1994 – 2008
Mighty Machines is a Canadian educational children's television series that teaches about machines and how they work. The show premiered in 1994 airing 39 episodes over three seasons in 1994, 2004, and 2008.
Summary
Each Mighty Machines episode focuses on a specific type of heavy equipment or work environment. Machines talk to viewers on screen to explain their jobs. Documentary footage of actual machines in action doing their day-to-day work is presented with voiceovers of the machines addressing the viewers. The children in the audience are invited to follow the machines during a typical day. They explain their abilities and their duties in detail over the course of the episode. Each machine is given its own personality and they often hold conversations with one another as they work. Unlike most documentary-style shows, there is no external narrator.
All of season 1 episodes were done in two formats for the airing: 22-minute full episodes and five-minute excerpts for use as filler.
Sound Effects Used
- Hollywoodedge, Crash Train Car Mix PE111601 (Heard once in "At The Demolition Site".)
- Hollywoodedge, Doppler Horn By LeftT PE079801
- Hollywoodedge, Large Splash Or DiveW PE127101 (Heard once in "In The Harbour".)
- Sound Ideas, AIRPLANE, SINGLE PROP - CESSNA: EXTERNAL: PASS BY 01
- Sound Ideas, BIRD, LOON - COMMON LOON: SINGLE CALL, ANIMAL 01 (Heard twice in "In The Harbor".)
- Sound Ideas, BIRD, LOON - COMMON LOON: SINGLE CALL, ANIMAL 03 (Heard once in "In The Harbor".)
- Sound Ideas, BIRD, LOON - COMMON LOON: SINGLE CALL, ANIMAL 04 (Heard once in "In The Harbor".)
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, HORN - TAXI HORN, SINGLE HONK (Used as the transition sound effect when a vehicle drives across the screen in some episodes.)
- Sound Ideas, INDUSTRY, HYDRAULIC - ELECTRIC HYDRAULIC MACHINE: UP FULL, FACTORY (Heard once in "At The Fire Hall".)
- Sound Ideas, SIREN - 'WAIL' SIREN, POLICE, AMBULANCE, FIRE TRUCK 01 (Heard in "At The Fire Hall"; US Disney release only.)
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, FREIGHT - CROSSING BELLS, PASS BY WITH HORN (Heard once in "At The Train Yard".)
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, PASSENGER - EXTERNAL: APPROACH, PASS BY LEFT TO RIGHT, FAST SPEED (Heard once in "At The Train Yard".)
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, STEAM - WHISTLE, DISTANT, LONG BLAST 02 (Heard once in "At The Train Yard".)
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, STEAM - WHISTLE, MANY BLASTS, CLOSE UP (Heard once in "At The Train Yard".)