title: Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Specials

title: The Making of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

title: Season 0

title: 1966

title: 1967

title: 1968

title: 1969

title: 1970

title: 1971

title: 1972

1973: The Languages of Animals

title: Beware!

overview: Royal Institution of Great Britain Christmas Lectures 1973: The Languages of Animals

title: Beware!

title: Be mine

title: Be mine

title: Parents and Children

title: Parents and Children

title: Simple Signs and Complicated Communications

overview:
The fourth lecture in the series, 'Simple Signs and Complicated Communications', is considered lost, as there is no known copy of it.

If you do have a copy of the recording, the Royal Institution would love it if you got in touch at xmaslectures@ri.ac.uk to help us make all our CHRISTMAS LECTURES available for future generations.

title: Foreign Languages

title: Foreign Languages

title: Human Language

title: Human Language

overview: Sir David Attenborough on animal communication. Episode 4 is lost.

title: 1973: The Languages of Animals

title: 1974

title: 1975

title: 1976

title: The Earth as a Planet

title: The Earth as a Planet

title: The Outer Solar System and Life

title: The Outer Solar System and Life

title: The History of Mars

title: The History of Mars

title: Mars before Viking

title: Mars before Viking

title: Mars after Viking

title: Mars after Viking

title: Planetary Systems beyond our Sun

title: Planetary Systems beyond our Sun

title: 1977

1978: Mathematics into Pictures

title: Linking and Knotting

overview: The Royal Institution of Great Britain Christmas Lectures 1978: Mathematics into Pictures

title: Linking and Knotting

title: Numbers and Geometry

title: Numbers and Geometry

title: Infinity and Perspective

title: Infinity and Perspective

title: Games and Evolution

title: Games and Evolution

title: Waves and Music

title: Waves and Music

title: Catastrophe and Psychology

title: Catastrophe and Psychology

title: 1978: Mathematics into Pictures

title: 1979

title: 1980

title: 1981

title: 1982

title: 1983

title: 1984

1985: Communicating

title: 1985: Communicating

title: 1986

1987: Crystals and Lasers

title: 1987: Crystals and Lasers

title: 1988

title: 1989

title: 1990

1991: Growing Up in the Universe

title: Waking Up in the Universe

overview: Dawkins discusses the amazing capabilities of the human body and contrasts these with the limited capabilities of computers and other man-made machines. He uses a small totem pole (which is used in ancestor worship) to illustrate the importance of studying our ancestors to understand how we've evolved.

title: Waking Up in the Universe

title: Designed and Designoid Objects

overview: Dawkins' second lecture of the series examines the problem of design. He presents the audience with a number of simple objects, such as rocks and crystals, and notes that these objects have been formed by simple laws of physics and are therefore not designed. He then examines some designed objects - including a microscope, an electronic calculator, a pocket watch, and a clay pot - and notes that none of these objects could have possibly come about by sheer luck.

title: Designed and Designoid Objects

title: Climbing Mount Improbable

overview: Dawkins starts the lecture coming in with a stick insect on his hand. He describes with how much details such a being imitates its environment, its almost like a key that fits a lock. He then shows another insect, namely a Leaf Insect, which basically looks exactly like a dead leaf.

title: Climbing Mount Improbable

title: The Ultraviolet Garden

overview: Dawkins begins by relating the story of asking a little girl "what she thought flowers were 'for'." Her response is anthropocentric, that flowers are there for our benefit. Dawkins points out that many people throughout history have thought that the natural world existed for our benefit, with examples from Genesis and other literature.

title: The Ultraviolet Garden

title: The Genesis of Purpose

overview: Dawkins opens by talking how organisms “grow up” to understand the universe around them, which requires certain apparatus, such as a brain. But before brains can become large enough to model the universe they must develop from intermediate forms.

title: The Genesis of Purpose

title: 1991: Growing Up in the Universe

title: 1992

1993: The Cosmic Onion

title: The Cosmic Onion Lecture 1

title: The Cosmic Onion Lecture 1

title: The Cosmic Onion Lecture 2

title: The Cosmic Onion Lecture 2

title: The Cosmic Onion Lecture 3

title: The Cosmic Onion Lecture 3

title: The Cosmic Onion Lecture 4

title: The Cosmic Onion Lecture 4

title: The Cosmic Onion Lecture 5

title: The Cosmic Onion Lecture 5

title: 1993: The Cosmic Onion

title: 1994

1995: Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide

title: Planet Earth, An Explorers Guide

title: Planet Earth, An Explorers Guide

title: Planet Earth, An Explorers Guide

title: Planet Earth, An Explorers Guide

title: Planet Earth, An Explorers Guide

title: Planet Earth, An Explorers Guide

title: Planet Earth, An Explorers Guide

title: Planet Earth, An Explorers Guide

title: Planet Earth, An Explorers Guide

title: Planet Earth, An Explorers Guide

title: 1995: Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide

1996: The History in our Bones

title: The History in our Bones

title: The History in our Bones

title: The History in our Bones

title: The History in our Bones

title: The History in our Bones

title: The History in our Bones

title: The History in our Bones - Innovations And Novelty

title: The History in our Bones - Feet On The Ground, Head In The Stars - The History Of Man

title: 1996: The History in our Bones

1997: The Magical Maze

title: 1997: The Magical Maze

name: 1998: Staying Alive: The Body in Balance

title: Sense and Sensitivity

overview: In the first of her lectures, Nancy Rothwell reveals how we are endowed with a multitude of sensors that help us regulate our bodies. This process of regulation – known as 'homeostasis' – is sensitive to even the slightest change in our environment. How we respond to these changes determines how well we fare in different situations. Nancy puts her own blood under the microscope to show the cells keeping her body in balance. Plus, Olympic champion Chris Boardman gets back on a bike to demonstrate the effect of exercise on our brain and blood.

title: Sense and Sensitivity

title: Fats and Figures

overview: In her second lecture, Nancy Rothwell explores how much energy is in the different foods we eat, and what happens to our body weight when we eat it. Different people need to eat different amounts of food, and each of us burns energy at different rates. The human body expends energy even when we’re sitting still, keeping warm. So how do we know how much energy we require?

title: Fats and Figures

title: Chilling Out

overview: In the third of her Christmas Lectures, Nancy Rothwell reveals how humans and animals alike have evolved to keep their body temperatures constant, even when the temperature of their habitats is changing. After journeying down to the chilly depths of the ocean to tell us how sharks keep warm, Nancy returns to the warm climes of the Arabian desert to explain why some Bedouins still wear dark robes despite knowing that black absorbs more heat than white.

title: Chilling Out

title: Times of Our Lives

overview: In her fourth lecture, Nancy Rothwell explores how our bodies and those of animals are trained by sunlight. From summer to winter, and land to ocean, Nancy explores nature's most unique examples of timing, including why Cicadas emerge from the nest after exactly 17 years, and how the Iguana can tell whether it’s daytime even with its eyes shut.

title: Times of Our Lives

title: Pushing the Limits

overview: In her final Christmas Lecture, Nancy Rothwell reveals some of the incredible adaptations that animals have evolved to cope with life in the extremes. From anti-freeze blood to double-layered fur, each animal has found its own way to overcome the extremes. We also learn what it takes for humans to survive in these locations – from the perilously cold conditions confronted by Antarctic explorers to the extreme forces experienced by fighter pilots.

title: Pushing the Limits

title: 1998: Staying Alive: The Body in Balance

1999: Arrow of Time

title: 1999: Arrow of Time

2000: Rise of the Robots

title: 2000: Rise of the Robots

2001: The Secrets of Life

title: 2001: The Secrets of Life

2002: Smart Stuff

title: 2002: Smart Stuff

2003: Voyage in Space and Time

title: Blast Off

title: Blast Off

title: Mission to Mars

title: Mission to Mars

title: Planet Patrol

title: Planet Patrol

title: Collision Course

title: Collision Course

title: Anybody Out There?

title: Anybody Out There?

title: Live from Mars

title: Live from Mars

title: 2003: Voyage in Space and Time

name: 2004: To the Ends of the Earth: Surviving Antarctic Extremes

title: Ice People

title: Ice People

title: Ice Life

title: Ice Life

title: Ice World

title: Ice World

title: 2004: To the Ends of the Earth: Surviving Antarctic Extremes

2005: The Truth About Food

title: The Ape That Cooks

overview: What did you have for your Christmas dinner? The traditional turkey? A vegetarian meal? And how did the turkey tradition start? What did people have for Christmas dinner 500 years ago? Just how is your Christmas meal turned into you? John takes us on a journey through time from our earliest ancestors, on the way exploring how scientists have come to understand the diets of our fossil ancestors from studying their teeth and bones and how differences in food habits among populations and cultures have arisen.

title: The Ape That Cooks

title: Yuck or Yummy?

