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 (15)
1. Pocket Watch
Aired 13 August 2018 • 44 min
Steve Fletcher tackles a pocket watch that spent four years in a Second World War Japanese internment camp undetected while secretly sewn in to the hem of a dress.
2. Walking Stick
Aired 14 August 2018 • 44 min
Lucia Scalisi must draw on all her 30 years of experience to mend a serious tear in a portrait that was accidentally inflicted many years ago by the owner's son with his dart gun.
3. Music Box
Aired 15 August 2018 • 44 min
Music box expert Stephen Kember and furniture restorer Will Kirk come together to work on a music box that is housed in a replica Swiss chalet.
4. Armchair
Aired 16 August 2018 • 44 min
Upholsterer Sonnaz Nooranvary takes on a real labour of love, a battered but beloved armchair that holds treasured memories of owner Michelle's grandfather.
5. Japanese Portrait
Aired 17 August 2018 • 44 min
Lucia Scalisi works on a 1930s portrait of the Japanese martial arts master Yukio Tani. The painting takes pride of place in the country's most prestigious martial arts club.
6. Art Deco Lamp
Aired 20 August 2018 • 44 min
Jay Blades and the team bring three treasured family heirlooms back to life. Steve Fletcher and Kirsten Ramsay turn their skills to fixing an art deco lamp in the shape of a lady.
7. Teddy Bear
Aired 21 August 2018 • 44 min
Jay Blades and the team bring three treasured family heirlooms back to life. Soft toy restorers Amanda Middleditch and Julie Tatchell work their magic on an old teddy called Fred.
8. Wall Clock
Aired 22 August 2018 • 44 min
Jay Blades and the team bring family heirlooms back to life. Steve Fletcher restores an 18th-century wall clock that is a much-loved heirloom from the owner's grandfather.
9. Landscape Painting
Aired 23 August 2018 • 44 min
Jay Blades and the team bring family heirlooms back to life. Lucia Scalisi repairs a much-loved landscape that has been left hanging together by a few threads of canvas.
10. Pendulum Clock
Aired 24 August 2018 • 44 min
Jay Blades and the team bring family heirlooms back to life. Steven Fletcher is in receipt of an unusual timepiece - a statue of a barmaid holding a swinging pendulum clock dial.
11. Pilots Bomber Jacket
Aired 27 August 2018 • 44 min
Jay Blades and the team bring family heirlooms back to life. Resident clock expert Steven Fletcher and ceramics conservator Kirsten Ramsay toil on a fragile 19th-century clock.
12. Rocking Horse
Aired 28 August 2018 • 44 min
Jay Blades and the team bring family heirlooms back to life. Furniture restorer William Kirk takes on a cherished family rocking horse that is in desperate need of some TLC.
13. Hercules Statue
Aired 29 August 2018 • 44 min
Jay Blades and the team bring family heirlooms back to life. Suzie Fletcher and Sonnaz Nooranvary restore a badly damaged suspended chair from the 1960s, known as a 'leaf chair'.
14. Royal Doulton Figurine
Aired 30 August 2018 • 44 min
Jay Blades and the team bring family heirlooms back to life. Kirsten Ramsay takes on a very rare Royal Doulton figurine of a First World War soldier.
15. Military Chest
Aired 31 August 2018 • 44 min
Jay Blades and the team bring family heirlooms back to life. Ceramic conservator Kirsten Ramsay carefully restores a cherished but chipped piece of 1960s pottery.