Canada's Worst Driver

★ 6.4 · 2005 · 60m · Comedy · Reality

Canada's Worst Driver is a Canadian television series on Discovery Channel, based on Britain's Worst Driver, and is part of the Worst Driver television franchise. It and sister series Canada's Worst Handyman are the two highest-rated programs on Discovery Channel. The series is produced by Proper Television, whose president, Guy O'Sullivan, was the director for the original Britain's Worst Driver series; as such, Canada's Worst Driver is considered to be the production company's flagship show. Unlike other Worst series around the world, the Canadian version emphasizes the learning process of the contestants and the science of driving, and as such is often more serious than the other Worst shows around the world, which are mainly played for laughs. It is the longest running of any Worst series to date. The series is also aired dubbed in French in Canada, as the Les zéros de conduite on Canal D.

Episodes

▶1. Episode 160m · For the first episode we are introduced to the eight driver's and the people who nominated them for the show. As well as the the team of experts assigned to help make each person a better driver. The challenges included the drive to the Rehab Centre and Stopping.▶2. Episode 260m · In episode two the learning process begins with a challenge on how to handle a car, by using a sunroof and a tank of water. The wetter you were the worse you did. Next challenge was parallel parking with a twist it had to be done with a fire hose simulating rain. The last challenge of the show was night driving through an obstacle course.▶3. Episode 360m · With one driver gone an seven left episode three starts off a little backwards or should I say reverse. Challenge number one of the show is reversing when confronted by a tractor on a one way street. This challenge gives the drivers a jump start on the second challenge of the day which is there knowledge and the mechanics of the 3 point turn. The last challenge is a fun one it’s called “Eye of the Needle”. The contestants have to drive at 60 km/h or above in a straight trying not to hit any boxes on either side of there car.▶4. Episode 460m · With three new challenges and only 5 drivers left the bad are leaving and the terrible are the only ones left. The first challenge makes the drivers drive a big yellow truck backwards through an obstacle course. The second challenge puts Canada’s worst drivers in the passenger seat in a blindfold navigation challenge, where the nominators are force to driver blindfold as the contestants tell them where to go. The last challenge was drive a standard car up a hill without stalling it.▶5. Episode 560m · In this episode of Canada’s worst drivers, the worst drivers have to try to turn the corner. Then, the drivers have experience parking lot chaos and the results are a clumsy ballet of bumps, blows and menacing moves. Is the panel of experts ready to let one of Canada's worst driver go?▶6. Episode 660m · In this episode, the worst drivers must manoeuvre a van, that’s packed full of breakables objects, through an obstacle course. Then, they are given directions to go from point A to point B, and to find their way through a city. Has anyone earned the right to graduate from the Driver’s Rehabilitation Centre in this episode?▶7. Episode 760m · Today, the remaining drivers have to get behind the wheel of a pickup truck and maneuver through an obstacle course.▶8. Episode 860m · In the final episode of this season of Canada's Worst Driver. The remaining drivers have to face the biggest challenge yet -- driving in the streets of Old Montreal. At the end of the episode, Canada's worst driver will be revealed.

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