Popular Mechanics for Kids (sometimes abbreviated to PMK) was a Canadian children's television series

Children's television series

Children's television series, are commercial television programs designed for, and marketed to children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run in the early evening, for the children that go to school...

 based on Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics is an American magazine first published January 11, 1902 by H. H. Windsor, and has been owned since 1958 by the Hearst Corporation...

magazine. It was notable for starting the careers of both Elisha Cuthbert

Elisha Cuthbert

Elisha Ann Cuthbert is a Canadian film and television actress. Cuthbert is known as the former co-host of the Canadian children's television series Popular Mechanics for Kids. In 1998, she had her first film role in Airspeed. She followed this in 2003 with a role in Old School...

 and Jay Baruchel

Jay Baruchel

Jonathan Adam Saunders "Jay" Baruchel is a Canadian actor. He has had a successful career in comedy films, and has appeared in supporting roles in such box office successes as Million Dollar Baby, Knocked Up and Tropic Thunder, as well as starring in films like She's Out of My League, The Trotsky,...

. The show's purpose was to teach children how things work. It was awarded the Parents Choice Award in 2003, and was nominated for the Gemini Awards many times.

The series aired from 1997 to 2001. Re-runs of the show continued to air on Canadian channel, Global

Global Television Network

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 until 2008, it aired on BBC Kids and Discovery Kids until 2009. Along with Cuthbert and Baruchel, the cast included Charles Powell nicknamed "Charlie" for the series, Vanessa Lengies

Vanessa Lengies

Vanessa Lynne-Marie Lengies is a Canadian actress best known for starring in the drama American Dreams as Roxanne Bojarski...

, and eventually Tyler Kyte

Tyler Kyte

Jonathan Tyler "Ty" Kyte is a Canadian actor and musician. He began his acting career with commercials and performing in the Musical Tommy in Toronto. Kyte was made famous amongst Canadian youth as a correspondent on the Canadian TV series Popular Mechanics for Kids alongside fellow Canadians...

 (who replaced Jay in the second series). After the closure of Discovery Kids Canada, BBC Kids

BBC Kids

BBC Kids is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel owned by Knowledge Network Corporation and BBC Worldwide. It's a commercial-free channel that airs programming aimed at youth ranging from pre-schoolers to teens.-Overview:...

 Canada decided to drop reruns of the show from its programming. It ended on December 31, 2009, and aired in syndication on BBC Kids in Canada only.

The show ended completely May 14th 2011, on BBC Kids

BBC Kids

BBC Kids is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel owned by Knowledge Network Corporation and BBC Worldwide. It's a commercial-free channel that airs programming aimed at youth ranging from pre-schoolers to teens.-Overview:...

 Canada when a new version of BBC Kids

BBC Kids

BBC Kids is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel owned by Knowledge Network Corporation and BBC Worldwide. It's a commercial-free channel that airs programming aimed at youth ranging from pre-schoolers to teens.-Overview:...

 replaced its old version with new shows, and a new schedule. The show was filmed primarily in Montreal

Montreal

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, Quebec

Quebec

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, and is currently distributed on home video/DVD by Koch Vision

Koch Vision

eOne Home Video a division of Entertainment One, was founded in 1999 as part of Koch Entertainment's entry into the television programming and home video market as Koch's rental and sell-through home video division...

.

Sypnosis

The show starts off with hosts, Elisha and Jay (or Tyler) introducing to the viewers to what will be seen throughout the show, breaking the fourth wall. One of the hosts (Elisha, Tyler Jay, or Vanessa) then start their first exploration on the show, (which could involve snowboarding, surfing, motorbiking, going to a circus, hospital, amusement park, even biking). Another host then goes on their exploration. Throughout the first two adventures, short, educational segments are shown. Later, another segment is shown, called Charlie's Experiment/Tip; though it is much longer than the mini segments shown throughout the show. After some more real life examples of the show's topic are shown, the two hosts then conclude the show, saying, "See you next week" and the show ends.

Segments

• Maniac Brainiac
• Cool Tool
• Charlie's Experiment/Tip
• Mechanix with Nix and Tix, later known as just Nix & Tix (it was a mini cartoon segment with a boy named Nix and a dog named Tix)
• Action!
• Coming Up on PMK
• Rewind and Fast Forward
• FACTory
• Under the Hood
• Gear Gutz
• Sparks
• System Error

Episodes

Season		Episodes	Originally aired (Canadian dates)
			Season premiere Season premiere In North America, a season premiere is the first episode of a new season of a given television show. It often airs in September or October, after several months of reruns.-Evaluating the changes:...	Season finale Season finale A season finale is the final episode of a season of a television program...
	1	25
	2	25
	3	20
	4	23

DVD's

A number of DVDs have been released by Koch Vision

Koch Vision

eOne Home Video a division of Entertainment One, was founded in 1999 as part of Koch Entertainment's entry into the television programming and home video market as Koch's rental and sell-through home video division...

 and E1 Entertainment.

• Slither and Slime
• Radical Rockets
• Rip Roaring Rollercoasters and All Access to Fun
• Gators, Dragons and Other Wild Beasts
• Super Sea Creatures and Awesome Ocean Adevntures
• Lightning and Other Forces of Nature
• Popular Mechanics For Kids: 4 DVD Box Set
• Popular Mechanics For Kids: 6 DVD Box Set