The read
The series ran 14 seasons across 322 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
5 audience votes
Seasons
| 1 | Season 1 | 29 ep1981 |
| 2 | Season 2 | 25 ep1982 |
| 3 | Season 3 | 26 ep1983 |
| 4 | Season 4 | 25 ep1984 |
| 5 | Season 5 | 26 ep1985 |
| 6 | Season 6 | 27 ep1986 |
| 7 | Season 7 | 27 ep1987 |
| 8 | Season 8 | 27 ep1988 |
| 9 | Season 9 | 26 ep1989 |
| 10 | Season 10 | 24 ep1990 |
| 11 | Season 11 | 24 ep1991 |
| 12 | Season 12 | 15 ep1993 |
| 13 | Season 13 | 21 ep1993 |
| 14 | Season 14 | 1 ep |