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Scrapheap Challenge

Game-Show

Release

12 Apr 1998

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

Production

Channel 4

Overview

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.

Plot

Two rival teams are given the task of building some kind of machine, in one day, using only the items found in an unusually well-stocked scrapyard. Machines constructed to date have included trebuchets, hovercraft, rockets, and more.

Cast

Robert LlewellynCathy RogersLisa Rogers

Ratings

Internet Movie Database: 7.5/10

Season 1

Air Date:13 Apr 1998
Available

Seasons

12 Seasons and a Special Season

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Season 3

Season 3

Season 4

Season 4

Season 5

Season 5

Season 6

Season 6

Season 7

Season 7

Season 8

Season 8

Season 9

Season 9

Season 10

Season 10

Season 11

Season 11

Hovercraft

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

Air Date:13 Apr 1998Available

Episodes of Season 1

8 episodes

EP 1
EP 2
EP 3
EP 4
EP 5
EP 6
EP 7
EP 8
S1 E1