Click: 2016
Season 17 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Click Season 16.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 17 Progress Shield
01/01/2016
Jan 1, 2016 · 30 min
The second of two shows highlighting the best bits from 2015. Including reports from Africa, Asia and USA on new ideas for drones, phones, and rollercoasters.
09/01/2016
Jan 9, 2016 · 30 min
Click is at the world's largest electronics show, CES in Las Vegas. The latest gadgets from the show include VR headsets, drones and fitness trackers.
16/01/2016
Jan 16, 2016 · 30 min
Click visits Hyperloop Technologies in Nevada and LA - is Elon Musk's futuristic transportation concept feasible? Includes world tech news and a robotic cat!
23/01/2016
Jan 23, 2016 · 30 min
A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, games and computer industry news. Click visits San Francisco and looks at how 3D printing could be about to change our lives.
30/01/2016
Jan 30, 2016 · 30 min
Click looks at the possibilities of gadgets that biodegrade for use inside and outside the body and visits London's first drone film festival.
06/02/2016
Feb 6, 2016 · 30 min
A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. Click tries out the world's tiniest printer, checks out high-tech home security and vis
13/02/2016
Feb 13, 2016 · 30 min
The team go behind the scenes of $100m crowd-funded game Star Citizen. Plus a look into what went into some complex Star Wars Episode VII movie scenes. Includes tech news.
CERN
Feb 20, 2016 · 30 min
A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. Click goes deep underground in the tunnels of Cern to see how this colossal physics ex
27/02/2016
Feb 27, 2016 · 30 min
Click visits the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to look at the latest from the world of smartphones.
05/03/2016
Mar 5, 2016 · 30 min
Tyger Drew-Honey investigates whether Virtual Reality could change the way we form relationships. Includes global Tech News.
19/03/2016
Mar 19, 2016 · 30 min
We meet the Syrian refugees using innovative tech in Jordan's Zaatari camp and see how biometric data helps aid payments. Plus some very fast data and F1.
26/03/2016
Mar 26, 2016 · 30 min
In a drone special, the team race drones and then take them down with the help of an eagle. Plus learning how to program a BBC Microbit.
02/04/2016
Apr 2, 2016 · 30 min
The tech team examines graphene - will it change our lives? Plus, there is a look at a new smartphone designed to be pulled apart, and Lara tests wireless headphones.
09/04/2016
Apr 9, 2016 · 30 min
Click features the smallest types of tech known to mankind, visits Malawi to see a solar projector and looks at dating for over 50s.
16/04/2016
Apr 16, 2016 · 30 min
Click looks at the next generation of TVs with High Dynamic Range (HDR). Plus the world's first surgery streamed in VR and a flight with Jetman.
23/04/2016
Apr 23, 2016 · 30 min
Click looks at the immersive world of virtual reality sound, plus a VR tour of Chernobyl and the week's tech news.
30/04/2016
Apr 30, 2016 · 30 min
A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. Click explores going into space on the cheap, and reports on a new type of hairdryer a
07/05/2016
May 7, 2016 · 30 min
A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news.
14/05/2016
May 14, 2016 · 30 min
Click meets a blind man who runs ultramarathons with the help of an app. Plus art created by robots.
21/05/2016
May 21, 2016 · 30 min
A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. The team tries out robot exoskeletons that help people to move and asks where robotics
28/05/2016
May 28, 2016 · 30 min
This edition of Click looks at ad-blocking software and how it can affect content creation. Plus dancing robots and the best of the week's tech news.
Hay Festival
Jun 4, 2016 · 30 min
Click meets some of the biggest tech minds at Hay Festival and tests gadgets for dogs with CBBC's Hacker the Dog. Plus the week's tech news.
Designed In China - Part One
Jun 11, 2016 · 30 min
A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. As part of the BBC World News Designed in China Season, Click visits Beijing. The team
18/06/2016
Jun 18, 2016 · 30 min
A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. With reports from LA on the world's biggest video games expo - E3.
Designed in China: Part Two
Jun 26, 2016 · 30 min
For the second episode of Click's Designed in China special, the Click team travel to China's tech capital, Shenzhen, to meet with some of China's largest technology companies and
Designed in China: Part Three
Jul 2, 2016 · 30 min
A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news.
