U and YESTERDAY

The team break with tradition and actually follow Dave Mathewson's advice on what to restore - he points to a 1992 Vauxhall Nova Merit Plus.

Shamil hunts down a battered 1940s Marconi Radiogram that has seen better days, and Rob is tasked with getting a 50's TV working again by the family who made them.

Shamil buys an 80s Technics record deck for Rob to restore.

The team reinvent a 1936 design for a three-wheeled car using recycled parts and a reclaimed recumbent trike. Plus, Ruth and Carl rework a vintage burglar alarm.

Shopping from Home.

Michael Portillo journeys from Piccadilly Circus to Gravesend, visiting an exotic West End store that was popular among Victorian women.

Michael Portillo travels from Warwick to Rye in East Sussex. En route he discovers how the Edwardians' attitude towards cultivation bears fruit even now.

Beginning in Jarrow, Michael uncovers the desperation which led 200 men to march 300miles to Westminster in order to petition the Government for work.

Michael Portillo is in Northumbria, discovering what lay behind a national initiative to plant one of the largest manmade woodlands in Europe.

Salvage reinventor Gary Wallis restores a Grenadier Guard's drum, creates a garden feature from a helicopter tripod, and repurposes a vintage car grille into a gleaming design classic.

Gary Wallis reinvents an old ship's compass and a grand display cabinet into two of his most successful transformations to date.

Gary Wallis revamps a pub's interior, visits an automobilia auction at Silverstone, creates a chair out of WW2 bomber jackets and gives a Victorian table a new zinc top.

Gary Wallis visits Kempton Park Autojumble, where he buys a tired vintage Moto Guzzi bike and transforms it into a stunning display piece.

More old school humour in the wartime comedy. Renee and Edith face the German firing squad following a bungled Resistance operation.

Farcical fun. As the war nears its end, The Colonel and Gruber make an escape bid to Spain and Herr Flick has had extensive plastic surgery.

Wartime sitcom full of funny names. Rene is taken prisoner by Louise of the Communist Resistance, who tells him he's to be her love slave.

Robbie Cumming journeys from Shardlow to Etruria Junction, Stoke on Trent, exploring the Trent and Mersey Canal.

Robbie Cumming explores the English canal network. A low canal tunnel in Staffordshire proves to be problematic and Robbie helps out a stranded boater.

Robbie Cumming continues across the Pennines from Marple to Huddersfield, where his journey is hampered by a fallen tree and a leaking lock pound.

Robbie Cumming travels along the Rochdale Canal from Sowerby Bridge to Manchester, but disaster strikes when he runs aground.

Dom builds a drift car with engineer Sam Lovegrove. At home, he gets a digger in to make his new pond, and he and Sam have a go at gig rowing after fixing the club trailer in Hayle.

Simon Reeve crosses mainland Australia, visiting a ghost town contaminated by a nearby asbestos mine and a deprived Aborigine community near Uluru.

Simon Reeve visits an anthropologist living with a forest tribe in Argentina, and tours a neighbourhood once considered the most dangerous in the world.

David Jason examines British innovations in the history of engineering, beginning with a look at wheeled vehicles like the Penny Farthing and Stephenson's rocket.

Jack has his eye on a Peugeot 205 GTI that could be one of the finest examples in the country. Plus, Derek collects a pair of sporty 60s Triumphs.

Derek and Paul are off to Leeds on a rare father and son road trip to pick up a VW Cabriolet and a Lotus Elite.

Derek navigates the dry stone walls of the Peak District to collect a very original 1988 Opel Manta. Plus, Dave deals with a Ford Granada rally support vehicle.

Derek has a three-hour drive in a 1960s bus that arrived in the UK after a life in the sun. Dave takes a Triumph TR7 convertible to auction.