The Re-Inventors

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-	The show is actually made in widescreen but (as of 2008) doesn't seem to have been broadcast on a widescreen channel yet, so thus far it's only been seen in 4:3 cutout (not even 14:9).	+	Produced by sometime [[Endurance UK]] co-host [[Stephen Taylor Woodrow]]
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-	[http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.item/aid/576774 Official site]	+	[[Beat the Ancestors]]
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Current revision as of 23:46, 26 December 2023

Synopsis

Scrapheap Challenge meets Challenge Anneka, only without a scrapheap and without Anneka. So it's Challenge Challenge, basically.

Father and son team Dick and James Strawbridge are given two days to scavenge materials and build a machine capable of taking on an historical original at a given task. Dick's explanations of how the machines work are clear and comprehensible even by engineering ignoramuses like ourselves, there's a good old dose of historical infomation to satisfy the Antiques Roadshow crowd, and - although this aspect is slightly thrown away - it's really rather exciting to see genuine old machines doing what they were made to do rather than just sitting inert in a museum.

You don't expect an original game show commission from a channel like UKTV History (which usually specialises in back-to-back episodes of The World at War and suchlike) but if you like build-a-machine shows, and don't mind Colonel Dick, this ain't bad.

Trivia

Produced by sometime Endurance UK co-host Stephen Taylor Woodrow

See also

Beat the Ancestors

Pictures

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