How Do They Do It?
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| How Do They Do It? | |
|---|---|
 UK Title Card |
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| Format | Documentary |
| Starring | Robert Llewellyn Dominic Frisby Rupert Degas |
| Country of origin |  Canada United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Richard Stansfield |
| Running time | 60/30 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Wag TV |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Discovery Channel |
| Original run | 2006 – present |
| External links | |
| IMDb profile | |
How Do They Do It? is a program co-produced by Wag TV and Rocket Surgery Productions. It is broadcast in English on Discovery Channel networks in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Asia, and in Spanish in Latin America and Spain. The program explores how ordinary objects are made and used.
Slogan: "Behind the ordinary is the extraordinary."
This program is similar to the popular Canadian-produced documentary program, How It's Made, also broadcast on Discovery Channel networks.
Contents |
[edit] Episode list
[edit] Discovery Channel
[edit] Season 1
Episodes in the first season aired with 60-minute runtimes (including commercials).
| # | Features | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Recycling, Plasma TV, Fireworks, Railroad tracks, Ink" | May 6, 2006 |
| 2 | "Salt mines, Trainers, Ships, Watches, Wind farms" | May 13, 2006 |
| 3 | "Tires, Excavators, Newspapers, Ports, Contact lenses" | May 27, 2006 |
| 4 | "Internet cable, Cranes, Pencils, Water, Toothpaste" | June 3, 2006 |
| 5 | "Glass, Golf balls, Zippers, Coke cans, Tire changes" | June 10, 2006 |
| 6 | "Concrete, Cell phones, Lightbulbs, Steel, Traffic" | June 17, 2006 |
[edit] Season 2
Episodes in the second season aired with 30-minute runtimes (including commercials).
| # | Features | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Diamond mine, Skyscraper, Car crusher" | June 24, 2006 |
| 2 | "Air to air refuelling, Ski slopes, Car production" | June 24, 2006 |
| 3 | "Ice breaker, Money, Bowling alleys" | July 8, 2006 |
| 4 | "Mining trucks, IKEA, Air traffic" | July 8, 2006 |
| 5 | "Logging, Baggage, Light show" | July 15, 2006 |
| 6 | "Gold, Golf clubs, Escalators" | July 15, 2006 |
| 7 | "Tunneling, Tea, Mountain bikes" | July 22, 2006 |
| 8 | "Combines, Lifeboats, Chocolate" | July 22, 2006 |
| 9 | "Airbus, Fire engines, Ketchup" | July 29, 2006 |
| 10 | "Crash helmets, Rubber, Wave piercing" | July 29, 2006 |
| 11 | "Airbags, Ice rinks, Mattresses" | August 12, 2006 |
| 12 | "Armored cars, Elevators, Cheese" | August 12, 2006 |
[edit] Season 3
| # | Features | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Phoenix Stadium, La Trade Tower, Surfing" | February 21, 2007 |
| 2 | "Space Shuttle, Roller Coaster, Pool Table" | February 21, 2007 |
| 3 | "Empire State Building, Extracting Copper, Making A Car" | February 28, 2007 |
| 4 | "Fighter Jet, Baseball, Sports Car" | February 28, 2007 |
| 5 | "Rescue Services, Rotating Boat (falkirk wheel), Parachutists" | March 7, 2007 |
| 6 | "Submarine, Moving Earth, Beer Car" | March 7, 2007 |
| 7 | "Racing Drivers, Bank Vaults, Telling Time" | March 14, 2007 |
| 8 | "Cruise Liner, White Wash, Aircon" | March 14, 2007 |
| 9 | "Water Display, Space Shuttle, Suspension Bridge" | March 21, 2007 |
| 10 | "Vehicles, Football, Potash Mine" | March 21, 2007 |
| 11 | "Helicopter, Luxury Yachts, Highway Patrol" | March 28, 2007 |
| 12 | "Buildings, Electricity Pilons, Balloon Makers" | March 28, 2007 |
[edit] Season 4
| # | Features | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Bullet Proof Vests, Robots, Formation Skydivers" | April 4, 2007 |
| 2 | "Family Car, Letter, Titanium" | April 4, 2007 |
| 3 | "Forest Fires, Car Exhaust, Telescopes" | April 11, 2007 |
| 4 | "Rally Cars, Neon Signs, Biggest Ships" | April 11, 2007 |
