04x01 - Gigantic Teddy Bear

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Welcome to The Repair Shop, where
much-loved but broken treasures...

This is amazing. It's absolutely
brilliant.

..are brought back to life.

Welcome to my universe.

It's pretty marvellous.

Furniture restorer Jay Blades...

It's so nice that we can be part of
that, kind of, history

to just keep things going.

..and a dream team

of some of the country's most
skilled crafts people...

I'm having a lot of fun and I'm
really liking the end result.

Sounds like teamwork.

..bring their talents to bear

on beloved pieces of family
history...

Look at that.
I'm liking what I see. Yes.

Is this working? You beauty!

..utilizing expertise passed
down the generations...

Now, I'm going to teach you how to
do it the old-fashioned way.

..transforming priceless pieces
of family history...

Oh, my goodness, me.

..The Repair Shop team will
resurrect the items...

Oh, gosh!

..the memories...

I'm going to have to hug you.

..and the stories behind them.

Oh, look at that.

Oh, thank you so much.

I can't see it because there's tears
in my eyes.

This is a very emotional job to
do...

..but incredibly worthwhile.

In The Repair Shop today...

It's like a "whodunnit?"

And I'm going to find the culprit,
the smoking g*n.

..Amanda and Julie grapple with a
giant...

I think this is probably the biggest
bear that we've ever worked on.

..whist Steve comes to the rescue of
a rather special clock,

and in the nick of time.

It is as bad as I thought it was.

At any point, this could have given
way...

..and it would have been
catastrophic.

But first
into The Repair Shop today,

widower Albert Thompson
and his daughter Lynne.

He's hoping the team can help
restore a beloved item

that holds dear memories for him.

You must be Lynne. I am, yes.
How you doing, Albert?

Hello. You all right? Yeah. A bit
out of breath. Oh, bless you.

Well, take a seat.
Thank you very much.

You're more than welcome.
What have you got here?

A dilapidated radio. An old GEC.

Ooh. Yeah. Mark? If you don't mind
joining me?

Yes, of course.

It's got quite a bit of history
to it.

Well, Mark's our expert on radio.
Hello, Mark. Hi.

Pleasure to meet you.
Pleased to meet you, as well.

You mentioned it's got quite
a bit history.

Tell me about it then, Albert?

Well...

..when me and the wife, Eileen,
first started courting,

we'd been courting about a year...
OK.

..and then while we was downtown
we saw these.

I think it was in Boots, they used
to sell all sorts at that time.

And it was up there and it was
£2.50.

Me and the wife clubbed together and
we bought it and...

..we used to take it all over with,
you know?

In the car and get out the car,
go up the beach.

And once we were on the beach
and this were going,

everybody started to come
towards us.

ALBERT AND JAY LAUGH

Yeah. So this radio has been, like,

the life of the party for a lot of
people,

and also the family.

It used to go on holiday with us
as well.

Yeah. It's had a good life.

It's had a good life. It's had a
brilliant life.

And it's lasted for years
and years and in 19...

I think it were 1985, it just
stopped.

I couldn't get it to go,

and a nephew of mine,

he fiddles about with electrics and
that, and he got it going.

Right. Those on there, my nephew...
They're off of toothbrushes.

No! They are.

THEY LAUGH

Really?! Those are three
toothbrushes.

And that's what he did to get
it going.

Apart from that, it's as it is.

I mean, that's the original
on there.

You can tell the amount of use,
in fact,

the handle's always the first
things to go.

Yeah. Yeah. Right. I used to have it
in the greenhouse with me. Yeah.

And two years ago, it stopped.

And it was two years
to the day when Eileen passed away.

She were an absolute ace and...

..I really do miss her.

It's all right. It's all right.

And it's never gone since.

So it's very precious to you,
isn't it? It is.

Yeah.

I just wondered if you could do
anything with it

and get it repaired so I can get it
back in the greenhouse.

We'll get this sorted for you.
Thank you very much.

Thank you for bringing this in.
All right?

Yeah. Means so much to me
and my family.

Yeah? It really does.

Yeah. Pleasure to meet you. You will
look after it, won't you?

Of course I would, don't worry.

Thank you. You take care now.

Bye-bye, now. Goodbye.
Goodbye, Lynne.

The radio, to me..

..it means a lot.

It was the 1950s when we bought it,

so, yeah, it's been with us
a long, long time.

And...

..I just don't want to get rid
of it.

I want it to be working again.

Now that's a story.

It's one heck of a big story.

