Draft:David Jason's Great British Inventions

First broadcast on Channel 4 's More4 in the United Kingdom in January 2000, David Jason's Great British Inventions is a 4-part TV series showing a selection of important British inventions and took the audience on a journey to work out how and why they were first thought up. Wise Owl Film was comissioned to film this TV-series. Stuart Ramsay is the series producer and Mark Robinson was the executive producer. Chartered engineer (CEng, MEng) Jude Pullen and starred as David Jason's workshop engineer/'engineering sidekick' and he was created as Prototyping Expert for the series.

Episode 1
Episode 1 looked at the British inventors who played a vital part in the wheel's evolution, from the Penny Farthing to the Stephenson Rocket. David Jason drove down memory lane in a Reliant Regal Supervan.

Episode 2
Episode 2 looked at the works by Sir George Cayley and Percy Pilcher amongst British inventors who played a part in the evolution of flight.

Episode 3
Episode 3 explored on "some of the most extreme machines on the planet" such as tanks (David Jason drove a tank in this episode).

Episode 4
Episode 4 followed the history around the invention of the incandescent light bulb among other British innovations that have transformed people's homes.