The ArchiTECHS

Overview

The ArchiTECHS was a one-episode television show on The History Channel. Information is scarce at this point, but it appears that the channel may have been considering producing a series under the same name.

The show featured "five geniuses", including author David Brin, "in a 48-hour quest to design a better way to escape and fight skyscraper fires."

Promotional literature for the show had this to say: "Five geniuses are challenged: innovate fire rescue and evacuation tools for skyscraper disasters... and do it in 48 hours! Watch a small team of designers and visionaries form a high-tech think tank, racing the clock to shape bold, over-the-horizon designs for the future. With unprecedented cooperation from New York's regional fire departments, episode #1 culminates in a dramatic presentation to Former FDNY Commissioner Thomas Von Essen, one of the heroes of 9/11..."

Showings

• Premiere (2006-10-11 23:00): Wednesday, October 11 at 11:00 PM
• Repeat (2006-10-12 23:00): October 12 at 3 AM & October 14 at 11:00 AM

Discussion

• Architechs Show thread on History Channel forums
  • Note that a search of the History Channel web site will not find this page; WTF?

A DVD of the show appears to be ambiguously for sale on the History Channel (A&E) site at: http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=75873

Another Pilot Episode was filmed half a year earlier, at the U.S. Army National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, California, where a somewhet different and larger team of "geniuses" were charged (by 4 star General Paul Kern) with the task for "designing the next humvee." Result? A super badass concept vehicle. It is unclear, as of January 2007, whether there are any plans to show that episode or offer it on DVD.

CAST OF THE FIREFIGHTING EPISODE: David Brin,Tim Flattery, David Stollery, Jim Tucci, and Andrew Thompson

CAST OF THE HUMVEE EPISODE: David Brin,Tim Flattery, Adam Rogers, Alexander Rose, Noah Shachtman, David Stollery, Reiuchert von Wolfsheild

Produced by Mod3 Productions: http://mod3productions.com/ Danny Gold, Mathew Asner, Larry Herbst

Links

• 2006-10-10 ArchiTechs: terrific!... and other news: Brin comments on the preview
• 2006-10-11 Watch David Brin on The ArchiTechs Oct.11, 2006: announcement at Futurist.com

Reference

• IMDB