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Scrapheap Challenge (49 mins)
4.25AM Monday 06 Jul 2009 Channel 4
This week's second semi-final challenge is to build a machine that will dig a hole through two 3ft deep walls, the first slightly less dense than the second.
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Scrapheap Challenge (49 mins)
4.25AM Sunday 05 Jul 2009 Channel 4
The first semi-final challenge is to build a machine that will climb as high as possible up an extremely steep hill.
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Scrapheap Challenge (49 mins)
4.25AM Monday 29 Jun 2009 Channel 4
The teams have to build machines that are capable of getting across a minefield full of dummy mines filled with paint.
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Series 10 Episode 3 Superbikes (49 mins)
12.45PM Sunday 28 Jun 2009 More4
The teams build high speed motorbikes capable of racing each other head-to-head around the twisty Scrapheap circuit.
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Series 10 Episode 2 Scooter Shooters (49 mins)
11.40AM Sunday 28 Jun 2009 More4
The teams have to build contraptions to throw a 100kg scooter as far as they can without the help of compressed gas or gunpowder.
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Series 10 Episode 1 Scrap Speed Record (48 mins)
10.35AM Sunday 28 Jun 2009 More4
The Rocketeers and The Brum Brums set out to beat the Scrapheap Challenge speed record of 72mph on the historic Pendine Sands.
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Series 9 Episode 16 Scrapheap Retrospective (49 mins)
9.30AM Sunday 28 Jun 2009 More4
Robert Llewellyn and Lisa Rogers look back over the highlights of another year on the Scrapheap. The programme will hear from the contestants who have made this yeat so memorable.
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Scrapheap Challenge (49 mins)
4.25AM Sunday 28 Jun 2009 Channel 4
Snowmobile: The teams enter a winter wonderland to do battle on trusty snowmobiles made entirely out of scrap, which they must race on specially designed courses.
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Scrapheap Challenge (50 mins)
4.10AM Friday 26 Jun 2009 Channel 4
The Cat-Alysts go up against the Chaos Crew and build a four-man machine that can clean up a litter-strewn street.
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Series 2 Episode 5 Mileage Marathon (51 mins)
4AM Monday 22 Jun 2009 Channel 4
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.
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Series 9 Episode 15 Welly Wanging (49 mins)
1.20PM Sunday 21 Jun 2009 More4
The setting is the Great Dorset Steam Fair and 16 teams have designed eccentric machines designed to throw Wellington boots as far as possible.
Joining the contest are the mighty Scrapheap All Stars…
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Series 9 Episode 14 Sofa Speedway (49 mins)
12.15PM Sunday 21 Jun 2009 More4
The Sofa Speedway roadshow brings together 16 teams from all over the country. They converge on the National Motor museum at Beaulieu with their pieces of motorised furniture.
Scrapheap's house…
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Series 9 Episode 13 Paddle Boats (49 mins)
11.09AM Sunday 21 Jun 2009 More4
This special challenge was inspired by the maritime achievements of a true engineering heavyweight - Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Throughout an extraordinary career, Brunel designed buildings, bridges…
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Series 9 Episode 12 Dozers (49 mins)
10.04AM Sunday 21 Jun 2009 More4
In this Grand Final, returning champs the Powerlifters were not going to give up their throne easily, so to test their resolve they are set the challenge of building full-scale bulldozers! The teams…
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Series 2 Episode 1 Flying Machines (51 mins)
4.25AM Monday 15 Jun 2009 Channel 4
Two teams compete to plan and build a crazy flying contraption from discarded junk.
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Series 9 Episode 11 Swamp Racers (49 mins)
1.20PM Sunday 14 Jun 2009 More4
The two finalists met down in the swamp. The challenge - to race across the mud and water in the fastest time. The winning team takes home the Scrapheap crown.
