Scrapheap Challenge

Scrapheap Challenge

1998
12 Seasons
6.1
RealityAction & Adventure

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. 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.

Episodes

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E1Apr 12, 1998

Hovercraft

The teams must build Hovercraft's in the Pilot of the now successful show.

Siege Engines
E2Sep 13, 1998

Siege Engines

In the first episode of the first series the two teams must make siege engines.

Power Pullers
E3Sep 20, 1998

Power Pullers

In this episode the two teams must make machines capable of moving heavy weights.

Sub-Aqua
E4Sep 27, 1998

Sub-Aqua

This week the two teams must make diving rings from the scrap.

Powerboats
E5Oct 4, 1998

Powerboats

In this episode the two teams must make powers boats from the scrap.

Off Road Buggies
E6Oct 11, 1998

Off Road Buggies

In this episode the teams must make buggies that are capable of going off road.

Final: Rockets
E7Oct 18, 1998

Final: Rockets

In this episode the teams must build rockets from the scrap to see who's can go the highest.

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E8

The Commandments(Highlights)

No overview available for this episode.

Top Cast

Robert Llewellyn

Robert Llewellyn

Lisa Rogers

Lisa Rogers

Dick Strawbridge

Dick Strawbridge