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40 Minutes
40 Minutes
Documentary

40 Minutes

October 1, 1981
14 Seasons
322 Episodes
TMDB6.4· 5

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.

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

29 episodes
Oct 1, 1981

Season 2

25 episodes
Oct 7, 1982

Season 3

26 episodes
Oct 30, 1983

Season 4

25 episodes
Nov 1, 1984

Season 5

26 episodes
Oct 10, 1985

Season 6

27 episodes
Oct 9, 1986

Season 7

27 episodes
Nov 5, 1987

Season 8

27 episodes
Oct 20, 1988

Season 9

26 episodes
Oct 19, 1989

Season 10

24 episodes
Oct 25, 1990

Season 11

24 episodes
Oct 17, 1991

Season 12

15 episodes
Feb 16, 1993

Season 13

21 episodes
Nov 16, 1993

Season 14

0 episodes
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Show Info
StatusEnded
TypeDocumentary
Original LanguageEnglish
Seasons14
Episodes322
Last Air DateApr 19, 1994
Popularity1%
Streaming on
BBC Two

BBC Two