About this season
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
Episodes (13)
1. Faces of the Moon/Cave Cemetery of Niah
Aired 20 January 1968
2. Finders and Keepers
Aired 17 February 1968
3. The Death of the High King
Aired 23 March 1968
4. The Silbury Dig + The Man Who Was Given a Gasworks
Aired 20 April 1968
• Chronicle's first live broadcast from the excavation at Silbury Hill, less than a fortnight after it started. • The ongoing development of the Beamish open air museum in County Durham by Frank Atkinson.
5. The Tomb Robbers
Aired 11 May 1968
6. Sarajevo 1914/The Biggest Roman Handshake
Aired 1 June 1968
7. The Shrine of the Bulls
Aired 29 June 1968
8. The Silbury Dig: The Heart of the Mound
Aired 27 July 1968
9. This Is the Wonderful Year
Aired 24 August 1968
10. Abu Simbel Reborn
Aired 21 September 1968
11. The Legend of the Borgias/The High Roman Style
Aired 19 October 1968
12. Human Sacrifice/The Ghost Ship
Aired 16 November 1968
13. Bring in the Big Hammer
Aired 14 December 1968