All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Lightning

    • April 19, 2015
    • TVNZ 1

    From burning down a house to getting hit with 10,000 volts of electricity, Nigel Latta goes to any extreme all in the interests of science.

  • S01E02 Explosions

    • April 26, 2015
    • TVNZ 1

    Nigel tries out different explosives.

  • S01E03 Weather

    • May 3, 2015
    • TVNZ 1

    Nigel battles the elements as he goes behind the science of extreme weather, taking on torrential rain, hypothermia and hurricane force winds - all in the name of science.

  • S01E04 Car Collisions

    • May 10, 2015
    • TVNZ 1

    In car crash, are you better to trust the science behind a more modern vehicle - or the metal in a large, heavy, older car? Tonight Nigel puts the pedal to the metal to find out.

  • S01E05 Fire

    • May 17, 2015
    • TVNZ 1

    Nigel shows us the science of what it takes to start a fire while experiencing first-hand what it's like to be inside a burning house.

  • S01E06 Space

    • May 24, 2015
    • TVNZ 1

    Nigel is on a mission: to boldly go where no television presenter has gone before. With the help of actual Rocket Scientists Nigel attempts to be the first New Zealander in SPACE.

  • S01E07 Sound

    • May 31, 2015
    • TVNZ 1

    Nigel tries to break the sound barrier, and ends up breaking all kinds of other stuff along the way... all in the name of science.

  • S01E08 Gravity

    • June 6, 2015
    • TVNZ 1

    Nigel takes on Galileo and tests the Law of Gravity by jumping out of a plane with an orange, to see which will hit the ground first.