DIY SOS

DIY SOS

DIY SOS is a British DIY television series made for the BBC, presented by Nick Knowles. The first episode was broadcast on 7 October 1999 and the show is still airing today. As well as being a DIY programme it also features comic relief from the cast.

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Seasons

8. Bradford

Air Date: 2003-03-06

Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team help Wayne and Susan, a couple in Bradford, move out of their boat into a house.

1. Cardiff

Air Date: 2004-01-15

Nick Knowles and the team's first mission is in Cardiff, where a couple's lounge is virtually uninhabitable. Meanwhile new recruit Kate Mclntyre introduces three DIY challenged families hoping to win the viewers' sympathy.

2. Stratford-upon-Avon

Air Date: 2004-01-22

Stratford-upon-Avon throws up some unfinished loft bedrooms for Nick Knowles. Plus, Kate Mcintyre has three more household catastrophes vying for the viewers' vote.

3. Cheltenham

Air Date: 2004-01-29

The team havejust four days to build a kitchen from scratch in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. But with all their sneaky trips to a nearby health spa, will they finish on time?

4. Pembrokeshire

Air Date: 2004-02-05

Nick Knowles and the home-improvement healers call on a Pembrokeshire family who still haven't completed a renovation they started 25 years ago, and Kate Mclntyre meets three more Dl Yers hoping to win viewers' sympathy.

5. Caernarfon

Air Date: 2004-02-12

Thomas Christy's attempts to transform a disused shop into a home have left the place in danger of collapsing. And with a baby on the way, his wife Rachel's patience is wearing thin. Enter Nick and the team to put things right.

6. Woking

Air Date: 2004-02-19

When Daniel Carty , a construction consultant, began work on converting a former railway cottage in Surrey into a modern home, his wife had every faith in him. But many busy weekends have passed, baby Bradley has arrived and the lounge/diner has yet to be started. Cue Nick and the team.

7. Cheltenham

Air Date: 2004-02-26

Nick Knowles and the team have just four days to build a handmade kitchen from scratch for DIY-challenged Debbie Robins in Cheltenham. With Kate Mclntyre.

8. Derby

Air Date: 2004-03-10

In Derby, the team assist on a project to restore a Victorian terraced house - at one time divided into bedsits to its former glory.

1. Stockport

Air Date: 2004-07-15

Assist decorating tutor Ian renovate his new home

2. West Midlands

Air Date: 2004-07-22

Revamp the bedroom of 14-year-old Andrew, son of widowed Maggie

3. Sussex

Air Date: 2004-07-29

Renovate the kitchen of recent divorcee Chris, who is hampered by a back injury

4. Farnborough, Hampshire

Air Date: 2004-08-05

Create a bedroom for widow Susie, who has been sharing her 14 year old daughters bedroom for a decade.

5. Bristol

Air Date: 2004-08-12

Complete David and Sara's self-build home, a project hampered by planning issues, builder walkouts and money troubles

6. Cardiff

Air Date: 2004-08-19

Finish the improvements to Scott and Gemma's house, made necessary after Gemma suffered a brain tumour, the project having been started by Scott himself.

8. Italian Job Special

Air Date: 2004-07-08

An hour long special, assisting expats in Lake Como, Italy. Extend John and Kay's house in Tolentino and create a nursery for Ben and Lisa.

1. Glasgow

Air Date: 2005-03-16

Nick Knowles and the team visit the Glasgow home of Margaret and her extended family. They help to speed up a loft conversion.

2. Torquay

Air Date: 2005-03-23

Complete Lesley and Mark's open plan living area in Torquay. A beautiful kitchen transformation using plain white units, topped with a spectacular dark granite surface.

3. Fleetwood

Air Date: 2005-04-06

Complete a bedroom loft conversion for the son of an oil rig worker in Fleetwood.

4. Preston

Air Date: 2005-04-13

Rescue Angela and Steve's living room, left with a sagging ceiling and collapsed chimney breast by builder Steve's own efforts

5. Hexagon House, Brecon

Air Date: 2005-04-20

Rescue Laurence's self-build project, begun 20 years ago but recently struck by fire.

6. Cumbernauld

Air Date: 2005-04-27

Finish a lounge in a couple's new home.