It's something which makes
you sort of feel

that you really want to get
it working again.

I would love it to get repaired
cosmetically as sympathetically...

So probably get Steve on these bits.
Yeah.

Everybody's going to be on this one.

So it's over to you to get to get
that working. Thank you very much.

Mark will need to draw upon
a lifetime's passion

and experience in electronics
and radio

to get this very special item
playing again.

Looking at Albert's radio internally
for the very first time,

I can see there are a couple of
things already

which are going to cause
an issue.

One, we have a broken connection on
what looks like the long wave coil.

And I can see there's numerous
components

which will be needed
to be replaced for safety anyway.

So the first thing I've got to do
now, of course,

is get the actual chassis separated
from the external case,

and then this case then can go over
to one of the other experts

to start looking on how they're
going to clean it up.

A mystery item is on its way
to The Repair Shop.

Stefan Ward and his ten-year-old
daughter Jessica

have brought another member of the
family who has seen better days.

Hello. Hello.

Hi. Hello.

Pleased to meet you. Pleased to meet
you. My name's Julie.

Hey, Julie.
Welcome to The Repair Shop. Amanda.

Julie Tatchell and Amanda
Middleditch

are the resident bear repair pair.

Big Ted. Oh. He doesn't look very
big, does he?

At the moment he's looking a bit
sad and sorry,

and needs some tender loving
care, I think.

Oh, my goodness. Oh!

All right, let's go.

So he's obviously empty. He's empty,

and he's been in this bag for about
15 years... Oh, my goodness. Wow.

..in the garage.

THEY LAUGH

Oh, yes. So he is Big Ted.

Yeah, absolutely. Fantastic.

We don't know what type he is. OK.

He was bought by my father in 1963
for my mum,

bought with a pay packet. I think it
was £12 he cost.

So what possessed your dad to...?

Well, I think my mum was 17
at the time,

so they'd just started going out
with each other.

So I think it was a young love,
grandiose gesture

of a great big teddy bear.

How did he get him home?
Ugh, I have no idea.

Oh, you'll have to ask him.

On the bus, probably.

Imagine him walking up the pathway
to see her with this...

Absolutely, absolutely.
..huge teddy.

I used to sit on his lap and read
books when I was a young boy.

You used to...?
Ah, yes, I would read,

or mum and dad would read to me
while I was sitting on his lap.

And then when my mum and dad moved
up to the far north of Scotland,

he came with us and then he was
about to be thrown out,

so I emptied him out, put him
in the bin bag.

I was going to say, how did he
come... And I always said... Yeah.

..to be empty? Well, it was easier
to transport that way,

and, eh, I moved.

And then when I got married
and Jessica came along ten years
ago,

I always said we must get him
repaired.

OK. So you've never actually seen
him...

..as a sort of stuffed fluffy
bear?

No. So you've never given it a
cuddle? No.

What you know might notice, and this
is how we know who he's made by,

cos he's all one. He hasn't
got separate ears.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

And he was made by a company
called Wendy Boston.

And Wendy Boston designed and made
a bear

that could be put through the mangle

and then could be pegged on the
washing line

by its ears.
And they wouldn't fall off.

So if we can manage to get him back
to how he was

or as close as we can, what's
his future?

He'll be Jessica's. Yeah.

Have you got many?
Too many, sometimes.

You can never have too many.

That's just what we say. Oh, I say
that all the time.

Yeah. We're going to need a bigger
car.

I think, maybe. Yeah.
OK. Thank you very much.

Thank you for bringing him to us.
Nice to meet you. Thank you.

Bye. Bye-bye. Bye. Bye.

He's been in that bag for probably
about 15 years.

I was just looking forward
to seeing him brought back to life

and in a condition
that we can use him again.

It's going to be fun to see him
back to full health

and fully stuffed, isn't it,
Jess? Yes.

He's amazing. I love him. Yes.

It's certainly a job. I want to see
him the other way through.

I want to see him
in all his fur-age.

I think we're going to have to clean
all this off... I know.

..before we even attempt that,

otherwise we're just knocking our
heads against a brick wall...

Absolutely. ..because it will all
stick on the outside.

So, what about we start off just
giving him a really good shake?

OK, so how do you propose
we go about this?

I'm going to move to the head... OK.

..we're going to hold the bear,

going to lift about a foot
from the table and then... Go.

Like that!

It's a start, isn't it?
It is a start.

So I think we've shaken
as much as we can.

I think that we are just literally

going to have to get this off
by hand.

