Great Canal Journeys

Great Canal Journeys is a British television series in which a pair of presenters take canal barge and narrowboat trips in the United Kingdom, Europe, India and Egypt. The series was originally aired on More4 before transferring to Channel 4 with Series 2.

The original presenters were husband and wife Timothy West and Prunella Scales. Both are keen narrowboaters and were involved in campaigning to revive the Kennet & Avon Canal. West and Scales both talk frankly about Scales' dementia during the series, which was praised by Alzheimer's Research UK.

In 2020, West and Scales were replaced by TV personality Gyles Brandreth and actor Sheila Hancock for series 11. In the first episode Timothy West gave the two novice canal boaters a crash course in narrowboating.

Series 1

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Series 9

 * If viewing figure is blank then the programme was not in the weekly top 10 on BARB.

Series 10
The series has been subtitled Asian Odyssey and is billed as Prunella Scales and Timothy West's last canal journey.

DVDs
With the exception of the London Ring episode in series 2, all of first eight series have been issued on DVD; the series numbering, however, is different.


 * Series 3 and 4 are combined and called series 3
 * Series 5 and 6 are combined and called series 4
 * Series 7 and 8 are combined and called series 5