Quest TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On Quest Tonight

Published: 4 September 2026

Quest is Warner Bros. Discovery’s free-to-air factual channel, built around cars, engineering and the kind of programming where someone always ends up covered in grease or sawdust. Channel numbers are further down the page. Saturday 5 September 2026 runs a long Wheeler Dealers block through the morning and early afternoon before Shed And Buried takes over for the rest of the daytime, then the evening opens with a farm-machinery restoration on Shed and Buried: Classic Combine at 7pm, a Lotus Esprit project on Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic at 8pm, and two Repair Shop episodes at 9pm and 10pm. Outback Opal Hunters closes primetime at 11pm. There’s no motorsport on the schedule today. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Saturday 5 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Saturday 5 September 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Saturday’s small hours open with a How Do They Do It? double at midnight and 12:30am, then Salvage Hunters at 1am and 2am and a Salvage Hunters: The Restorers episode at 3am. A paired How It’s Made half-hour runs from 4am, and Teleshopping fills 5am. Massive Engineering Mistakes takes 6am, BSB Highlights covers 7am, and Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic gets an early outing at 8am ahead of its primetime repeat tonight. From 9am it’s Wheeler Dealers in an unbroken run through to 2pm — six episodes pulled from six different series, a typical Saturday daytime block for this channel — before Shed And Buried: Classic Cars takes 3pm and 4pm and the two-hour Shed And Buried: Classic Helicopter special fills 5pm to 7pm. Full times are in the schedule table above.

Quest tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Quest primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 5 September 2026.

Shed and Buried: Classic Combine — Quest, 7pm

A 1950s Massey Ferguson combine harvester lands on Henry Cole’s workshop floor, one of the bigger restoration jobs the strand has tackled. It leads Quest’s evening rather than sitting in its usual daytime slot.

Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic — Quest, 8pm

Ant Anstead works on a 1989 Lotus Esprit, a car that needs rather more than a service. The same episode (series 3, episode 6) also had an early daytime showing at 8am, so it’s a repeat within the day rather than a new instalment.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 9pm

A theatre chair, a rare clock and a bronze locket arrive at the barn this week, each carrying a family story that matters more than the object’s value. Quest’s long-running rerun of the BBC series, not the newer Beyond the Barn spin-off.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 10pm

A second episode straight after, with Jay Blades’ team working on a cine-projector, a wicker chair and a spinning wheel. Three series apart from the 9pm edition, so don’t expect the two to connect.

Outback Opal Hunters — Quest, 11pm

Miners stake fresh claims and chase a payday out in the Australian outback. One line’s enough for the night’s closer.

What kind of shows are on Quest

Motoring, restoration and workshop shows

The backbone of Quest’s schedule is vehicles. Wheeler Dealers, Salvage Hunters, Shed and Buried and Chasing Classic Cars between them hold down most of the hours before mid-afternoon, all working the same basic appeal: someone spots value in a thing everyone else wrote off, then proves it by fixing it up or selling it on. It’s cheap to make and it repeats well, which is why there is so much of it.

Acquired documentaries and reality

The evenings lean on programming bought in from elsewhere. The Repair Shop is the obvious case, a series made for another broadcaster that has found a long second life here, but the later slots also take storm-chasing and survival documentaries such as In the Eye of the Storm.

How It’s Made and everyday engineering

How It’s Made is the odd one out on the schedule, a factory-floor staple that’s run in various forms for decades, taking a few minutes at a time to show how ordinary objects get manufactured. It’s exactly the sort of thing you leave running in the background, and Quest schedules it mostly in the early hours.

How to watch Quest

Channel numbers

Here’s where to find Quest across the main UK television platforms:

Quest moved from Freeview channel 12 to channel 17 in January 2026, so retune your box if you’re still seeing the old number. Virgin Media and Freesat numbers can vary slightly by region, so check your on-screen guide if these don’t quite match.

Streaming online

Quest streams live and free through discovery+, available as an app on smart TVs, phones and tablets, and via web browser at discoveryplus.com. Registering for a free account gets you live access to Quest and its sister channels, plus 30 days of catch-up, all supported by adverts. A paid discovery+ tier exists too, and comes free with Sky TV packages from £15 a month, but it isn’t needed just to watch Quest live.

Quest +1 and sister channels

Quest +1 repeats the schedule an hour behind, on Freeview channel 70 and Sky channel 244. It’s the one to reach for if you’ve missed the start of a Wheeler Dealers marathon, or want to catch The Repair Shop an hour later.

Quest sits inside a wider family of Warner Bros. Discovery free-to-air channels. Quest Red, on Freeview channel 40 and Sky channel 149, shares the reclamation-yard DNA but skews towards a female audience with reality and lifestyle shows like My 600-lb Life and Say Yes to the Dress. Really, another channel in the same stable, sits alongside it on the Freeview line-up with its own mix of true crime and factual programming.

Frequently asked questions

What’s on Quest tonight?

Shed and Buried: Classic Combine opens primetime at 7pm with a 1950s Massey Ferguson restoration, then Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic at 8pm takes on a 1989 Lotus Esprit — the same episode had an earlier daytime showing at 8am. The Repair Shop runs two episodes back to back at 9pm and 10pm, three series apart, an archive repeat of the BBC show rather than BBC One’s newer Beyond the Barn spin-off. Outback Opal Hunters closes the night at 11pm. There’s no motorsport in Quest’s line-up tonight. See the schedule table above for daytime listings in full.

What channel is Quest on Freeview?

Channel 17. It moved there from channel 12 on 13 January 2026 when Warner Bros. Discovery reshuffled its free-to-air channels. Retune your box if you’re still seeing the old number.

Is The Repair Shop a Quest original show?

No. It’s a BBC production made by Ricochet, first shown on BBC One. Quest broadcasts it in repeat, which is why it turns up so often in the evening schedule here.

Can I watch Quest online for free?

Yes. It streams live at discoveryplus.com and through the discovery+ app; a free account with adverts gives you the live channel and 30 days of catch-up.

Is Quest free to watch?

Yes, entirely free to air on Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat, with the usual advert breaks but no subscription fee.

Verdict

Saturday’s Quest leans harder on cars than usual — six hours of Wheeler Dealers by mid-afternoon, then two restoration strands either side of primetime’s start. Shed and Buried: Classic Combine and Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic between them cover a combine harvester and a Lotus Esprit, which is a wider spread of vehicle than this channel usually manages in one evening.

After that it’s The Repair Shop across 9pm and 10pm — two episodes three series apart, Quest’s long-running archive repeat of the BBC show, not to be confused with BBC One’s Beyond the Barn spin-off — before Outback Opal Hunters closes out the night. No motorsport tonight, unlike some evenings on this channel.

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