They need plenty of space to work
on all six foot of Big Ted,

so Julie and Amanda take him
outside...

..where they can really get
to grips with ridding him

of all his old stuffing and fluff.

I'm quite enjoying this.

I'm just wondering what time
the picnic hamper will arrive.

Nice glass of red.

Prosecco. Prosecco.

With Big Ted's innards as clean
as a whistle,

it's time to turn him the right
way out.

So I'm just going to nip
his original closing seem now.

Now, let's just be careful
as we peel it back.

You ready? Yeah.

It's in really good condition
inside. Yeah.

Come on, Big Ted.

Here he comes.

Oh, wow!

How's he looking?
He is looking great!

Both eyes? Yes?

Yes! Look at that! Look!

He, when clean, is going to be
absolutely stunning...

..and I can see why the family
love him so much. Yeah.

Beautiful.

While Amanda and Julie tussle
with meters of fur outside...

..inside, radio expert Mark has been

meticulously deconstructing and
testing the transistor's components.

So how we doing, Mark?

Yeah, fine. I've now taken this
apart.

I've got to remove some
of the components.

These, we call them capacitors,

and there's about a dozen
or so I'm going to have to replace.

And effectively I'm changing them
for little ones like this.

All right, cool. So what's this one
going to do? Where's that going?

That one's actually going
to be going into here.

I've scraped back already
so I've identified its value.

This says, if you can see it on
there, 0.1 microfarad.

OK. And 0.1 microfarad,
to confuse you, is 100,000 puff.

THEY LAUGH

No, it's not! Yes, it is! Seriously?

100,000 puff? It's 100,000 puff,

and that's 100,000 puff.

What is a puff? It's a fraction...

And this is going to confuse you.

THEY LAUGH

..of a farad.

It's a fraction of a farad?

Come on, you're just winding me up,
ain't you?

So what does 100,000 puff do?

In essence, it's a value
which is being calculated... Yeah.

..to allow certain signals

which you do not want to have at
that part of the circuit.

Well, that made perfect sense to me.

You're going to change it,
basically. Yes. OK.

So you've got a bit of work
to do, then?

I've got a fair amount of work
to do.

All right, well, let me get a case
off you... OK, thank you.

..get started on that. There we go.

Thank you. Enjoy that. I will do.
Um, yeah,

carry on with your 100,000...
100,00 puff. ...puff, yeah.

The capacitors enable the radio
to tune into particular frequencies.

But Mark suspects there's
more to this repair

than simply replacing them.

Now, one weak point of a radio of
this type of design

is in fact the local oscillator.

And the local oscillator is, in
essence, the heart of the radio.

And my gut feeling is that that's
where my fault's going to be.

So the next thing then, really, is
to use an oscilloscope.

And that's something similar to
which you may have seen, say in a
hospital,

which can monitor a heart,

which will then hopefully show me a
waveform.

And there is absolutely nothing.
The oscillator is not functioning.

While Mark continues getting
his waveforms in a twist

trying to diagnose the faulty radio,

gear and cog genius Steve Fletcher

has delved into his stored
bits and bobs.

He wants me to make a new
tuning knob

and I've found lots of components.

A lid off a pot. Various brass bits.

This lamp stand that I'm going
to turn the outside off.

I'm just about to start
the knurling of the lamp stand.

It's going to be the outside
of the tuning knob.

And knurling is basically putting a
texture on a piece of metal,

or anything actually,
just to give it some grip.

That's brilliant. That works
really, really well.

Very, very pleased with that.

Jay's next conscript to team
radio is leather expert Suzie.

Suzie. Me old mukker.
It's the handle.

Doesn't look very healthy,
does it? No.

So what we didn't want to do,

we didn't want to have a brand-new
one on here.

So that will go on there... OK.

..somehow, because this is
from a similar radio. OK.

And as it's from a similar radio,
it's slightly bigger.

Oh, I see. So that's the original.

That one's the donor, which is
slightly too big,

but it does look the part.

Matches perfectly, doesn't it?
It does.

So what you're asking me to do
is retrofit this to this radio?

Yes, please. I want you to work your
magic.

If anybody can, I know you can. OK.

So let's make this one special for
Albert. Yeah, no problem.

Suzie wants to keep as much
of the original handle as possible,

reinforced with parts of
the replacement one,

all backed with a strengthening
piece of leather.

With hand sewing, it is overall a
much better quality finish.

It just takes such a long time.

