
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.
Seasons
1. Episode 1
Air Date: 1999-10-07
2. Episode 2
Air Date: 1999-10-14
3. Episode 3
Air Date: 1999-10-21
4. Episode 4
Air Date: 1999-10-28
5. Episode 5
Air Date: 1999-11-14
6. Episode 6
Air Date: 1999-11-18
1. Episode 1
Air Date: 2000-03-07
2. Episode 2
Air Date: 2000-03-14
3. Episode 3
Air Date: 2000-03-21
4. Episode 4
Air Date: 2000-03-28
5. Episode 5
Air Date: 2000-04-04
6. Episode 6
Air Date: 2000-04-11
7. Episode 7
Air Date: 2000-04-18
8. Episode 8
Air Date: 2000-04-25
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
Air Date:
1. Bridgwater
Air Date: 2009-04-09
The team is in Bridgwater to help the Robinson family.
2. Frimley
Air Date: 2009-04-16
The team is in Frimley in Camberley to help the Oxford family.
3. Bowled Over in Oxford
Air Date: 2009-04-23
The team are in Oxford to help complete a bungalow extension for the Barker family.
4. Lounging in Bradford
Air Date: 2009-04-30
Nick Knowles and the team are in Bradford to renovate a lounge for Emma and her son Thomas.
5. Caersws
Air Date: 2009-05-07
Nick Knowles and the builders tackle a wreck of a house in Caersws, Wales.
6. Elping out in Essex
Air Date: 2009-05-14
Nick Knowles and the team are called to the rescue of the Curry family in Halstead.
1. Worktop Woes in Watford
Air Date: 2010-06-10
Nick Knowles and the team are in Watford to renovate a kitchen and dining area for a family that needs it to be medically clean. Lucy and husband Mario bought a rundown house that they hoped to renovate into their dream home, but everything changed when their daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The renovation is now on hold, but the need for a clean living space is greater than ever.
2. A Little Luxury in Leamington
Air Date: 2010-05-05
Nick Knowles and the team head to Leamington Spa to help out single parent Kate. Left in a building site by builders her unfinished extension means she's bringing up three children with no heating, no hot water and lots of brick dust.
3. A Home for Howards
Air Date: 2010-05-19
This time they help the Howard family from Kent, who live in a Victorian cottage which has been in the family for generations and has barely changed since it was built. The family's attempt at transforming their kitchen and sitting room have ended in disaster, and the team are drafted in to sort out the mess and create two stunning new rooms for a deserving family.
4. Grandad's Timewarp
Air Date: 2010-05-31
The team find themselves in Kingston-Upon-Thames with grandparents Ray and Linda. The couple have spent the last nine years bringing up their grandchildren after their mother sadly passed away. Twins Nathan and Chelsea, who are now both 14, have grown out of their toy room.
5. Three Rooms for Three Daughters
Air Date: 2010-07-16
The team visit Edmonton, North London, to help the Parenti family. They undertook extension and renovation work on their house four years ago, but a falling out with the builder forced dad Stephen to step in and do it himself, with semi-disastrous consequences.
6. Liz's Bedroom Bedlam
Air Date: 2010-07-23
The team visit Liz and Neil Capper, who live in a beautiful little cottage in Norfolk. It was always Neil who did the DIY and the tough jobs around the house but following several back operations he has been reduced to walking with crutches and can no longer do those difficult tasks.
7. Compilation
Air Date: 2010-08-20
Compilation programme built around a day in the life of Nick Knowles. We revisit two of the great shows from the last series and see how the families are doing today. There is also the usual high quality funnies, Billy explores his talents with the English language, we learn how Julia became one of the lads and we get to go behind the scenes and witness what happens when the cameras aren't rolling.
8. Season 19, Episode 8
Air Date:
1. The Big Build - Chessington
Air Date: 2010-04-15
2. The Big Build - Haydock
Air Date: 2010-07-01
3. The Big Build - Mike's Home
Air Date: 2010-12-30
4. The Big Build - Nottingham
Air Date: 2011-01-06
5. The Big Build - Chippenham
Air Date: 2011-01-26
1. Littlehampton
Air Date: 2010-12-30
2. Nottingham
Air Date: 2011-01-06
3. Chippenham
Air Date: 2011-01-13
1. Aberystwyth
Air Date: 2011-04-13
2. Durham
Air Date: 2011-04-20
3. Stoke-on-Trent
Air Date: 2011-04-27
4. Cirencester
Air Date: 2011-08-02
5. Dartford
Air Date: 2011-08-09
6. Ottery St Mary
Air Date: 2011-08-16
1. Chesterfield
Air Date: 2012-01-10
The team travel to Chesterfield to help Lisa and Richard Watson and their young family.