7. Manchester

Air Date: 2005-05-04

Complete the conversion of Keith and Torsten's three storey house from bedsits back into one single home.

8. Leeds

Air Date: 2005-05-11

Finish French expat Odile's kitchen

1. Cheltenham

Air Date: 2005-07-28

In dire need of TLC, a community centre in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, gets a visit from Nick Knowles and the team. The centre has a great football team, but the clubhouse is in such a state that they're reluctant to invite other teams to play. We also meet families pleading for the show's help.

2. Pembrokeshire

Air Date: 2005-08-04

Two-year-old Mia Phillips from Pembrokeshire suffers from cystic fibrosis. She needs constant care, and as a result her bedroom is crammed full of daunting medical paraphernalia. Parents Merrilee and Chris want to build a separate play area for their daughter. Cue Nick Knowles and his team of trusty workmen.

3. Newbury

Air Date: 2005-08-11

An incomplete extension means that Elsie and Duncan Pinches have put up with a kitchen lacking any natural daylight for 13 years. Nick Knowles and the team set to work on bringing a ray of sunshine into that dingy space. At the same time, they treat the couple to a dazzling new country-style kitchen.

4. Northfleet

Air Date: 2005-08-18

Faced with a pricey housing market, Kate and Craig settled for a property that hadn't been worked on since the 1930s. It turned out to be a money pit, and with the couple's savings gone, work ground to a halt. Enter Nick Knowles and the team to transform a tired lounge-diner into a modern space with an art deco twist. But will it suit a potential new arrival?

5. Hartlepool

Air Date: 2005-08-25

Daniel and Eve Luke bought a big old house divided into flats with the plan of converting it back into a beautiful home for their family. A year later the house still has no proper bathroom. Can Nick Knowles and the team realise Eve's dream of a hot bath?

6. Rushden

Air Date: 2005-09-12

With five kids, single mum Sarah has no time for DIY, but her family desperately needs a dining area. Cue Nick Knowles with an African-themed design.

7. Tisbury

Air Date: 2005-09-19

A kitchen needs to be fitted in a week at a house in Tisbury, Wiltshire for a stressed-out couple.

8. Bath

Air Date: 2005-09-26

The team enlist the help of the Navy to turn an empty shell of a building into an indoor education centre at Bath City Farm. With Nick Knowles.

1. Rushden

Air Date: 2006-05-01

Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles. The team are in Rushden to help rescue the Wiggett family who are stuck in a vicious DIY circle.

2. Eastbourne

Air Date: 2006-05-08

Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles. The team are on a mission in Eastbourne to help rescue Kim Dack, a teacher and single mother-of-three.

3. Bolsover

Air Date: 2006-05-15

Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles. The team are in Bolsover to help a couple convert a difficult loft space into a room for their young son.

4. Cleethorpes

Air Date: 2006-05-22

Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles. The team help Vanessa Ronson, as the kitchen in her Victorian house in Cleethorpes currently resembles a building site.

5. Gloucester

Air Date: 2006-05-29

Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles and co. The team visit Gloucester to help rescue 16-year-old Amy and 12-year-old Nick from their mum's hapless attempts at DIY.

6. Yarm

Air Date: 2006-06-05

Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles and co. The team visit Yarm, where they give a helping hand with an unfinished bathroom to Shahzad and Waheeda Ismail.

7. East Harling

Air Date: 2006-06-29

Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles. The team visit Norfolk to help Carl and Michelle Moorhouse convert a garage into an ideal room for their six-year-old son.

8. Warrington

Air Date: 2006-07-03

Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles and co. The team visit a young family in Warrington and help them with their home improvement problems.

9. South Wales

Air Date: 2006-07-20

Home improvement problems remedied by Nick Knowles. The team help Angie and Paul Bowles create a county-style lounge down on their farm in South Wales.

10. Ipswich

Air Date: 2006-07-27

Home improvement problems remedied by Nick Knowles. The team visit Ipswich to help Jason and Toni Meekings, who have been transforming their three bed house into something bigger.

1. Fishguard

Air Date: 2006-11-08

In this edition they are on a mission in Fishguard to help a worn out Mum and Dad of quadruplets renovate her bedroom and en-suite bathroomm so she can have the occasional half hour to remind herself that she is still human.