overview: What is your favourite food? What are the things you wouldn't touch with a barge pole? Food may be fuel, but it's also something we really enjoy - unless it's one of those foods you can't stand. What is it about some food that makes it irresistible, while other food is a real turn off? In 'Yuck or yummy' we explore the sensory world of food. How do taste, appearance, texture, smell and even the name of the food affect our enjoyment? What goes on in the brain when we enjoy, or are revolted by particular foods? We ask whether or not we are programmed by our evolutionary past to like some foods more than others and how our own experiences early on might affect our preferences for life. One person's pleasure in food may be another's disgust. How do individual differences arise?

title: Yuck or Yummy?

title: You Are What You Eat

overview: Our bodies are made from the food we have eaten during our lifetime. To survive and grow we need to eat enough of each of the essential building blocks of the human body. How did scientists discover the right mix of nutrients and how does what we eat match up? Is it true that eating fish makes you brainier, carrots help you see in the dark and spinach will make you stronger? John takes us through the maze of diet and health. We uncover the truth behind the claims for different kinds of foods, including organic food, and ask whether we instinctively tend to choose the balance of nutrients our bodies need.

title: You Are What You Eat

title: When Food Goes Wrong

overview: We uncover the hidden and not so hidden dangers that might lurk in our food and explode some of the myths that surround these risks. Are you or any of your friends allergic to one kind of food or another? Perhaps as many as one in ten children has a food allergy and allergies can sometimes kill. What happens when people react to food with an allergy? Why is food allergy apparently on the increase? Have you ever suffered a bout of food poisoning? We take a look at that two-month old piece of cheese you find at the back of the fridge. It's covered in blue mould. It may look unappetising but is it dangerous?

title: When Food Goes Wrong

title: Food for the Future

overview: Most of us get enough to eat, but roughly 800 million people in the world go hungry every day. The world's population is set to increase from about six billion today to nearly ten billion by 2050. Will more people inevitably go hungry? Is the earth capable of producing enough food for the future? In the 20th century the green revolution produced a lot more food for the world's rapidly expanding population, through a mixture of better crops, more fertilisers and pesticides and more efficient machinery. Is the same solution going to work in the 21st century? What will be the impacts on the environment?

title: Food for the Future

title: 2005: The Truth About Food

2006: The Num8er My5teries

title: The Curious Incident of the Never-ending Numbers

overview: The secret life of numbers has fascinated people ever since humans learned to count. Join Marcus as he investigates where our numbers came from and where they are going, how big they can get and whether infinity is really a number. Explore the mysterious primes, the indivisible numbers. Just why did Beckham choose the number 23 shirt? And why do sunflowers have 89 petals? Find out how to try for the $1 million prize for cracking mathematics' biggest mystery.

title: The Story of the Elusive Shapes

overview: Ever wondered why bubbles are always round even if you blow them with a square frame? Or why footballs are made out of pentagons and hexagons? Take a tour through the mathematical and cultural world of shapes - from pyramids in Egypt to the domes of Italy, and from the shape of good dice to the smell of symmetry. We'll even take a trip into hyperspace and reveal how to see in four dimensions.

title: The Story of the Elusive Shapes

title: The Secret of the Winning Streak

overview: Place your bets as we use maths to win at games. Logic is an important part of playing games and mathematics can help you plan the best strategy to win. Explore why some games are won or lost on the first move, how lateral thinking unlocks fiendish brainteasers, and why the economy, the law courts and even human relationships are one big game.

title: The Secret of the Winning Streak

title: The Case of the Uncrackable Code

overview: From the Caesar Cipher to the Da Vinci Code, people have been fascinated by secret messages. The mathematics of codes lets us to do everything from photographing the surface of Mars to shopping securely on eBay. Find out how prime numbers are now the key to codes which protect credit cards from internet hackers, and how, in the digital age, i-pods and digital TV are just a load of 0s and 1s.

title: The Case of the Uncrackable Code

title: The Quest to Predict the Future

overview: Mathematics is the ultimate fortune teller. It can predict if a new plane design will make it off the ground. It can plan the path of a spacecraft so it passes close to every planet on its journey through the solar system. But some of nature's equations are more tricky. Why is weather so hard to forecast? How will world populations evolve? The mathematics of chaos theory helps explain why problems like these are so challenging.

title: The Quest to Predict the Future

title: 2006: The Num8er My5teries

name: 2007: Back from the Brink, the Science of Survival

title: Peak Performance

overview: Dr Montgomery examines the theme of respiration. Just like racing car engines, humans use oxygen to burn fuels and release the energy that powers each function in every cell. So how do we get the oxygen from the air to the cell, and what happens when oxygen levels in the air are dramatically reduced?

title: Peak Performance

title: Completely Stuffed

overview: Tonight’s lecture examines how food is processed and used by our cells. The food we eat contains the fuel we need to power our bodies. But what are these fuels? How do we get them from our dinner plates to our cells? And what other things are there in the food apart from fuel? Dr Montgomery explains what happens to the fuel and oxygen in a cell, describing how food is converted into an energy currency to be spent in different ways around the body.

title: Completely Stuffed

title: Grilled and Chilled

overview: How the body copes with extremes of temperature. Humans live in some extraordinary places, from the middle of the Sahara desert to the frozen wastelands of Alaska. Take a snake to the North Pole, and it will stop moving in minutes; take a cat to the desert and it will be dead in hours. So how can some humans survive such extremes, and could anyone?

title: Grilled and Chilled

title: Fight, Flight and Fright

overview: The focus of tonight’s presentation is stress and exertion. When faced with a threat like the approach of a predator, a human’s natural response is to turn and flee. Yet a soldier facing enemy guns can choose to stand and fight. Such a decision and the subsequent physical work required involves burning a huge amount of energy. So how does the body deliver such a large amount of energy so rapidly? What happens to the heart, lungs and blood vessels used to transport the energy, and how is it used once it is delivered?

title: Fight, Flight and Fright

title: Luck, Genes and Stupidity

overview: Tonight’s presentation examines the part genetics has to play in our ability to survive. Is everyone’s ability to survive the same? Faced with the same perils, would we all cope just as well? And if not, is it down to luck or relative toughness, or is there such a thing as the will to live?

title: Luck, Genes and Stupidity

title: 2007: Back from the Brink, the Science of Survival

2008: Hi-tech Trek

title: Breaking the Speed Limit

overview: Professor Bishop goes on a fascinating exploration of the extraordinary world of the silicon chip and attempts to answer the plethora of questions associated with this technology. How is it possible to build a machine as complex as this with a billion tiny components packed into a space the size of a postage stamp? What are the challenges that are making it harder to continue the incredible improvement in speed, and what ideas are being explored to overcome them? Can new kinds of computers be built that are based on individual molecules? Can single electrons be used to store information? Could computation machines exist without consuming energy?

title: Breaking the Speed Limit

title: Chips with Everything

overview: In this lecture, Professor Bishop reveals state-of the-art advancements in computer interaction, including new touch-screen technology. Surface computing allows people to manipulate documents just as they would pieces of paper on a table. Users are able to perform a host of functions, including organising and resizing photos, poring over maps and making selections from takeaway menus. The interface is capable of processing the requests of multiple users. Professor Bishop also demonstrates 3D displays and flexible screens that can be rolled up when they are not being used.

title: Chips with Everything

title: The Ghost In The Machine

overview: Computers are the most versatile machines ever invented, and the same piece of hardware can be used for thousands of different purposes. They can create virtual worlds with extraordinary realism, play chess better than almost any human, and even isolate a person’s position to within a few metres anywhere on the planet. What makes this possible is something that cannot be seen, felt or touched, but without it the digital revolution would never have happened. Professor Bishop investigates the software that brings a machine to life, and turns it into a phone, a music player, a game, or any number of other devices – including ones not even imagined by the creator of the hardware.

title: The Ghost In The Machine

title: Untangling the Web

overview: In this lecture, Chris Bishop untangles some of the mysteries of the web. He reveals one of the most surprising results in computer science, and shows how it is used to make web pages secure. He also studies the different ways of scrambling information to stop eavesdroppers from reading it, and explains how quantum physics can provide a secret means of transmitting data over the internet.

title: Untangling the Web

title: Digital Intelligence

overview: In the last of this year’s lectures, Chris Bishop looks at one of the great frontiers of computer science. He explains how some of the toughest computational problems are now being tackled by giving computers the ability to learn solutions for themselves. This has led to impressive progress with problems such as recognising handwriting and finding information on the web.

