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- As a megaquake threatens San Francisco, a series of foreshocks wreaks havoc across the city. Now an elite team of emergency service and disaster experts converge on the anticipated epicentre, working tirelessly to save as many lives as possible before the city is crushed into oblivion. Disaster movie, starring William Baldwin, McKenzie Westmore, Grant Bowler and Tyler Christopher.
- Series in which acclaimed filmmaker Richard Macer visits three different museums struggling to connect with a modern audience. Episode 1: Commercial Vehicle Museum Film-maker Richard Macer explores three museums struggling to attract visitors, beginning with the British Commercial Vehicle Museum in Lancashire. Trustee Stephen Bullock wants to implement changes, the first of which is bringing back the Leyland festival to celebrate the town's industrial heritage, but many long-standing volunteers are not happy with his plans. Episode 2: Freud Museum Richard Macer highlights the problems facing the Freud Museum in Hampstead, west London, formerly the home of Sigmund Freud and his family after they left Austria in 1938. Despite containing many of the psychologist's possessions - including his famous couch - the museum has suffered from a lack of interest in recent years, and hopes to attract more visitors by hosting a dating event based on classic psychoanalytical concepts. Episode 3: National Waterways Museum Richard Macer highlights the problems faced by the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. Its financial crisis has meant some of the country's oldest barges and narrowboats may have to be sold off or destroyed, and volunteers believe the museum's predicament is the result of mismanagement. New director Stuart Gillis is brought on board and immediately makes a positive impression, but faces the challenge of living up to people's high expectations. Last in the series.
- Claire Barratt, Suggs and the team restore a 1912 racing car, but are surprised to discover that beneath the machine's striking design and solid brass exterior lie the inner workings of a Model T Ford. However, the modified engine of this vehicle was capable of speeds of up to 75mph. Suggs sets out to discover who would think of turning an unglamorous Ford into a racing car, eventually learning the remarkable story of its creator AE George, an international cyclist who was the first man to fly a mile in Britain, and meeting his daughter, who remembers riding in the car.
- The team sets to work restoring a Ruston Bucyrus RB10 crane, famous for playing an important role in the extensive construction and demolition work undertaken in Britain from the 1950s to the 1970s. This particular example was discovered rusting in a shed just outside Glasgow, but with the help of retired mechanics Willy Middlemas and John 'Freefall' McCall, the squad hopes to return the crane to its former glory.
- Suggs and the team accept the challenge to restore a 1935 London fire boat that, despite having an impressive wartime record, was left to rot alongside the Woolwich Ferry in the 1970s. Former fireman Phil Wray discovered the vessel and immediately set about restoring it with the help of his friends, but the biggest task - rebuilding the six-tonne engines - has been left for the squad.
- The team members attempt to refit a Massey Harris 780 combine harvester, a model used by almost all the country's grain farmers in the 1950s, although there are now only 10 left. Their challenge is to restore the machine back to working order in time to bring in the last of the summer wheat. However, with its internal components almost destroyed, it's going to take a lot of work to get it running again.
- The team refit a 1931 Sentinel steam-powered lorry, whose elaborately designed boiler made it a very efficient mode of transport, capable of holding its own against diesel-fuelled rivals. However, it is this complexity that presents the engineers with their biggest problem - no-one has built a machine like it in 50 years, and they have difficulty coaxing metal into the unusual shapes necessary.
- The team restores an M10 Achilles tank destroyer, a vehicle used during the D-Day landings and one of the few Allied weapons capable of taking on the German Tigers. Enlisting the aid of war veterans and expert Steve Cobb, the work gets underway while Suggs investigates the legalities of refurbishing a machine capable of demolishing buildings at 200 metres.
- The team turns its attention to a piece of First World War history in the shape of a Simplex locomotive. The engine was originally used for hauling huge numbers of men and munitions to the front line on a narrow gauge track, but has spent most of its post-war life moving waste at a Leeds sewage works.
- The team attempts to rebuild a 1930s steam-powered crane that has been lying in pieces for decades. Claire Barratt enlists the aid of steam engineers Ian Howard and Jack Meeker and the staff of the Blist Hills Victorian Museum to help with the project, but they hit an obstacle when it turns out there are several missing parts that must be created from scratch.
- 2005–200643mTV-PGTV EpisodeUFO researchers discuss their theories that alien spacecraft tend to congregate over certain 'hot spots' around the world. They also ask why extraterrestrials appear strangely interested in the area in and around Bonnybridge near Falkirk in Scotland.
