''Planet Mechanics'' is a British TV program shown on the
National Geographic Channel
National Geographic (formerly National Geographic Channel; abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo or Nat Geo TV) is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by the National Geographic Global Networks unit of Disney Enter ...
in 2008. The show has ended after the first series.
Background
''Planet Mechanics'' sees two engineers,
Dick Strawbridge
Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom), Lieutenant Colonel (Retirement, ret) Richard Francis Strawbridge, Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 3 September 1959) is a British television personality, engineer and former army officer. He is often r ...
and
Jem Stansfield
Jeremy Stansfield (born 1970) is a British engineer and television presenter who is best known for presenting the BBC One science show ''Bang Goes the Theory''.
Career
Stansfield has a degree in aeronautics from Bristol University and, before ...
, travelling in an eco-friendly workshop, previously a
horse trailer
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, to fix the planet's most pressing environmental problems.
Episodes
External links
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Planet Mechanics Website At National Geographic UKPlanet Mechanics Website At National Geographic AU
2008 British television series debuts
2008 British television series endings
2000s British documentary television series
National Geographic (American TV channel) original programming
2000s British television miniseries
British English-language television shows
British documentary television series about science
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