title: Digital Intelligence

title: 2008: Hi-tech Trek

2009: The 300-Million-Year War

title: Plant Wars

overview: In this years Royal Institution Christmas Lectures ecologist Professor Sue Hartley - only the fourth woman to present the lectures since they began in 1825 - shows how the epic 300-million-year war between plants and animals has shaped us and the world we live in. Plants may seem harmless, but Professor Hartley reveals that the opposite is the case: they've had to develop terrifying and devious ways to defend themselves and attack their plant and animal enemies. Vicious poisons, lethal materials and even cunning forms of communicating with unlikely allies are just some of the weapons in their armoury that have seen off everything from dinosaurs to caterpillars. And Professor Hartley demonstrates how humans have turned plants into food, medicines and drugs and reveals what is likely to happen next in the epic struggle between plants and animals. In this first lecture Professor Hartley reveals how, despite animals attempts to destroy plants by eating them, plants are winning the war.

title: Plant Wars

title: The Animals Strike Back

overview: Ecologist Professor Sue Hartley continues to show how the epic 300-million-year war between plants and animals has shaped us and the world we live in. The life of a herbivore is not a happy one. For a start, plants are the wrong sort of food for animals: they are low in essential nutrients and getting any of those nutrients in the face of flora defences is even harder. In this programme, Professor Hartley reveals the many different ways plant-eating animals, from sloths to aphids, have evolved to overcome these problems. Herbivores use all sorts of tricks: they employ "friendly" bacteria in their gut to extract as many nutrients as possible from indigestible plants. They also have continuously growing teeth to grind down tough plants like grasses. Professor Hartley also reveals some of the many ways herbivores cope with plant poisons, and that some herbivores even steal plants' poisons to use in their own defence against their predators

title: The Animals Strike Back

title: Talking Trees

overview:
Can a plant, something without a mouth, ears or eyes, communicate?

Yes! Plants do communicate but not in ways that are obvious to humans. Instead of barking or shrieking when they are attacked, they release chemical ‘signals' into the air which can be detected by other plants. But these physical and chemical defences cost energy that could be used to grow instead of being used for protection. Do they protect themselves, or grow?

title: Talking Trees

title: Dangerous to Delicious

overview:
Lunch anyone?

Human agriculture has usually tried to disarm plant defences and increase plant nutrient content. Our domestic varieties of wheat and cabbage now look, and taste, very different to their wild relatives. White carrots anyone? We cook, cure, freeze and otherwise process plants until they become edible and more nutritious. We grow them to epic proportions. And now, using the latest scientific research, we have the opportunity to grow them more efficiently and perhaps more healthily using genetic modification.

title: Dangerous to Delicious

title: Weapons of the Future

overview: With changing climate it is difficult to predict who will win the 300 million year war. What has gone wrong when herbivores get the upper hand and strip plants bare? The battle ground is changing such that different conditions could favour either the plants or the herbivores. When the balance is broken we could have an ‘outbreak’, which is a situation where one side of the war gets an unfair advantage and grows unchecked. Will climate change compromise the abilities of plants, including our crops, to defend themselves?

title: Weapons of the Future

title: 2009: The 300-Million-Year War

2010: Size Matters

title: Why Elephants Can't Dance

overview:
How can a hamster survive falling from the top of a skyscraper, ants carry over 100 times their own body weight and geckos climb across the ceiling?

In the first of this year's Christmas lectures, Dr Mark Miodownik investigates why size matters in animal behaviour. He reveals how the science of materials - the stuff from which everything is made - can explain some of the most extraordinary and surprising feats in the animal kingdom.

By the end, you will understand why you will never see an elephant dance.

title: Why Elephants Can't Dance

title: Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Engines Don't

overview:
Dr Mark Miodownik zooms into the microscopic world beneath our fingertips. In this unfamiliar landscape, strange forces dominate the world and common sense goes out of the window. He reveals how this tiny hidden world can make objects behave like magic, and discovers the secrets of the extraordinary metals that make jet engines possible.

With a mass audience taste test, Mark reveals why chocolate is actually one of the most sophisticated and highly engineered materials on the planet, using special crystals designed to melt in the mouth. He looks forward to new era of self-healing materials where a broken mobile phone or car bumper could heal itself and how, one day, material scientists might even create artificial life.

title: Why Mountains Are So Small

overview:
Why is the tallest building on earth less than half a mile high? Why don't we have mountains as tall as those on Mars?

In the last of this year's Christmas Lectures, Dr Mark Miodownik investigates the world of the very big and very tall. He reveals that, at this scale, everything is governed by a battle with one of the strangest forces in the universe - gravity.

With help from acrobats, levitation devices, spiders, birthday cake candles and even some sticky goo, Mark discovers how gravity can make solid rock behave like a liquid and investigates whether one day it might be possible to build a structure from Earth into space, taking us beyond the reach of gravity without the use of rocket.

title: Why Mountains Are So Small

title: 2010: Size Matters

2011: Meet Your Brain

title: What's in Your Head?

overview: Bruce Hood measures the brain's nerve cells in action, reads someone's mind from 100 miles away, and reveals how the brain creates its own version of reality.

title: What's in Your Head?

title: Who's in Charge Here Anyway?

overview: Professor Bruce Hood tests the limits of the memory, finding out how humans learn, how the brain takes shortcuts and why multitasking can be dangerous.

title: Who's in Charge Here Anyway?

title: Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?

overview: With a little help from a baby, a robot and a magician, Professor Bruce Hood uncovers what makes us truly human in this final lecture.

title: Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?

title: 2011: Meet Your Brain

title: 认识大脑

title: 認識大腦

2012: The Modern Alchemist

title: Air: The Elixir of Life

overview: The medieval alchemists made elements react to create magnificent shows, enthralling kings and commoners alike, but their secrets were never revealed until now. In the first of this year's Christmas Lectures, Dr Peter Wothers explores what the alchemists knew about the air we breathe and reveals how our modern knowledge of these elements can be used to control fire, defy gravity and harness the power of a lightning storm. Peter is joined by the cast of the musical Loserville and is helped in his exploration of the 118 modern elements by a periodic table made from audience members at the Royal Institution.

title: Air: The Elixir of Life

character: Self - Presenter

title: Water: The Fountain of Youth

overview: Medieval alchemists wrote of a mysterious fountain of youth, whose waters could rejuvenate anyone who drank them. But can water really be magical? In the second of this year's Christmas Lectures, Dr Peter Wothers drinks from the fountain and finds out whether the elements lurking in the water can restore his youth. Along the way he discovers how exploding balloons could solve the energy crisis, how water contains the remains of the most violent reactions on Earth and that the real secret to eternal youth might be drinking no water at all. Peter is joined in his quest by Paralympic champion cyclist Mark Colbourne and finds out what happens when the two most reactive elements on the periodic table, caesium and fluorine, meet each other.

title: Water: The Fountain of Youth

title: Earth: The Philosopher's Stone

overview: For centuries alchemists have tried to turn base metals into gold. But is such a feat even possible? In the final Christmas Lecture, Dr Peter Wothers explores the elements within the earth and discovers just how difficult it is for chemists to extract the planet's greatest treasures. He discovers how our knowledge of the elements can allow us to levitate, turn carbon dioxide into diamonds and maybe turn lead into gold. Peter is joined by Nobel Prize-winning chemist Professor Sir Harry Kroto and together they find out whether a member of the audience is really worth their weight in gold and what happens when you set fire to a diamond.

title: Earth: The Philosopher's Stone

title: 2012: The Modern Alchemist

title: 现代炼金术士

title: 現代煉金術士

2013: Life Fantastic

title: Where Do I Come From?

overview:
One of the greatest conundrums of life is how we emerge from a single cell into a walking, talking, multi-trillion-celled organism that we call the human body.

In the first of this year's Christmas Lectures, Dr Alison Woollard from the University of Oxford reveals just how this incredible transformation takes place. Using dramatic live experiments she shows how each of those trillions of cells knows what to do, when to do it and how to organise themselves to carry out vital specialist roles in our body.

title: Where Do I Come From?

title: Am I a Mutant?

overview: In the second of this year's Christmas Lectures, Dr Alison Woollard from the University of Oxford unravels this mystery of life. She reveals that the extraordinary diversity has all come about by genetic mutation. Life revolves around the survival of the fittest mutant.

title: Am I a Mutant?

title: Could I Live Forever?

overview: In this year's final Christmas Lecture, Dr Alison Woollard from the University of Oxford, tackles a question that has intrigued scientists and natural philosophers for centuries. The cycle of life and death affects all cells, but Alison reveals a shocking truth - that 'cell death' plays an important part in life. It enables the development and survival of most multi-celled organisms from hedgehogs to humans.

title: Could I Live Forever?

title: 2013: Life Fantastic

title: 奇妙的生命

title: 奇妙的生命

name: 2014: Sparks Will Fly - How to Hack your Home

title: The Light Bulb Moment

overview:
Inspired by fellow Geordie inventor Joseph Swan, Prof Danielle George attempts to play a computer game on the windows of a skyscraper using hundreds of light bulbs.

