Riley, our host, witnesses heavy duty industrial fixes up close and personal, and is often in the right place at the right time.
World's Toughest Fixes
DETAILS
Come have a look inside a nuclear power plant, pull a plane apart, and hang from high voltage power lines. Riley, our host, witnesses heavy duty industrial fixes up close and personal, and is often in the right place at the right time to lend a crucially-needed hand. Along the way we see the big machinery behind big business: what happens when there's a big problem and how specialist teams of engineers struggle against the odds to make everything right again. Riveting… shocking… electrifying… THE BIG FIX.
- Release Date:
- 2008
- Genre:
- Docuseries
- Rating:
- Cast:
- Sean Riley
EPISODES
S1:E1 Nuclear Turbine
Sean Riley heads into the radiation zone to replace a steam turbine in a nuclear power plant.
S1:E2 Boeing 767
Riley is off to Charles de Gaulle Airport to join a crack team of Boeing engineers and mechanics
S1:E3 High Voltage Power Lines
Sean Riley joins an elite corps of engineers who dangle from a helicopter and work with live lines.
S1:E4 Thirty-Eight Ton Engine
Sean Riley helps swap out a 38-ton engine on one of the largest ships in the Gulf of Mexico.
S1:E5 Giant Telescope
Riley joins a team of engineers to move and clean a 24-foot, 23-ton, $15 million telescope mirror.
S1:E6 2,000 Foot Tower
Sean Riley works to fix a faulty TV antenna nearly half a mile in the air.
S1:E7 Cruise Ship Engine
Sean Riley races the clock to help add a more than 200-ton engine in a luxury cruise liner.
