The Repair Shop

Episode 0

Christmas

Tue, Dec 19, 2017

The Repair Shop is decked with holly and a dedicated team of Britain's most passionate and skilled crafts people are beavering away like busy Christmas elves repairing and rescuing beloved festive treasures. A Victorian version of a juke box called a polyphon that has rusted into silence moves sisters Ann and Kathryn to tears when they hear it play the family's favourite carol for the first time in decades, and the only Christmas present received by evacuee Patricia in 1939, Betty Doll, is lovingly brought back life. Also in the Repair Shop this Christmas are a rustic but rickety Nordic sleigh, a battered 100-year-old school Nativity and an 18th-century Madonna and child painting, all with unique restoration challenges for the expert team. Celebrating the season of joy and giving, The Repair Shop at Christmas is the festive fairy tale that transforms broken treasures into beautiful gifts, proving that 'make do and mend' is still a philosophy to live by after all these years.

Episode 1

Accordion

An 80-year-old accordion that helped maintain morale during the Blitz, a 50-year-old flying fish and a hand-made clock made by a blind man are among the treasured family heirlooms brought back to life by the experts.

Episode 2

Vintage Telephone

29 mins

Furniture restorers Jay and Will attempt to work their magic on a much-loved Arts and Crafts piano stool damaged by a dog. Richard Rigby restores an antique projector. Clock expert Steve repairs a vintage telephone.

Episode 3

'Doctor Who' Daleks

29 mins

Vintage electronics expert Neil Fairly battles some aged Doctor Who villains. Steven Fletcher tackles his own time-travelling conundrum. Jay and Will tackle a valuable Davenport desk damaged in a burglary.

Episode 4

Musical Box

29 mins

A treasured smoker's musical box is mended by Steven - before the owner finds out. Kirsten tackles a Victorian garden-gnome in need of major surgery. Fire-fighting expert Stuart Black restores an antique helmet.

Episode 5

Italian Chair

29 mins

Resident ceramicist Kirsten Ramsay puts a shattered vase by Jean Lurcat, a contemporary of Picasso, back together again. A 19th-century Italian chair and a special jewellery box are also restored.

Episode 6

Painting with a Love Story

29 mins

Art conservator Lucia Scalisi rescues a painting that has been in Patricia and Ivor Sansom's family for decades and holds many special memories of a lifelong love story. Ceramicist Kirsten Ramsay reunites the broken pieces of a beloved painted plaque that was dropped and shattered over 45 years ago. And furniture restorers Will Kirk and Jay Blades bring back from the brink a Japanese lacquered jewellery box that had suffered in the hands of burglars.

Episode 7

Village Clock

29 mins

In the repair shop today, the team are on a secret mission to restore precious family heirlooms, two royal Worcester vases from the early 1900s that are the prized possessions of Graham Kellie's wife Shirley. Horologist Steven Fletcher and expert metal worker Dominic Chinea pool forces to fix a titanic timepiece - the Cirencester village clock which hasn't ticked for many years. And the team work together to mend a piece of farming history, a severely rusted 19th-century hay press.

Episode 8

Clapping Monkey Toy

29 mins

Clock specialist Steven Fletcher fixes a clapping monkey, Kirsten and Will Kirk team up to tackle an ornate Victorian travelling box and Laurence Richardson is tested by an iconic 1950s Wurlitzer jukebox.

Episode 9

Mauled Teddy Bear

29 mins

Today in the repair shop, horologist Steve Fletcher and furniture restorer Will Kirk bring a grandfather clock out of retirement. It has been in the family for four generations and now resides with proud owners Ian and Linda Murphy, who long to hear it chime again. Ceramicist Kirsten Ramsay rescues a Royal Barum ware vase from a crack of doom. And the repair shop teddy doctors perform life-saving surgery on a much-loved bear who, after a run in with a puppy, now has only one ear and one arm.

Episode 10

Ceramic Bulldog

29 mins

Today in the repair shop, some of the country's leading crafts people bring treasured possessions back to life. Furniture restorers Jay Blades and Will Kirk work together on a 100-year-old Nordic rocking chair that owner Nina Tucknott's grandparents were given on their wedding day. And ceramics restorers Guillaume Pons and Kirsten Ramsay take on two very different pieces - an engraved mother of pearl seashell from Brazil and an unusual ceramic bulldog named Sweetpea, whose face has been shattered.

Episode 11

Victorian Cuckoo Clock

29 mins

The Repair Shop has the tools and the talent to deal with any restoration challenge no matter how big, how small, how old or how new. In this episode, horologist Steven Fletcher gets a Victorian cuckoo clock singing again. Ceramics conservator Kirsten Ramsay attempts a seamless repair on a 70s bowl, and furniture restorer Will Kirk navigates a 200-year-old sea chest.

Episode 12

Mother-Daughter Heirloom Teapot

Painting conservator Lucia Scalisi faces a serious challenge when presented with a perforated painting by celebrated British artist Fred Appleyard. Furniture restorer Will Kirk has to think outside the box to solve a homemade riddle with over 100 pieces. And a family heirloom with huge sentimental value needs the prowess of ceramicist Kirsten Ramsay.

Episode 13

Museum Sign

Metal worker Dominic Chinea has to use all of his restoration skills to future proof an old, Cornish museum sign. Steven Fletcher has to steer an old banger back onto the road. And the Repair Shop emergency bear-care team, Julie and Amanda, start treatment on Irish teddy George, a very special teddy who has lost one of his eyes and his growl.

Episode 14

Antique Barometer

An antique barometer, a pair of rowing oars and a poorly pinball machine are restored.

Episode 15

Toy Boat

A customer has a knotty nautical problem that leaves furniture restorer Will Kirk all at sea. Jay Blades and Tim Weeks get a vintage gramophone looking and sounding like new. Soft toy specialists Amanda and Julie take on a young lady suffering the effects of years of love and affection.

Episode 16

At Christmas

59 mins

The repair shop team works on a 1939 Betty Doll, a nativity scene, a Polyphon, a sleigh and an 18th century painting.