Series synopsis
Richard Hammond's Blast Lab is a British drama television series that premiered on CBBC on January 3, 2009. It ended on October 7, 2010. It stars Richard Hammond.
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 approac ...
Premise
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.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Richard Hammond as Presenter
Episodes
This series spans 4 seasons with 41 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 13 | January 3, 2009 | March 28, 2009 |
| Season 2 | 13 | June 20, 2009 | September 12, 2009 |
| Season 3 | 13 | July 14, 2010 | October 7, 2010 |
| Season 4 | 2 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Episode 1 In the opening episode of this spectacular new series, Richard and his two teams of budding young scientists study rocket propulsion. But they don't do this with dusty old text books. Instead, in true Blast Lab tradition, Richard and the teams race some balloons over a giant gunge tank and watch a jet pack man propel himself 30 metres in the air as he attempts the world's highest ever basketball slam dunk. |
January 3, 2009 |
| 2 |
Episode 2 This time, Richard Hammond looks at the weight of liquids. Richard joins one of his lab rats at his top secret test facility to discover what happens when a tonne of water is dropped on to a car from a height of 30 metres. Meanwhile, in his underground laboratory, Richard asks the two teams of young scientists to attempt to guess how much his security guard Ninja Nan and one of his lab rats weigh. But because this is Blast Lab, there's a twist... Ninja Nan and the lab rat have to sit on giant scales, while the contestants must use bottles of water to guess their weight. |
January 10, 2009 |
| 3 |
Episode 3 This time, Richard explores lift and friction. Richard and the gang build hovercrafts. In the studio they are made out of a bottle top, a CD and a balloon. But at Richard's top-secret test facility, his team of loyal lab rats make a hovercraft out of wood, plastic sheeting and leaf blowers. |
January 17, 2009 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | June 20, 2009 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | June 27, 2009 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | July 4, 2009 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | July 14, 2010 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | July 21, 2010 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | July 28, 2010 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 2 | 2 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | CBBC |
|---|---|
| First aired | January 3, 2009 |
| Last aired | October 7, 2010 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
| Status | Ended |