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Season 8 – How Do They Do It?

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After watching this series you may never look at ordinary objects in the same way again. A tube of toothpaste? Car tires? Tea bags? A lot of technology goes into even the simplest of consumer goods, and this program offers viewers a glimpse at just what that entails.
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How Do They Do It? — Season 8

How Do They Do It? — Season 8

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Chris Broyles

Narrator

Rupert Degas

Actor

Robert Llewellyn

Actor

Richard Stansfield

Producer

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Jun 3, 2011 Fugu; Freight Trains; Scottish Tartan How Japanese master chefs prepare the extremely poisonous puffer fish; freight trains; how Scots weave over 700 types of tartan for kilts. Details Episode 2 Aired Jun 10, 2011 Bowling Balls; Tower Bridge; Gummy Bears Bowling balls; tower bridge; Gummy Bears. Details Episode 3 Aired Jun 17, 2011 Ice Rink; Car Plant World's biggest ice hockey rink and car plant. Details Episode 4 Aired Jun 24, 2011 Taiko Drums; Green Factory; Pasta A 700-hundred-year-old tree is made into a two-ton Japanese drum; how a factory produces thousands of cars and stays green; how Italians make pasta. Details Episode 5 Aired Jul 1, 2011 Island Prison; Mailboxes; Jam New York's Rikers Island prison; how the famous Royal Mail mail boxes are made; turning fruit into jam. Details Episode 6 Aired Jul 15, 2011 Swiss Cheese, Tanks, British Library How Swiss cheese gets its holes; restoring a classic battle tank; robotic librarians run one of the world's biggest book collections. Details Episode 7 Aired Jul 22, 2011 Pretzels, Gondolas, Pearls How an oyster grows a perfect pearl; how they put the twist in classic Pennsylvania pretzels; how they build Venice's traditional gondolas. Details Episode 8 Aired Jul 29, 2011 Brewery; Playing Cards; Gulfstream Making playing cards that can defeat a cheat; brewing more than a billion bottles of lager a year; the world's most luxurious private jets. Details Episode 9 Aired Aug 5, 2011 Roulette Tables, Olive Oil, Batmobile How roulette wheels are made; making the world's purest olive oil; transforming a rusty wreck into a classic Batmobile. Details Episode 10 Aired Aug 26, 2011 Bomb Squad; Cider; Husqvarna Defusing thousands of World War II land mines; making crisp tasting cider; clearing undergrowth with a thin strip of nylon wire. Details Episode 11 Aired Oct 18, 2011 Duck Calls; Wasabi; Accordions How accordions are built; how wasabi is made; how they produce a duck call that can trick birds. Details Episode 12 Aired Oct 19, 2011 Toto Washlets; Fire Scout; Demolition Drills How they build and design Japanese toilets; use remote control helicopters to catch smugglers; make a steel drill that can cut concrete. Details Episode 13 Aired Oct 27, 2011 Submarine Rescue; Subaru Rescuing the crew of a sunken submarine; a monster digger; a car that runs on beer. Details Episode 14 Aired Dec 1, 2011 24 Hours of Daytona; Rum Kepping a car on the road in a 24 hour race; turning sweet sugar cane into rum. Details Episode 15 Aired Dec 8, 2011 Caviar; Porcelain; Soccer Cleats Farming the world's most expensive food; clay into china; Beckham and Kaka's boots. Details Episode 16 Aired Dec 15, 2011 Circus; Guitars How a 1700-seat circus tent is set up in 36 hours; turning Japanese maple and mahogany into an electric guitar. Details Episode 17 Aired Dec 29, 2011 Frankfurters; Sniper Rifles; Casino Security Frankfurter; casino security; sniper rifles. Details Episode 18 Aired Jan 5, 2012 Powerboats, Swiss Watches, Wallpaper Powerboats that can go faster than sports cars; making Swiss watches; creating wallpaper fit for palaces and parliaments. Details Episode 19 Aired Jan 12, 2012 Cruise Ship, Truffles, Asphalt Navigating a cruise ship under a low bridge; locating Alba's famous white truffles; mining Trinidad's natural asphalt lake. Details Episode 20 Aired Jan 19, 2012 Tsukiji; Cricket Bats; Parcels Tsukji; cricket bats; Parcels. Details
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Season Info

Network
Science Channel
Rating
TV-G
Genre
Documentary, Special Interest
Original Language
English
Release Date
Jun 3, 2011