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DIY SOS

Specials 2000 - 2023
TV-G

  • 2000-09-13T19:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 1h
  • 23h 51m (24 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
DIY SOS is a British DIY television series made for the BBC. Launched in 1999 after audience figures showed interest in other home make-over shows such as Changing Rooms, DIY SOS is a weekly full builder and designer level renovation of a section of a viewers home, taken on by a team of professionals after a viewers DIY project has gone wrong and not been finished. The series has changed format over the years and now is less of a DIY "How To" show and more of a sitcom with builders. It is the longest running show of its format having been shown for just over 10 years. Some believe it has cult status and even has an active dedicated forum. Nick Knowles and the team issue a call to arms and recruit friends, family and local trades to help transform the homes of families across Britain.

24 episodes

2000-09-13T19:00:00Z

Special 1 Summer Special

Special 1 Summer Special

  • 2000-09-13T19:00:00Z1h

Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team take a trip down memory lane, recalling some of their best renovations, stories, and the funniest moments over the last 10 years. Did DIY SOS truly change people's lives for the better? Join Nick and the team in between jobs on this unique journey through the DIY SOS archives.

What do Nick and the DIY SOS team do in their week off? Join them in between jobs and find out as they show more of their favourite stories from the past ten years. Including the highs, the lows and the funnies.

2002-08-15T19:00:00Z

Special 3 Losers Special

Special 3 Losers Special

  • 2002-08-15T19:00:00Z1h

Nick Knowles and the team face their biggest challenge yet in this DIY SOS Flood special. Since the June floods, there are still many families still trying to renovate their houses back to liveable condition. The team head to Toll Bar, near Doncaster, and take on a foster family's house which found itself deep in water. Plus, they renovate the local club to provide a much-needed space for the people of Toll Bar.

2002-09-21T19:00:00Z

Special 4 Christmas Special

Special 4 Christmas Special

  • 2002-09-21T19:00:00Z1h

Nick Knowles and the team attempt to re-house a family who have spent years in a caravan.

2003-01-01T20:00:00Z

Special 5 Hola DIY SOS

Special 5 Hola DIY SOS

  • 2003-01-01T20:00:00Z1h

The team transforms the life of a family who have spent years living in a building site.

Special 6 Tour de France Special

  • 2004-01-08T20:00:00Z1h

Nick Knowles recruits extra help to renovate a whole house, making it a home.

2004-07-08T19:00:00Z

Special 7 The Italian Job

Special 7 The Italian Job

  • 2004-07-08T19:00:00Z1h

The team transforms an ex-council house in the Welsh Valleys into a family home.

2007-12-27T20:00:00Z

Special 8 Floods Special

Special 8 Floods Special

  • 2007-12-27T20:00:00Z1h

Nick Knowles and the team face their biggest challenge yet in this DIY SOS Flood special. Since the June floods, there are still many families still trying to renovate their houses back to liveable condition. The team head to Toll Bar, near Doncaster, and take on a foster family's house which found itself deep in water. Plus, they renovate the local club to provide a much-needed space for the people of Toll Bar.

Special 9 10 Year Highlights (1)

  • 2009-01-02T20:00:00Z1h

Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team take a trip down memory lane, recalling some of their best renovations, stories, and the funniest moments over the last 10 years. Did DIY SOS truly change people's lives for the better? Join Nick and the team in between jobs on this unique journey through the DIY SOS archives.

Special 10 10 Year Highlights (2)

  • 2009-01-07T20:00:00Z1h

What do Nick and the DIY SOS team do in their week off? Join them in between jobs and find out as they show more of their favourite stories from the past ten years. Including the highs, the lows and the funnies.

Nick Knowles and the team attempt to re-house a family who have spent years in a caravan.

The team travels to Liverpool to completely refurbish Norris Green Youth Centre. The money Children in Need already give to this centre helps it provide activities for young people with few other options. But the building is falling down around them, and without the youth centre the youngsters will have nowhere else to go outside school.

