Episode
The Repair Shop: 1940s Toy Gyroscope
Overview
Jay Blades and the team tackle a refugee family's wooden trunk, a memorial trophy and a gyroscopic toy cyclist.
Details
- Series
- The Repair Shop
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 30
- Air date
- 2020-09-14
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
1940s Toy Gyroscope is Episode 30 in Series 5 of The Repair Shop. It aired on 2020-09-14. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 34: World War II Mascot Doll
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Episode 25: Wind-up Bird Cage
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Episode 35: Incident Room 'Murder Box'
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Episode 24: Alabaster Light Shade
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Episode 36: Dad's Old Saxophone
The first visitor to The Repair Shop's barn today is Lorna Douglas who's brought her Dad's old saxophone for Pete Woods to repair and restore. Then John brings in an old, damaged fret-saw which Dom manages to repair. Lorna is followed by Phil Bailey who's brought a 1937 brass kettle inherited from his grandparents for the attention of Brenton West. Then Ruth Bowditch brings in a WWI shaving mirror for Suzie Fletcher to see what she can do with.