TV Show Details
Air Date:January 2nd, 1996
Last Air Date:June 27th, 2000
Status:Ended
Genres:Documentary
Original Language:English
Local Heroes (1996-2000)
TV Show
Scripted
StarringAdam Hart-Davis
Plot
Local Heroes is an award-winning science and history television programme in the United Kingdom, presented by Adam Hart-Davis.
Made by Screenhouse Productions and directed by Paul Bader, it was first aired on the ITV regional network Yorkshire Television in 1991. In the show, Adam Hart-Davis, dressed in the pink and yellow cycling clothes that would became the show's trademark, rode around the YTV region on a matching pink and yellow bicycle, stopping in a particular area to tell the stories of scientists that lived or were born there. These stories were embellished by experiments, performed on the street by Hart-Davis, generally using bits of wood and junk from a trailer on his bike.
