TV Tonight: Click, Click

(TV Tonight, Friday, January 8th, 2010) As always we get a slew of reruns and one new How It’s Made on the excitement that is the retractable ballpoint pen (the mechanism is quite cool when you study it).

All times are central

• Holmes on Homes: Stone Walled (HGTV, 5:00 pm)
• How Do They Do It: ski slopes, car production (Science, 5:00 pm)
• How Do They Do It: airbus, fire engines, ketchup (Science, 5:30 pm)
• Modern Marvels: Copper (History, 6:00 pm)
• How Do They Do It: airbags, ice rinks, mattresses (Science, 6:00 pm)
• Ask This Old House: Increasing Water Pressure, Transplanting a Bush (DIY, 6:30 pm)
• How Do They Do It: armored cars, elevators, cheese (Science, 6:30 pm)
• Top Gear: Season 11 Ep. 4 (BBC America, 7:00 pm)
• How It’s Made: Automotive Fuel Pumps, Cricket Bats, Change Machines, Ductile Iron Pipe (Science, 7:00 pm)
• How It’s Made: Airstream Trailers, Horseradish, Industrial Steam Boilers (Science, 7:30 pm)
• How It’s Made: Retractable ballpoint pens, solar salt, tubas (Science, 8:00 pm) NEW
• How It’s Made: Graphite Pencil Leads, Clarinets, Special Effects (Science, 8:30 pm)
• Disaster House: Driveway Disaster (DIY, 9:00 pm)
• Extreme Loggers: Swamp Logging (Discovery, 9:00 pm)
• Cool Tools: Home Building (DIY, 9:30 pm)
• Deconstruction: Home Building (DIY, 10:30 pm)