Mark, meanwhile, has identified
yet another issue

with the circuitry.

So, applying the volt meter against
one of the leads of the transistor,

in reality, I'm expecting to get
a voltage.

It's clearly not there.
It's very, very low.

And if I look very carefully here,

in fact, I can tell that there
is actually a break in the wire

which I didn't initially see.

It's like a "whodunnit?". There's
somebody's done a m*rder

and you're now looking for the
suspect.

In this case, the m*rder - the
transistor has been snuffed out,

there's no voltage present

and I'm going to find the culprit,
the smoking g*n,

and I think I may have found it.

This could be case closed.

As Mark addresses the broken wire...

..then it's time to bring
back the test equipment.

It's trying to pick up,

but I don't think the oscillator's
still functioning right.

There might be another break
somewhere.

No, there's a lot more to do
with this. This is a sick radio.

Next into The Repair Shop are
Nigel and Viv Berge

bringing with them a fragile piece
of family history.

Hello. How are we doing?

How are you? I'm Viv. All right,
Viv. I'm Nigel.

All right, Nigel, I'm Jay. So what
have we got here, then?

We've got an old skeleton clock.
A skeleton clock?

Hold on a minute, then. Steve?
Got a clock over here, mate. OK.

Hello, I'm Steve. Hello!
Steve, nice to meet you. Hello. Viv.

Steve is the resident
clockmaker,

well-versed in anything that ticks.

Oh, my word.

Now, that does look nice.
And that would sit over the top.

That's a really nice looking clock.

So what is the history
behind this, then?

Erm, it was my grandfather's clock.

He was a professional soldier
before the First World w*r.

I think he won it in a race.

OK, right.

He was wounded in the latter
half of the First World w*r.

He got a shell splinter
in his shoulder... Oh.

..and so it completely ruined
his left arm. Right.

And after the w*r he took
up athletics or running... OK.

..to just help with his health
generally. Yeah.

And I understand this was
a prize he won. Wow.

That's a nice prize, though, innit?

When he died, it got passed on
to my father

and he had it for years.

I remember seeing it in his front
room ticking away merrily

on high days and holidays.
Oh, bless.

I used to wind it every Sunday,

and subsequently on his death,
it's come down to me.

So when is the last time you saw
this working then?

15 years ago, 20 years ago.
It's never worked in our house.

It's sat on my shelf in the dining
room where we just look at it.

Well, it's a nice thing to look
at and I think that,

correct me if I'm wrong, Steve,

but it's called a skeleton clock
because it has no body?

That's correct. Yes. Yeah?
That's right.

And you've got the original dome?
That's the original dome.

Which is fantastic. Most of these
get broken.

I'm not even trusted to dust that.
Are you not? No.

You rarely get an original
one so it's nice to see that.

If we can get it working,

it is my intention to pass it on to
my son... Brilliant.

..who's coincidentally, suffered
almost the same injury

as my grandfather did. No?
He's only 30 now,

and three years ago he was involved
in a horrible motorbike accident...

..and he's lost the use of his
left arm. Oh, my word.

So having this handed down to him,

what's that going to mean to him
and you?

Well, I'm hoping it will be a big
inspiration for him

and he's hoping to compete in the
Paralympics in Tokyo in 2020.

Really? All right. That's his
challenge. That's his target.

So is it fair to say that he's got
a fighting spirit

from his grandfather?
Oh, I would think so.

Or great-grandfather, isn't it?
Great-grandfather. Yes, yes.

I can see how much it means to you,
and will mean to him as well.

Yes. Yeah. So you're going to hand
this down to him

and it will be on his mantelpiece...
That's exactly...

..next to his gold medal.

NIGEL LAUGHS

That's the idea.
Listen, thank you... Thank you.

..for bringing it in.
It's a pleasure.

Thank you so much. Thank you.
Bye-bye now. Bye-bye.

It's a sort of... A sign of my
grandfather's courage

in adversity, almost.

And now that my son is in a similar
sort of position,

it's going to be really nice to be
able to pass that on down to him

and give him some sort of
inspiration as well.

This is quite a nice skeleton clock.
It has been well finished.

There's masses of wear.

All right, I'm just going to lay on
its back,

then I can take the main plates off.

This is where we find out
where all the trouble is.

All right, well, that's the one
side.

This is the one thing
that I've been looking... Ugh.

It is as bad as I thought
it was.

This pivot here...

..has worn down to almost nothing.

That means that at any point,

if someone had carried
on using the clock,

this could have given way and it
would have been catastrophic.

