Episode
How Do They Do It?: Car Weather Factory • Baseball Gloves • Christmas Puddings
Overview
How do they take a car from Siberia to the Sahara without leaving Germany? How do they hand craft a baseball glove that will last a lifetime? And how do they keep alive a Christmas tradition that's more than 300 years old?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 15
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 2017-12-14
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Car Weather Factory • Baseball Gloves • Christmas Puddings is Episode 13 in Season 15 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2017-12-14. The runtime is 22 min.
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