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| - | [[Dick Strawbridge]] | + | [[Dick Strawbridge]] |
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| + | Historian: James Strawbridge | ||
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| + | Engineer: Jim Milner | ||
== Broadcast == | == Broadcast == | ||
| - | UKTV History, 11 to 15 December 2006 | + | IWC for UKTV History, 11 to 15 December 2006 (5 episodes) |
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[[Scrapheap Challenge]] meets [[Challenge Anneka]], only without a scrapheap and without Anneka. So it's ''Challenge Challenge'', basically. | [[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. | + | 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. |
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | ==Trivia== | ||
| - | + | 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). | |
== Web links == | == Web links == | ||
Revision as of 10:00, 10 January 2008
Contents |
Host
Co-hosts
Historian: James Strawbridge
Engineer: Jim Milner
Broadcast
IWC for UKTV History, 11 to 15 December 2006 (5 episodes)
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
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).
Web links
Pictures
Past masters James and Dick