Extreme Machines

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Extreme Machines
Narrated by William Hootkins
Music byRoger Bolton (Season 1)

Justin Nicholls (Season 1-3)

Guy Dagul (Season 4-5)
Country of origin United States of America
No. of seasons5
Production
Production company Pioneer Productions
Release
Original network The Learning Channel Discovery Channel
Original release1997 (1997) 
2002 (2002)

Extreme Machines was a documentary series created by Pioneer Productions for The Learning Channel and Discovery Channel. The series focused mainly on machines although in some episodes of Season 4 and Season 5, it also looked at disasters involving them. [1] The series was largely narrated by William Hootkins. The show made also made use of scale miniatures in many episodes, managed by David Barlow. [2] [3]

Contents

Episodes

SeasonsEpisodes
111
212
312
412
510
Specials7

Season 1 (1997)

No. in

Season

Episode TitleTechnology shownEpisode Directed by
1Diving Deep Submersibles
2Choppers AH-64 Apache Hugh Whiteworth
3Hovercrafts Hovercraft
4Image Impossible
5Fastest Man on Earth
6Race Cars
7Rockets Space Shuttle

Energia/Buran

Long March 3B

Ariane 5

V-2 Rocket

R-16/SS-7 Saddler

R-7 Semyorka/SS-6 Sapwood

Vostok, Mercury

Saturn V

DC-XA

Rod Parker [4]
8Roller Coasters
9SpaceplanesSpace Shuttle

DC-XA

VentureStar

Energia/Buran

HOPE-X

Hermes

Rod Parker [5]
10Speed Freaks
11Wheels of Steel TGV

Shinkansen

Mallard

Southern Pacific Daylight

California Zephyr (Pre Amtrak)

Union Pacific Big Boy

Union Pacific Challenger

Acela Express (Concept)

Peru Andes Railline

Nilgiri Mountain Railway

Indian Pacific

Channel Tunnel, Eurostar

London Underground

Transrapid Maglev

Yavar Abbas [6]

Season 2 (1998)

No. in

Season

Episode TitleTechnology ShownEpisode Directed by
1Tanks M1 Abrams
2Motorcycle Mania
3Earth Breakers
4Car Crazy Lotus Elise

Jim Router's F-117 Car

Amphicar

Dutton Mariner

Volkswagen Beetle

General Motors EV1

Drag Racing Cars

Moller Skycar

5Smart Weapons BGM-109 Tomahawk

Fat Man and Little Boy

6Flight Power BAE Harrier II

Hawker Siddeley Harrier

AV-8B Harrier II

Hugh Whiteworth [7]
7Supersonic Landspeed
8Power Boats
9Mega TrucksVolvo ECT
10Four Wheel Force
11Supersight
12Carriers USS John C. Stennis CVN-74 (Nimitz Class Carrier)

F-14B Tomcat

F/A-18C Hornet

EA-6B Prowler

E-2C Hawkeye

S-3B Viking/ES-3A Shadow

SH-60 Seahawk

USS Forrestal CV-59 (Forrestal Class Carrier)

USS Peleliu LHA-5 (Tawara Class Amphibious Carrier)

AV-8B Harrier II

HMS Invincible (R05)

FRS.1/2 Sea Harrier

Hugh Whiteworth [8]

Season 3 (1999)

No. in

Season

Episode TitleTechnology shownEpisode Directed by
1Emergency Vehicles
2 Submarines USS Nebraska SSBN-739 (Ohio Class Submarine)

Typhoon Class Submarine

USS Miami SSN-755 (Improved Los Angless Class Submarine)

Akula Class Submarine

K-141 Kursk (Oscar II Class Submarine)

HMS Conqueror S48 (Churchill Class Submarine)

3Speed Freaks II X-15

TGV Atlantique

X-1

Apollo 10

4Ultimate Space Machines
5Ice Master
6The Ultimate Speed machines
7Balloons
8Super Cars
9The Landspeed Record
10Incredible Robots MIT Leg Laboratory

Honda E series robots

Honda P series robots

Surveyor landers

Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner

11Metal Monsters
12Flight of the Future YF-22/F-22 Raptor

YF-23

Su-37 Terminator

Sikorsky Cypher

NASA Liftingbodys

Ekranoplan KM (Caspian Sea Monster)

Boeing 747-400

David Holryod [9]

Season 4 (2000)

No. in

Season

Episode TitleTechnology shownEpisode Directed by
1Pedal Power
2Rocketeers
3Car Crash
4Aviators
5Raiders of the Deep
6Super Trains/Super Trains Ultimate P-40DC Genesis (Amtrak Sunset Limited)

Superliner Railcar (Amtrak Sunset Limited)

Acela Express

Shinkansen

TGV

ICE Train (Eschede train disaster)

Gaisal train disaster

Moorgate crash

Ladbroke Grove rail crash

Yavar Abbas [3]
7Adrenaline Junkies
8Extreme Rides
9Disasters at Sea
10Airships
11Mega Machines
12Jump JetsAV-8B Harrier II

XV-4 Hummingbird

Balzac V

GR.1 Harrier

FRS.1 Sea Harrier

BAE Harrier II

X-35 JSF

X-32 JSF

XV-15/V-22 Osprey

Season 5 (2001)

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