When Joseph Swan demonstrated the first working light bulb in 1878 he could never have dreamed that in 2014 we’d be surrounded by super-bright LED screens and lights that could be controlled using mobile phones. In this lecture, Danielle will explain how these technologies work and show how they can be adapted to help you realise your own light bulb moments.  She’ll show you how to send wireless messages using a barbeque, control a firework display with your laptop and use a torch to browse the internet.

title: The Light Bulb Moment

character: Herself - Presenter

title: Making Contact

overview:
Inspired by Alexander Graham Bell, Prof Danielle George attempts to beam a special guest into the theatre via hologram, using the technology found in a mobile phone.

When Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the first telephone in 1876, he could never have dreamed that in 2014 we’d all be carrying wire-free phones in our pockets and be able to video chat is crystal clear HD across the world. In this lecture, Danielle will explain how these technologies work and show how they can adapted to help keep you connected to the people around you. She’ll show you how to control paintball cannons with a webcam and turn your smartphone into a microscope whilst also investigating a device that allows you to feel invisible objects in mid-air.

title: Making Contact

title: A New Revolution

overview:
Inspired by the Royal Institution’s very own Michael Faraday, Prof Danielle George attempts to use simple motors to construct the world’s greatest robot orchestra.

When Michael Faraday demonstrated the first electric motor in 1822, he could never have dreamed that in 2014 we’d be surrounded by mechanical devices capable of performing nearly every human task. In this lecture, Danielle will explain how these robotic and motor-driven appliances work and show how they can adapted to help you kick start a technological revolution. She’ll show you how to turn a washing machine into a wind turbine, how Lego can solve a Rubik’s Cube and how the next Mars rover will traverse an alien world.

title: A New Revolution

title: 2014: Sparks Will Fly - How to Hack your Home

title: 让火花飞

title: 讓火花飛

2015: How to Survive in Space

title: Lift Off!

overview:
In the first lecture, Kevin explores and probes second by second what it takes to 'lift off' into space. With Tim only days into his six-month mission, he helps Kevin answer what keeps astronauts safe and on track as they are propelled into orbit.

How do you control the energy of 300 tonnes of liquid fuel? What happens to your body if you don't wear a spacesuit? And how do you catch up with a space station travelling at 17,500 mph to finally get inside?

With explosive live experiments, guest astronauts in the lecture theatre, and planetary scientist Monica Grady direct from the launch pad in Kazakhstan, we learn all this and more as those thrilling minutes of lift off are recreated.

title: Lift Off!

title: 发射

title: 發射

title: Life in Orbit

overview:
In the second lecture, Kevin explores life in orbit on board the International Space Station. As Tim settles in to his new home he sends special reports about what it takes to live and work in space.

Four hundred kilometres above the Earth, hurtling at a speed of 17,500mph, astronauts' bones and muscles waste away, the oxygen they breathe is artificially made, and they face constant threats from micrometeorites, radiation and extreme temperatures. If a medical emergency strikes, Tim is a very long way from home.

In its 15-year lifetime, the International Space Station has never had a major accident. With a British astronaut in orbit, gravity-defying experiments and guest astronauts in the lecture theatre, Dr Fong shows us how to survive life in orbit.

title: Life in Orbit

title: 在轨生活

title: 在軌生活

title: The Next Frontier

overview:
In the third and final lecture, Kevin explores the the next frontier of human space travel. Live from the Station hurtling at 17,500mph, 400 km above the Earth, Tim answers questions directly from the children in the lecture theatre audience. With Tim's help out in Earth's orbit, Kevin investigates how the next generation of astronauts will be propelled across the vast chasm of space to Mars and beyond.

So, how will life be artificially sustained as we travel the millions of kilometres to the red planet and on into the cosmos? How will our food last for three years or more? And what is waiting what for us when we finally land? With earth-shattering experiments, top space scientists and our astronaut live from space, Dr Fong reveals how we'll survive that voyage to space's next frontier and beyond.

title: The Next Frontier

title: 下一个前沿

title: 下一個前沿

title: 2015: How to Survive in Space

title: 如何在太空中生存

title: 如何在太空中生存

name: 2016: Supercharged - Fuelling the Future

title: Let There Be Light!

overview: Saiful Islam talks about how to generate and store energy. To begin, Saiful investigates how to generate energy without destroying the planet in the process.

title: Let There Be Light!

title: People Power

overview: Saiful Islam investigates how humans as living machines actually use energy, asking whether it's possible to 'supercharge' the human body and increase its performance.

title: People Power

title: Fully Charged

overview: Saiful Islam explores how to store energy. With the UK generating far more energy today than 80 years ago, finding better ways to store it is vital for our futures.

title: Fully Charged

title: 2016: Supercharged - Fuelling the Future

title: 超限储能·驱动未来

title: 超限儲能·驅動未來

2017: The Language of Life

title: Say It with Sound

overview: Prof Sophie Scott uses hissing cockroaches, chirping crickets and rumbling elephants to explore how humans and animals have evolved to use sound to send messages.

title: Say It with Sound

title: Silent Messages

overview: Professor Sophie Scott explores the world of silent communication, investigating why smells and body language can say so much.

title: Silent Messages

title: The Word

overview: Professor Sophie Scott investigates what language is and whether humans are really the only species to use it.

title: The Word

title: 2017: The Language of Life

title: 生命的语言

title: 生命的語言

2018: Who Am I?

title: Where Do I Come From?

overview: Professor Alice Roberts meets our ancient ancestral family, from armadillos to sharks, and discovers our true place in the tree of life. With 4D scanning, giant origami and a ukulele, they will explore evolution like never before.

title: Where Do I Come From?

title: 我是谁

title: 我是誰

title: What Makes Me Human?

overview: Professor Alice Roberts explores the story of human evolution, revealing how a humble African ape became a successful global species.

title: What Makes Me Human?

title: 何以为人

title: 何以為人

title: What Makes Me, Me?

overview: Professor Alice Roberts explores what makes each of us totally unique and celebrates the incredible diversity we see in humans across the globe.

title: What Makes Me, Me?

title: 与众不同的我

title: 與眾不同的我

overview: Professor Alice Roberts and Professor Aoife McLysaght take viewers on an immersive voyage through our evolutionary past and ask challenging questions about what our future holds.

title: 2018: Who Am I?

title: 我是谁

title: 我是誰

name: 2019: Secrets & Lies - The Hidden Power of Maths

title: How to Get Lucky

overview: Dr Hannah Fry, through a host of live experiments, uncovers the secrets of luck to discover what really controls our destiny, from dodging erupting volcanoes to pulling Christmas crackers.

title: How to Get Lucky

title: 如何成为幸运儿

title: 如何成為幸運兒

title: How to Bend the Rules

overview: Dr Hannah Fry reveals how data-gobbling algorithms have taken over our lives and now control almost everything we do, without us even realising.

title: How to Bend the Rules

title: 如何变通规则

title: 如何變通規則

title: How Can We All Win?

overview: Dr Hannah Fry tests the limits of our control, from gravity-defying stunts to human-sized drones, and delves into the world of fake news to separate the truth from the lies.

title: How Can We All Win?

title: 我们如何共赢

title: 我們如何共贏

overview: Dr. Hannah Fry reveals the hidden rules and patterns that govern every aspect of our world.

title: 2019: Secrets & Lies - The Hidden Power of Maths

title: 秘密与谎言：数学的隐秘力量

title: 秘密與謊言：數學的隱秘力量

2020: Planet Earth: A User’s Guide

title: Engine Earth

overview: Professor Chris Jackson reveals how, for billions of years, volcanic activity drove climate change on planet Earth. Now, it is humans.

title: Engine Earth

title: 启动地球

title: 啓動地球

title: Water World

overview: Dr Helen Czerski explains why the ocean is so vital to life on earth and what we need to know to be good citizens of our ocean planet.

title: Water World

title: 水世界

title: 水世界

title: Up In The Air

overview: Dr Tara Shine takes a deep breath and explores the gases that make up the air we breath. One of them might provide the answer for heating and transport in the future.

title: Up In The Air

title: 大气

title: 大氣

title: 2020: Planet Earth: A User’s Guide

title: 行星地球

title: 行星地球

name: 2021: Going Viral: How Covid Changed Science Forever

title: The Invisible Enemy

overview: Professor Jonathan Van-Tam is joined by leading experts to explore viruses, the immune system and modern testing technology.

title: The Invisible Enemy

character: Himself - Presenter

title: The Perfect Storm

overview: Professor Jonathan Van-Tam is joined by leading experts to reveal the secrets of contagion and the mathematics of disease.

title: The Perfect Storm

title: Fighting Back

overview: Professor Jonathan Van-Tam is joined by leading experts to unlock the science of vaccines, variants and viral genetic codes.

title: Fighting Back

overview: England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Jonathan Van-Tam will be joined by a host of top UK scientists to take a deep dive into the science of viruses.

