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</style><table class="infobox ib-tv vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary"><i>Time Commanders</i></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="Technological" class="mw-redirect" title="Technological">Technological</a> <a href="Game_show" title="Game show">game show</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data">Adam MacDonald</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Presented by</th><td class="infobox-data attendee"><a href="Eddie_Mair" title="Eddie Mair">Eddie Mair</a> <small>(2003–04)</small><br><a href="Richard_Hammond" title="Richard Hammond">Richard Hammond</a> <small>(2005)</small><br><a href="Gregg_Wallace" title="Gregg Wallace">Gregg Wallace</a> <small>(2016)</small></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country of origin</th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Original language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr> of series</th><td class="infobox-data">3</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr> of episodes</th><td class="infobox-data">27</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header summary">Production</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Running time</th><td class="infobox-data">45–60 minutes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Production company</th><td class="infobox-data">Lion Television</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header summary">Original release</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Network</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="BBC_Two" title="BBC Two">BBC Two</a> <small>(2003–05)</small><br><a href="BBC_Four" title="BBC Four">BBC Four</a> <small>(2016)</small></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Release</th><td class="infobox-data">4 September 2003<span style="display: none;"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2003-09-04</span>)</span> –<br>27 December 2016<span style="display: none;"> (<span class="dtend itvend">2016-12-27</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header summary">Related</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><i><a href="Decisive_Battles" title="Decisive Battles">Decisive Battles</a></i></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><i><b>Time Commanders</b></i> is a technological <a href="Game_show" title="Game show">game show</a> that originally aired on <a href="BBC_Two" title="BBC Two">BBC Two</a> from 4 September 2003 to 13 March 2005 with <a href="Eddie_Mair" title="Eddie Mair">Eddie Mair</a> hosting the first series and <a href="Richard_Hammond" title="Richard Hammond">Richard Hammond</a> hosting the second series. It returned for a 3-part special on <a href="BBC_Four" title="BBC Four">BBC Four</a> from 12 to 27 December 2016 with <a href="Gregg_Wallace" title="Gregg Wallace">Gregg Wallace</a> as host.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Format">Format</h2></div>

<p>In the first two series, teams of four contestants directed opposite forces. The teams were unfamiliar with computer games, to make sure their gaming skills did not influence their success. In the 2016 revival, two teams of three controlled opposing factions (for example, one team would play as Carthage and the other as Rome).

</p><p>After a brief introduction of the battle, including an overview of military units, terrain and available forces, the players had to develop a <a href="Strategy" title="Strategy">strategy</a> and then deploy their forces. In the first two series, two of the players were selected as <a href="General" class="mw-redirect" title="General">generals</a>, who directed the battle and had access to a strategic map; in the 2016 revival, only one player was selected as the general. The other two players were designated <a href="Lieutenant" title="Lieutenant">lieutenants</a> in the first <a href="Television_season" class="mw-redirect" title="Television season">series</a>, and <a href="Captain_(land)" class="mw-redirect" title="Captain (land)">captains</a> in the second series and 2016 revival. The units were indirectly controlled by the lieutenants, who issued commands to programme assistants, who in turn used the game interface to control the units. Troop deployment and battle followed, although in both the 2005 and 2016 series there was a small skirmish conducted as a separate event to acquaint the players with the game mechanics and their units. In the 2016 series the teams also got strategic pauses where they could refine their strategies.

</p><p>During each game, a pair of military specialists analysed the performance of the players and explained how the real historical battle unfolded. <a href="Lynette_Nusbacher" class="mw-redirect" title="Lynette Nusbacher">Lynette Nusbacher</a> appeared in every episode of the first two series and was joined on a rotating basis by <a href="Mike_Loades" title="Mike Loades">Mike Loades</a>, <a href="Saul_David" title="Saul David">Saul David</a>, <a href="Mark_Urban" title="Mark Urban">Mark Urban</a> or Dr. <a href="Adrian_Goldsworthy" title="Adrian Goldsworthy">Adrian Goldsworthy</a>, the series' historical advisor. In the 2016 revival, Nusbacher and Loades fulfilled this role in all three episodes.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2></div>

