James May's Man Lab Season 1 and 2

2010 • Australian Broadcasting Corporation

3.0

2 reviews

Rating

Eligible

Season 1 episodes (8)

1 Episode 1

10/31/10

James shows how to disarm a WWII bomb, builds a concrete kitchen worktop, teaches the art of seduction in the style of Thomas Campion, learns how to polish a boot, builds a large scale model railway, makes a fish finger sandwich and builds a radio control powered picnic table.

2 Episode 2

11/7/10

James shows how to build your own bar, navigate the seas using the Powder of Sympathy and a dog, how to duel with percussion pistols, stop running out of toilet paper and build an orchestra composed of grade 1 level musicians.

3 Episode 3

11/14/10

James shows how to make an old movie and how to build a cinema, how to duel with sabres and how to act on a first date, and showcases the Grade 1 orchestra performance at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

4 Episode 1

10/25/11

James and Oz escape HMP Dartmoor and go orienteering, James builds a pool table, draws a portrait and shows how difficult it is to remember names of party guests.

5 Episode 2

11/1/11

James reunites Love Fungus, an indie rock band that split up 20 years ago, at the High Voltage Festival, fells a tree to make toilet paper and goes ghost hunting in Lympne Castle, Kent.

6 Episode 3

11/8/11

James casts a lemon squeezer using a home made furnace, teaches how to cheat at playing guitar, launches the ashes of late pets into outer space, and promotes the boiler suit as the only necessary clothing needed by the modern man.

7 Episode 4

11/15/11

James attempts to prove an Englishman can score a penalty, builds a coracle out of willow, creates a greenhouse in the toilets, and builds a multifunctional "Swiss Army Bike".

8 Episode 5

12/18/11

James and Oz attempt to make it snow, James shows how to cook Christmas dinner using strict timing and legislation, how to make an exciting Christmas cracker and how to decorate a Christmas tree without using a step ladder.

About this show

James May is on a mission to save Modern Man. 10,000 years in the making; 10,000 years of endeavour in science and the arts and humanities; and within one generation man has been reduced to a feckless, bedwetting, parmesan shaving imbecile who revels in his own uselessness. Something has to be done.

Ratings and reviews

3.0

2 reviews

CageFreeLife

November 10, 2018

Had potential but alas was not to be ,wish I'd known it was rubbish before I had bought the series,james may oz clark wine series was great compared to this but I dont see it anywhere

Rachel Quarrell

November 12, 2018

I love it.I have all three series on DVD along with his Toy Stories shows.