It does actually mean that I've got
to set to and re-pivot that.

Which can be quite a tricky job.

The other thing that I've noticed

is that some of the teeth on this
wheel here, this first wheel,

there's a whole section of teeth
that are bent over.

Oh, dear. So there's an awful lot of
work involved in this.

And, yeah, got my work cut
out on this one.

Over on their workbench,

Julie and Amanda have also got their
hands full.

They've cleaned up 55-year-old
Big Ted,

but before they can begin
the many repairs

they must first remove his eyes,

which were rather special for
their time.

So this company were the first
company

that actually patented safety
locking eyes

to make them safer for children.

Up until then, they were glass
and on wire.

They're in two parts...

So you can see the actual screw part
is the pupil of the eye.

Quite ingenious, really,
at the time. Yes, yes.

The company are historic,
I think, in their own right

for actually pioneering this. Mm-hm.

At the moment, we are working
on the main repairs

that Big Ted needs.

I've come across some holes in
Big Ted's fabric...

..and for this one, I'm going to
have to actually patch it.

Hopefully, if he's got enough fluff
still on him

that when we groom him through, that
little bare bit won't show.

"Bear bit".

AMANDA LAUGHS

That's a good one. The bald patch
won't show.

So we've just got to sort of
painstakingly work our way around

the whole of his body, make sure we
haven't missed anything.

And then he'll be all strong again.

I think this is probably the biggest
bear that we've ever worked on.

Jay, meanwhile, has a delivery
for the next stage of the process.

How are we doing, ladies?
Oh, thanks, Jay.

Now this... Brilliant. ..is 20
kilos of stuffing...

BOTH: Yeah.

..and it's heavy.

We don't think this is going
to be enough.

I think we need to get
another one.

Yeah, we may order... What?
Another 20 kilos?

10, I think. So another 10? That is
under pressure in there.

So once this is opened, all of the
stuffing, it just starts to...

..come out? You want to open it,
don't you?

I do want to open it but I'm a bit
worried about it.

It's not going to explode or
anything.

You said that with a smile.
I don't trust you.

It is out favourite bit... Is it?

..when we get a new bale, yes.

It's just going to grow now,
isn't it? Yes. All right.

So this is a polyester filling. OK.

It's clean, it's hygienic, it's safe
stuffing,

and it's the most appropriate thing
nowadays to put back inside Big Ted.

So this has exploded.
Can you still see Amanda?

I can still see you.

But you still want me to order
another 10 kilos?

I think so. Yeah.
Let's be on the safe side.

All right, I'll get ordering.
All right, thanks, Jay.

The final repairs are finessed.

Then it's time to get all six
foot of Big Ted

back to his cuddly self.

It's a mammoth task we've got here.
I know.

We've been looking forward
to doing this, though.

OK, I'm taking my bracelet off

cos I don't want to lose
it in Ted's leg. No.

And together. Ooh. It's going
to be a long day.

I'm just going to go in with my
stuffing stick

and really firm it up and make sure
we've got into all the corners.

We go in with this and twist
like this,

and it gets tighter and tighter and
tighter

until it's nice and firm and it
won't lose its shape.

With the stuffing starting to fill
out Big Ted's nooks and crannies,

it's time to pop his eyes back on.

The eyes are actually quite
small for such a Big Ted.

It's like putting on the fiddliest
pair of earrings, in the dark.

Yes.

THEY LAUGH

Have a feel and see what you think.

Perfect. Well done. OK.

It's been a team effort and taken
days of work

to renovate a beloved 1950s
transistor.

However, it's still radio silence
over an expert Mark's workbench.

It's been quite a game,
this particular one,

because there's been so many faults
with it.

And the aerial has a coil which is
broken

and I cannot locate where
it's broken from,

it's so fine - the wire.

And the only way, now, to resolve
the problem

is to actually replace the whole
unit.

And if I do it right, we will
then have some magic

and may even hear some music in the
air.

Having swapped out the broken aerial
for a donor unit,

Mark reconnects and solders the
wires.

This actually looks very
encouraging.

We've now got a...what we call
sinusoidal waveform,

that is one which is repetitive,
goes up and down.

And that is working well.

Looking at it, I can tell
straight away

it's operating in the long wave
bandwidth.

We have a switch on the radio
for medium wave.

Yeah, look at that. We've actually
have got both functioning

so that now tells me we've got
a good chance

of getting this old lady back into
operation again.