<p>The game engine used was based on <i><a href="Rome%3A_Total_War" title="Rome: Total War">Rome: Total War</a></i>, the game being released a year later. <i>Rome: Total War</i> designer and writer Mike Brunton said, "<i>Time Commanders</i> did use <i>Rome</i> code pretty much 'as is', with tweaks for different troop types and camera controls". The televised programmes contained no reference to the origin of the software powering the 3D visuals, due to the <a href="BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>'s rules against <a href="Product_placement" title="Product placement">product placement</a>; however, <i>Rome: Total War</i> makers <a href="The_Creative_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="The Creative Assembly">The Creative Assembly</a> were named in the credits of the show with a specific mention of them providing the game engine.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Related_media">Related media</h2></div>

<p>A tie-in book was written by Peter Harrison and published by <a href="Virgin_Books" title="Virgin Books">Virgin Books</a> in 2004, called <i>Time Commanders: Great Battles of the Ancient World.</i> It covered the 16 battles of the first series, along with details of all the contestants in each of the teams, which battle and which army they each played and whether they won or lost the battle they had been given.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Airings">Airings</h2></div>

<th>Series</th>

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<td>4 September 2003<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td>

<td>26 March 2004<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td>

<td>16

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<td>16 January 2005<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td>

<td>13 March 2005<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td>

<td>8

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<td>12 December 2016<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td>

<td>27 December 2016<sup id="cite_ref-Series_3_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Series_3-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Episodes">Episodes</h2></div>

<p>Series 1 (2003):

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<ol><li><a href="Battle_of_the_Trebia" title="Battle of the Trebia">Trebia</a> (218 BC)</li>

<li><a href="Defeat_of_Boudica" class="mw-redirect" title="Defeat of Boudica">Watling Street</a> (AD 60 or 61)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Bibracte" title="Battle of Bibracte">Bibracte</a> (58 BC)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Mons_Graupius" title="Battle of Mons Graupius">Mons Graupius</a> (AD 83)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Tigranocerta" title="Battle of Tigranocerta">Tigranocerta</a> (69 BC)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Pharsalus" title="Battle of Pharsalus">Pharsalus</a> (48 BC)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Cannae" title="Battle of Cannae">Cannae</a> (216 BC)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Raphia" title="Battle of Raphia">Raphia</a> (217 BC)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Kadesh" title="Battle of Kadesh">Qadesh</a> (1274 BC)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Leuctra" title="Battle of Leuctra">Leuctra</a> (371 BC)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Adrianople" title="Battle of Adrianople">Adrianople</a> (AD 378)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Telamon" title="Battle of Telamon">Telamon</a> (225 BC)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Gaugamela" title="Battle of Gaugamela">Gaugamela</a> (331 BC)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_the_Catalaunian_Plains" title="Battle of the Catalaunian Plains">Chalons</a> (AD 451)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Marathon" title="Battle of Marathon">Marathon</a> (490 BC)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_the_Silarius_River" title="Battle of the Silarius River">Silarus River</a> (71 BC)</li></ol>

<p>Series 2 (2005):

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<ol><li><a href="Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest" title="Battle of the Teutoburg Forest">Teutoburg Forest</a> (AD 9)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Stamford_Bridge" title="Battle of Stamford Bridge">Stamford Bridge</a> (AD 1066)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_the_Hydaspes" title="Battle of the Hydaspes">Hydaspes</a> (326 BC)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Cynoscephalae" title="Battle of Cynoscephalae">Cynoscephalae</a> (197 BC)</li>

<li><a href="Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Troy</a> (circa 1200s BC)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Hastings" title="Battle of Hastings">Hastings</a> (AD 1066)</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Sarmisegetusa" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Sarmisegetusa">Sarmizegethusa</a> (AD 106)</li></ol>

<p>Series 3 (2016):

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<ol><li><a href="Battle_of_Zama" title="Battle of Zama">Battle of Zama</a> 202 BC</li>

<li>The <a href="Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">Battle of Waterloo</a>, June 1815</li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_the_Catalaunian_Plains" title="Battle of the Catalaunian Plains">Battle of the Catalaunian Plains</a>, June 451 AD (same battle as series 1, episode 14, under a different name)</li></ol>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084zh3v"><i>Time Commanders</i></a> at <a href="BBC_Online" title="BBC Online">BBC Online</a></li>

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