US Special - Part One
Jul 9, 2016 · 30 min
The team visits Nasa Jet Propulsion Labs, and get transported to Mars. Plus the world's first Virtual Reality Amusement park.
US Special - Part Two
Jul 16, 2016 · 30 min
The second episode of Click's State of America special features underwater drones, stories from Silicon Valley and the Silicon Slopes of Utah as well as tech helping the homeless.
US Special - Part Three
Jul 23, 2016 · 30 min
A comprehensive guide to computer industry news. Click heads to Los Angeles to see if an artificial intelligence can direct a music video.
Gigafactory
Jul 30, 2016 · 30 min
Click visits Tesla's new Gigafactory, chats to the boss Elon Musk and helps set a Guinness World Record. Plus 3D printed death masks in China.
06/08/2016
Aug 6, 2016 · 30 min
Click explores one of 2016's biggest games, No Man's Sky. Plus the hackers on the right side of the law in Las Vegas.
Spy Special
Aug 13, 2016 · 30 min
Click reports from Defcon in Las Vegas, the world's largest hacking convention.
Back to School
Sep 3, 2016 · 30 min
This edition of Click discovers how technology is being used in school classrooms and looks at the latest educational games, gadgets and apps.
Launches
Sep 10, 2016 · 30 min
A comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. Click looks at the latest product launches from the world of technology.
17/06/2016
Sep 17, 2016 · 30 min
This week Click looks at the latest in self-driving and broadcasting tech, gets virtual with Bjork, and goes into space with Call of Duty. Includes tech news.
24/09/2016
Sep 24, 2016 · 30 min
A look at bots influencing social media in the US election, ways to take back control of your mobile, and the latest drone from GoPro.
01/10/2016
Oct 1, 2016 · 30 min
Click looks at a new process that could revolutionise the solar energy industry, before getting up close and personal with the Megabots.
Japan Special
Oct 8, 2016 · 30 min
The team use technology which allows humans to understand dogs, take a ride in a self-driving car and test bendable batteries.
Cybathlon
Oct 15, 2016 · 30 min
Click comes from Zurich and reports from the very first Cybathlon. The Cybathlon is a sporting competition featuring only disabled participants who compete using advanced assistive
22/10/2016
Oct 22, 2016 · 30 min
Gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. Click travels to Rwanda to see how drones are being used to potentially save lives in rural areas.
29/10/2016
Oct 29, 2016 · 30 min
This edition of Click goes down under at one of the world's toughest drone challenges. Plus tech to keep safe and augmented reality glasses with Pokemon Go. Includes tech news.
Japan 2
Nov 5, 2016 · 30 min
Click heads to Japan to visit a smart cucumber farm, hedgehog cafe and the superhuman sports society. Plus how the advent of 5G will change our lives.
Nuremberg
Nov 19, 2016 · 30 min
Click looks at how VR is being used to help prosecute Nazis at WWII concentration camps and how it can be used to help learn a language.
Quiet Zone
Nov 26, 2016 · 30 min
Scissor Sister Ana Matronic finds out how nature is influencing robots. Plus the latest from the Gamecity Festival, and the town in the USA that is free from radio signals.
Disability Tech
Dec 3, 2016 · 30 min
A team of reporters with disabilities take on the latest assistive tech, including 3D-printed legs, driverless cars and goggles to improve vision.
10/12/2016
Dec 10, 2016 · 30 min
Forget self-driving cars, Click takes to the skies in an autonomous aircraft. Plus, poverty-predicting software and sci-fi shopping.
Health
Dec 17, 2016 · 30 min
A look at how artificial intelligence is being used in the healthcare industry, and how 3D printing could change the way buildings are designed.
Xmas Special
Dec 24, 2016 · 30 min
Click celebrates Christmas! The team unwraps some Christmas goodies and looks back at the best bits of Click from 2016.
31/12/2016
Dec 31, 2016 · 30 min
Click's first live stage performance from the BBC's New Broadcasting House. The team tests some of the best technologies seen in 2016 live on stage.