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Scrapheap Challenge (1998)

6.4 12 seasons 165 episodes Ended

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Scrapheap Challenge is an engineering game show produced by RDF Media and broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. In the show, teams of contestants had 10 hours in which to build a working machine that could do a specific task, using materials available in a scrapheap. The format was exported to the United States, where it was known as Junkyard Wars as a completely different TV series. The US show was also produced by RDF Media, and was originally shown on The Learning Channel. Repeats have aired on another Discovery network, the Science Channel.

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Seasons & episodes

Flying MachinesSep 5, 1999

In this episode the two teams must make a machine capable of flight.

CannonsSep 12, 1999

In this episode the two teams must create fully functional cannons

Amphibious VehiclesSep 19, 1999

Robert Llewellyn and co-presenter Cathy Rogers unveil a doubly hard challenge - build a car that thinks it's a boat!

Land YachtsSep 26, 1999

The teams are asked to build a yacht, but not one for the high seas - a land yacht capable of carrying the entire team. The winners will sa…

Mileage MarathonOct 3, 1999

The first of the Scrapheap Challenge semi-finals, where two teams are challenged to build a vehicle to travel as far as possible on only a…

Marine SalvageOct 10, 1999

The challenge is to build a salvage machine capable of raising a Mini from the bottom of a murky lake and park it safely in a car park.

Final: Walking MachinesOct 17, 1999

The teams are challenged to make a walking machine: the winning contraption must carry the whole team and a heavy safe across a haphazard o…

Cast

Robert Llewellyn

Lisa Rogers

Dick Strawbridge