Restoration Village

Season 3 - Restoration Village

• Season 3 Episode 9: Live Final Griff Rhys Jones, Marianne Suhr and Ptolemy Dean host the grand final from the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in Sussex, as viewers are invited to cast their vote for the building they think most deserves to be restored. The team offer a rundown of the eight finalists and talk to the campaigners, before announcing the winner at the end of the show. Last in series
• Season 3 Episode 8: EPISODE: 8 The contenders from the north of England are reviewed, before presenter Griff Rhys Jones reveals the project that will go through to Sunday's final, as well as the most popular runner-up. Both buildings will be in with a chance to receive the funds they desperately need to return them to their former glory
• Season 3 Episode 7: North Griff Rhys Jones examines three possible candidates for renovation from the North of England, including a mill in the Yorkshire Dales which, with its groundbreaking Victorian water wheel, was producing electricity 30 years before the creation of the national grid. Plans are in motion to repair its turbine, allowing the generation of clean, pollution-free power once more. Sheffield Manor Lodge once imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, but has since fallen into ruins. If chosen for restoration, the tu…
• Season 3 Episode 6: Northern Ireland Fiona Shaw, Dermot Murnaghan and Antony Gormley present their cases for restoring Lissan House, an Irish country home in Cookstown, Herdmans Mill in Sion Mills, a vast flax-spinning complex built in 1835, and Belfast's Crescent Arts Centre, which is in a rundown state and decaying fast. Viewers vote on the building they would like to see saved and Griff Rhys Jones announces the result of the poll at the end of the programme
• Season 3 Episode 5: Wales (2004) Griff Rhys Jones, Ptolemy Dean and Marianne Suhr explore historical sites in Wales. They discover a Carmarthenshire farmhouse that played host to Oliver Cromwell, a village institute on Anglesey built by one of Britain's most eminent shopkeepers in Victorian times, and a workship complex found in the Snowdonia quarry that yielded one of the world's most important materials - Welsh slate
• Season 3 Episode 4: Scotland New series. Griff Rhys Jones returns to save more dilapidated buildings from the ravages of time, beginning by exploring three Scottish structures. Portencross Castle is a 14th-century fortress with ties to the early Scottish kings, but now it's impressive barrel-vaulted ceiling is in danger of collapsing. Knockando Wool Mill in Speyside is one of the last three of its kind in Europe, and a charitable trust intends to turn it into a museum and training centre. Finally, Clestrain Hall in Orkney i…
• Season 3 Episode 3: Midlands/East Anglia The team tour East Anglia and the Midlands in search of properties they think deserve refurbishment. They select a 150-year-old blacksmith and wheelwright workshop complete with all its original tools, a medieval Lincolnshire church which played a role in the English Civil War, and a Norfolk village school near the secret air base used to house Britain's first airships
• Season 3 Episode 2: South West (2003) Griff Rhys Jones visits the south west where he examines three buildings under threat. Cornwall's industrial past is brought to life by South Caradon Mine, a hidden staircase is one of the many features of Sherborne House in Dorset, and Castle House stands as a testament to one Victorian builder's passion for concrete - but which of them will win the viewers' vote?
• Season 3 Episode 1: South East (2004) Griff Rhys Jones examines three buildings in the south east hoping to be rescued from dereliction. In the Kent village of Charing stands the Grade 1 listed Archbishop's Palace, boasting one of the earliest examples of a medieval great hall. Over in Twickenham, there's a fragile 18th-century house with interiors made of papier mache and wood which are at serious risk of collapsing, while Severndroog Castle on the summit of London's Shooter Hill offers stunning views across the south east of Londo…

Season 2 - Restoration Village

• Season 2 Episode 1: Midlands Griff Rhys Jones assesses possible candidates in the Midlands, including Bawdsey Transmitter Block, where radar was first devised, Newstead Abbey, once the home of Lord Byron, and two medieval buildings in Kings Norton - the old grammar school and the Saracen's Head. Ptolemy Dean and Marianne Suhr offer expert opinions on the buildings before the phone lines open and viewers get to place their votes

Season 1 - Restoration Village

• Season 1 Episode 4: North West Griff Rhys Jones presents a new series in which celebrities nominate their favourite crumbling architectural treasures in the hope of winning the chance for their chosen building to be restored : but the final decision is down to a viewers' vote. The journey begins in the North West, where Loyd Grossman, Richard E Grant and Martin Bell put forward the cases for Bank Hall in Bretherton, the art nouveau Victoria Baths in Manchester and Brackenhill Tower in Carlisle
• Season 1 Episode 3: North East Properties in the North East of England are put under the spotlight as three celebrities vie for their favourite to receive a new lease of life. Kate Adie tries to persuade viewers to vote for Ravensworth Castle, Michael Wood drums up votes for a World War Two PoW camp in Harperley and Rachel de Thame is determined to secure a place in the final for a glasshouse in the grounds of Wentworth Castle. Griff Rhys Jones presents
• Season 1 Episode 1: East Griff Rhys Jones visits Greyfriars Tower in Norfolk, Coalhouse Fort in Thurrock and Moulton's Windmill, in a campaign to find and restore one of the nation's most endangered buildings. Viewers cast their votes at the end of the episode and Griff will announce the winner from the battlements of the Tower of London

Season Special - Restoration Village

• Season Special : The Final Griff Rhys Jones presents the live grand final from the Tower of London, joining Marianne Suhr and Ptolemy Dean to revisit each of the final 10 buildings to remind viewers of their unique architectural value, while celebrities champion their individual causes in a last attempt to gain vital votes from the public. At the end of the evening Griff announces the winner : which building will be restored to its former glory? The finalists are Victoria Baths, Greyfriars Tower, Mavisbank, Poltimore Hous…
• Season Special : Live Final Rpt Another chance to see the grand final from the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in Sussex, as viewers voted for the building they most wanted to see restored. Griff Rhys Jones, Marianne Suhr and Ptolemy Dean offer a rundown of the eight finalists and talk to the campaigners, before announcing the winner at the end of the show. Last in series
• Season Special : Update Griff Rhys Jones takes another look at the seven buildings that have made it to the final, along with the highest-scoring runner-up. Which will follow the example of Manchester's Victoria Baths and claim a much-needed facelift?

Episodes - Restoration Village

• Scottish Highlands Ben Fogle, Arabella Weir and Fiona Bruce make their case for restoring dilapidated properties in the Scottish Highlands, comprising one of the last remaining Shetland crofts, Kinloch Castle on Rum and a TB sanatorium in Aberdeenshire. Viewers vote on the building they would like to see saved and Griff Rhys Jones will announce the result of the poll in a later show
• Scottish Lowlands Kirsty Wark, Michael Portillo and Steve Punt present their cases for restoring Mavisbank in Edinburgh, one of Scotland's earliest neo-classical buildings, the Lino Works in Kirkcaldy, thought to be the oldest purpose-built factory in the world, and the Britannia Music Hall in Glasgow, where Stan Laurel made his comic debut in 1906. Viewers vote on the building they would like to see saved and Griff Rhys Jones announces the result of the poll at the end of the programme