- 2005–200646mTV-PGTV EpisodeThe activities of conspiracy theorists who are convinced the world's population is being run by a sinister consortium of extraterrestrial beings. Featuring an interview with David Icke, who claims aliens have been mating with humans since ancient times - producing a 'hybrid race' of reptilian shape shifters.
- Lee Hurst presents as a team of mechanical wizards take up the challenge to restore a 1923 Aveling and Porter steamroller in just 10 days. The remains have been stored in the back of a shed in several hundred rusting pieces weighing up to two tonnes.
- Lee Hurst and the team try to restore a gyroplane discovered in a Manchester garage. A race against the clock gets under way to return it to its former glory in time for an air show - but with only two weeks to go, it's going to be a tall order to get the defunct machine flying again.
- Lee Hurst and his trusty team of renovators attempt to restore a 1921 steamboat that has been rotting in a Warwickshire field for the past 10 years. Unfortunately, there is only one week available to achieve this huge task, otherwise they will miss the Lake Windermere Steamboat rally - the most prestigious event of its kind.
- Lee Hurst presents the vehicle restoration challenge as the team attempt to fix a 1939 wartime fire engine discovered in a Northamptonshire barn. Believed to be one of only 10 such machines ever constructed, it is thought to have been used during the Coventry blitz - quite an achievement for a vehicle made of wood.
- Lee Hurst presents another restoration challenge as Claire, Jerry and Axel are handed the task of restoring an Alvis Stalwart amphibious truck to its former glory. Once the wonder wagon of the British Army, this 15-ton giant is now riddled with holes, but the team are confident they will have it floating again - if Lee can track down spare parts that have not been made for 20 years.
- A classic 1969 British Lola T142 racing car left to gather dust and rust in a Leicester garage provides the latest restoration project for Lee Hurst and his team. Claire, Jerry and Axel set out to return the Formula 5000 machine to its former glory in time for a rubber-burning display at Mallory Park in front of its delighted owner.
- The team gets to grips with the restoration of a 100-year-old steam car made obsolete by the introduction of the internal combustion engine. The vehicle has been involved in an accident, leaving the squad with nothing but a pile of twisted metal and a broken wooden frame to work with as they struggle to complete the task in time for the annual London-to-Brighton Veteran Car Run.
- Suggs and the experts are challenged to restore an 1870 Fowler steam plough to its former glory. Once a marvel of its age, the vehicle is currently little more than a pile of scrap with a boiler threatening to explode. As the team set to work, it soon becomes clear they will have to employ techniques that have virtually died out to finish the job.
- The case of John Tanner, who took part in a police reconstruction when his fiancee vanished. Plus, Paul Dyson whose TV plea for his missing lover raised suspicions. Series examining the phenomenon of criminal cases where people publicly feign innocence about a crime they have committed, shedding crocodile tears in the process.
- The murder of best-selling author Helen Bailey by her partner Ian Stewart, who had earlier helped volunteers in her search. The 51-year-old's body was eventually found dumped in a cesspit beneath the garage of her £1.5 million home in Royston, Hertfordshire, alongside that of her dog in July 2016. She had been drugged and suffocated.
- The cases of Miles Evans and Fadi Nasri. Evans murdered his nine-year-old stepdaughter Zoe in 1997, but before her body was recovered he sat alongside her mother in an appeal for the public's help in finding her. In 2006, Nasri asked for help in finding the person behind a fatal knife attack on his wife Nisha, though in reality had hired two men to perform the killing to claim her life insurance. Last in the series.
- A case from May 1997, when eight-year-old Jamie Lavis was on the Manchester bus Darren Vickers was driving just prior to his disappearance. Vickers joined the hunt and spoke on television - but was hiding an awful truth. Bones from Jamie's torso were eventually found hidden in bushes on a golf course five months later, and evidence led detectives back to the driver.
- 2017–7.1 (7)TV EpisodeThe murder of 16-year-old Bristol student Becky Watts. When she vanished in February 2015, suspicion fell on her step-brother Nathan Matthews and his partner Shauna Hoare. Experts analyse police interviews for the clues that proved compelling.
- 2017–7.3 (7)TV EpisodeThe case of Californian teacher Laci Peterson, who disappeared in December 2002 while eight months pregnant with her first child. Her husband Scott claimed he last saw her before he went fishing - but his secret mistress exposed his lies. Experts examine his behaviour.