Time Busters

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Time Busters
Created by Tim Child
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series3
No. of episodes37
Production
Running time25 minutes
Production companyBroadsword Productions
Original release
Network BBC2
Release17 January 1993 (1993-01-17) 
22 January 1995 (1995-01-22)

Time Busters is a British children's television series created by Tim Child and the same producers of Knightmare . It was first shown on BBC2 from 17 January 1993 to 22 January 1995.

Contents

Format

Each run of the game involves a team of children taking a 'time-travelling' bus that drove you to a historical reenactment. The children would be involved in a quest to find a Time-Capsule. [1] This challenge would be a race against the clock to succeed and each episode would result in the team being successful, or having to abandon their attempt due to running out of time. Regardless the episode would conclude in the children quickly returning to the bus before it disappeared from that era.

Transmissions

SeriesStart dateEnd dateEpisodes
117 January 1993 [2] 28 March 1993 [3] 11
224 October 1993 [4] 23 January 1994 [5] 13
316 October 1994 [6] 22 January 1995 [7] 13

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References

  1. "18 game shows you desperately wanted to appear on when you were a kid". Daily Mirror .
  2. "Time Busters - BBC Two England - 17 January 1993". BBC Genome Project . Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  3. "Time Busters - BBC Two England - 28 March 1993". BBC Genome Project . Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  4. "Time Busters - BBC Two England - 24 October 1993". BBC Genome Project . Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  5. "Time Busters - BBC Two England - 23 January 1994". BBC Genome Project . Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  6. "Time Busters - BBC Two England - 16 October 1994". BBC Genome Project . Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  7. "Time Busters - BBC Two England - 22 January 1995". BBC Genome Project . Retrieved 3 November 2021.