title: 2021: Going Viral: How Covid Changed Science Forever

2022: Secrets of Forensic Science

title: Dead Body

overview: Professor Sue Black is joined by Emilia Fox and forensic scientists to unlock the mysterious death of a skeleton.

title: Dead Body

title: Missing Body

overview: Professor Sue Black investigates a Christmas murder mystery with leading police experts, forensic scientists and an award-winning dog.

title: Missing Body

title: Living Body

overview: A 'heist' has been staged in the Royal Institution. Can forensic evidence identify and convict the individual responsible?

title: Living Body

overview: Professor Dame Sue Black reveals the secrets of the real-life scientific detective process she uses to identify both the dead and the living.

title: 2022: Secrets of Forensic Science

2023: The Truth about AI

title: How to Build an Intelligent Machine

overview: Professor Mike Wooldridge explores the nature of artificial intelligence. By using experiments and demonstrations, he investigates how AI learns and what it can do.

title: How to Build an Intelligent Machine

title: My AI Life

overview: Professor Mike Wooldridge reveals the huge role AI already plays in our daily lives, sometimes without us even realising what it is doing.

title: My AI Life

title: The Future of AI: Dream or a Nightmare?

overview: Professor Mike Wooldridge is joined by leading experts to grapple with the future of AI. What opportunities and dangers lie ahead as AI continues to evolve?

title: The Future of AI: Dream or a Nightmare?

title: 2023: The Truth about AI

2024: The Truth About Food

title: From Taste Buds to Toilet

overview: Dr Chris van Tulleken follows the extraordinary journey food takes through our bodies – from the very first moment we see and smell a potential meal... until it finally emerges at the other end of our digestive tract. Be prepared for plenty of gross moments in this one-hour lecture!

title: From Taste Buds to Toilet

title: How Food Makes Us

overview: In this lecture, Dr Chris van Tulleken investigates how we get energy from our food and how what we eat makes us who we are. He reveals how combustion engines get their energy in a series of controlled explosions – which he demonstrates using a kitchen cupboard of different foods. As the bangs get bigger, it becomes clear that our bodies can’t get their energy in the same way. Luckily, Chris shows us our bodies are much cleverer than even the most advanced engine.

title: How Food Makes Us

title: The Big Food Hack

overview: What did the very first meal on earth look like? To begin his third and final Christmas Lecture in an explosive fashion, Dr Chris van Tulleken takes us back more than four billion years, to the beginnings of life. This was when microscopic bugs first began eating gases and metal, marking the start of an incredible food web which, billions of years later, humans have learned to master.

title: The Big Food Hack

overview: In this year’s Christmas Lectures, Dr Chris van Tulleken delves deep into our guts – to reveal the revolutionary latest science around what happens inside our bodies when we eat. He investigates how food has fundamentally shaped human evolution, uncovers the importance of our microbiome – as the extra ‘organ’ we didn’t know we had – and asks how we can all eat better in future, for the sake of our own health and the health of the planet. Chris will reveal how what we eat can have a massive effect on both our bodies and our brains. He’ll bring the science to life through a series of fact fuelled demos, special guest appearances, festive food hacks, and a healthy dose of self-experimentation. From tastebuds to toilet, we’ll find out what happens in the body when we eat. How we eat with our eyes (green eggs and ham anyone?) and how smell and even sound can affect the taste of our food.

title: 2024: The Truth About Food

2025: Is There Life Beyond Earth?

title: Destination Moon

overview: Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock begins her search for extraterrestrial life with an exploration of our nearest neighbour, and her favourite space rock, the moon.

title: Destination Moon

title: Searching the Solar System

overview: Space scientist Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock continues her search for alien life with a grand tour of our solar system. Could any other planets or moons out there be habitable?

title: Searching the Solar System

title: To the Stars and Beyond

overview: Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, with the help of the world’s most powerful telescope, ventures through the Milky Way and into the universe beyond, on the hunt for alien worlds.

title: To the Stars and Beyond

overview: Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock takes us on a voyage deep into space, on an astronomical search for extraterrestrial life, celebrating 200 years of the Christmas Lectures.

title: 2025: Is There Life Beyond Earth?

overview: The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825. The lectures present scientific subjects to a general audience, including young people, in an informative and entertaining manner. Michael Faraday initiated the first Christmas Lecture series in 1825. This came at a time when organised education for young people was scarce. Faraday presented a total of nineteen series in all.

title: Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

title: 英国皇家科学院圣诞讲座

title: 英國皇家科學院聖誕講座


title: Break the Bank

status: Ended

Season 1

title: Episode 1

title: Season 1

overview:
Break the Bank is a game show created by Richard S. Kline. It aired in syndication from September 16, 1985 to May 23, 1986, with repeats airing until September 12. It was not related to two previous shows by the same name.

The series debuted with Gene Rayburn as host, with Joe Farago taking over in December 1985. Kandace Kuehl was the co-host for the first three shows and was then replaced afterward with 1983 Miss USA winner Julie Hayek. Voice-over artist Michael Hanks was the announcer.

Break the Bank was the first game show produced under the Kline & Friends production company, with former Barry & Enright director Richard S. Kline the executive producer and director of the series. Other former Barry & Enright staffers, including Gary Cox and D.A. Diana, also worked on this show.

title: Break the Bank

job: Producer

department: Production

type: Crew

original_title: Break the Bank

original_language: en


title: The Entertainers

overview:
The Entertainers is a one-hour American variety show that aired on CBS from September 25, 1964 through March 27, 1965 on the 1964–1965 United States network television schedule. The series, produced by Joe Hamilton, featured three stars, Hamilton's wife Carol Burnett, Caterina Valente, and Bob Newhart. Burnett left her role in the Broadway musical Fade Out - Fade In to star in the series and later was sued by the show's producers for doing so.

Each week, the series, originating from New York, presented comedy sketches and musical numbers performed by a regular repertory company and one or two guest stars. Initially it aired on Friday night at 8:30pm ET/PT. In January 1965 it moved to Saturday night at 9:00pm ET/PT. Newhart and a few of the regular performers left the cast, and Burnett and Valente appeared as co-stars in every remaining episode.

title: The Entertainers

original_title: The Entertainers


title: Wrestling Reality

title: Season 1, Episode 2

title: Season 1, Episode 2

title: Season 1

overview:
Wrestling Reality is a documentary television series airing on The Fight Network that follows the lives of a group of independent pro wrestlers in the Maritime provinces of Canada. The series consists of a half-hour documentary portion, as well as an hour of televised matches and shoot interviews. The sneak peek of the premiere episode was September 25, 2007, with the full series then airing in early November. The series tackles many issues that go on behind the scenes in the wrestling world including drug use, steroid use, and sex. The series gives the public a glimpse of what the lives of pro wrestlers are really like.

The series was created by independent filmmaker Greg Hemmings.

title: Wrestling Reality

original_title: Wrestling Reality


title: Our Family Honor

type: Poster

title: Pilot

title: Pilot

title: Pilotfilm

job: Director

department: Directing

title: Everybody is a Star

title: Everybody is a Star

title: Der Mordvertrag

title: In the Line of Duty

title: In the Line of Duty

title: Gerechtigkeit auf eigene Faust

character: Charley Dyce

type: GuestStar

title: Runaway Movie Queen

title: Runaway Movie Queen

title: Maltz und seine Mädchen

title: Cat and Mouse

title: Cat and Mouse

title: Katz und Maus

title: Hostage

title: Hostage

title: Eine prominente Geisel

title: Homecoming

title: Homecoming

title: Falsche Geständnisse

title: Casino

title: Casino

title: Der Taxikiller

title: Mark of Cain

title: Mark of Cain

title: Der Teufelskreis des Hasses

title: Lone Justice

title: Lone Justice

title: Der lange Arm der Rache

title: End of the Line

title: End of the Line

title: Die Stadt der Cocktails und Bikinis

job: Writer

department: Writing

title: Crimes of Passion (1)

title: Crimes of Passion (1)

title: Verbrechen aus Leidenschaft

title: Crimes of Passion (2)

title: Crimes of Passion (2)

title: Ein Fall von Notwehr?

title: Season 1

overview: Launched as a two-hour TV-movie, Our Family Honor is about two New York City families who had known each other since their childhoods and who were involved in competing "family businesses" – the McKay family mostly worked for the New York City Police Department, where Patrick was Commissioner, while the Danzigs were deeply involved in organized crime, with patriarch Vincent filling the role of "godfather". Barbara Stuart played Vincent's wife, Marianne Danzig. Detective Sergeant Frank McKay was Patrick's often hot-headed son, while Vincent's cruel but inept son, Augie, was nonetheless his heir apparent. Liz McKay, Patrick's niece, was a newly-graduated officer now partnered with Officer Ed Santini. She was romantically involved with Vincent's other son, Jerry, who wanted out of his father's business and used the name "Jerry Cole" in order to minimize any connection with his father's family. Another story line involved Vincent's murder of his wife's lover, carried out by Augie; when Frank came to arrest Augie for this crime, Augie died in the ensuing fight. The effect of Augie's death was not revealed.

