecks, abandoned villages, and forgotten harbors that only appear for a few hours each day when the tide goes out.

12 episodes

Series Premiere

2017-06-30T00:00:00Z

1x01 Northumberland

Series Premiere

1x01 Northumberland

  • 2017-06-30T00:00:00Z45m

On the coast of Northumberland, Tori and Alex investigate a French fishing trawler that wrecked in 1913 and discover an ancient community that thrived in the Middle Ages in one of the North East's top tourist destinations.

2017-07-07T00:00:00Z

1x02 Merseyside

1x02 Merseyside

  • 2017-07-07T00:00:00Z45m

In Merseyside, the duo explores a beach full of building rubble from WWII, learn the tale of Liverpool locals who plundered a wrecked boat of its booze, and find evidence of people and animals dating back 7,000 years.

2017-07-14T00:00:00Z

1x03 Essex

1x03 Essex

  • 2017-07-14T00:00:00Z45m

Along the Essex estuary, the archaeologists pay their respects to Thames sailing barges sunk in the mud, examine the earthwork remains of a fort from Henry VIII's time, and find a WWI German U-boat stranded in a tiny creek.

Season Premiere

2018-06-25T00:00:00Z

2x01 East Sussex

Season Premiere

2x01 East Sussex

  • 2018-06-25T00:00:00Z45m

In East Sussex, Tori and the team explore a shipwreck from the 1740s, discover a prehistoric well shaft, and investigate a harbor that took 63 years to build but only worked for four months.

2018-07-02T00:00:00Z

2x02 Dorset

2x02 Dorset

  • 2018-07-02T00:00:00Z45m

Tori and the team discover how the Dorset coastline played a vital role in D-Day, reveal the story of the world's first aircraft carriers, and search for a huge Iron Age monument that can only be seen-sometimes-for a few hours a year.

2018-07-09T00:00:00Z

2x03 Clyde

2x03 Clyde

  • 2018-07-09T00:00:00Z45m

Along Glasgow's River Clyde, Tori finds a strange vessel that played an instrumental part in creating the city, and she also examines a wooden structure that gives a tantalizing glimpse into what life was like there 2,000 years ago.

2018-07-16T00:00:00Z

2x04 The Severn Estuary

2x04 The Severn Estuary

  • 2018-07-16T00:00:00Z45m

The Severn Estuary offers many mysteries to investigate, including a medieval ruin on a bleak island, a whole village that vanished, and an intriguing visit from Bob Dylan.

2018-07-23T00:00:00Z

2x05 East Yorkshire

2x05 East Yorkshire

  • 2018-07-23T00:00:00Z45m

In Yorkshire, Tori and the team find out what happened one night when a fishing trawler went wildly off course in the North Sea, and they discover how two ships made in Hull ended up on top of a mountain in Peru.

2018-07-30T00:00:00Z

2x06 Fife

2x06 Fife

  • 2018-07-30T00:00:00Z45m

With her team of archaeologists, Tori heads to the Fife coast in Scotland to search for an industry that once dominated its shoreline, find stone carvings left by one of Scotland's oldest tribes, and learn about one of Britain's worst railway disasters.

Season Premiere

2020-01-20T00:00:00Z

3x01 Whitstable

Season Premiere

3x01 Whitstable

  • 2020-01-20T00:00:00Z45m

In the first of a brand new series, Tori and the team explore the coast around Whitstable in North Kent. Between the tides, they discover a 500 year old boat, one of only 26 of its kind in the world, and the remains of the army depot that helped Britain win the First World War.

2020-01-27T00:00:00Z

3x02 Inner Forth

3x02 Inner Forth

  • 2020-01-27T00:00:00Z45m

Tori and the team explore the coast around the Inner Forth in Scotland. Between the tides, they discover a harbor that served Scotland's very first whisky distillery and the long lost final resting place of a woman accused of witchcraft.

2020-02-03T00:00:00Z

3x03 Solway

3x03 Solway

  • 2020-02-03T00:00:00Z45m

Tori and the team explore the coast around the Solway Firth, north of the Lake District. Between the tides, they discover the last remains of a coal mine that suffered one of the worst explosions in mining history, and they try to explain a huge timber pond jutting into the sea near Lockerbie.

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