Local Heroes (1996) is a documentary web series in English. On New MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Local Heroes online in HD.
Local Heroes — Storyline
Local Heroes is an award-winning science and history television programme in the United Kingdom, presented by Adam Hart-Davis.
Made by Screenhouse Productions and directed by Paul Bader, it was first aired on the ITV regional network Yorkshire Television in 1991. In the show, Adam Hart-Davis, dressed in the pink and yellow cycling clothes that would became the show's trademark, rode around the YTV region on a matching pink and yellow bicycle, stopping in a particular area to tell the stories of scientists that lived or were born there. These stories were embellished by experiments, performed on the street by Hart-Davis, generally using bits of wood and junk from a trailer on his bike.
Cast & Crew
- Starring: Adam Hart-Davis
Local Heroes — Series Details
| First Air Date | 1996-01-02 |
| Seasons | 5 |
| Episodes | 42 |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Language | English |
| Status | Ended |
Local Heroes — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: South West (1996-01-02) — Tonight, he travels to Bristol and the south west of England where he pays tribute to the woman who invented a bed with built-in exerciser and a breakfast maker. He also discovers
- E2: South (1996-01-09) — Tonight, Adam's journey takes him south, and in Chard, Somerset he recreates the world's first powered flight – which was made 50 years before the Wright brothers by John Stringfel
- E3: Scotland (1996-01-16) — Tonight, Adam's journey takes him to Scotland, and includes the story of Neville Maskelyne, the man who weighed all the planets of the solar system from a bothy on a Perthshire mou
- E4: Midlands (1996-01-23) — Tonight's stories of pioneering scientists and inventors come from the Midlands. Host Adam Hart-Davis investigates the Lunar Society of Birmingham, known as "lunaticks".
Its membe
- E5: Northern Ireland (1996-01-30) — Tonight's stories of pioneering scientists and inventors come from Northern Ireland. Host Adam Hart-Davis discovers that the pneumatic tyre, invented by Belfast vet John Boyd Dunlo
- E6: North West (1996-02-06) — The last in the series about pioneering scientists and inventors comes from the north west of England. Host Adam Hart-Davis discovers the connection between botany and Wordsworth t
Season 2
- E1: Devon (1997-01-06) — Adam begins his search in Devon where he discusses the work of great British engineering innovators, such as Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Henry Moule and Thomas Savery. He also looks a
- E2: Scotland (1997-01-13) — Adam Hart-Davis goes in search of pioneers of science and invention in Scotland. He investigates the achievements of Alexander Bain, Charles Macintosh, James Clerk Maxwell, the Rev
- E3: East (1997-01-20) — Hart-Davis's journey around the country takes him to Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk. En route he re-creates a treadmill invented by William Hase for the punishment of prisoners, and ma
- E4: North East (1997-01-27) — In Tyne and Wear Adam Hart-Davis re-creates the device conceived by Whitley Bay's Gladstone Adams. Travelling home from the FA Cup final, Adams had to fold down his windscreen in o
- E5: Wales (1997-02-03) — On a visit to Wales cycling scientist Adam Hart-Davis gets bogged down on the road to Holyhead. Fortunately, one of his heroes is the great road builder Thomas Telford, so Hart-Dav
- E6: South East (1997-02-10) — Cycling scientist Adam Hart-Davis visits London, where he re-creates a device invented by Hertha Ayrton to clear trenches of poison gas during the First World War. On the Thames he
- E7: Science Week Special (1997-03-20)
- E8: Exploding Heroes (1997-10-31)
Season 3
- E1: Devon and Cornwall (1998-03-02) — First of an eight-part series in which Adam Hart-Davis cycles around the country in search of the unsung heroes of science.
He visits south-west England, where his subjects includ
- E2: London (1998-03-09) — Adam Hart-Davis cycles around the country in search of the unsung heroes of science.
This week he visits London, where he builds his own submarine to illustrate the achievements o
- E3: Egypt (1998-03-16) — In the first of two programmes to mark Science Week, Adam Hart-Davis travels to Egypt in search of the earliest heroes of science. Using a drinks can and a stove, he recreates Hero
- E4: Sicily (1998-03-19) — In the second programme for Science Week that traces the origins of modern science,
Adam Hart-Davis visits southern Italy, home to the greatest scientists of the ancient world.
