Basic Training

Summary This year's Driver's Rehabilitation Centre takes contestants onto an unnamed military base. The eight participants and their primary driving problems are: Mike Butt, a junk car collector whose driving reflects that he doesn't care what else happens to his junkers; Melissa Cook, whose biggest driving problem may be the constant barrage of verbal abuse thrown at her by her primary passenger, her common-law husband and nominator, Wil; Crystal Farao, who is more concerned about lighting cigarettes and dealing with her cell phone while behind the wheel than actually driving; Father Giles Joly, whose life mantra is slow and slower; Jojo Kopty, who is aggressive at all cost and who does not seem to care about the financial consequences of her bad driving since everything is paid for by her parents; Angelina Marcantognini, an emotional and self-absorbed woman, whose preoccupation with herself affects the amount of attention she pays to the actual act of driving; Jakob Poirer a punk rocker whose driving is an extension of that punk rock lifestyle; and Arun Suryanarayanan, a self-taught driver who never really learned the proper rules and safety tenets of driving. Given a set of directions, their first test with their nominator as their passenger is to drive individually to the Driver's Rehabilitation Centre. On that drive, most display the reason why they are in the running to be named Canada's Worst Driver. Their second test is to drive a precision course, which is to provide the panel of experts an overall assessment of the participants' driving skills, or lack thereof. The test is even more intimidating in that they are given to drive a brand new Rolls Royce Silver Shadow II, which no one wants to scratch or dent. Those participants who thought they were good drivers are humbled by this challenge. After all have completed this assessment test, the panel conclude that these eight are probably the worst drivers collectively from the first five years of the show.

S5.E1 ∙ Basic Training

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Andrew Younghusband Cam Woolley Philippe Létourneau Shyamala Kiru

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Genres : Comedy Documentary

Release date : Oct 25, 2009

Countries of origin : Canada

Official sites : Discovery Channel

Language : English

Production companies : Eggplant Picture & Sound Proper Television Inc.

Summary This year's Driver's Rehabilitation Centre takes contestants onto an unnamed military base. The eight participants and their primary driving problems are: Mike Butt, a junk car collector whose driving reflects that he doesn't care what else happens to his junkers; Melissa Cook, whose biggest driving problem may be the constant barrage of verbal abuse thrown at her by her primary passenger, her common-law husband and nominator, Wil; Crystal Farao, who is more concerned about lighting cigarettes and dealing with her cell phone while behind the wheel than actually driving; Father Giles Joly, whose life mantra is slow and slower; Jojo Kopty, who is aggressive at all cost and who does not seem to care about the financial consequences of her bad driving since everything is paid for by her parents; Angelina Marcantognini, an emotional and self-absorbed woman, whose preoccupation with herself affects the amount of attention she pays to the actual act of driving; Jakob Poirer a punk rocker whose driving is an extension of that punk rock lifestyle; and Arun Suryanarayanan, a self-taught driver who never really learned the proper rules and safety tenets of driving. Given a set of directions, their first test with their nominator as their passenger is to drive individually to the Driver's Rehabilitation Centre. On that drive, most display the reason why they are in the running to be named Canada's Worst Driver. Their second test is to drive a precision course, which is to provide the panel of experts an overall assessment of the participants' driving skills, or lack thereof. The test is even more intimidating in that they are given to drive a brand new Rolls Royce Silver Shadow II, which no one wants to scratch or dent. Those participants who thought they were good drivers are humbled by this challenge. After all have completed this assessment test, the panel conclude that these eight are probably the worst drivers collectively from the first five years of the show.

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Genres : Comedy Documentary

Release date : Oct 25, 2009

Countries of origin : Canada

Official sites : Discovery Channel

Language : English

Production companies : Eggplant Picture & Sound Proper Television Inc.

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In the Diplomatic Service

In the Diplomatic Service

Dick Stansbury chooses a life of travel and pleasure rather than a more useful career. He returns from three years of foreign travel. His uncle, Major Blaine, interests him in a bold breach of ethics made by one of the foreign diplomats, Doctor Montell, but as yet nothing has been proved against the doctor, as he knows all the men in the Secret Service in Washington. Dick met him abroad, and Major Blaine persuades him to undertake the task of Doctor Montell's unmasking. Beverly Ryerson has a friend, an eccentric young authoress, Helen Wardlow, who is disgusted because, she says, there is no more originality in life. Beverly assures her that such is not the case. Dick, Beverly, Doctor Montell, Helen, Mrs. Ryerson, Beverly's step-mother, and her nephew, Lyna Hardi, who is loaning her money to pay her bridge debts, and who in return demands that she aid his cause with Beverly, are all at the Diplomats' Ball. Dick and Dr. Montell interest the girls and they induce Mrs. Ryerson to invite the men to a party at her country-house. Dick seizes the opportunity to ensnare the doctor in a plot that will prove his deceptions against the government. Dick has invented a "machine gun," supposed to fire a bomb that will burst anywhere within several hundred feet of an airship, asphyxiating the pilot and passengers with poisonous gas. He brings the model of the gun with him to the house-party, and takes care to talk about his invention where Montell can overhear him. He is soon approached by Montell with a proposition to deceive his own government, and sell the model to a foreign nation. Dick asks for time to consider the offer. Montell is determined to have the invention at once, and Hardi attempts to steal it for him, but is prevented by a Secret Service man. His reason for this move is that in trying to discredit big rival he has told Beverly that Dick is a traitor to his country. He has arranged for Beverly to overhear Dr. Montell and Dick talking about the invention. Though Dick has so far refused to sell, she fears he may succumb to the doctor's inducements, and to save him Beverly surreptitiously takes the model to her own room, though it is soon returned to Dick by one of his detectives. Montell and two accomplices then try to steal the model. Dick has been warned of their approach. He extends a wire from one of the house-lights to the model, and gets the janitor to operate a magneto at a signal. When the three malefactors step on a wet rug with the machine, they are held fast by the sudden shock of the electricity and caught by Dick. The ignominious recall of Dr. Montell by his own country is inevitable. Dick spares Hardi, since he has plotted against him only as a rival, not against him as a representative of the foreign government. In order to clear Beverly's mind of any possible doubt as to his loyalty to the nation, Dick next day asks her to accompany him to a junk dealer, to whom he offers his "wonderful invention." The junk-dealer finally consents to give him twenty-five cents for it. Out of sentiment, however, Beverly buys it back for $25. A happy denouement follows, and Helen, having found ample material for a plot, types busily away on her new story.

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