Scrapheap Challenge
Teams compete to create junk machines, using only what they can scavenge from the scrapheap. Each series builds to a final contest - and the crowning of a champion team.
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Robert Llewellyn and Cathy Rogers present the knockout contest of imagination and improvisation, as teams compete to create crazy contraptions from discarded junk

Flying Machines: Two teams compete to plan and build a crazy flying contraption from discarded junk

First shown: Sun 5 Sep 1999 | 50 mins

Cannons: Two teams compete to build a cannon capable of firing a weighty projectile 150 metres

First shown: Sun 12 Sep 1999 | 50 mins

Amphibious Vehicles: Robert and Cathy unveil a doubly hard challenge: build a car that thinks it's a boat!

First shown: Sun 19 Sep 1999 | 50 mins

Land Yachts: The teams are asked to build a land yacht capable of carrying the entire team

First shown: Sun 26 Sep 1999 | 50 mins

Mileage Marathon: Two teams compete to build a vehicle to travel as far as possible on only a cup of petrol

First shown: Sun 3 Oct 1999 | 50 mins

Marine Salvage: Can the teams build salvage machines to raise a Mini from the bottom of a murky lake?

First shown: Sun 10 Oct 1999 | 50 mins

Walking Machines: The teams must make machines to carry them and a heavy safe across an obstacle course

First shown: Sun 17 Oct 1999 | 50 mins

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