title: Our Family Honor

title: Verfeindet bis aufs Blut

title: 家族的荣誉

overview: 围绕一名警察局长及其家族展开，描述了警察局长艾拉格洛斯即将退休，由其女儿丽丝接任警察局长职务的过程。丽丝在与父亲和家族成员的互动中逐渐成长，面对职业挑战和家庭纷争。其中穿插了警察局内部的权力斗争、家族成员间的矛盾以及丽丝对警察工作的热情与决心。丽丝遭遇了同事的不信任、调查谢利登警官被谋杀案件的挑战。她努力证明父亲的清白，同时也在个人成长道路上不断前行。还涉及到警察局内部的不正之风、权力滥用以及社会对警察职业的期望与要求。最终，丽丝在家族的支持下，决心以公正和勇气履行警察职责，捍卫正义。 上海电视台译制，配音演员：倪康、龙俊杰、林栋甫、于鼎、张欢、张慧萍、梅梅、李梓、刘彬、翁振新、雷长喜。

title: 家族的榮譽

overview:
圍繞一名警察局長及其家族展開，描述了警察局長艾拉格洛斯即將退休，由其女兒麗絲接任警察局長職務的過程。麗絲在與父親和家族成員的互動中逐漸成長，面對職業挑戰和家庭紛爭。其中穿插了警察局內部的權力鬥爭、家族成員間的矛盾以及麗絲對警察工作的熱情與決心。麗絲遭遇了同事的不信任、調查謝利登警官被謀殺案件的挑戰。她努力證明父親的清白，同時也在個人成長道路上不斷前行。還涉及到警察局內部的不正之風、權力濫用以及社會對警察職業的期望與要求。最終，麗絲在家族的支持下，決心以公正和勇氣履行警察職責，捍衞正義。

上海電視台譯制，配音演員：倪康、龍俊傑、林棟甫、於鼎、張歡、張慧萍、梅梅、李梓、劉彬、翁振新、雷長喜。

character: Ed Santini

type: Cast

character: Rita Danzig

character: Augie Danzig

character: Patrick McKay

character: Vincent Danzig

character: Chief of Detectives Jonas Jones

character: Liz McKay

character: Marianne Danzig

character: Katherine McKay

character: Jerry Danzig

character: Det. Sgt. Frank McKay

original_title: Our Family Honor


title: Aussie Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

title: Angus

title: Angus

title: Kevin

title: Kevin

title: Jim

title: Jim

title: Frank

title: Frank

title: Season 1

overview:
Aussie Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was an Australian reality television series that was based on the original and hugely popular American series, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

Much like the American version, the program is premised on the stereotype that gay men are superior in matters of fashion, style, personal grooming, interior design and culture. In each episode, a team of five gay men—known collectively as the "Fab Five"—perform a makeover on a subject, usually a straight man, revamping his wardrobe, redecorating his home and offering advice on grooming, lifestyle and food.

The program premiered on Network Ten at 7:30 pm on Wednesday 9 February 2005, during the first week the 2005 Australian ratings season to a national audience of 903,254. After the second episode saw its audience share drop 20 per cent to 725,263, rumours began the show would now be moved from its prime time slot at 7.30 pm on Wednesdays to 9.30 pm on Mondays. However, after the third episode which aired on 23 February, the Network axed the program. The three remaining episodes aired later in the year.

title: Aussie Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

original_title: Aussie Queer Eye for the Straight Guy


title: London Ink

title: Episode 1

overview: London Ink opens its doors with a staff of Louis Malloy, Dan Gold, Nikole Lowe and Phil Kyle. Louis recalls his ideas behind the design of David Beckham's "Guardian Angel" tattoo. Dan, a graffiti guru, discusses his troubled youth and how he has problems taking orders. Louis believes that Dan's talent is worth the gamble. Nikole creates a rift by refusing to take Louis' advice of adding more styles to her repertoire. He decides the team needs a pep talk which ends up more like a comedy, reinforcing his notion that it will be hard to make this group into a well oiled machine.

title: Episode 1

title: Episode 2

overview: Dan is accused by Louis of chatting to much with his clients. Meanwhile, the shop holds a challenge to find a new apprentice.

title: Episode 2

title: Episode 3

overview: Tempers flare when Dan forces Louis to do a tattoo design that he hates. Also, Phil is angered by a client and Nikole is extremely happy with her latest work.

title: Episode 3

title: Episode 4

overview: Guest Sylvia Z, a portrait expert, works at the shop along with apprentice Rachael, who's work is scrutinized by the guys.

title: Episode 4

title: Episode 5

overview: The guys set off for the dog races while Nicole is away, where Dan does well against the bookies. Sylvia Z takes the guest spot in Nicole's absence and apprentice Rachael is scrutinized over whether she can handle the work. Louis and Dan are still at it when Louis pushes him away from his tattoo and taking over.

title: Episode 5

title: Episode 6

title: Episode 6

title: Season 1

Season 2

title: Episode 1

overview: Jodie Marsh gets a new tattoo from Louis of a 50s style pin up girl on her arm and Dan offers to tattoo Olympic high jumper Ben Challenger, but turns up six hours late.

title: Episode 1

title: Episode 2

overview: Dan's teen idol Sam Fox comes into the shop, but Louis takes over! Bollywood actor and former footballer Jordan Ali wants to cover-up ex-girlfriend Alicia Douvall's name.

title: Episode 2

title: Episode 3

title: Episode 3

title: Episode 4

title: Episode 4

title: Episode 5

title: Episode 5

title: Episode 6

title: Episode 6

title: Season 2

overview:
London Ink is a reality show on Discovery Real Time that follows Louis Molloy and three other tattoo artists.

Each of the artists brings a different style to London Ink. Louis Molloy, is an expert in parallel and straight lines and other difficult shapes, and has tattooed David Beckham. Dan Gold is an avid graffiti artist in the freehand new wave graffiti style. New Zealand artist Nikole Lowe specializes in Japanese, Tibetan and Indian-themed art. American Phil Kyle brings a new wave old school style with his own twist over to England. The show is a spin-off of Miami Ink and premiered on September 23, 2007.

The first series was filmed at London Tattoo, 332 Goswell Rd, Islington, London The shop lives on as a day to day tattoo studio London Tattoo at the Islington location

Glamour model Emily Scott appeared in the first episode of London Ink, in which she had a Koi fish tattooed on her right arm by Dan Gold.

title: London Ink

original_title: London Ink


title: The Murder Game

Season 1

title: Episode 1

overview: In this episode, the investigators were under training. No lines of inquiry were given.

title: Episode 1

title: Episode 2

type: Still

overview: Mel, Richard, Mervin, Sarita, Meryl, Sam, Christine, Ruairi, Nick and Andrew - will play the Murder Game to the bitter end, with a shared objective - catching the killer. But they have a single ambition too - bagging the £25,000 cash prize which can only be given to the last survivor! Guided by the worldly-wise Detective Chief Inspector Bob Taylor, aka The Chief, the game begins. Catherine Prior has been murdered and it is up to the special investigators to solve the crime. Richard becomes Lead Investigator, therefore deciding who is in what team. Later while the investigator's enjoy dinner, a wreath attached with 9 mugshot photos is smashed through the downstairs window. The message says â€˜I am one of the nine' and it is clearly from the killer - they are challenging the investigators to discover which of the nine people in the photos is the blood spiller. The suspects are: Dean - Jay's best friend; Frank - Catherine's father; Goldie - Catherine's sister; Jay - Goldie's fiancee; Jennif

title: Episode 2

title: Episode 3

overview: The first task this week is the appointment of a new Lead Investigator chosen by Christine, who was killed by the murderer in last week's Killer's Game. She chooses Nick, telling the group he is ""methodical and puts thought into all he does"". Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Taylor reminds the Investigators of the clue left for Sarita by the killer - a key to a caravan in Mill Fields park where Catherine Prior lived before she was murdered. Dean Garretty is now missing, but they are told that a car has been abandoned that fits the description of the car that dumped the video camera. At the caravan site, Team 1 discover that the key does not fit the lock, but then Catherine's father, Frank Prior, Catherine's daughter Anya and her babysitter Vanessa March turn up. Frank tells them that he has changed the locks and lets Anya in to pick up some toys. When they leave, Team 1 search the area for an hour, and eventually come up with what may be a vital piece of evidence - an envelope that r

