Freddie Gonzales was serving a four-year sentence for robbery. His friend, Ralph Brown, was serving a longer sentence. Luckily, both of these men had very devoted wives who were willing to risk their lives in order to break them out of prison.
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Hugh and the team search for a Roman settlement under the back gardens of Florence Road in Maidstone, Kent.
Hugh Dennis and a team of archaeologists are in Devizes, searching for a revolutionary 19th-century prison with a unique design.
In Stretton, Hugh and the team search for prehistoric roundhouses and try to work out when people first made the Staffordshire village their home.
Dr Alice Roberts discovers what Britain was like before the Romans as she examines fascinating finds from the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Dr Alice Roberts visits excavations in Orkney and York on the hunt for Viking relics. Finds include an amazing collection of silver and gold.
Andy explores Wiltshire's mysterious megaliths and barrows, visits a medieval meadery and encounters a religious pilgrimage at the site of a freshly made crop circle.
Andy searches for dragons in Somerset, visits the grave of Arthur and Guinevere and tests the healing waters of a spring once used to wash the Holy Grail.
Fresh from diving on the Mary Rose and still on the hunt for underwater artefacts that tell the story of the British Empire, Ross hops round the coast from Portsmouth to Plymouth, then on to the Gulf of Suez.
Ross heads to Portsmouth and the Mary Rose Museum and takes up an opportunity he can't turn down – to be one of the few divers allowed on the site of Britain's most famous wreck, the Mary Rose.
Alice Roberts follows the excavation of Iron Age Britain's most spectacular grave. A team of archaeologists in East Yorkshire have uncovered the remains of only the third upright chariot burial ever found in Britain.
Professor Alice Roberts explores 2018's best archaeological finds from the east of the UK: a monument as old as Stonehenge, a dig at the site of Britain's first tank battle, and some disturbing Roman burials.
Hugh and the experts attempt to uncover a lost Roman fort connected to the Antonine Wall, buried beneath the gardens of the quiet streets of Falkirk.
Hugh and the team search for a Roman settlement under the back gardens of Florence Road in Maidstone, Kent.
Dan visits one of Northern Ireland's oldest castles, Carrickfergus, to learn more about the tempestuous relationship between Britain and Ireland.
The team search for remains of the crashed WWII Spitfire and discover parts of the cockpit.
Ross starts his journey under the arches of Blackfriars bridge in London. In 1982, under this bridge a man was found. He had apparently hanged himself. The man was Roberto Calvi, better known as “God's Banker".
Ross heads to Portsmouth and the Mary Rose Museum and takes up an opportunity he can't turn down – to be one of the few divers allowed on the site of Britain's most famous wreck, the Mary Rose.
Vladimir Vetrov was a KGB officer who worked for the French intelligence service. He passed on vital documents to President Ronald Reagan.
Ross starts his journey under the arches of Blackfriars Bridge in London. In 1982, under this bridge a man was found. He had apparently hanged himself. In his pockets he had five bricks and about US$14,000 in three different currencies.
Going out on a raid with the army, Ross finds out just how prevalent cocaine is in Colombia. He then heads up into the mountains to hear about the Cali Cartel from the son of its founder.
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