Mighty Machines
television series
Mighty Machines is a Canadian educational children's television series. The series is about how machines work and what they do. The show premiered in October 1994 on Family Channel. 39 episodes over three seasons were produced.
Format
Each Mighty Machines episode focuses on a specific type of heavy equipment or work environment. The machines talk to the viewers. Documentary footage of actual machines in action doing their day-to-day work is presented with voiceovers of the machines addressing the viewers. The audience is invited to follow the machines during a typical day. The machines explain their abilities and duties in detail over the course of the episode. The machines talk to each other too.
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