The Repair Shop (2017)
The Repair Shop is a workshop of dreams, where broken or damaged cherished family heirlooms are brought back to life. Furniture restorers, horologists, metal workers, ceramicists, upholsterers and all manner of skilled craftsmen and women have been brought together to work in one extraordinary space, restoring much-loved possessions to their former glory.
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Episode 1 - Pocket Watch
Release Date: 2018-08-13Steve Fletcher tackles a pocket watch that spent four years in a Second World War Japanese internment camp undetected while secretly sewn in to the hem of a dress.
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Episode 2 - Walking Stick
Release Date: 2018-08-14Lucia Scalisi must draw on all her 30 years of experience to mend a serious tear in a portrait that was accidentally inflicted many years ago by the owner's son with his dart gun.
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Episode 3 - Music Box
Release Date: 2018-08-15Music box expert Stephen Kember and furniture restorer Will Kirk come together to work on a music box that is housed in a replica Swiss chalet.
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Episode 4 - Armchair
Release Date: 2018-08-16Upholsterer Sonnaz Nooranvary takes on a real labour of love, a battered but beloved armchair that holds treasured memories of owner Michelle's grandfather.
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Episode 5 - Japanese Portrait
Release Date: 2018-08-17Lucia Scalisi works on a 1930s portrait of the Japanese martial arts master Yukio Tani. The painting takes pride of place in the country's most prestigious martial arts club.
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Episode 6 - Art Deco Lamp
Release Date: 2018-08-20Jay Blades and the team bring three treasured family heirlooms back to life. Steve Fletcher and Kirsten Ramsay turn their skills to fixing an art deco lamp in the shape of a lady.
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Episode 7 - Teddy Bear
Release Date: 2018-08-21Jay Blades and the team bring three treasured family heirlooms back to life. Soft toy restorers Amanda Middleditch and Julie Tatchell work their magic on an old teddy called Fred.
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Episode 8 - Wall Clock
Release Date: 2018-08-22Jay Blades and the team bring family heirlooms back to life. Steve Fletcher restores an 18th-century wall clock that is a much-loved heirloom from the owner's grandfather.
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Episode 9 - Landscape Painting
Release Date: 2018-08-23Jay Blades and the team bring family heirlooms back to life. Lucia Scalisi repairs a much-loved landscape that has been left hanging together by a few threads of canvas.
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Episode 10 - Pendulum Clock
Release Date: 2018-08-24Jay Blades and the team bring family heirlooms back to life. Steven Fletcher is in receipt of an unusual timepiece - a statue of a barmaid holding a swinging pendulum clock dial.
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Episode 11 - Pilots Bomber Jacket
Release Date: 2018-08-27Jay Blades and the team bring family heirlooms back to life. Resident clock expert Steven Fletcher and ceramics conservator Kirsten Ramsay toil on a fragile 19th-century clock.
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Episode 12 - Rocking Horse
Release Date: 2018-08-28Jay Blades and the team bring family heirlooms back to life. Furniture restorer William Kirk takes on a cherished family rocking horse that is in desperate need of some TLC.
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Episode 13 - Hercules Statue
Release Date: 2018-08-29Jay Blades and the team bring family heirlooms back to life. Suzie Fletcher and Sonnaz Nooranvary restore a badly damaged suspended chair from the 1960s, known as a 'leaf chair'.
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Episode 14 - Royal Doulton Figurine
Release Date: 2018-08-30Jay Blades and the team bring family heirlooms back to life. Kirsten Ramsay takes on a very rare Royal Doulton figurine of a First World War soldier.
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Episode 15 - Military Chest
Release Date: 2018-08-31Jay Blades and the team bring family heirlooms back to life. Ceramic conservator Kirsten Ramsay carefully restores a cherished but chipped piece of 1960s pottery.