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Series 9 Episode 10 Drag Sleds (48 mins)
12.15PM Sunday 14 Jun 2009 More4
Woof Justice and the Turbo Taxis are challenged to build super fast drag sleds ¿ single-axled speedsters, inspired by the oddball US pastime of racing motorbike-engined beasts with skis across a…
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Series 9 Episode 9 Earth Movers (49 mins)
11.10AM Sunday 14 Jun 2009 More4
Scrapheap goes back to basics and asks the teams to build enormous earth movers. The Beach Bums and the Extinguishers are provided with a skip into which they had to load as much earth and gravel as…
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Series 9 Episode 8 Skid Pan Sumo (49 mins)
10.05AM Sunday 14 Jun 2009 More4
Scrapheap is going Japanese with a heavyweight challenge: the Super subs and the Turbo Taxis have just ten hours to construct giant motorised sumo wrestling machines that will do battle on a slippery…
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Series 12
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Series 12 Episode 1 Best of Scrapheap Challenge (49 mins)
A manic, mixed medley of the best and worst moments from the Heap, seasoned with a rich supply of out-takes.
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Series 10
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Series 10 Episode 16 Scrapheap Retrospective (49 mins)
Robert Llewellyn looks back over the highlights of a decade on the heap with the presenters, experts and contestants who've made the show such a success.
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Series 10 Episode 15 Ballistas (49 mins)
Teams from around the country have been challenged to build giant mechanical bows capable of launching four-foot arrows, making for an archery tournament of epic proportions.
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Series 10 Episode 14 Dragsters (49 mins)
Sixteen teams of backyard bodgers from around the UK battle it out for the chance to take on the crème de la crème of the engineering world, the Scrapheap Allstars.
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Series 10 Episode 13 Hover Bother (49 mins)
A blast from the past, taking inspiration from the very first episode, when two teams were challenged to race makeshift hovercraft around the Scrapheap course.
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Series 10 Episode 12 Manphibious Madness (49 mins)
It's the grand final of Scrapheap Challenge and the Rusty Regiment go head-to-head with Woof Justice for 2008's Rings of Steel trophy.
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Series 10 Episode 11 Land Tugs (49 mins)
Two teams have reached the final and now they have just ten hours to build a tow tug capable of pulling a 155 ton jumbo jet along.
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Series 10 Episode 10 Savvy Salvaging (49 mins)
This challenge tests the teams' underwater ingenuity as they build a salvage machine from a stockpile of scrap in order to retrieve lost treasure from the bottom of a mini ocean.
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Series 10 Episode 9 Snow Shifters (49 mins)
The teams are challenged to build super snow shifting machines as well as having to race up a ten-degree slope in temperatures of minus four degrees.
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Series 10 Episode 8 Fire Fighters (49 mins)
The teams are challenged to build fire engines in just 10 hours. They have to complete a tight course in the fastest possible time, extinguishing two burning mock jet engines.
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Series 10 Episode 7 Rocket Railway (49 mins)
Inspired by the sleds used to test supersonic planes and spacecraft, the teams are challenged to build a superfast railway... but all usual forms of propulsion are banned.
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Series 10 Episode 6 Powerboats (49 mins)
The teams compete to build wave-pounding power boats capable of skimming across the Scrapheap lake. And it's not as easy as it sounds.
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Series 10 Episode 5 Dune Bashers (49 mins)
The teams must build super-swift vehicles capable of racing up and over the Scrapheap's very own desert dunes.
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Series 10 Episode 4 Decoration Dash (49 mins)
It's a decorator's dream as two teams compete to build a mobile painting machine capable of decorating a house from a distance
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Series 10 Episode 3 Superbikes (49 mins)
12.45PM Sunday 28 Jun 2009 More4
The teams build high speed motorbikes capable of racing each other head-to-head around the twisty Scrapheap circuit.
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Series 10 Episode 2 Scooter Shooters (49 mins)
11.40AM Sunday 28 Jun 2009 More4
The teams have to build contraptions to throw a 100kg scooter as far as they can without the help of compressed gas or gunpowder.
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Series 10 Episode 1 Scrap Speed Record (48 mins)
10.35AM Sunday 28 Jun 2009 More4
The Rocketeers and The Brum Brums set out to beat the Scrapheap Challenge speed record of 72mph on the historic Pendine Sands.
