All Seasons

Season 1

Season 2

  • S02E01 Episode 1

    • June 1, 2020
    • ITV1

    Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present the stories of people who were abandoned as babies, helping them try to find their birth families and know their identities. David McBride was left in a car as a two-week-old infant in January 1962, while Helen Ward was left in a tartan bag in a telephone box in Dundalk in 1968.

  • S02E02 Episode 2

    • June 2, 2020
    • ITV1

    Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell help two more people who were found as babies after being abandoned to track down their birth families. Simon Jeffery was left in a box outside a railway tavern in Greenhithe, a story which hit the headlines but which he only learned about by chance at the age of 10. Fi Beazer was discovered in a public toilet in Warminster when she was only a few hours old. Both have spent their adult life trying to track down their parents, and submit DNA samples in the hope of finally getting the answers they seek.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Episode 1

    • May 24, 2021
    • ITV1

    In this episode, the team make a shocking new discovery through DNA in the case of two baby girls abandoned in Chesterfield in the late 1980s who could be related.

  • S03E02 Episode 2

    • May 25, 2021
    • ITV1

    Time is running out for a foundling discovered on a luggage rack in Paddington station, and another woman hopes to understand why she was left next to a church.

  • S03E03 Episode 3

    • May 26, 2021
    • ITV1

    A woman born in a hospital but whose birth mother disappeared, never to be traced, discovers a shocking secret, while a man, left as a baby near Wolverhampton Wanderers' Stadium and named after a famous footballer, searches for his true identity.

  • SPECIAL 0x1 What Happened Next

    • September 14, 2021

    Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell provide an update on some of the stories of people who were abandoned as babies. Eighteen months ago, DNA revealed that foundlings Helen and David, left as newborns on either side of the Irish border, were full brother and sister - now further research shows their story of extraordinary family secrets is far from over.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Episode 1

    • May 23, 2022
    • ITV1

    There are shocking revelations for a man who was left as a baby on church steps over 50 years ago, when a long-held family secret is finally uncovered.

  • S04E02 Episode 2

    • May 24, 2022
    • ITV1

    A man who became famous as 'The Ice Baby', after being found in a London phone box on the coldest night of the year, searches for answers.

  • S04E03 Episode 3

    • May 25, 2022
    • ITV1

    Heart-wrenching news awaits a woman discovered as a newborn baby on the steps of a tower block, and can DNA finally help one man find his roots?

Season 5

  • S05E01 Episode 1

    • June 26, 2023
    • ITV1

    In this episode of the programme, a man left as a baby in a London phone box over 50 years ago discovers an extraordinary family history on the other side of the world.

  • S05E02 Episode 2

    • June 27, 2023
    • ITV1

    A man left on a stranger's doorstep finds a painful family secret, and a woman discovered in the back of an Aston Martin car in the 1950s learns why she was put there.

  • S05E03 Episode 3

    • June 28, 2023
    • ITV1

    A police detective left on church steps finally discovers the truth about his own identity, and a woman left in a hospital in the 1960s receives some surprising news.

Season 6

  • S06E01 Episode 1

    • June 10, 2024
    • ITV1

    A man left as a baby in the waiting room of Reading train station in 1965 learns that he is related to another foundling left on the steps of a Dublin church.

  • S06E02 Episode 2

    • June 11, 2024
    • ITV1

    A woman who still bears physical scars from being left alone at Euston Station's long-stay car park seeks answers along with a foundling with no origin story.

  • S06E03 Episode 3

    • June 12, 2024
    • ITV1

    Two women - one found in a shopping basket under a Birmingham hedge, the other left in an East London phone box with a heart-breaking note - seek connections.

  • SPECIAL 0x2 What Happened Next

    • June 24, 2024

    We find out what happened next to two foundlings - Harvey and Caroline - who forged new and enduring relationships after their stories were told.