Ready, Set, Go!

Summary The panel of experts believe this season's crop of bad drivers are the most diverse they've seen yet. The eight participants and their primary driving problems are: Diane Akers, an extremely slow driver who, regardless, is indecisive behind the wheel; Jamie Giberson, an emotional wreck behind the wheel who seeks constant advice when she drives; Brad Hengerer, who hates driving but is now forced to to drive both his currently incapacitated wife and father-in-law to their medical appointments; Lance Morin, a relatively new driver, who is so scared that he often vomits while driving; Dale Pitton, who believes she has hit something on average once a week over her thirty year driving life, often without realizing that she's done so; Scott Schurink, a cocky driver who intentionally flaunts the law, especially drinking and driving, but may want to be a safer driver if only for his infant son; Dean Sibanda, a speed demon with a gangsta wannabe driving style; and Paul Thurston, a motorcycle aficionado who doesn't understand driving any vehicle that has four or more tires. Given a set of directions, their first test with their nominator as their passenger is to drive individually from Hamilton, Ontario to the Driver's Rehabilitation Centre at Dunnville Airport. On that drive, two are stopped by the show's producers, who feel that their driving is so unsafe that they need instead to be driven to the Centre. Once at the Centre, the eight are given a driving assessment test consisting of reversing through a snaking and concrete barriered course and doing a slalom of at least 50 kph. Heeding the desires of viewers who have been dismayed to see vintage vehicles destroyed, the producers instead are using the same fresh off the lot new vehicle, a Camaro, which will be used for at least one driving test each week. Much of the Camaro is already gone by the time the eight have completed their assessment test.

S6.E1 ∙ Ready, Set, Go!

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Andrew Younghusband Cam Woolley Philippe Létourneau Shyamala Kiru

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Genres : Comedy Documentary

Release date : Oct 24, 2010

Countries of origin : Canada

Official sites : Discovery Channel

Language : English

Production companies : Eggplant Picture & Sound Proper Television Inc.

Summary The panel of experts believe this season's crop of bad drivers are the most diverse they've seen yet. The eight participants and their primary driving problems are: Diane Akers, an extremely slow driver who, regardless, is indecisive behind the wheel; Jamie Giberson, an emotional wreck behind the wheel who seeks constant advice when she drives; Brad Hengerer, who hates driving but is now forced to to drive both his currently incapacitated wife and father-in-law to their medical appointments; Lance Morin, a relatively new driver, who is so scared that he often vomits while driving; Dale Pitton, who believes she has hit something on average once a week over her thirty year driving life, often without realizing that she's done so; Scott Schurink, a cocky driver who intentionally flaunts the law, especially drinking and driving, but may want to be a safer driver if only for his infant son; Dean Sibanda, a speed demon with a gangsta wannabe driving style; and Paul Thurston, a motorcycle aficionado who doesn't understand driving any vehicle that has four or more tires. Given a set of directions, their first test with their nominator as their passenger is to drive individually from Hamilton, Ontario to the Driver's Rehabilitation Centre at Dunnville Airport. On that drive, two are stopped by the show's producers, who feel that their driving is so unsafe that they need instead to be driven to the Centre. Once at the Centre, the eight are given a driving assessment test consisting of reversing through a snaking and concrete barriered course and doing a slalom of at least 50 kph. Heeding the desires of viewers who have been dismayed to see vintage vehicles destroyed, the producers instead are using the same fresh off the lot new vehicle, a Camaro, which will be used for at least one driving test each week. Much of the Camaro is already gone by the time the eight have completed their assessment test.

Details

Genres : Comedy Documentary

Release date : Oct 24, 2010

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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