It's certainly captured viewers' attention and A House Through Time will continue to serve up lots of intrigue and drama during April 22's episode.
Focused around a Newcastle property, the four-part BBC series - now up to its third installment - has packed in around 200 years of history in a single home and TV historian presenter David Olusoga continues to peel away its layers.
The star of the show, which made its debut on April 8, is the property 5 Ravensworth Terrace in the city 's West End and its filming brought Olusoga, who is from the North East himself, back to his home region.
He was delighted to have the opportunity to film here for the follow-up to the first installment of A House Through Time which featured a home in Liverpool.
He was in Newcastle last year to film the series which explores social and political change in Britain as reflected in the story of an individual property over the years, with each of its episodes focusing on a different point in time.
Read the story behind the making of the series here.
Now, with the resulting series of A House Through Time giving local viewers a rich account of what happened within its walls, they will be keen to know what other surprises are set to be revealed.
Following a huge amount of research into records, city archives and tracking down living descendants, they have so far enjoyed a wealth of fascinating detail in a story that included fame, scandal, theft and disease.
Olusoga said: “I was brought up on Tyneside, so coming to the North East to film the second series was coming home.
"I am as proud of my North East roots as my African heritage and think of myself a Nigerian Geordie."
He added: “In the last series, viewers got a glimpse of Liverpool’s glorious history as well as the turbulent times of the 1970s and 1980s.
"I wanted to do the same for Newcastle and present a fair and honest portrait of a city which has a global footprint and a global history."
And the story of 5 Ravensworth Terrace is playing out within that with real-life dramas including a scientist facing financial ruin; a doctor embroiled in a workhouse scandal; a vengeful lawyer plus burglary and bigamy.
So, what will happen next? Well, the third episode - which can be seen on BBC 2 on April 22 at 9pm-10pm - will reveal even more drama.
Here's what's been happening to date.
Episode one
This followed the inhabitants of the house from the 1820s to the 1850s and Olusoga was seen paying his first visit to the Georgian end-of-terrace property, with Damian and Suzi knowing little of the history of their home whose scale and grand fireplaces nevertheless offered reminders of the past.
Its occupants over the years were to vary in status but it was built in the 1820s for the middle classes and the first three households were three well-to-do, despite times of financial turmoil and epidemic disease.
Research revealed that the first long-term resident of the property was William Stoker, a lawyer and family man and a surprise find was the sight of his name in a 1835 edition of our local newspaper which carried a report of a theft.
Viewers then saw Olusoga on a quest to find out what could be unearthed about the house's next residents.
The name which is most likely to be most familiar was that of Joshua Alder who now merits a blue plaque outside the property, which Olusoga himself unveiled during filming for the programme.
Alder who moved into Ravensworth Terrace in 1841 - accompanied by his sister Mary - after selling his cheesemonger business to fund what would be his new career as a scientist, which brought him fame.
Other occupants were a well-to-do newly-wed couple called Nicholas and Mary Sarah Hardcastle. The husband was a doctor and appointed medical officer to the local workhouse where he treated the very poorest in the city.
Viewers also heard from Deborah Sugg Ryan, a professor from the University of Portsmouth who appears throughout the series as a historical design and interiors expert and will talk about how the house might have looked and functioned during each era.
Episode two
This saw the series move on to what happened at the house between the 1860s and 1900s - and was a turbulent story.
Viewers saw Olusoga discover that 5 Ravensworth Terrace was reinvented as a refuge for homeless girls and he unearthed a tragic story of scandal and untimely death which upped the ante drama-wise.
In 1861 the house was occupied by elderly widow Mary Colbeck who lived there with her 13-year-old grandson James Todd.
Olusoga investigated the set-up and discovered that James' well-off parents - his father Frederick’s family owned a large glass-making factory on the banks of the Tyne - had fallen into financial difficulty.
Historian Cathy Ross explained: "Newcastle’s glass-making industry is changing rapidly, and the Todds’ business fails to keep pace with the times."
Olusoga then discovered a series of extraordinary newspaper articles that described what happened next:threatened by the forced sale of his factory, Frederick Todd attacked a creditors with a knife before trying to take his own life and was thrown into gaol.
The scandal damaged the family’s reputation and Mary sold the family's country estate and downsized to Ravensworth Terrace - and Olusoga followed up the rest of the family's sad story.
At this point the neighbourhood was moving down the social scale.
After a spell as lodgings, the house was taken over by the Diocesan Home for Friendless Girls which rescued street girls at risk of falling into prostitution and trained them for domestic service and Olusoga at least found that a happy ending awaited one of the girls.
The next resident was draper Bevan Harris who was also a follower of Spiritualism and hosted seances at the house. Viewers heard he wrote the words: "Oh what a blessing is Spiritualism in these trying circumstances", following the death of his wife from cancer.
He moved in 1894 to Nottingham to continue his Spiritualist mission, and new tenants arrived in the house.
Mary Ellen Oram was also a draper and her husband William was a captain in the merchant navy.
Olusoga met a descendant, Tony Holmes, who revealed that in 1900, Mary Ellen - plagued by money worries, having opened her business at a time of stiff competition from new department stores - was committed to the local lunatic asylum, suffering from ‘melancholia’, which today would be termed depression.
Episode three - here's what happens tonight
This episode tracks the history of the house through the First World War, a time of enormous change across the city.
Olusoga will be seen following the residents of the house through the early 20th century.
At this point the property is now being run as a boarding house by 41-year-old single mum Grace Eagle, who lives there with two of her children, and, again, newspaper articles reveals money troubles .
Olusoga tracks down one of her living relatives and also finds from a 1911 census that this was actually a theatrical boarding house with tenants who were stars of the music hall.
He next visits Tyne and Wear Opera House to meet historian Anne Featherstone, to discuss the trick cyclists, jugglers, and other colourful acts who lodged in Grace’s house.
The house's lively atmosphere was soon threatened by the outbreak of war, with an atmosphere of xenophobia growing on Tyneside and Grace - who had been married to a Romanian - was herself classed as ‘foreign’, as was her daughter who had wed a German.
Violence erupted and viewers will learn how the story played out, then that of the next resident, revealed in a 1919 trade directory to be Rose McQueeney whose catered for Irish working men lodgers.
She ended up marrying one but a 1921 newspaper report implicated him in a case involving the theft of some explosives.
Olusoga discovers he was actually involved in a local branch of the IRA and played a key role in an arson attack on a local aerodrome that made headline news in Newcastle.
Olusoga has said of A House Through Time: “This series, as far as I’m concerned, is a love letter to the North East.
"I hope viewers are reminded of all we have been through in the past, what the generations before us achieved and all they went through to build a region we have today.”
Episode three A House Through Time can be seen on BBC 2 on April 22 at 9pm-10pm.
