About this season
The Repair Shop is a workshop of dreams, where broken or damaged cherished family heirlooms are brought back to life. Furniture restorers, horologists, metal workers, ceramicists, upholsterers and all manner of skilled craftsmen and women have been brought together to work in one extraordinary space, restoring much-loved possessions to their former glory.
Episodes (20)
1. Episode 1
Aired 2 January 2023 • 43 min
The team lovingly revives a 1950s alarm clock that hasn’t rung for decades, a metal horse statue holding memories of a dear dad and a 120-year-old piece of rugby history.
2. Episode 2
Aired 3 January 2023 • 43 min
Jay Blades and the team restore a tiny pair of baby boots, a hand-painted Venetian jewellery box and a well-trodden wooden tap-dancing mat used by identical twins.
3. Episode 3
Aired 4 January 2023 • 43 min
Jay Blades and the team transform a child’s bike symbolising young love, a fluffy toy that’s provided much-needed support and a lamp smashed into smithereens.
4. Episode 4
Aired 5 January 2023 • 43 min
Jay Blades and the team work their magic on a famous red book from the TV series This Is Your Life, a miniature sewing machine and a 1950s recording device.
5. Episode 5
Aired 6 January 2023 • 43 min
Jay Blades and the team revitalise a painting with woodworm, an Arabic musical instrument and a flying helmet owned by a trailblazing female pilot.
6. Episode 6
Aired 9 January 2023 • 43 min
A giant toy lion, a vintage cash register and an old harbourmaster's telescope are mended.
7. Episode 7
Aired 10 January 2023 • 43 min
The team restore a camera, a draughts board and a toy owned by author Dick King-Smith.
8. Episode 8
Aired 11 January 2023 • 43 min
The experts restore a 1960s lawnmower, a sporting trophy and a 40-year-old leather belt.
9. Episode 9
Aired 12 January 2023 • 43 min
The team restore a marching drum, a mug and a model windmill made by a much-missed father.
10. Episode 10
Aired 13 January 2023 • 43 min
The team restore a pair of football boots, a wooden jack-in-the-box and a lamp.
11. Episode 11
Aired 16 January 2023 • 43 min
Jay Blades and the team restore a beautifully decorated broken bowl, a miniature silver train spice box and a 1940s handcrafted leather football.
12. Episode 12
Aired 17 January 2023 • 43 min
Three highly sentimental heirlooms are thrown a lifeline, including an old fishing reel and a quirky leather footstool shaped like a pig.
13. Episode 13
Aired 18 January 2023 • 43 min
Jay Blades and the team transform a mother-of-pearl coin purse, a flamenco guitar and a 1950s London black cab taxi meter.
14. Episode 14
Aired 19 January 2023 • 43 min
Jay Blades and the team restore a Victorian portrait of a formidable woman, an old-fashioned Middle Eastern heating device known as a brazier and a pottery horse.
15. Episode 15
Aired 20 January 2023 • 43 min
The team put the spice back into a painted pepper mill, and the teddy bear ladies see double as they fix two wind-up toys gifted to identical twins.
16. Episode 16
Aired 23 January 2023 • 43 min
Jay Blades and the team restore a set of bells that once noisily warned people of a horse’s arrival, a 1930s toy car that comforted a wartime evacuee, and a mid-century chair.
17. Episode 17
Aired 24 January 2023 • 43 min
Art and industry come to the Repair Shop in the form of two ceramic doves believed to be linked to Picasso, an automaton depicting Victorian tradesfolk and a Welsh miner’s helmet.
18. Episode 18
Aired 25 January 2023 • 43 min
An eclectic mix of items are given a new lease of life, including two schoolboy scrapbooks made in tribute to Tolkien and a decrepit manicure set that survived the Liverpool Blitz.
19. Episode 19
Aired 26 January 2023 • 43 min
The Repair Shop is the current destination for some globetrotting items, including a 200-year-old guitar from Vienna, a trunk that has toured Africa and a vintage pinball machine.
20. Episode 20
Aired 27 January 2023 • 43 min
The team tackle three unusual projects, including a chair in which JFK once sat, a Walkman and a Royal Navy hat box filled with romantic love letters.