2. Dolgarrog
Air Date: 2012-01-18
The team travel to Wales to help a widower and his young daughter complete their new home.
3. Enfield
Air Date: 2012-05-16
The team help adapt a home for a sportsman with motor neurone disease.
4. Dumfries
Air Date: 2012-05-23
The team head for the Scottish countryside to repair a rundown cottage.
5. Dudley - West Midlands
Air Date: 2012-05-30
Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team come to the aid of a family in Dudley.
6. Duxford
Air Date: 2012-06-06
Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team travel to Duxford near Cambridge.
7. Huntingdon
Air Date: 2013-01-03
The team go to Huntingdon to transform a house into a home for Julie's supersized family.
8. Worksop
Air Date: 2013-02-13
The team help a growing family whose house extension was put on hold due to redundancy.
9. Fareham
Air Date: 2013-10-08
The team help a family build a single storey extension for their rapidly growing sons.
10. Maidstone
Air Date: 2013-10-15
Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team help a former royal engineer and paratrooper.
1. The Big Build - Kettering
Air Date: 2022-05-10
Midwife Lindsey married ex-Royal Engineer Shaun in 2019. Lindsey had two children from a previous marriage and then had two boys with Shaun. In the summer of 2021, they began to extend their house, with a local builder working with them to put in the foundations, walls and roof, and to get the extension up to first fix. The plan was for Shaun to finish the build himself.
2. The Big Build - Corby
Air Date: 2022-05-17
Jordan Hutchison is an inspirational teenager. He has cerebral palsy and epilepsy, but this has not stopped him defying expectations and raising huge sums of money for charity. He currently lives with his parents, Jackie and Colin, and his siblings at his grandmother's house. He sleeps on an air bed, while the parents share rooms with the younger children. The family home is a shell after a series of building issues meant the family ran out of money with no way of finishing the work.
3. The Big Build - Southmead
Air Date: 2022-05-24
Nick Knowles and the team travel to Southmead in Bristol, where a charity-owned adventure playground known as the Ranch has fallen into disrepair and is now rendered unfit for purpose. However, that is about to change as local volunteers and tradespeople help to reinvigorate the site, creating a recording studio and forest school to sit alongside the playground and keep the kids happy for years to come.
4. The Big Build - Longframlington
Air Date: 2022-05-31
5. The Big Build - Stoke
Air Date: 2022-06-07
6. The Big Build - Charlton Kings
Air Date: 2022-06-14
Nick Knowles and the team are in the Gloucestershire village of Chorlton Kings, where former car mechanic Peter needs help building an extension to the family house for his wife Sarah and daughter Suzanne, who both have a long-term genetic disorder that affects muscle function. Peter also looks after his elder brother Steve. Peter started the work to adapt to everyone's growing needs but the pressure of looking after the family and completing the work has proved too much, and now his own health has taken a turn for the worse.

1. Independence for Isla
Air Date: 2025-10-03
The team are in Leicester to help seven-year-old Isla, who longs for independence. Everything must be made bespoke, and fitting it all in will be a huge challenge.

2. Dan and Anna's New Start
Air Date: 2025-10-10
In South Wales, Nick and the team help Dan and Anna after a freak accident. Now a wheelchair user, Dan needs his home transformed to support his rehab and his goal to walk again.

3. Rafi's Road to Recovery
Air Date: 2025-10-17
Eight-year-old Rafi was left with brain damage after falling seriously ill. Now he is home after a year in hospital, but his house isn’t suitable - the family needs the team’s help.

4. Scott Siblings' New Chapter
Air Date: 2025-10-24
In south London, Nick and the team help five siblings who recently lost their mum. The two oldest, Somer and Samuel, are doing their best, but the family is struggling in a cramped home.

5. Gladiators Special
Air Date: 2025-12-30
Nick Knowles and the team, joined by the Gladiators, build a new youth club in Beverley – giving local young people a warm, safe place to call their own.
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Rating
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Release Date
1999-10-07
Episodes
122 (34 seasons)
Status
Returning Series
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