The Repair Shop

- Season 1

(2017)

The Repair Shop is decked with holly and a dedicated team of Britain's most passionate and skilled crafts people are beavering away like busy Christmas elves repairing and rescuing beloved festive treasures. A Victorian version of a juke box called a polyphon that has rusted into silence moves sisters Ann and Kathryn to tears when they hear it play the family's favourite carol for the first time in decades, and the only Christmas present received by evacuee Patricia in 1939, Betty Doll, is lovingly brought back life. Also in the Repair Shop this Christmas are a rustic...

An 80-year-old accordion that helped maintain morale during the Blitz, a 50-year-old flying fish and a hand-made clock made by a blind man are among the treasured family heirlooms brought back to life by the experts.

Furniture restorers Jay and Will attempt to work their magic on a much-loved Arts and Crafts piano stool damaged by a dog. Richard Rigby restores an antique projector. Clock expert Steve repairs a vintage telephone.

Vintage electronics expert Neil Fairly battles some aged Doctor Who villains. Steven Fletcher tackles his own time-travelling conundrum. Jay and Will tackle a valuable Davenport desk damaged in a burglary.

A treasured smoker's musical box is mended by Steven - before the owner finds out. Kirsten tackles a Victorian garden-gnome in need of major surgery. Fire-fighting expert Stuart Black restores an antique helmet.

Resident ceramicist Kirsten Ramsay puts a shattered vase by Jean Lurcat, a contemporary of Picasso, back together again. A 19th-century Italian chair and a special jewellery box are also restored.

Art conservator Lucia Scalisi rescues a painting that has been in the Sansom family for decades, Kirsten reunites the shattered fragments of a ceramic plaque broken more than 45 years ago. Will and Jay restore a Japanese lacquered box.

Horologist Steven Fletcher and expert metal worker Dominic Chinea restore a village clock. The team work together to repair a piece of farming history - a hay press. Two Royal Worcester vases also feature.

Clock specialist Steven Fletcher fixes a clapping monkey, Kirsten and Will Kirk team up to tackle an ornate Victorian travelling box and Laurence Richardson is tested by an iconic 1950s Wurlitzer jukebox.

Horologist Steve and furniture restorer Will bring a grandfather clock out of retirement, ceramicist Kirsten rescues a Royal Barum ware vase from the crack of doom and the teddy doctors have their first patient.

Will and Jay work together to restore a 100-year-old Nordic rocking chair. Ceramics experts Guillaume and Kirsten work on to two very different items an ornate seashell from Brazil and a ceramic bulldog with a smashed face.

Horologist Steven Fletcher works to get a Victorian cuckoo-clock singing again. Kirsten attempts a seamless repair of a 1970s bowl and Will restores a 200-year-old sea-chest.

Painting conservator Lucia Scalisi faces a serious challenge when presented with a perforated painting by celebrated British artist Fred Appleyard. Furniture restorer Will Kirk has to think outside the box to solve a homemade riddle with over 100 pieces. And a family heirloom with huge sentimental value needs the prowess of ceramicist Kirsten Ramsay.

Metal worker Dominic Chinea has to use all of his restoration skills to future proof an old, Cornish museum sign. Steven Fletcher has to steer an old banger back onto the road. And the Repair Shop emergency bear-care team, Julie and Amanda, start treatment on Irish teddy George, a very special teddy who has lost one of his eyes and his growl.

An antique barometer, a pair of rowing oars and a poorly pinball machine are restored.

A customer has a knotty nautical problem that leaves furniture restorer Will Kirk all at sea. Jay Blades and Tim Weeks get a vintage gramophone looking and sounding like new. Soft toy specialists Amanda and Julie take on a young lady suffering the effects of years of love and affection.

The repair shop team work on a 1939 Betty Doll, a nativity scene, a Polyphon, a sleigh and an 18th century painting.