Dick and Dom reveal the genius of Archimedes, the ancient Greek mathematician and expert engineer, and bring one his most brilliant inventions to life, with some explosive results.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, and inspired by his ideas, come up with their own genius idea, involving a small doll, a huge helium balloon and a journey in to space.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of Sir Isaac Newton, one of the greatest scientists of all time and come up with their own genius idea, when they attempt to defy the laws of gravity by riding the Wall of Death.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of Michael Faraday, a pioneer of electricity and come up with their own genius idea, involving a cage, and almost a million volts of electricity.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of Delia Derbyshire, a pioneer of modern-day music who helped create the Doctor Who theme tune, and record their own version of the Doctor Who theme tune with a twist.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the man who invented London's giant sewer system, and come up with their own genius idea to demonstrate the explosive power of poo.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of Scottish inventor and engineer James Watt, who revolutionised steam technology, and come up with their own genius idea, when they build and race a steam powered tandem bike.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of food expert Elsie Widdowson, who helped to devise war time rationing, and come up with their own genius idea, involving some rations, some army cadets and a gruelling assault course.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of artist and inventor Leonardo Da Vinci and bring one of Da Vinci's boldest inventions to life, involving a tank, a medieval army, and some rotten tomatoes.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of engineer extraordinaire Isambard Kingdom Brunel and come up with their own genius idea, which involves climbing to the top of one of the tallest bridges in the world.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of the Wright Brothers, the men behind the first ever powered and controlled flight. Inspired by the Wright Brothers, they come up with their own genius idea, which involves a terrifying flight in a stunt plan.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of Alexander Fleming, the man who discovered penicillin. Inspired by Fleming's discovery, they come up with their own genius idea, which involves an attempt to turn billions of germs into priceless works of art.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, the man behind wireless communication. Inspired by Marconi, Dick and Dom come up with their own genius idea, which involves Dick taking to the skies in hang glider for an extreme radio broadcast.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of Karl Benz, the man behind the first petrol-powered car. Inspired by Benz, the duo then come up with their own genius idea, when they build and race their own cars.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of astronomer Caroline Herschel, the first woman to spot one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system - a comet. Inspired by her genius, they come up with their own genius idea when they make their own comet-inspired action movie.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of Al-Jazari, an ancient engineer who built mind-blowing machines that were designed to entertain and impress everyone who saw them. Influenced by Al-Jazari, Dick and Dom come up with their own genius idea, when they build their own Al-Jazari inspired robot.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of Charles Darwin and explore the theory of evolution. Inspired by Darwin's genius ideas, they come up with their own genius idea when take the plunge and go face-to-face with one of the most perfectly evolved predators on the planet - a terrifying shark!
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of Alan Turing, World War II codebreaker and the man behind the modern-day computer. Inspired by Turing's genius, Dick and Dom come up with their own genius idea, when they use the power of computers to put on a spectacular fireworks display.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of Marie Curie, one of the most famous female scientists of all time. Inspired by Curie's genius ideas, they come up with one of their own - an exploding shed.
Dick and Dom reveal the genius of Fox Talbot, a pioneer of photography. Inspired by him, they come up with their own genius idea when they turn a bin into a giant pinhole camera.
Dick and Dom continue their quest to explore the geniuses who have changed our lives. This series, they look to tech geniuses, starting with three people who pioneered space travel - including a trip to NASA and a meeting with the man who put a rover on Mars!
In this episode, Dick and Dom get to meet our companions of the future: robots! They reveal three geniuses who have shaped the science of robotics before throwing away all common sense to create a demolition droid of their own...
Dick and Dom reveal another three geniuses - this time, people whose ideas have changed the way we play. The boys get to ride a real hoverboard and drive a full-sized remote-controlled car
In this episode, Dick and Dom look at how communications technology has changed over the years - including how a film star's war-winning idea led directly to that staple of the modern world, Wi-Fi.
Dick and Dom explore the world of human augmentation... can technology give us superhuman powers?
Dick and Dom look at the geniuses whose ideas have changed travel and explore how people might travel in the future.
Our intrepid adventurers travel back through time to show us their favourite innovations - technology that's changed how our homes work.
Dick and Dom put the finalists of the Absolute Tech Genius contest through their paces.
Dick and Dom don their hard hats and head underground to reveal the three tunnelling geniuses whose ideas revolutionised the way we dig deep below the earth.
Dick and Dom head to New York to piece together the genius ideas that have seen buildings soar to incredible heights.
Dick and Dom go head to head with the fiercest forces in nature as they enter the genius world of engineering against floods, wind and earthquakes. They head to the Netherlands to see how one of the world's great coastal defences keeps the sea at bay, find a suitably hair-raising method to put earthquake proofing to the test and tackle gale-force winds in their bid to storm-proof their most precious possessions.
Dick and Dom go super-sized in this massive movers spectacular in which they trace the origins of the genius ideas that have made shifting heavy weights a whole lot easier. In their element, the boys head to a scrapyard to find out how hydraulic grabbers work, get up close to one of the weirdest looking aircraft ever built and get to grips, literally, with the world's largest hydraulic hand.
Dick and Dom's quest takes them into the frazzling, windy and fast-flowing world of renewable energy. Heading deep into the searing Nevada desert, the pair discover how the sun's energy could keep the world powered forever, at the iconic Hoover Dam, they uncover the genius behind how a vast lake can generate epic amounts of power, before they put all they've learnt to the test with their own suitably wacky take on a power station.
Dick and Dom are under attack in this high-octane tour through defensive engineering. The boys delve into the work of three geniuses whose ideas have given us impregnable castles, reinforced concrete bunkers and may one day protect planet Earth from asteroid attack! To top things off, they head to the seaside for a mega-sized game of smash the sandcastle.
Dick and Dom turn their attention to the incredible world of monster bridges, tracing the genius ideas that have taken us from ancient Roman arches to elegant cable-stayed suspension spans, to a future where we may see bridges 3D-printed by robots. In their challenge, the boys join the Royal Engineers for an army bridge-build race... complete with a severe dressing-down for the loser.
Dick and Dom sample all the fun of the fair in this thrill-ride through the engineering genius of roller coasters and water slides. As well as learning how coasters somehow stay on the track when upside down, the boys don their swim shorts and bravely research the science behind the world's fastest waterslides. Then they put their theories to the test with an epic slide challenge which attempts to topple a record owned by a certain Usain Bolt.
Dick and Dom look at the amazing people who had a genius idea which has helped shaped the world we live in. From Archimedes to Faraday, Dick and Dom explore the work of the most important inventors and scientists in history and are inspired to come up with their own genius idea at the end of each show, such as attempting to defy the laws of gravity by riding The Wall of Death, to recording their own version of the Doctor Who theme tune with a twist, to even attempting a journey into space involving a Diddy Dom doll, a tracking device and a helium balloon the size of a house. (BBC 2 primary school compendium drawn from individual episodes)
