How Do They Do It? - Season 8
Season 8
Network
DatesJun 3, 2011 - Jan 19, 2012
Episodes
Season 8Episode 125 min
Fugu; Freight Trains; Scottish Tartan
How do Japanese master chefs prepare the extremely poisonous puffer fish and avoid killing their customers? And how do Scots weave over 700 types of tartan for kilts?
Jun 3, 2011
Season 8Episode 225 min
Bowling Balls; Tower Bridge; Gummy Bears
How do they design and produce the ultimate kingpin bowling ball? How do they raise and lower Tower Bridge? And how do they produce millions of gummy bears a day?...
Jun 10, 2011
Season 8Episode 325 min
Ice Rink; Car Plant
How do they run Ryker's Island, one of the biggest jails in the world? How do they make the famous Royal Mail post box? And how do they turn fruit...
Jun 17, 2011
Season 8Episode 425 min
Taiko Drums; Green Factory; Pasta
How do they make playing cards that can defeat a cheat? How do they brew a billion bottles of lager a year? And how do they make the world's most...
Jun 24, 2011
Season 8Episode 525 min
Island Prison; Mailboxes; Jam
How do they put the holes in Swiss cheese? How do they restore and improve a classic battle tank? And how do robotic librarians run one of the world's biggest...
Jul 1, 2011
Season 8Episode 625 min
Swiss Cheese; Tanks; British Library
How do they persuade an oyster to grow a perfect pearl? How do they put the twist in classic Pennsylvania pretzels? And how do they build Venice's traditional gondolas?
Jul 15, 2011
Season 8Episode 725 min
Pretzels; Gondolas; Pearls
How do they make a perfectly unpredictable roulette wheel? How do they produce the world's purest olive oil? And how can a rusty wreck be transformed into a classic Batmobile?
Jul 22, 2011
Season 8Episode 825 min
Brewery; Playing Cards; Gulfstream
How do they instruct robots to mass-produce cars, and how do they transform the world's biggest football stadium into its largest ice hockey arena? Find out.
Jul 29, 2011
Season 8Episode 925 min
Roulette Tables; Olive Oil; Batmobile
How do they craft accordions? How do they make the wasabi that puts a kick in Japan's raw fish? And how do they produce duck calls that can trick birds?
Aug 5, 2011
Season 8Episode 1025 min
Bomb Squad; Cider; Husqvarna
How do they make the Japanese toilets that treat you to a wash and blow dry? How has the US Navy built a helicopter that doesn't need a pilot?
Aug 26, 2011
Season 8Episode 1125 min
Duck Calls; Wasabi; Accordions
How do they keep the cars of Daytona on track for 24 hours of high speed racing, and how do they turn the sweetest sugar cane into world-renowned Caribbean rum?
Oct 18, 2011
Season 8Episode 1225 min
Toto Washlets; Fire Scout; Demolition Drills
How do they farm sturgeon for caviar? How do they mould centuries of history into the finest Japanese porcelain? How do they make world-class football boots?
Oct 19, 2011
Season 8Episode 1325 min
Submarine Rescue; Subaru
How do they find and defuse thousands of World War II landmines? How do they make crisp tasting cider? How do they clear undergrowth with a thin strip of nylon...
Oct 27, 2011
Season 8Episode 1425 min
24 Hours of Daytona; Rum
How do they set up a 1,700 seat circus tent in just 36 hours, and how do they turn Japanese maple and mahogany into the coolest instruments on earth -...
Dec 1, 2011
Season 8Episode 1525 min
Caviar; Porcelain; Soccer Cleats
How is a 700-year-old tree made into a two tonne Japanese drum? How can a factory produce thousands of cars and stay green? And how do Italians make great tasting...
Dec 8, 2011
Season 8Episode 1625 min
Circus; Guitars
How does the German city of Frankfurt produce their famous frankfurter sausages? How are the world's most accurate rifles manufactured? How do casinos stop card cheats?
Dec 15, 2011
Season 8Episode 1725 min
Frankfurters; Sniper Rifles; Casino Security
How are millions of parcels delivered around the world every day? How do they make cricket bats that can hit a ball at 150kmph?
Dec 29, 2011
Season 8Episode 1825 min
Powerboats; Swiss Watches; Wallpaper
How do they build powerboats that can go faster than sports cars? How do they produce Swiss watches? How do they create wallpaper fit for palaces?
Jan 5, 2012
Season 8Episode 1925 min
Cruise Ship; Truffles; Asphault
How do they rescue the crew of a sunken submarine? Submarine rescue specialists test the ability of the world's navies to respond to an underwater emergency.
Jan 12, 2012
Season 8Episode 2025 min
Tsukiji; Cricket Bats; Parcels
How do they guide the world's largest cruise ships under low bridges? How do they find Alba's famous white truffles? How do they mine Trinidad's natural asphalt lake?
Jan 19, 2012
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