Owner Albert was just 22

when he and his then girlfriend
Eileen bought the radio,

which provided the soundtrack to
their love story for over 50 years.

Daughter Lynne has returned with
him.

I think my Dad's been quite lost
without the radio.

Even though it didn't work before,
it was still in the house

so it was still there.

I'm hoping that when he gets it.
back,

he can listen to it and it'll bring
back memories for him and my mum,

when my mum was there. So, yeah, I
can't wait.

We meet again. How we doing?
Hello, Jay. Hi.

Hello, matey. How you doing? All the
better for seeing you, matey.

Aw, bless you. I really am.
Take a seat.

Nice to see you. Hi, and you.

Hello, there. Pleasure to meet you
again.

So, tell me, what was the radio
like when you brought it in?

I couldn't get it to go.

It was just stood
there for two years.

And hopefully... Hopefully?
So what are you hoping, then?

Fingers crossed. What are you
hoping?

I'm hoping... Yeah? ..it is in
working order.

I want it to play. You ready for it?

ALBERT GASPS

Aw, look at that.

Oh, my God. Look at the dial.

Aw!

ALBERT CRIES

Aw, that is brilliant.

Aw, thank you so much.

No, it's a pleasure. Thank you.

Yes, I'm glad you like it.
One little thing.

We left the toothbrush handles on it
cos I thought that was quite cute,

erm, who repaired it, so it was
quite nice.

Oh, thank you.
I hope you don't mind.

No, no, no, no. It's brilliant.

Look at the handle.

It's like it was when I bought it.

Well, the next test is to show
you if it's working or not.

So... I'm not touching it. You're
not touching it? All right.

Well, I'm going to touch it.

For the big moment, Jay's enlisted
the help of a local radio station.

RADIO PRESENTER: I've got something
just a little bit different

for you now here on Spirit FM.
We've had a request for Albert,

and hopefully this next tune will
bring back a few memories.

This is dedicated to Albert and
Eileen.

# That beauty's often hidden... #

Oh, Eileen.

I can see us dancing at the old
baths.

We used to smooch to this last dance
at baths.

This was the last dance, yeah?
Yeah.

# And every night
I'm thankful. #

That's fantastic.

Ugh, I can't believe it.

It's a pleasure.

Glad we could do it for you.

That is brilliant. Thank you, guys.

Pleasure. Ah, I don't know what to
say.

You don't have to say anything,

you've said everything by the way
you are.

This is absolutely superb.

I never thought this would be
going again. Never.

Mum would be saying now as well,

"Right, you can get your greenhouse
done."

THEY LAUGH

She would. She would. Yeah, exactly.
That's what she'd say.

She was a sl*ve driver,
there's no doubt about that.

She was a brilliant lady. Brilliant
lady. Come here, sir.

It's been a pleasure.
Nice to see you. And you.

Thank you. Cheers.

It's been an absolutely
fantastic ordeal.

I never expected that. Never.

I didn't think he'd be able
to do it.

And it's all nice and clean,
ain't it?

And I've still got my two tooth...my
three toothbrushes.

Yeah. I think just looking at it,

we were like, "Wow."

But then to actually hear
it playing was even better.

He is an absolute genius.

He's made an absolutely superb job.

He wants a damn knighthood, he does.

I'm still shaking now.

I am absolutely over the moon
with it.

Back inside the barn,

clockmaker Steve is cleaning
the brass components

of the ornate Victorian skeleton
clock.

So you can see, even after the
first clean,

how it's come up pretty gleaming.

He can now begin work repairing
the worn pivot

that had caused the clock to stop.

What I'm going to do is
I'm going to cut this off,

drill it and put a new pivot in it.

I'm just going to cut that now.

Now I need to drill it.

There we go. Nice new fresh pivot.

One of the things that I identified
that was wrong in this clock

was that about 30 of the teeth of
this wheel are bent.

What I use is this tool,

it's actually a broken watchmakers
tool,

but it's got a nice taper on it

and that slides into the slots.

And then you can get a tight hold

and just twist the bent teeth
straight.

It's just a matter of going around
all of them, now.

So this is basically doing
a bit of dentistry.

Good, that's straightened out
nicely.

Steve's in his element repairing
this antique timepiece.

But he's going to need help
from his fellow craftsmen

to complete the job.

Will Kirk is the go-to guy
when it comes to wood restoration.

Oh, missing something near there.
Yeah.

And I wonder whether that's
Brenton's field there,

putting that metal inlay in?

Brenton, can you come and have a
look at this?

