James May's Man Lab

In this first episode, from the Man Lab HQ, the team build a functional, if not beautiful kitchen area before setting up a miniature railway delivery system within the lab. James shows us how to diffuse a WWII bomb and the way to melt an ice maiden’s heart through the lost art of serenading. Comedian Alexander Armstrong also pops in to take on the challenge of beating his personal best time for assembling flat-pack furniture. Please note, this version may differ slightly from the UK TX version.

James devises an ingenious way to rescue any Man Labber caught short of toilet paper. The team also works together to construct a bar, that despite some dodgy measurements, serves a proper pint. Outside HQ, James uses a variety of unorthodox methods to navigate across the English Channel without a sat nav, before settling a parking dispute the old fashioned way – with a duel. This time the celebrity guest is John Sergeant, who goes against the clock to change a car wheel. Please note, this version may differ slightly from the UK TX version.

In the last show of Series 1, Outnumbered star Hugh Dennis takes on a wallpapering challenge, the Man Lab orchestra prepares for its debut concert at famous London church St Martin-in-the-Fields, and with the experts build their own cinema, complete with popcorn and a Wurlitzer organ. The team also constructs a sky rocket, two men settle a 25-year-old quarrel by dueling sabres, and James uses modern technology to help a man on a first date. Please note, this version may differ slightly from the UK TX version.

A handcuffed James and Oz Clarke break out of Dartmoor prison and must navigate their way across the treacherous moors, with trackers in hot pursuit and just an Ordnance Survey map and a compass to help them. James also builds a genuine slate-bed pool table, turns his hand to portrait painting, and squares up to one of the most terrifying scenarios the modern male can face – how to remember people’s names at a party. Please note, this version may differ slightly from the UK TX version.

James and the team reunite a teenage rock band, now middle aged, and get them to play their first concert in 20 years - in front of 5,000 unsuspecting festival goers. James also demonstrates his own axe skills as he fells a tree, makes toilet paper out of Richard Hammond’s autobiography, and learns how to tame his fears by going on a good old-fashioned ghost hunt in one of Britain’s most haunted castles. Please note, this version may differ slightly from the UK TX version.

James takes to the catwalk to liberate men from the tyranny of fashion and promote the one item of clothing they’ll ever need: a cunningly modified boiler suit. He also does his bit for the British space project by sending the ashes of a cat and a budgie 100,000 feet into the stratosphere, re-forms some impractical kitchen items into the perfect lemon squeezer in his very own foundry, and teaches Man Lab’s musically-challenged males how to cheat at playing the guitar. Please note, this version may differ slightly from the UK TX version.