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Amazon Prime Video
Network: Channel 4
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 10260 min.
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

Scrapheap Challenge (1998)

Season 2 (Sept. 5, 1999, midnight)

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.

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Scrapheap Challenge (1998)

Season 2 (Sept. 5, 1999, midnight)

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.

70
21
IMDb
7.5
/934/
Trakt
75
/39/
TMDb
61
/19/
Tomatoes
Robert Llewellyn
Robert Llewellyn
Lisa Rogers
Lisa Rogers
Dick Strawbridge
Dick Strawbridge
Dave Price
Dave Price
Helen Czerski
Helen Czerski

Sept. 5, 1999, midnight 0.0

S2E1 - Flying Machines

In this episode the two teams must make a machine capable of flight.
Sept. 12, 1999, midnight 0.0

S2E2 - Cannons

In this episode the two teams must create fully functional cannons
Sept. 19, 1999, midnight 0.0

S2E3 - Amphibious Vehicles

Robert Llewellyn and co-presenter Cathy Rogers unveil a doubly hard challenge - build a car that thinks it's a boat!
Sept. 26, 1999, midnight 0.0

S2E4 - Land Yachts

The teams are asked to build a yacht, but not one for the high seas - a land yacht capable of carrying the entire team. The winners will sail through to the semi-finals.
Oct. 3, 1999, midnight 0.0

S2E5 - Mileage Marathon

The first of the Scrapheap Challenge semi-finals, where two teams are challenged to build a vehicle to travel as far as possible on only a cup of petrol.
Oct. 10, 1999, midnight 0.0

S2E6 - Marine Salvage

The challenge is to build a salvage machine capable of raising a Mini from the bottom of a murky lake and park it safely in a car park.
Oct. 17, 1999, midnight 0.0

S2E7 - Final: Walking Machines

The teams are challenged to make a walking machine: the winning contraption must carry the whole team and a heavy safe across a haphazard obstacle course.
Amazon Prime Video
Network: Channel 4
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 10260 min.
Released: April 12, 1998
Last Air Date: June 27, 2010, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

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