Scrapheap Challenge

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  • : 1998
  • : 144
  • : 7
  • Channel 4
  • 17
  • Game show

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4x1
Egg Shooter
Episode overview
05, 2001
The new series kicks off with our barmiest challenge yet: to build a machine that will fire an ostrich egg as far as possible and bring it back to earth in one piece. The machines must .. show full overview
4x2
Monster Trucks
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12, 2001
The challenge for the second heat is to build a 'monster truck' and drive it around an 'S'-shaped course in a dirt oval. The trucks will have to climb dirt hillocks and crush a line of .. show full overview
4x3
Torpedo
Episode overview
19, 2001
This week's challenge is to torpedo the opposition. Each team must build re-usable torpedoes that run just under the surface of the water, like the torpedoes used to attack boats (rather .. show full overview
4x4
Street Cleaner
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26, 2001
The teams have to build a four-man machine to clean up litter. Different kinds of rubbish (such as old cans, plastic bottles, newspapers, cardboard, old clothes and bin liners) will be .. show full overview
4x5
White Water Rider
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02, 2002
The challenge is to build a powered craft to negotiate a stretch of white-water river. The craft must be powerful enough to get up the rapids but also have enough manoeuvrability to .. show full overview
4x6
Snowmobile
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09, 2002
The challenge is to build a one-man snowmobile. The test course, in the Mammoth Mountains, northern California, is circular with a 300-metre diameter. Each team has 10 minutes; the .. show full overview
4x7
Mobile Crane
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16, 2002
This challenge is to build mobile cranes to lift and carry scrap down a course to a drop-off point. Each piece of scrap is allocated a points value relating to its weight or awkwardness. .. show full overview
4x8
Minesweeper
Episode overview
23, 2002
This week's challenge is to build minesweepers.The test is over two rounds. In round one, each team is given 10 minutes to destroy as many paint-bomb mines as possible in a minefield .. show full overview
4x9
Hill Climber
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30, 2002
The challenge this week is to build a one-man hill climber. The teams will have three attempts to scale a 360ft slope with a 1:2 gradient. The team that makes it to the top the most .. show full overview
4x10
Tunneller
Episode overview
06, 2002
At vast expense, this week we have constructed our very own Wormwood Scraps Prison. The challenge facing the teams is to build tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) to break out and into the .. show full overview
4x11
Hydrofoil
Episode overview
13, 2002
The ultimate challenge in this series is to build a hydrofoil ­ a boat with wing-like structures underneath its hull to lift the hull out of the water at speed. The team with the fastest .. show full overview
4x12
Car Jousting
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20, 2002
The champions' challenge is to take an ordinary car and convert it into a radio-controlled fighting machine. In the contest, points are scored for hitting targets on the opposing .. show full overview

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