Episode
How Do They Do It?: RV Motorhomes, Lollipops, Ballet Shoes
Overview
How do they fit all the features of a luxury apartment into a motorhome? And, how do they make a ballet shoe that can take the weight of a dancer...
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 16
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 2019-08-01
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
RV Motorhomes, Lollipops, Ballet Shoes is Episode 15 in Season 16 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2019-08-01. The runtime is 22 min.
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