The BEST seasons of The Secret Life of Machines

Every season of The Secret Life of Machines ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of The Secret Life of Machines!

Tim Hunkin explains how the machines we use every day actually work, using a fascinating combination of experiments, analogies, animation, and larger-than-lifesize working models. The TV series was the outgrowth of a series of cartoons for the Observer newspaper called "The Rudiments of Wisdom", which Tim researched and drew for 14 years. The theme music is a version of Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" by Val Bennett, retitled "The Russians are Coming".