2. Swindon

Air Date: 2006-11-22

The team are in Swindon to try and turn Michelle Lovell's life around by finishing the renovation of her lounge.

3. Crawley

Air Date: 2006-11-20

The team are in Crawley to help brothers Daniel and Adam renovate their kitchen/diner.

4. Navenby

Air Date: 2006-12-06

Nick Knowles and the building team are in Navenby to help Maaike Zaan and John Heather complete the renovation to their disused telephone exchange.

5. Grays

Air Date: 2006-12-13

The team are in Grays, Essex to help busy paramedic Tina Freear renovate her lounge/dining room.

6. Manchester

Air Date: 2007-02-26

The team is in Manchester to help remedy the DIY disaster created by Kevin Vaughton after he tried to enlarge his kitchen.

7. Pembroke Dock

Air Date: 2007-01-08

The team are in Pembroke Dock to help supersize a tiny family bathroom

8. Clevedon

Air Date: 2007-04-09

The team are in in Clevedon to help transform an extension into a funky lounge.

1. Southampton

Air Date: 2007-07-13

Nick Knowles and the team save a family from their bare brick lounge.

2. Ipswich

Air Date: 2007-07-20

The team travel to Ipswich to help a single mother-of-two out of her DIY disaster.

3. Liverpool

Air Date: 2007-07-27

Nick Knowles and the team are in Liverpool to renovate a garage into a child's playroom.

4. Nottingham

Air Date: 2007-08-03

Nick Knowles and his team help the Erasmus family from Nottingham complete their kitchen.

5. Rossendale

Air Date: 2007-08-10

Nick Knowles and the team help a couple in Rossendale, Lancashire.

6. Chelmsford

Air Date: 2007-08-17

Nick Knowles and his team help the Erasmus family from Nottingham complete their kitchen.

7. Chelmsford

Air Date: 2007-08-24

Do-it-yourself challenges. Nick Knowles and the team are in Chelmsford to give Karen and her family the kitchen of their dreams.

8. Epsom

Air Date: 2007-09-19

Nick Knowles and the team are in Epsom in Surrey. Dee Wilson unselfishly always put her family first as well as holiding down a high pressure job.

1. Ramsgate

Air Date: 2007-11-05

Create a Victorian reception room for Sharon and Steve so they can renew their wedding vows in it.

2. Nottingham

Air Date: 2007-11-19

Complete a bathroom extension for Mark and Vicky, made necessary by their eight-year-old son's brain tumour which has confined him to a wheelchair; they had begun the work themselves, but a flood caused by a burst water pipe set the project back.

3. Swansea

Air Date: 2008-06-27

Completion of a children's bedroom and play area for the Harris family; the project having been begun by the family themselves, but was set back after a leaking sewer flooded the house.

4. Stoke-on-Trent

Air Date: 2008-08-01

Finish an open-plan kitchen-diner for the Harris family, made necessary by their youngest daughter's medical condition which means she cannot be left unattended; the family had begun the project themselves, but work had not progressed beyond knowing down the dividing wall.

5. Surrey

Air Date: 2008-08-08

Convert a bachelor's river boat into a more suitable family friendly environment, allowing his girlfriend who lives two hours away to move in.

6. Willenhall

Air Date: 2008-08-15

Complete the conversion of a garage into a kitchen for Paul and Pauline, made necessary by their growing family, now numbering six children including a daughter with Down's syndrome and twins with learning difficulties; they had begun the project themselves, but ran out of money.

1. Lymington

Air Date: 2008-08-22

2. Sheffield

Air Date: 2008-08-29

3. Wigan

Air Date: 2008-09-05

4. Essex

Air Date: 2008-09-12

In Essex, the Taylors need to turn their garage into a wheelchair-friendly downstairs bathroom for window cleaner Kerry following an accident.

5. Gosport

Air Date: 2008-09-19

6. Kent

Air Date: 2008-09-26

7. Romford

Air Date: 2008-10-03

In Romford, the Morris family want to turn their loft into a space that will give Sharon's autistic 17-year-old son some independence.

8. West Brom

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Rating

0.0/10

Release Date

1999-10-07

Episodes

116 (17 seasons)

Status

Returning Series

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