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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

DemolitionSep 17, 2000

The teams each have to build a machine capable of demolishing a set of industrial outbuildings at an old power station in Norwich. Sadly, n…

Aerial BomberSep 24, 2000

Teams must build a nonpiloted flying vehicle that can accurately drop paint bombs on a target on the ground. Both teams need to go with rad…

Underwater ChariotOct 1, 2000

In this challenge, The N.E.R.D.S. (New England Rubbish Deconstruction Society) — the first American team to compete in the show — take on T…

WindmillOct 8, 2000

The Techno-Teachers go up against The Manic Mechanics to see who can harness the forces of Mother Nature and build a windmill to power a ma…

Missile LauncherOct 15, 2000

This time, a team called Filth goes up against the winner of Demolition (Chaos Crew or Beach Boys) to design and build a machine that can t…

Bridging MachinesOct 22, 2000

Brothers in Arms go up against the winner of Bomber (3 Revs a Minute or Mothers of Invention) in a challenge to build a vehicle that can ca…

Giant MowerNov 5, 2000

There's an acre of wheat to cut and collect. This semifinal Junkyard challenge sends the competitors down to the farm to see who can build…

Steam-Powered CarOct 29, 2000

In the second semifinal match, the challenge is to make a vehicle that drives on steam power. One team finds a weird little three-wheeled c…

Final: FireboatNov 12, 2000

In the championship match, the two surviving teams see who can build a boat that will go across a lake and put out a fire in a burning buil…

Grand Final: DragsterNov 19, 2000

Drag racing. Nothing gets a Junkyard Warrior's blood stirring like sheer speed. In this special match-up, the Season 3 champs go up against…

Christmas Special: Car CrusherDec 17, 2000

Cast

Robert Llewellyn

Lisa Rogers

Dick Strawbridge