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Series 9
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Series 9 Episode 16 Scrapheap Retrospective (49 mins)
9.30AM Sunday 28 Jun 2009 More4
Robert Llewellyn and Lisa Rogers look back over the highlights of another year on the Scrapheap. The programme will hear from the contestants who have made this yeat so memorable.
More -
Series 9 Episode 15 Welly Wanging (49 mins)
1.20PM Sunday 21 Jun 2009 More4
The setting is the Great Dorset Steam Fair and 16 teams have designed eccentric machines designed to throw Wellington boots as far as possible.
Joining the contest are the mighty Scrapheap All Stars…
More -
Series 9 Episode 14 Sofa Speedway (49 mins)
12.15PM Sunday 21 Jun 2009 More4
The Sofa Speedway roadshow brings together 16 teams from all over the country. They converge on the National Motor museum at Beaulieu with their pieces of motorised furniture.
Scrapheap's house…
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Series 9 Episode 13 Paddle Boats (49 mins)
11.09AM Sunday 21 Jun 2009 More4
This special challenge was inspired by the maritime achievements of a true engineering heavyweight - Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Throughout an extraordinary career, Brunel designed buildings, bridges…
More -
Series 9 Episode 12 Dozers (49 mins)
10.04AM Sunday 21 Jun 2009 More4
In this Grand Final, returning champs the Powerlifters were not going to give up their throne easily, so to test their resolve they are set the challenge of building full-scale bulldozers! The teams…
More -
Series 9 Episode 11 Swamp Racers (49 mins)
1.20PM Sunday 14 Jun 2009 More4
The two finalists met down in the swamp. The challenge - to race across the mud and water in the fastest time. The winning team takes home the Scrapheap crown.
More -
Series 9 Episode 10 Drag Sleds (48 mins)
12.15PM Sunday 14 Jun 2009 More4
Woof Justice and the Turbo Taxis are challenged to build super fast drag sleds ¿ single-axled speedsters, inspired by the oddball US pastime of racing motorbike-engined beasts with skis across a…
More -
Series 9 Episode 9 Earth Movers (49 mins)
11.10AM Sunday 14 Jun 2009 More4
Scrapheap goes back to basics and asks the teams to build enormous earth movers. The Beach Bums and the Extinguishers are provided with a skip into which they had to load as much earth and gravel as…
More -
Series 9 Episode 8 Skid Pan Sumo (49 mins)
10.05AM Sunday 14 Jun 2009 More4
Scrapheap is going Japanese with a heavyweight challenge: the Super subs and the Turbo Taxis have just ten hours to construct giant motorised sumo wrestling machines that will do battle on a slippery…
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Series 9 Episode 7 Airboats (49 mins)
The Diggers from Hull and The Beach Bums from Torquay must race to build Florida-style airboats to skim round the Scrapheap's very own alligator-infested Everglades.
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Series 9 Episode 6 Mechanical Mortars (49 mins)
Woof Justice and the Bus Boys were challenged to build mortars that would be fired in a lobbing motion onto targets. Mobility and accuracy would be the key, as the teams race head-to-head to hit…
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Series 9 Episode 5 Giant Skateboards (48 mins)
Norfolk firemen the Extinguishers and vintage railway buffs the Steaming Scots must supersize a skateboard to gigantic proportions in order to carry all the team, plus expert, around our slalom…
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Series 9 Episode 4 Snowmobiles (49 mins)
Suffolk builders the Cement Mixers and Dorset cabbies the Turbo Taxis had to build scrappy snowmobiles in just 10 hours. They had to complete a tight course in the fastest possible time, which meant…
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Series 9 Episode 3 Muscle Trains (49 mins)
The Sweet Chariots and the Super Subs were given the traditional 10 hours to build locomotives powered by their physical effort alone. Pure muscle power wouldn't cut it though - the teams had to…
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Series 9 Episode 2 Monster Trikes (49 mins)
The Engine Eggheads from London and the Diggers from Hull scour the scrapheap to cannibalise bikes and cars to build souped-up, super-sized, three-wheeled wonders. In lay terms that means…
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Series 9 Episode 1 Human Cannonballs (49 mins)
Series nine of Scrapheap gets off to a flying start - literally - when the Beach Bums from Devon and the Vikings from Salisbury are given just 10 hours to build contraptions capable of firing human…
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Series 8
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Series 8 Episode 15 Best of Scrapheap Challenge (49 mins)
Featuring all the highs and lows and trips and tumbles, this special episode shows just what the teams faced, as well as their many crazy contraptions.