Could you help by filling in that
inlay, there? Yeah.

It's metal.

Yeah, I can pierce you a new one
of those.

So if I make that... Yeah. ..fit
that and then you can...

Stick it in. ..glue it in when
you're done over here.

Yeah? Sounds like teamwork.

That's quite a complicated design,

so what I've done...

..I've photocopied it and I'm going
to stick it onto a piece of brass

and then I'm going to saw
around all of those little edges.

Silversmith Brenton West
gets to work

carving out the perfect inlay...

..while Will puts his antique
furniture expertise

to good use on the rosewood base.

What I'm doing here is, I'm trying
to match the grain of the wood,

not necessarily the colour.

It's easier for me to match
a new piece of lighter veneer

to a darker area cos then I can
sort of darken the colour down

in order to match it in.

Will glues down the replacement
veneer

and secures it in place
while it dries.

I can be quite liberal with this

cos I'm going to sand the entire
thing over.

So I'm going to let that first
coat of polish dry.

And once it has, then I can go round
with some pigments

and a bit of polish

and start blending in to match
the surrounding veneer.

OK, well, I've sawn the photocopy
out. Great job.

Now, I've left the piece of paper
on top

to stop you scratching it cos that's
polished underneath.

You are very clever. That's upside
down. Brilliant job. Excellent.

Lovely. Thanks a lot, Brenton.
OK, no worries. Cheers.

How we doing, Steve?
Yeah, all right.

You have done a brilliant job here.

It does have a dome that goes
on top of it.

Yeah. That's supposed to be cleaned
as well.

I'm going to help you. All right.
Thank you, sir. That's kind.

Years and years of grime.

Oh. Do you know that sound?
Squeaky clean.

That's a good sound, innit?

There you go, look at that.
Oh, look at that.

Doesn't that come up well?
No, it does.

I think they're going to be proper
happy with that. Absolutely.

Thank you very much. You're more
than welcome. Right.

Be careful now. I will.
Don't drop it. I won't.

Things are rather more horizontal
in the toy repair section.

Right, so you need to get up into
that bit between his ears.

Do you want some more stuffing?
Hold on.

Between his ears. I know, but my
arm's not quite long enough.

Well, I'll help to pull him down
this way,

and you push it up.

Julie and Amanda have been tackling
the mammoth task

of stuffing a previously deflated
Big Ted for the last six hours.

Your bear obsession has literally
got out of control.

Why are you placed on the floor?

Well... Having too much fun over
here, aren't they? Too much fun.

It's not as easy as it looks,
actually.

We've got to get... Here's the hole
to stuff in. Right.

Here's the distance away
from the hole we've got to reach.

Ah, that's what you're doing.

I thought you were just messing
around on the floor.

Look at his eyes as well!

But, of course, Will, your arms
might be longer.

WILL USES BEAR AS PUPPET:
Hello, hello.

THEY LAUGH

Your arms are longer, you're welcome
to... There! Ooh, yeah.

Oh, my gosh! Give him some
stuffing, quick.

It's kind of like trying to birth a
cow, isn't it?

Why didn't we think of someone with
longer arms to begin with?

It's exhausting. Ah!

That's my workout done.
That's your work done.

Erm, this looks really quite
creepy... Aw, no...

..but I'm sure that when it's
finished it's going to look lovely.

Well, if you need us you know
where we are.

Oh, thank you. Thank you.
Yeah, absolutely.

All right, good luck. See ya!

With Big Ted's family due
back to collect him,

there's just enough time

to reinstate his distinguished
features.

Pleased? Yeah. High-five?

I think we need a hug this time.
Yeah, I do. Well done.

Well done.

When owner Stefan brought
Big Ted to the repair shop

he had been in hibernation,
flat-packed for 15 years

and was a shadow of his former
cuddly, colossal self.

Ten-year-old Jessica had never seen
him in all his glory.

But today that's all going to
change,

as she's returned with her dad
to collect him.

Big Ted when we brought him in
was in a terrible state.

I'm just looking forward
to seeing him again

and seeing how he looks

and just bring him back to life so
that Jessica can enjoy him.

Hello! Hello, welcome back.

Hello. How are you? How are you?
Nice to see you again.

Are you excited?

Yes.

The last time I saw him he was flat.

Yes, in a bin bag.
In a bin bag, yeah.

I think we should just let them see,
don't you? Yeah.

Yeah. We won't make you suffer.

BOTH: One, two, three.

Oh, wow! Oh!

