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| − | [[The ArchiTECHS]] was a one-episode television show on The History Channel | + | [[The ArchiTECHS]] was a one-episode television show on The History Channel - one of two pilots for a proposed series in which a team of innovators struggle to come up with unique design solutions under a suspenseful time limit. |
| − | The show featured "five geniuses", including author [[David Brin]], TV legend and designer Dave Stollery | + | The show featured "five geniuses", including author-scientist [[David Brin]], TV legend and designer Dave Stollery, visionary artist Tim Flattery and others "in a 48-hour quest to design a better way to escape and fight skyscraper fires." |
| − | + | Promotions for the show had this to say:<b> "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, NY|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 [[issuepedia:9/11|9/11]]..."</b> | |
==Showings== | ==Showings== | ||
Revision as of 06:42, 24 January 2007
Overview
The ArchiTECHS was a one-episode television show on The History Channel - one of two pilots for a proposed series in which a team of innovators struggle to come up with unique design solutions under a suspenseful time limit.
The show featured "five geniuses", including author-scientist David Brin, TV legend and designer Dave Stollery, visionary artist Tim Flattery and others "in a 48-hour quest to design a better way to escape and fight skyscraper fires."
Promotions 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