Smash Lab: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The next generation in destruction instruction, Smash Lab features a team of maverick engineers as they take on everyday technology and apply it in revolutionary new ways. First they break down the technology to see how it works and then use their know-how to see how it could be used in a different, supersized way. Could bulletproof Kevlar protect an airliner from bombs? Could a car airbag be reinvented to stop a helicopter from sinking after ditching at sea? The Smash Lab team aims to find out.

Filmed at their Crash Lab in California, the team puts their ambitious plans to the test and captures them from every camera angle imaginable. Smash Lab is a visual feast of fireballs, explosions, crashes, collapses, collisions and impacts, because sometimes destruction is good for you.

Series details

• Title: Smash Lab
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2007-12-26
• Final broadcast date listed: 2008-09-18
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Discovery
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 1501

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2007-12-26; final listed air date 2008-04-09; episode order: 13.
• Season 2: premiered 2008-08-05; final listed air date 2008-09-18; episode order: 7.

Source and licence

Adapted from Smash Lab on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.