Time Commanders

Contestants eager to re-create the battles of history's greatest generals line up in a second series. It's AD 9 and a team of vicars try to save Roman legions from defeat at the hands of the Germanic army in the battle of Teutoburg.

In a re-creation of the 1066 battle at Stamford Bridge, the Eagers family from Surrey step into King Harold's shoes to challenge a Viking invasion led by Harald Hardraade , the fearsome warrior king.

The Macedonian army took on Indian tribes in 326BC. Stepping into the sandals of Alexander the Great, can a team from the Army and RAF defeat one of the greatest forces of war elephants?

197 BC: the Battle of Cynoscephelae. Can a team of spin doctors secure a Roman victory in a fog-shrouded clash with the Macedonians?

Mesopotamia, AD 530: can jujitsu instructors from Essex execute a Sassanid triumph over a vast Byzantine Roman army?

Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom have re-enacted the Battle for Troy on the silver screen. Now a team of gamers from Glasgow travel back in time to the 13th century BC, to take part in an epic conflict shrouded in mythology. Will a Trojan Horse be utilised to gain victory?

A team of mental health workers from Wales lead the Norman army against King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

It's AD 106, and the Roman emperor Trajan has the Dacian citadel of Sarmizegethusa in his sights. Will his generals - played here by a team of climbers from Suffolk - prevail?

Tonight's team find themselves in BC, where they take control of Hannibal's Carthaginian army and attempt to defend Trebia in northern Italy from the Romans. Having formulated a strategy, the team send theirtroops into battle, co-ordinating their moves via computers and witnessing the sound and fury of combat through the hi-tech studio set-up.

A team of budding generals attempt to change history in the second of the series of virtual war games. Taking control of the Caledonian army of AD 84 in a bid to defend Scotland from invasion by the Romans at the battle of Mons Graupius, the team's strategy is analysed by two military experts.

Can famous victories be re-created by contestants eager to demonstrate their military guile? Tonight's team find themselves in 58 BC, where they take control of Julius Caesar 's Roman army, fighting for control of Gaul.

More military guile on display as tonight's contestants find themselves in 60 AD controlling a Roman army facing Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni, leading a revolt by 60,000 tribesmen. Will the ancient Britons again be defeated?

More military guile on display as tonight's contestants find themselves in 69 BC on the desert battlefield of Tigranocerta. In charge of an Armenian army, they attempt to drive out invading Romans and reverse history.

It's 48 BC, and mighty Julius Caesar marshals his army in the civil war for control of the Roman state. Tonight's team of modern-day commanders attempt to defeat the military genius, thus saving the Republic.

In 216 BC, Cannae in southern Italy is the setting for a meeting between a young African general with big ideas and more than 70,000 Roman soldiers assembled to crush his invasion. Can a team of Bedfordshire police officers inflict a humiliating defeat on Rome by re-creating the tactical genius of Hannibal?

The Battle of Raphia in 217 BC saw two nearly identical armies led by heirs of Alexander the Great clash for control of the border territories that separated their rival kingdoms. Will tonight's team of modern-day commanders (Al Murray , Kate Silverton , Ricky Groves and Raji James ) match the winning tactics of Egypt's Ptolemy IV, or will the might of Seleucid kingAntiochos III prevail?

A team of students from Lord Wandsworth College in Hertfordshire and their history teacher take virtual command of the Hittite army against a young and aggressive Ramses II of Egypt.

An all-female netball team take virtual command of the Thebes army in a face-off with the mighty Spartans in a re-creation of the battle to claim ancient Greece in 371BC.

A team of Milton Keynes councillors take virtual command of the Eastern Roman Empire forces in AD 378 as they prepare to repel a throng of Gothic refugees, who have risen in armed revolt in what is now western Turkey.

331 BC: in a virtual Gaugamela - present day northern Iraq - a team of childhood friends from London and Sheffield take command of the Macedonian forces of Alexander the Great as they try to conquer a vast army from the Persian Empire. But will close-knit ties prove a hindrance?

AD 451: having pushed the Roman Empire to the brink of collapse, Attila the Hun and his warriors face the forces of their beleaguered enemy at Chalons in France.