Discovery Channel HD Tuesday

How tissues, travel trailers, slippers and motorcycle helmets are made, and how manufacturing processes have developed over the years

A look the manufacturing processes involved in making rolling luggage, croissants and u-locks

Pete Nelson makes his daughter the perfect housewarming gift - a treehouse that uses a piece of family history to create a Moroccan-style hideaway

Pete Nelson constructs a clubhouse for a summer camp for children battling cancer, creating an open-air treehouse that grants campers full interaction with nature

Kevin recoils when Parker shows up to collect his money. Parker discovers a wash plant is losing gold. Mike puts new recruits through bootcamp

Fires threaten to shut down one of Parker's claims. Rick decides if he'll move back to Vegas Valley. Tony loses big money fighting a wash plant issue

A couple heads to Arkansas with their kids to build a mountain getaway. The family will have to work together to get the job done in severe weather

A Las Vegas couple and their son leave the city and head to southern Utah to build a modern A-frame. They face strong winds and challenging terrain

Dr Jeff and Petra train new vets at a wildlife sanctuary in Mexico. While there, they spay an endangered jaguar, and help an injured osprey

Dr Jeff performs a surgery he has never done before on a dog with laboured breathing. Dr Baier saves some neglected ornate box turtles

The production of police badges, rum, car washes and pressure gauges, and how their manufacture has changed with technology

The manufacture of metal detectors, rum, reproduction Tiffany lamps and aircraft engines, and how technology has changed their production methods

How ride-on lawnmowers, popcorn, adjustable beds and cultured diamonds are manufactured

Examining the manufacture of airstream trailers, horseradish sauce, industrial steam boilers and deodorant

The Raneys are in Maine to help a couple whose homestead is overrun with boglands. They build structures to help with the brutal winters

Mike Brewer gets his hands on a valuable 1995 Ford Escort RS Cosworth, hoping new mechanic Ant Anstead can restore the 227hp engine's famous 'fizz'

Mike Brewer plans to capitalise on 1980s nostalgia by restoring an original 1982 Toyota Supra, and Ant Anstead works to bring this 35-year-old car into the modern era

Sig and Sophia score some hybrid crab, but a tank imbalance risks capsizing the Northwestern. The Time Bandit crew races incoming ice to get OJ home.

As Hurricane Harvey hits Texas with 130 mph winds and record rainfall, civilians risk their lives to save others in one of the costliest US disasters.

Josh Gates studies the vanishing of the 16th-century inhabitants of Roanoke, the purported discovery of the city of Sodom, and Stonehenge's secrets

The Bering Sea threatens to claim Sig and Wild Bill's gear unless they can beat the rapidly freezing waters. Rip takes on a massive amount of extra quota

Sig and Sophia score some hybrid crab, but a tank imbalance risks capsizing the Northwestern. The Time Bandit crew races incoming ice to get OJ home.

As Hurricane Harvey hits Texas with 130 mph winds and record rainfall, civilians risk their lives to save others in one of the costliest US disasters.

Sean continues his search for the boulder that marks the gold patch he found last summer. In need of a new plan, Emily asks Sean for permission to dredge the Bluff.

It's a holiday extravaganza! Presented with Secret Santa gifts, Richard, Mike and Howard bring their backwoods skills to distil the cheeriest Christmas spirit

Buying goods from home

Buying goods from home

A look at how prams, wood flutes, bicycle tyres and factory-built homes are made

A look at how items such as wagon wheels, violin bows and thinning shears are made, and how processes have been enhanced over time