Episode
How Do They Do It?: Lobsters, Chesterfield Sofas, 4K Television
Overview
How do they catch the world's largest lobsters? How do they build the iconic chesterfield sofa? And, how do they capture the world's sharpest TV pictures?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 15
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2017-12-13
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Lobsters, Chesterfield Sofas, 4K Television is Episode 12 in Season 15 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2017-12-13. The runtime is 22 min.
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