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- E5: South (1998-03-23) — Adam Hart-Davis continues his search for unsung heroes of science when he cycles around the south of England. On a stop-off in Surrey, he uses a tin of tuna to explain the physics
- E6: Ireland (1998-03-26) — Adam Hart-Davis cycles around Ireland to rediscover some scientific milestones. He looks at how John Tyndall found the sky was blue, how Charles Parsons used a telescope to see spi
- E7: N & W Birmingham (1998-03-30) — Adam Hart-Davis searches for unsung heroes of science on a trip to the Potteries, Staffordshire. Using a few pipes, a ribbon and an air pump, he demonstrates the early ideas for a
- E8: North West (1998-04-06) — Adam Hart-Davis takes a ferry across the Mersey to celebrate the work of the North West's unsung heroes of science in the last of the current series.
He relives his childhood love
- E9: South of England (1998-09-07) — Adam Hart Davis begins another cycling tour in search of more tales of pioneering inventors in an eight-part fourth series.
Hart-Davis begins by exploding balloons of hydrogen and
- E10: Edinburgh (1998-09-14) — This week Hart-Davis makes the journey to Elgin, re-creating the moment when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and to the site where James Watt carried out his work on
- E11: The Netherlands (1998-09-21) — In Delft, Hart-Davis profiles the draper who was the first person to see bacteria through a microscope and the book-keeper whose gravity experiments predated Galileo's by four year
- E12: North of England (1998-09-28) — Adam Hart-Davis recalls William Sturgeon's inventing the electric motor and James Nasmyth's steam hammer; he also sees Joseph Paxton's inspiration for Crystal Palace and looks at t
- E13: Gloucestershire (1998-10-05) — Adam Hart-Davis recalls the work of Edwin Beard Budding, who invented the lawnmower, and focuses on William Henry Fox Talbot, the father of modern photography. Plus James Bradley,
- E14: Heroines (1998-10-12)
- E15: East Midlands (1998-10-19) — Adam Hart-Davis cycles to Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire to find out about this week's heroes. They include Frank Whittle, who invented the jet engine, and Robert Bakewell, the
- E16: West of Scotland (1998-10-26) — Adam Hart-Davis concludes the series by visiting western Scotland. There he learns about John Logie Baird, inventor of the television, Lord Kelvin, who established absolute zero, a
Season 4
- E1: Episode 1 (1999-07-05) — Adam Hart-Davis gets on his bike for another six-part series searching for tales of scientific discovery. This week he reveals the heroes of Bath, Stroud, Dorset and the New Forest
- E2: East of Scotland (1999-07-12) — Adam Hart-Davis's cycling tour of Britain takes him to Scotland, where he visits St Andrews to see how backspin helps a golf ball defy gravity and Stonehaven, home of the inventor
- E3: North of England (1999-07-19) — Adam Hart-Davis's cycling tour of Britain takes him this week to Yorkshire, where he visits Leeds Bridge, site of the first motion picture by Louis Le Prince.
He also uncovers the
- E4: London (1999-07-26) — Adam Hart-Davis visits London as he salutes more pioneers of science. He sees how Brunei tunnelled under the Thames, discovers the inventor of the vacuum cleaner, and follows the t
- E5: North of England (1999-08-02) — Adam Hart-Davis celebrates more pioneers of science, this week in Yorkshire and Lancashire, where he uncovers the steelmaking process that put Sheffield on the map, re-creates the
- E6: Royal Institution Special (1999-08-09) — In the last programme of the series, Adam Hart-Davis celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Royal Institution – made famous by pioneering scientists Michael Faraday and Humphry Da
Season 5
- E1: London (2000-05-16) — Cycling boffin Adam Hart-Davis pedals around Britain for a six-part sixth series, hunting out unsung pioneers of scientific ideas. London is the first destination, where he investi
- E2: Episode 2 (2000-05-23) — Adam Hart-Davis continues his bicycle tour of Britain with a visit to England's south coast, where he celebrates the construction of Brighton's West Pier, the work of biologist Tho
- E3: Episode 3 (2000-05-30) — Adam Hart-Davis stops off in Yorkshire as he continues his celebration of unsung scientists. In Whitby, he lauds whaling scientist William Scoresby before taking to sea in a soggy
- E4: Nobel Prize Winners (2000-06-06) — In an edition devoted to celebrating Britons who have won the Nobel Prize, Adam Hart-Davis lauds John Cockcroft's work on splitting the atom and Dorothy Hodgkin's discovery of the
- E5: Episode 5 (2000-06-13) — Adam Hart-Davis sets his sights further afield with a trip to Italy, where he ascends the Leaning Tower of Pisa in a bid to reproduce Galileo's groundbreaking demonstration of grav
- E6: East Midlands (2000-06-27) — In the last instalment of the series, viewers get the chance to show off their ideas for hovercraft, ice lenses, scientific musical instruments and bar-snack separators – all respo
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does Local Heroes have? 5 season(s) with 42 episodes.
Where can I watch Local Heroes? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.
