Rotten Tomatoes
Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes

Season 1 – The Repair Shop

Play trailer Poster for Season 1 – The Repair Shop Mar 2017 Special Interest Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist Tomatometer Popcornmeter
Tomatometer 2 Reviews Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
Craftsmen pool their talents and resources to restore heirlooms and treasured antiques such as music boxes, vases and clocks to prove that anything can be restored to their former glory.

Critics Reviews

View More
Graeme Tuckett The Post NZ 08/20/2021
As with Antiques Roadshow, you'll be amazed at what people have been storing in their attics for decades, but also moved and astonished at the results the team of artisans can achieve with the battered and broken treasures. Go to Full Review Melissa Camacho Common Sense Media 06/26/2020
3/5
Antique restorations offer history, charm. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

View More
09/20/2021 An interesting show. Even when I don't really have much interest in the item being repaired, watching the masterful technicians work with such thoughtfulness and care makes the show engaging. See more Read all reviews
The Repair Shop — Season 1

My Rating

Read More Read Less WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW POST RATING

Cast & Crew

View All

Jay Blades

Host

Roger Thomas

Host

Bill Paterson

Narrator

Steven Fletcher

Guest

Will Kirk

Guest

Kirsten Ramsay

Guest

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Mar 27, 2017 Jay Blades and horologist Steve Fletcher work on a timepiece made by a man who was completely blind; Will Kirk restores a fifty-year-old wooden flying fish that may have been carved by a descendent of the mutineers from the HMS Bounty. Details Episode 2 Aired Mar 28, 2017 Jay Blades and Will Kirk restore a piano stool that's been damaged by a dog; Clock restoration expert Steve is called to work on a vintage telephone; Antique projector specialist Richard Rigby restores a collector's item. Details Episode 3 Aired Mar 29, 2017 Furniture restorers Jay Blades and Will Kirk take delivery of a highly prized Davenport desk, damaged by burglars and in need of some serious surgery; Vintage electronics expert Neil Fairly battles some aging Doctor Who baddies; The Repair Shop's very own time lord, Steve Fletcher, tackles a tricky time-traveling conundrum of his own. Details Episode 4 Aired Mar 30, 2017 Ceramics conservator Kirstin Ramsay restores a Victorian garden gnome; Firefighting historian Stuart Black restores an antique helmet; Music box expert Stephen Kember brings a treasured family piece back to life before its owner finds out. Details Episode 5 Aired Mar 31, 2017 A precious nineteenth-century Italian chair tests Jay Blades' soft, and hard, furnishing skills; Ceramicist Kirsten Ramsey painstakingly puts the broken bits of a shattered piece by Jean Lurcat, a contemporary of Picasso's, back together again. Details Episode 6 Aired Apr 3, 2017 Art conservator Lucia Scalisi rescues a painting; Ceramicist Kirsten Ramsay reunites the broken pieces of a plaque that was shattered over forty-five years ago; Furniture restorers Will Kirk and Jay Blades fix a Japanese lacquered jewelry box. Details Episode 7 Aired Apr 4, 2017 Two royal Worcester vases from the early 1900s; Horologist Steven Fletcher and expert metalworker Dominic Chinea fix a titanic timepiece - the Cirencester village clock; The team mends a piece of farming history, a nineteenth-century hay press. Details Episode 8 Aired Apr 5, 2017 Clock specialist Steven Fletcher employs his skills to fix a clapping monkey; Ceramicist Kirsten Ramsay and furniture restorer Will Kirk restore a Victorian traveling box; A 1950s Wurlitzer jukebox arrives to test the skills of Laurence Richardson. Details Episode 9 Aired Apr 6, 2017 Horologist Steve Fletcher and furniture restorer Will Kirk restore a grandfather clock that has been in a family for four generations. Details Episode 10 Aired Apr 7, 2017 Furniture restorers Jay Blades and Will Kirk work on a hundred-year-old Nordic rocking chair that owner Nina Tucknott's grandparents were given on their wedding day. Details Episode 11 Aired Apr 10, 2017 Horologist Steven Fletcher gets a Victorian cuckoo clock singing again; ceramics conservator Kirsten Ramsay attempts a seamless repair on a seventies bowl; furniture restorer Will Kirk navigates a 200-year-old sea chest. Details Episode 12 Aired Apr 11, 2017 Lucia Scalisi is presented with a perforated painting by Fred Appleyard; Will Kirk has a homemade riddle with over 100 pieces; a family heirloom with huge sentimental value needs the prowess of ceramicist Kirsten Ramsay. Details Episode 13 Aired Apr 12, 2017 Dominic Chinea has to future-proof an old Cornish museum sign; Steven Fletcher has to steer an old clunker back onto the road; Julie and Amanda start treatment on George, a very special teddy who has lost one of his eyes and his growl. Details Episode 14 Aired Apr 13, 2017 Gramophone, Lucy Doll, Sail Boat A customer has a knotty nautical problem for furniture restorer Will Kirk; Jay Blades and Tim Weeks get a gramophone looking and sounding like new; soft-toy specialists Amanda and Julie work on a lady suffering the effects of years of affection. Details Episode 15 Aired Apr 14, 2017 Horologist Steven Fletcher comes to grips with a broken antique barometer; furniture restorer Will Kirk is entrusted with a pair of rowing oars that could have a hidden past; pinball wizard Geoff Harvey works on a pinball machine in poor shape. Details

More Like This

View All
Earthshot How To Save Our Planet W/ Prince William % % Earthshot How To Save Our Planet W/ Prince William Watchlist No Kitchen Required % % No Kitchen Required Watchlist Girl Meets Farm % % Girl Meets Farm Watchlist The Speedshop % % The Speedshop Watchlist Making It % 90% Making It Watchlist Discover more movies and TV shows. View More
View All

The Repair Shop — Season 1

The Repair Shop The Repair Shop The Repair Shop The Repair Shop View more photos

Season Info

Executive Producer
Sam Wilson, Rob Butterfield
Network
BBC
Rating
TV-PG
Genre
Special Interest
Original Language
British English
Release Date
Mar 27, 2017