title: Episode 3

title: Episode 4

overview: Sarita, who was killed by the murderer in last week's Killer's Game, chooses Mervin as the lead investigator because ""he thinks logically and he will do well"". With only three women left - Sam, Meryl and Mel - the girls think there is a male conspiracy against them. The killer left a clue for Andrew in the Killer's Game - a pillbox. The investigators are also given the information that builder Trevor Dobie is the father of Catherine's daughter Anya. Mervin forms the teams. Team 1 will be Richard and Meryl. They will interview Trevor and find out if he knows he is the father. He will be at Jennifer Wilmington's antique shop so the investigators will also quiz her about the antique pill box. Team 2 - Nick, Ruiri and Andrew - will interview Jay Wilmington again about the break in to his boat. Team 3 - Sam and Mel - will visit the reclusive George Hawick, find out what he knows about Catherine and why he was trying to call her. First out are Team 2. They head to Jay's houseboat but find th

title: Episode 4

title: Episode 5

overview: Tensions have become strained between the girls and the boys. Last week Mervin chose Sam to play the killer's game, and Sam did not come back. In Sam's last address to the group she states that she thinks Mervin picking her was personal and she's not amused. She says she wants Mel to be the Lead Investigator as ""she really has her teeth in this case and deserves to be in the house longer"". An argument is about to break out when Mel tells the group that Mervin ""made the wrong decision"" picking Samantha and Ruairi reacts saying Mervin can pick who he likes. Chief Bob diverts the petty bickering to the job at hand. The killer clue from last week was a blank certificate. Who does this belong to? How does this link to Catherine? It's been confirmed by forensics that Catherine was killed by navigational dividers which points to Jay. The blood stained coat that was discovered last week is discussed. Richard says their theory is it could belong to Tina as inside the pocket was her wedding invi

title: Episode 5

title: Episode 6

overview: Mervin selects Ruairi to be the next Lead Investigator in his will, as he thinks he will ""blossom in the role"". Richard sees this as a personal attack to get rid of him. The killer clue that Andrew returned is the necklace that Goldie was looking for that Catherine was wearing when she was murdered. Richard says that he has seen something similar, in the portrait of Alice, Felicity's mother in the Wilmington household. The other vital information is the dead baby that Mervin and Andrew found. An autopsy says the infant was full term but newborn. Andrew thinks the baby is Felicity's. Meryl reckons the dark secret must be figured out, and thinks Catherine is a decendant of the Wilmingtons. Team 1 are to interview the Wilmingtons and find out what they know about the baby. Team 2 are to confront Trevor Dobie, as information that ""Anya's father"" was threatening Catherine. Ruairi puts Meryl, Richard and Mel in Team 1, and Andrew and Nick are in Team 2. Team 1 set off to interview the Wilmin

title: Episode 6

title: Episode 7

overview: Meryl chooses Nick in her last will and testament, making it Nick's second time as the Lead Investigator. At Chief Bob's briefing, he announces that there has been a leak to the local paper and they have run an article saying the Investigators have the peacock necklace. Bob wants to know who leaked this story as the only people who could know are the Investigators and the killer? Nick is told to follow this leak up. This week's Killer's clue is four passport photos of Anya. Ruairi says perhaps the clue points to Catherine having a plan to take Anya abroad, and Anya's dad might not have liked this? They already know that Catherine feared Anya's father, but which one? Catherine always said the father was Jay, but Trevor's the real biological dad. The first line of enquiry must be to interview Jay Wilmington and ask why people think he's Anya's dad and if he has been threatening Catherine, and this will be investigated by Team 1, Mel and Ruairi. Nick chooses Andrew and Richard for Team 2

title: Episode 7

title: Episode 8

overview: Richard comes back from last week's killer game so group tensions are high. Ruairi chooses Andrew to be the next Lead Investigator saying Andrew ""hasn't got a lot of confidence, but he's a good man."" Only four suspects remain; Goldie, Jay, Jennifer and Trevor. The original necklace design drawing is brought back by Richard as this week's clue. The drawing shows that there is an extra part of the pendant that hangs down. Mel concludes that it's the top part of the necklace that's worth £6000 and put it together with the pendant and it's worth 2 million. Bob asks was Catherine wearing the complete necklace? Richard says it would be hard to tell as the bottom part of the necklace was hidden under her tee shirt. They look at the enhanced version of Goldie's kidnap video and see that there's a cardboard box saying 'pill boxes' in the background. The enhanced audio footage also detects a clock chime in the background. The Investigators conclude that there's a clock in Jennifer's antique shop

title: Episode 8

title: Episode 9 - Case Solves (aka Finale)

overview: At the morning briefing there are only three Investigators left. This is the final episode and there will be no Lead Investigator as the Investigators directly compete with each other. The Killer Clue that Andrew brought back is that of a joint bank account shared by Goldie Prior and Jay Wilmington. It's shown that the pin number is used to withdraw £50 in cash from a building society at 11.52am on the day Catherine was murdered. The Investigators say that there might be CCTV footage to see who used it - Jay or Goldie, as one of them could then be eliminated. Goldie's motives could be anger if she discovered that Jay was having an affair. The line of enquiry is to go to the solicitor's office where the family are there for the reading of Tony Wilmington's will. They must quiz Goldie and Jay to see which one of them made the withdrawal and why they didn't tell them. This is the last chance for the three remaining Investigators to speak to the three remaining suspects. The solicitor read

title: Episode 9 - Case Solves (aka Finale)

title: Season 1

overview: The Murder Game was a British reality television series that aired on BBC One from March through May 2003. The show was based on the American FOX television show Murder in Small Town X. Though classified as a reality television series, it was more accurately a hybrid of reality TV, game show, and mystery drama. The series was narrated by Rupert Smith. Although there was no host in the traditional sense the Chief, Bob Taylor, acted as a sort of host for the show.

title: The Murder Game

character: Narrator

original_title: The Murder Game


title: Le TVA Week-end

overview: Le TVA Week-end is a French language Canadian newscast which airs on the TVA television network on the weekends. The programme presents national and international news of the weekend.

title: Le TVA Week-end

original_title: Le TVA Week-end


title: Dice

type: Backdrop

Miniseries

title: Episode 1

title: Episode 2

title: Episode 3

title: Episode 4

title: Episode 5

title: Episode 6

overview: Charismatic psychology teacher Glenn Taylor introduces a dice-based decision-making system to his community, which unravels after a student's death, drawing in a detective who becomes entangled in the surreal world.

title: Miniseries

title: Dice

character: Glenn Taylor

character: Gacy/Noah Aldis

character: Marcus Starck

character: Detective Patrick Styvesant

character: Angela Starck

character: Alasdair MacCrae

character: Ernie Ross

character: Egon Schwimmer

character: Sam Cutter

character: Macloud

character: Whore

character: Pimp

job: Stunts

department: Crew

original_title: Dice


title: Bumble

Series 1

title: Series 1

overview: Bumble is a warm hearted and loveable magic bee. Join Bumble and his friends Peek, Anna, Boo and Fishy as they have fun playing and learning together in the exciting world of Kiwifruit Valley.

title: Bumble

character: Bumble (voice)

original_title: Bumble


title: And Everything Nice

Season 1

title: Episode 1

title: Episode 1

title: Season 1

overview: And Everything Nice is an American fashion-theme television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The series ran from 1949 to 1950. The was hosted by Maxine Barrat.

title: And Everything Nice

original_title: And Everything Nice


title: Target: The Impossible

overview:
Target: The Impossible was a Canadian documentary television series seen nationally on CTV from September 1973 to mid-1974 normally on Tuesday nights at 9:30.

The series was produced by Philip Hobel and Douglas Leiterman and focused on scientific achievements. However, Target: The Impossible concluded after one season, failing to repeat the longevity of their previous series Here Come the Seventies.

title: Target: The Impossible

original_title: Target: The Impossible


title: What a Country!