Oh, it's amazing.

What do you think?

I can't even talk.

THEY LAUGH

Hello, mate, how you doing?

Oh, he's brilliant.

Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful.

Aw, you're so soft and
cute. Oh, I love you.

I love him. I thought you might.

Good thing you'll be cuddling him
tonight, won't you?

Yeah. That's wonderful. Wonderful.

He looks in great
condition.

Are you happy?

Yes, definitely.
Very, very happy.

I never thought I'd see him again.

Ah, it's brilliant.
Thank you.

BOTH: You're very welcome.

We've enjoyed doing him.

Shall we take him home now? Yeah.

I haven't seen him for so long
so just actually seeing him

for that first time just
blew me away.

I was speechless
and he looked absolutely brand-new.

Are we ready? Up.

THEY LAUGH

I'm going to keep him forever and
ever and ever and ever and ever.

With Big Ted safely on his way home,

Steve's on his final push
with the skeleton clock.

With all the components
cleaned and repaired,

it's time to rebuild the elaborate
mechanism.

After you've done all the work
to a clock like this,

it's really nice to get it back
together

and looking as it should do.

Just make sure all the wheels turn.

Good.

I'm going to pop
the pendulum on.

And all being well, it will tick
away merrily.

There. Beautiful.

With the final pieces in place,

all that's left is for Steve
to reveal his work

to owners Nigel and Viv.

With them is their son Peter,

who's taken a break from his
Paralympic training

to accompany his parents.

You can see how much it means to
him.

It's a very emotional piece
of family history.

I remember listening to the clock
in my grandfather's front room.

It had a very even, deep tone to it.

I think just listening to it
and hearing it again

will bring back an awful lot
of memories.

Hello.

How are you? Good to see you. I'm
fine, thank you, Steve. And you?

Yes, I'm good. Hi, Stephen, nice to
see you again. You too.

My son Peter. Hello.
Nice to meet you. Hi.

Right.

So can you remember how your clock
looked when you brought it in?

Oh, yes. Yeah. It looked, erm,
tired,

I think was the expression I would
use. Yeah, yeah.

Bit's falling off...

It needed some work, didn't it?

So you can remember the clock
as well, then? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

The clocks always been on the
mantelpiece, so... All right, OK.

..something we can look at but
not touch, sort of thing.

Right. OK.

So I'm excited to see what it
looks like in its glory.

OK. Well, look, I'll not keep
you in suspense any longer.

So...

Oh. Oh.

Crikey, that's amazing.

The colour... Can you hear it?

What a job you've done.

It's the colour I can't get over.
It's just sparkling, isn't it?

Look at the badge as well, I've
never even noticed that.

That's gorgeous. And the ribbon.
Yeah.

Dad was always on about getting
some new velvet.

Oh, it's just amazing.

You've just brought it back to life.
The veneer.

You've put...
Oh. You've even got the time right.

THEY LAUGH

That's superb, isn't it?

Wow. You OK?

That dial.

I love it. Yeah.

I think dad and grandfather would be
looking down on you

and thinking, "Job well done."

Thank you.

What have you got planned for it
now?

Where are you going to put it?

Pete here is just about to buy a
house, aren't you?

Yeah, we're looking at houses at the
minute.

And so what I intend to do

as soon as Pete has got a house,

I'm going to present it to Pete and
put it on your mantelpiece.

So that would be the fourth
generation then and...

..it was an inspiration for
grandpa...

..and so hopefully it
will be an inspiration for you

to help with your continued
recovery. Yeah.

Thanks, Dad.

Thank you.

Oh, wow. I didn't know you were
going to...

Oh.

Oh, it's going to be
treasured, that's for sure.

I'd shake your hand, Steven, but
over this side. Yeah.

THEY LAUGH

That's lovely.

When Steve first unveiled the clock,

I couldn't believe what I was
seeing.

After all those years looking
at it from how I'd remembered it,

to seeing what it actually
should be like

just knocked me flat, really.

Just looking at it, it was
just so amazing.

It just didn't look like the same
clock that we brought in.

Well, it was symbolic for my
great-granddad's recovery.

He went on to do good things
in athletics

and it's massively going to spur me
on to doing good things as well

and we have a new house that we're
shortly going to be moving into.

And it's going to take centre
stage, that's for sure.

Join us next time as more precious
items are rescued...

I think with a few more little
tweaks,

this is going to work absolutely
spot on.

..and their cherished memories
restored...

Thank you so much.

..in The Repair Shop.