Starring
Michael DeanIan HolmJane AsherRoger MillsDirk Bogarde
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| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | E18 | E19 | E20 | E21 | E22 | E23 | E24 | E25 | E26 | E27 | E28 | E29 | ||
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| S1 | 7.8 | 7.8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S2 | 8.8 | 8.8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| S4 | 6.8 | 6.8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S5 | 7.2 | 7.4 | 7.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S6 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 7.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S7 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 6.9 | 7.3 | 8.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S8 | 5.3 | 5.6 | 4.8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S9 | 8.0 | 6.5 | 8.2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| S14 | 8.4 | 8.4 |
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About
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.
All Seasons
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Season 11981
7.8729
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Season 21982
8.8525
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Season 31983
—026
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Season 41984
6.81325
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Season 51985
7.21626
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Season 61986
8.34227
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Season 71987
7.533271h 50m
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Season 81988
5.31727
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Season 91989
8.063261h 20m
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Season 101990
—024
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Season 111991
—02446m
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Season 121993
—015
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Season 14
8.4721
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
John Pitman Self - Presenter, Self - Narrator, Self - Reporter
Michael Dean Narrator, Self - Reporter
Lucinda Lambton Self - Presenter
Ian Holm Narrator
Jane Asher Narrator, Self, Self - Narrator
Roger Mills Narrator, Self - Narrator
Magdi Yacoub Self
Gerald Scarfe Self, Self - Presenter
Sara Kestelman Self, Self - Narrator
Dirk Bogarde Narrator, Self
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