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Series 8 Episode 14 Scrapheap Challenge Roadshow (49 mins)
The first-ever Scrapheap Challenge Roadshow in which 20 teams are challenged to build tomato-flinging machines in their garages.
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Series 8 Episode 13 Punkin' Chunk (49 mins)
In 1986 a group of men in the US were arguing over who could throw an anvil the furthest. Hearing that some students were throwing pumpkins to raise funds for their school, the men's anvils became…
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Series 8 Episode 12 Flying Machines (50 mins)
This is the build to end all builds. Returning champs from Series 7, The Anoraks, take on the new wearers of the Scrapheap crown, The Powerlifters. The teams have just 20 hours to build what da Vinci…
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Series 8 Episode 11 Rock Crawler (50 mins)
In the showdown of this series, classic car nuts, the Beasts of Bodmin, take on Essex forklift trio, The Powerlifters. In a quest for Scrapheap glory, the finalists must make cars that can clamber…
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Series 8 Episode 10 Monster Drag Racing (50 mins)
In this semi final, those thrill seekers from Blackpool, The Big Dippers, meet Essex forklift fixers and fabricating fanatics, The Powerlifters, for one of the biggest builds in Scrapheap history…
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Series 8 Episode 9 Steeplechase (49 mins)
The challengers must build steeplechasers with horsepower in the Scrapheap semi final. Their creations must be capable of carrying the entire team over six 1.3m high hurdles, without knocking them…
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Series 8 Episode 8 Caber Tossers (49 mins)
A bravehearted bunch of rollercoaster engineers, The Big Dippers, take on the furiously fast Skids in a Scrapheap-style Highland fling. The challenge: to construct a monster-sized mobile machine…
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Series 8 Episode 7 Polar Pinball (49 mins)
In this chilling challenge, the teams have to build an omni-directional machine that will act as a pinball in our polar arena. By notching up points for precision prangs on our high scoring targets…
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Series 8 Episode 6 Car Fishing (50 mins)
Tractor fanatics the Nuzzling Badgers take on British Airways pilots the Flying Scotsmen in a fraught fishing contest. The teams compete to make machines that will retrieve three Minis floating on a…
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Series 8 Episode 5 Drag Boats (50 mins)
The teams must build souped-up drag boats capable of a truly rapid ride along our aquatic drag strip. The winning team will complete the 300-metre, straight-line course in the quickest time. A firm…
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Series 8 Episode 4 AC/DC Dairy Dash (49 mins)
Classic Jag lovers the Beasts of Bodmin take on The 7s, a team of easy-going Essex bikers. In an electrifying off-road contest, they race to construct battery-powered milk floats capable of…
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Series 8 Episode 3 Sharp Shooters (49 mins)
This challenge testst to see who can build the most extreme rapid-fire arrow launcher. The teams will have to build a projectile launcher that can automatically load itself, as well as quickly firing…
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Series 8 Episode 2 Kung Fu Cars (50 mins)
The teams have to construct a moveable car complete with a karate-chopping device. It's gotta be tough as it has to axe its way through six concrete slabs, half a metre of ice and finally a huge hunk…
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Series 8 Episode 1 Underwater Cars (50 mins)
Scrapheap is off to marvellous Margate where a team of forklifting fixers take on a crew of army helicopter heroes in a battle to build underwater cars that can rip up the ocean bed.
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Series 2
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Series 2 Episode 5 Mileage Marathon (51 mins)
4AM Monday 22 Jun 2009 Channel 4
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.
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Series 2 Episode 1 Flying Machines (51 mins)
4.25AM Monday 15 Jun 2009 Channel 4
Two teams compete to plan and build a crazy flying contraption from discarded junk.
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