About this season
Richard Hammond's Blast Lab is a children's television programme made by DCD Media-owned September Films and Hamster's Wheel Productions for the BBC and shown on the CBBC Channel and CBBC outputs on both BBC One and BBC Two. The programme involves two teams of three children – referred to as the Red Team and the Yellow Team – taking part in science-related challenges to win prizes at the end of the show. The team that loses get the honour of blowing up their prizes. Hammond has taken an approach that has come from years of working on Top Gear with elements of Brainiac: Science Abuse.
Episodes (13)
1. Episode 1
Aired 20 June 2009 • 30 min
2. Episode 2
Aired 27 June 2009 • 30 min
3. Episode 3
Aired 4 July 2009 • 30 min
4. Episode 4
Aired 11 July 2009 • 30 min
5. Episode 5
Aired 18 July 2009 • 30 min
6. Episode 6
Aired 25 July 2009 • 30 min
7. Episode 7
Aired 1 August 2009 • 30 min
8. Episode 8
Aired 8 August 2009 • 30 min
9. Episode 9
Aired 15 August 2009 • 30 min
10. Episode 10
Aired 22 August 2009 • 30 min
The teams use convection created by hairdryers to keep bags in the air and than negotiate an obstacle course. The Lab Rats use the same principle to make a giant solar balloon. Will the sun's heat be enough to help their balloon lift up, up and away?
11. Episode 11
Aired 29 August 2009 • 30 min
The theme is air pressure: the teams must place a postcard across a cup of water and turn it upside down, allowing air pressure alone to prevent spillage, and then navigate an obstacle course. The Lab Rats then try to crush steel barrels with air pressure!
12. Episode 12
Aired 5 September 2009 • 30 min
13. Episode 13
Aired 12 September 2009 • 30 min
The crew looks at centrifugal force. The teams have to navigate an obstacle course while keeping a ball spinning round a funnel. Meanwhile, a specially trained Lab Rat tries to create a fire tornado.