Nick Knowles and the team are joined by guest designer Charlie Luxton. They join forces to enlist the help of the local community in Stoke and renovate a home for a family battling terminal illness. Dad Haydn Spice was diagnosed with abdominal cancer shortly after buying a derelict house at auction in 2004. Haydn's ill health meant that he couldn't work on the house, and his family have been left living in a building site. He and his wife and three daughters are all sleeping in one bedroom and trying to make the best of the time Haydn has left. Nick and the team head to the Midlands to rally friends, family and local trades to help turn the Spice family's derelict house into a comfortable home.

Nick Knowles and DIY SOS team head to Peterborough for their most ambitious build ever. They have just 9 days to build a new centre from scratch for Little Miracles a charity that helps children with additional needs and life limiting conditions. The building is massive on top of which Nick and the boys also have to landscape two-and-a-half acres of grounds. Help comes from across the country to achieve an incredible legacy.

Special 15 Grenfell: Boxing Club

  • 2018-09-05T19:00:00Z1h

Nick Knowles and the team undertake their biggest and longest build yet, constructing two buildings for the Grenfell community over several months to create spaces worth around £2million. With the aid of large construction companies, generous suppliers, volunteers and the Duke of Cambridge - who visits the site - the team starts by building a new home for the Dale Youth Boxing Club. The club started the careers of James DeGale, who won an Olympic gold medal in Beijing 10 years ago, and George Groves, current WBA Super Middleweight champion, as well as producing many national champions.

Nick Knowles and the team attempt to build a two storey flexible use centre, which can be used by the local community however it decides. The team are joined by the Duke of Cambridge, who meets local residents and talks to firefighters who were amongst the first responders on the night of the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower.

Nick Knowles hits the road to catch up with some of the inspirational people and communities the show has helped in its 20-year history. On his travels across the length and breadth of the country, Nick returns to some of the series' biggest and most challenging builds, including Canada Street in Manchester, The Yard in Edinburgh, and DIY SOS's most logistically-difficult and longest build - the construction of the Grenfell Community Centre and Dale Youth Boxing club.

In this special Children in Need edition of the show, Nick Knowles and the team come to the aid of young people who are often overlooked and very much in need of help. A team of experts and volunteers come together to help transform an old church into a new accommodation facility for six young homeless people in Blackburn, ran by local charity Nightsafe.

Prepare for spadefuls of community spirit, bucket loads of tear-jerking moments and the chance to witness Nick Knowles in a wet suit. It’s surf’s up when DIY SOS descends on Caswell Bay, South Wales, to build a stunning surf centre for the BBC Children in Need funded charity, Surfability - the country’s first fully-inclusive surf school, who teach disabled children and young people the joy of surfing.

While the DIY team and hundreds of local trades and volunteers build a state of the art surf centre, Nick and designer Gaby meet disabled youngsters, whose lives have been profoundly affected by lockdown restrictions, who get to experience the unadulterated joy of surfing for the first time.

The DIY SOS team are joined by guest presenter Rhod Gilbert in Brandesburton, near Hull, as they transform an overgrown site into a purpose-built adventure campsite.

The DIY SOS team joins forces with Radio 2 for a Children in Need mega build in Leeds.

2023-08-30T19:00:00Z

Special 22 Strictly Special

Special 22 Strictly Special

  • 2023-08-30T19:00:00Z57m

DIY SOS and Strictly partner up to bring some sparkle to an inclusive performing arts charity in Wallsend, transforming a derelict sports club into a creative home for their young people.

In this Children in Need Special, the DIY SOS team joins forces with Radio 2. Their mission is to transform a derelict site into a safe base for a young women’s charity in Leeds.

2023-12-18T20:00:00Z

Special 24 EastEnders Special

Special 24 EastEnders Special

  • 2023-12-18T20:00:00Z57m

In a heart-warming episode for Christmas, DIY SOS partner with the stars of EastEnders to bring volunteers together to support a mental health community project in Harlow, Essex.

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