About this season
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.
Episodes (8)
1. Hovercraft
Aired 12 April 1998
The teams must build Hovercraft's in the Pilot of the now successful show.
2. Siege Engines
Aired 13 September 1998
In the first episode of the first series the two teams must make siege engines.
3. Power Pullers
Aired 20 September 1998
In this episode the two teams must make machines capable of moving heavy weights.
4. Sub-Aqua
Aired 27 September 1998
This week the two teams must make diving rings from the scrap.
5. Powerboats
Aired 4 October 1998
In this episode the two teams must make powers boats from the scrap.
6. Off Road Buggies
Aired 11 October 1998
In this episode the teams must make buggies that are capable of going off road.
7. Final: Rockets
Aired 18 October 1998
In this episode the teams must build rockets from the scrap to see who's can go the highest.