What a country season 1

title: The First Class

title: The First Class

title: The Soul Man

title: The Soul Man

title: A Busboy Named Desire

title: A Busboy Named Desire

title: Don't Leave Home Without It

title: Don't Leave Home Without It

title: My Fair Yung Hi

title: My Fair Yung Hi

title: Holiday on Ice

title: Holiday on Ice

title: The Best Laid Plans

title: The Best Laid Plans

title: Chicken a la Prince

title: Chicken a la Prince

title: Ali's Arrangement

title: Ali's Arrangement

title: Taylor Loses His Cool

title: Taylor Loses His Cool

title: The Road From Morocco

title: The Road From Morocco

title: Nikolai Speaks

title: Nikolai Speaks

title: California Dreamin'

title: California Dreamin'

title: Moonlighting

title: Moonlighting

title: Citizen Pain

title: Citizen Pain

title: Educating Inga

title: Educating Inga

title: Victor at An Exhibition

title: Victor at An Exhibition

title: What a Tangled Web We Weave

title: What a Tangled Web We Weave

title: Love Finds Nikolai

title: Love Finds Nikolai

title: We're in the Mubotos

title: We're in the Mubotos

title: What Are Friends For?

title: What Are Friends For?

title: The Candidate

title: The Candidate

title: The Apartment

title: The Apartment

title: Old World Charmer

title: Old World Charmer

title: What a country season 1

overview: What a Country! is an American sitcom that aired in syndication from September 27, 1986 to May 23, 1987.

title: What a Country!

character: Maria Conchita Lopez

character: Principal Joan Courtney

character: Laslo Gabov

character: F. Jerry 'Bud' McPherson

character: Ali Nadeem

character: Robert Muboto

character: Nikolai Rostapovich

character: Taylor Brown

character: Yung Hee

original_title: What a Country!


title: The Lea Thompson Show

title: The Lea Thompson Show

original_title: The Lea Thompson Show


title: The O-Zone

overview:
The O-Zone was a weekly music magazine show broadcast on BBC from 1989–2000. The First series was presented by Andy Crane on BBC One as a 10 min filler each weekday morning during the summer school holidays before switching to Sunday morning slot from September on wards. The series continued as a 5 to 15min filler shown during school holidays and Sunday mornings on CBBC throughout the year by CBBC presenters Andi Peters, Philippa Forrester, Toby Anstis and Zoë Ball by 1992.

The show was given an overhaul and makeover from 13 January 1995, with Jayne Middlemiss and Jamie Theakston as the new dual presenters. The series was moved to Friday evening with Sunday repeat. The series was extended to 20mims from September 1996.

There was also a spin-off series, The Pop Zone shown in 1998.

In October 2000, the show was replaced by Top of the Pops Plus, which had already been on UK Play. That programme was axed in 2001.

title: The O-Zone

original_title: The O-Zone


title: Bold Journey

Season 1

title: Episode 1

overview: A travelogue program broadcast by ABC television in the United States during the late 1950s, consisting of films taken by explorers and adventurers during their travels to remote parts of the world. The films were usually set up by an interview between a program host and the guest, who then narrated his film with the aid of helpful questions from the host.

title: Bold Journey

original_title: Bold Journey


title: Noah and Saskia

title: Tomorrow Never Knows

overview: When Saskia goes into a chat room seeking revenge on a guy who stole her music, she ends up with the most important relationship in her life, with the most amazing person.

title: Tomorrow Never Knows

title: The Very Real and Excellent Adventures of Max Hammer

overview: Facing certain doom on the football pitch, Noah turns to Indy for advice.

title: Don't Blame It on Hormones Polka

overview: Saskia has only one explanation for her flourishing friendship with Max Hammer. It has to be love. But everybody else thinks she's being ridiculous. How can you be in love with somebody you've never met?

title: Don't Blame It on Hormones Polka

title: Walsh on Wimmin

overview: Noah is greeted by giggles and whispers when he turns up at school. The rumour has spread that he has a cyber girlfriend. Humiliated, Noah decides to sort things out once and for all, if only for his own peace of mind.

title: Walsh on Wimmin

title: I Got Shades of Indy Blues

overview: Saskia refuses to budge from her bedroom. Her excuse: it's casual day at school, and she doesn't feel like being judged by the fashion police. But Deb and Renee don't buy it.

title: I Got Shades of Indy Blues

title: Eddie

overview: Noah's world is turned upside down when his younger cousin Eddie comes to stay. A sickly child with endless needs, Eddie manages to exhaust Lena, drive Phil and Bryce out of the house, and jeopardise Noah's relationship with Indy.

title: Eddie

title: Piggy in the Middle Blues

overview: Saskia finds herself in a tight spot when she has to choose between going to the snow for Renee's birthday, and staying at home to write music for the 50th edition of the Max Hammer online comic.

title: Piggy in the Middle Blues

title: You’ll Never Be a Man

overview: Bryce acquires a tent so strong it could survive re-entry into the atmosphere,  and decides a camping trip with the boys is in order. But disaster strikes when a dry creek bed becomes a raging river, washing the tent away.

title: You’ll Never Be a Man

title: Extra Spicy

overview: Saskia finds her spunky co-worker Ernesto playing guitar,  and seizes the opportunity to put a band together. She bribes her ten-year old guitar teacher with chocolate, organises a jam for the next day and logs on to update Max.

title: Extra Spicy

title: Almost

overview: Noah is secretly extremely jealous of Indy's new boyfriend, Ernesto. And now that the comic has become such a team effort, he finds he just doesn't have the motivation to do it without her.

title: Almost

title: Don’t Give Me No Love Song Blues

overview: When Ernesto volunteers to play a duet with Saskia at a talent quest, she is initially over the moon. He plays her the soppy love song he has written for her and then coaches her on how to behave in front of his family.

title: Don’t Give Me No Love Song Blues

title: Would the Real Max Hammer Please Log On

overview: Noah decides to take on Max Hammer's persona, and his life immediately gets better. However, the lives of Eddie, Clive and Phil instantly get worse.

title: Would the Real Max Hammer Please Log On

title: Tonight Live with Noah & Saskia

overview: Saskia is outraged when she discovers Max is still publishing his comic after their "break up", even though he promised her there would be no Max without Indy.

title: Tonight Live with Noah & Saskia

character: Robot / Winged Lizard

title: Season 1

overview: Two teenagers, Noah and Saskia, meet over the internet and begin to write an online comic strip together. The catch? Noah lives in England, while Saskia is from Australia.

title: Noah and Saskia

title: Ноа и Саския

overview: Двама тийнейджъри, Ноа и Саския, се срещат в интернет и започват заедно да пишат онлайн комикс. Къде е проблемът? Ноа живее в Англия, а Саския е от Австралия...

character: Noah King

character: Saskia Litras

character: Renee

character: Max Hammer

character: Clive Walsh

character: Indy

character: Phil Costa

character: Ernesto

character: Gerald

character: Lena King

character: Bryce King

character: Deb Litras

character: Eddie

original_title: Noah and Saskia


title: Great Food Live

overview:
Great Food Live, formerly Good Food Live, was a British magazine programme hosted by Jeni Barnett and broadcast on UKTVFood part of the UKTV Network between 2001 and 2007. Jeni Barnett was joined every day by a chef co-host. The first co-hosts were Simon Rimmer, Paul Hollywood, Ed Baines and Paul Merrett, and later included Antony Worrall Thompson, Brian Turner, Sophie Grigson and Alan Coxon. Guest chefs demonstrated recipes, there were phone-ins, celebrity guests, and features on wine & spirits, new products and speciality foods. GFL was produced by independent production company, Prospect Pictures, its Editor was Elaine Bancroft, and Deputy Editor, Nikki Cooper.

The show was taken off the air on 6 April 2007 and a new show called Market Kitchen followed from 16 April 2007, featuring Tana Ramsay, Tom Parker Bowles, Rachel Allen, Matthew Fort and Matt Tebbutt.

title: Great Food Live

original_title: Great Food Live


title: Bangers and Mash

title: Eggs Is Eggs

title: Eggs Is Eggs

title: ABC for Chimps

title: ABC for Chimps

title: Ghost Boast

title: Ghost Boast

title: A Spell of Trouble

title: A Spell of Trouble

title: What a Shower

title: What a Shower

title: Caution, Chimps at Work

title: Caution, Chimps at Work

title: Buzz Off

title: Buzz Off

title: Good Clean Fun

title: Good Clean Fun

title: Space Race

title: Space Race

title: Arty Crafty

title: Arty Crafty

title: Snitchnose Switch

title: Snitchnose Switch

title: Feat of Clay

title: Feat of Clay

title: Little Lady Dance

title: Little Lady Dance

title: Who Flew

title: Who Flew

title: Puddle Muddle

title: Puddle Muddle

title: Chimperdale Farm

title: Chimperdale Farm

title: Bovine Bovver

title: Bovine Bovver

title: Footsteps in the Snow

title: Footsteps in the Snow

title: Miracle Cure

title: Miracle Cure

title: Snake in the Grass

title: Snake in the Grass

title: Tour De Chimpton

title: Tour De Chimpton

title: Phoney Postchimps

title: Phoney Postchimps

title: Can't Sew for Toffee

title: Can't Sew for Toffee

title: Treat or Trick

title: Treat or Trick

title: Wind Trouble

title: Wind Trouble

overview: Bangers and Mash was a children's cartoon series broadcast on CITV in 1989, and repeated until around 1993. The series consisted of 24 five minute episodes.

title: Bangers and Mash

title: תפודי וניקי

overview: תפודי וניקי הם שני אחים שימפנזים מואנשים מטרידים, שהדרך שלהם ליהנות היא לגרום צער לאחרים - כלומר לבלגן או לשבור משהו בעל חשיבות, שבדרך כלל שייך להוריהם או לסבתם, שגרים עימם על אי בבית בנוי על עץ.

original_title: Bangers and Mash