Richard Hammond's Big - Season 1

Season 1

Episodes

World's Biggest Car Factory
Richard explores Volkswagen's giant car plant in Wolfsburg, Germany. He checks out its futuristic technology and discovers how this mega-factory works!

Super Galaxy Plane
Richard takes flight aboard the US Air Force's biggest cargo plane: The C-5M Super Galaxy. Climbing inside its inner workings he learns why it's a record breaker.

Austria's Mega Dam
Richard explores one of the world's biggest man-made engineering projects: the Kölnbrein Dam, which can hold back an incredible 200 million tonnes of water!

Mega Ship
Richard joins the crew of one of the biggest moving objects on earth, the Marie Maersk container ship, on her continuous 28,000-mile voyage from Asia to Europe.

World's Longest Railway Tunnel
In this edition, Richard ventures beneath the Alps into the world's longest underground railway connection, the Brenner Base Tunnel.

Super Stadium
Richard visits the huge Tottenham Hotspur Football Stadium in London, where he explores a pitch that splits and rolls away, and takes a terrifying walk on the stadium roof.

Tallest Building On Earth
Richard visits the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, where he finds himself climbing the biggest lightening conductor on earth.

Gulf Oil Platform
Richard takes a helicopter ride out to one of the most remote places on earth: the Appomattox production platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

Mankind's Biggest Builds
Richard explores elements that engineering projects have in common. And, he reveals how the challenges get bigger when something is built big!
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