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Monster House is a Discovery Channel television program that documented the themed remodeling of a residence in a five-day time frame. In 2004, the episode "Zen House" was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music for its opening song by composer Dan Mackenzie. In early 2006, Discovery Channel announced the show had been canceled and the final episode, titled "Farewell House", aired in February. Monster House is now running in reruns in 2012 on Spike TV.
Smash Lab was a reality television series that premiered on December 26, 2007, on the Discovery Channel. The idea of the show is to take everyday technology and test it in "extraordinary ways."
In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust, and ran without gasoline... Ten years later, these cars were destroyed.
A sequel to 2006's Who Killed the Electric Car?, director Chris Paine once again looks at electric vehicles. Where in the last film electric cars were dismissed as uneconomical and unreliable, and were under multiple attacks from government, the auto industry, and from energy companies who didn't want them to succeed, this film chronicles, in the light of new changes in technology, the world economy, and the auto industry itself, the race - from both major car companies like Ford and Nissan, and from new rising upstarts like Tesla - to bring a practical consumer EV to market.
Big! is a TV series in which an episode consists of a team of engineers manufacturing the world's biggest items for the sake of setting world records. The devices have to function to qualify. The series originally aired on Discovery Channel in 2004. It is currently airing on The Science Channel weekday mornings.
In an old lightbulb factory in LA, Reverend Gadget converts classic cars into powerful electric vehicles. A mad-scientist, real-life Doc Brown, Gadget is saving the planet, one car at a time.