| 5 | "Nuclear Sub, Crash Test Dummies, Fruit And Veg" | April 18, 2007 |
| 6 | "Land Mines, Boats, Fireproof Clothing" | April 18, 2007 |
| 7 | "Oil Rigs, VWs, Black Box" | April 25, 2007 |
| 8 | "Jet Engine, Weapons, Hurricanes From Space" | April 25, 2007 |
[edit] Season 5
| # | Features | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "navigating a ship through Panama canal, garbage disposal" | March 3, 2008 |
| 2 | "world strongest knife, growing diamonds, bricks" | March 4, 2008 |
| 3 | "generating electric, biggest floating crane" | March 5, 2008 |
| 4 | "desert drinking water, largest TV screens, fastest family car" | March 6, 2008 |
| 5 | "delivering packages around the world in 24 hour, coal mining" | March 7, 2008 |
| 6 | "paper cartons for liquids, build a house in a week, emergency ward in an ambulance" | March 10, 2008 |
| 7 | "forecasting the weather, building a 35 tonne vehicle" | March 11, 2008 |
| 8 | "how motorways handle millions of cars a day, how money is made" | March 12, 2008 |
| 9 | "how large ship container move, how the Peterbilt truck was built" | March 13, 2008 |
| 10 | "windscreen wipers, launch a space shuttle, lenses for binoculars" | March 14, 2008 |
| 11 | "11000 tonne drilling platform is moved, a near perfect shave" | March 17, 2008 |
| 12 | "how do they make lightbulb burn hotter than iron melting point, silencing noise car engines, create millions of unique locks and keys" | March 18, 2008 |
| 13 | "TBA" | March 19, 2008 |
| 14 | "TBA" | March 20, 2008 |
| 15 | "TBA" | March 25, 2008 |
| 16 | "TBA" | March 26, 2008 |
| 17 | "TBA" | March 27, 2008 |
| 18 | "TBA" | March 28, 2008 |
| 19 | "TBA" | March 31, 2008 |
| 20 | "TBA" | April 1, 2008 |
[edit] Special
Episodes 60 minutes long taken the best from series 3 and 4
| # | Features | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "fighter jet, moving earth, telescopes, black box, space shuttle" | September 3, 2007 |
| 2 | "extracting copper, empire state building, nuclear sub, rescue services, biggest ships" | September 4, 2007 |
[edit] Channel Five
[edit] Season 1
Each episode is 30 minutes long and airs on terrestrial UK channel five. Each programme features 2 items from the original series 1 with 1 new item filmed with presenter Robert Llewellyn. Llewellyn also presents links in between the original items.
| # | Features | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "excavators, London's sewers, tyres" | January 10, 2008 |
| 2 | "salt mine, hovercraft, trainers" | January 17, 2008 |
| 3 | "lightbulbs, demolition with explosives, giant cranes" | January 24, 2008 |
| 4 | "cold war military recycling, perfect martini, plasma TVs" | January 31, 2008 |
| 5 | "fibre optics, movements of goods, zips" | February 4, 2008 |
| 6 | "fireworks, limestone, rail tracks" | February 11, 2008 |
| 7 | "pencils, pilot a cargo ship, golfballs" | February 18, 2008 |
| 8 | "Thames Barrier, newspaper recycling, glassmaking" | February 25, 2008 |
| 9 | "high speed racing boat, mobile phones, kugira" | March 3, 2008 |
| 10 | "recycling, self winding watches, flat pack tanker" | March 10, 2008 |
[edit] Season 2
| # | Features | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "F15 Fighter refuelling in mid air, Perfect cup of tea, Construction of 500 metre sky scraper" | March 17, 2008 |
| 2 | "Airbags, Internet Shopping, Car recycling" | March 24, 2008 |
| 3 | "Ice breaker ships, bells, rubber bands" | March 31, 2008 |
| 4 | "Diamond mines, electricity from coal, ten-pin bowling" | April 7, 2008 |
| 5 | "Wood harvesting, Car transportation, Confectionary" | April 14, 2008 |
| 6 | "TBA" | April 21, 2008 |
| 7 | "TBA" | April 28, 2008 |
| 8 | "TBA" | May 5, 2008 |
| 9 | "TBA" | May 12, 2008 |
| 10 | "TBA" | June 2, 2008 |
[edit] External links
- How Do They Do It? at the Internet Movie Database
- How Do They Do It?, Discovery Channel UK
- How Do They Do It?, Discovery Channel Asia
- ¿Cómo lo hacen?, Discovery Channel en Español
- [1] Wagtv
