The Great Egg Race

  • Rank #
  • Premiered: Jan 1979
  • Episodes: 43
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • BBC Two
  • Unknown
  • Game show

Seasons:

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Season 4
4x1
The Egg Poachers
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 15, 1982
Problem-solving teams are challenged to design, construct and demonstrate a moving problem with a cracking result.
4x2
Badminton
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 22, 1982
Problem-solving teams are challenged on how to construct an automatic badminton server.
4x3
Music Without Tears
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 29, 1982
Problem-solving teams are challenged to do for music what the pocket calculator has done for mathematics, specifically to build a machine to play one or two recorders.
Air date
May 06, 1982
Problem-solving teams are given three hours to set their sights on a rather unusual target.
4x5
Bridge That Gap
Episode overview
Air date
May 13, 1982
Problem-solving teams have a narrow ledge, a chasm with a raging torrent below, and no bridge - how to get across?
4x6
In One Minute from Now
Episode overview
Air date
May 20, 1982
Problem-solving teams are given the problem of designing and building a one-minute ticking clock.
4x7
The Big Deal
Episode overview
Air date
May 27, 1982
Problem-solving teams are given a pack of cards to design and construct a machine which will automatically deal four hands of 13 cards.
4x8
The Ovipositor
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 03, 1982
Problem-solving teams are set the problem of inventing a 'handy' kitchen gadget.
4x9 Season finale
The Egg Walker
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 10, 1982
Problem-solving teams are set the problem of designing, building and racing an Egg Walker.

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