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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.
Episode 16 : Christmas Special: Locomotives
December. 19,2004
Special edition of the engineering challenge, celebrating the 200th anniversary of Richard Trevithick's invention of the steam locomotive. Three teams have 20 hours and the materials they manage to scavenge from the scrapheap to build steam, diesel and electric-powered versions capable of pulling a 20-tonne passenger carriage, before putting their creations to the test in a face-off between the golden age of rail travel and its modern-day equivalent.
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Episode 15 : Favourite Fast Moments
December. 12,2004
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Episode 14 : Top Ten Machines
December. 05,2004
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Episode 13 : Best of Scrapheap Challenge Series 7
November. 28,2004
A look back at the series' best bits of bodging, as Robert Llewellyn and Lisa Rogers present 'The Rusties': Scrapheap Challenge's very own awards
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Episode 12 : Grand Final: Juggernauts
November. 21,2004
Grand final.
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Episode 11 : Final: Roman Motor-Chariot
November. 14,2004
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Episode 10 : Flaming Flingers
November. 07,2004
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Episode 3 : Bowling Bangers
September. 19,2004
This week, Geneva-based expats the Up 'n Atoms face up to the REME Rebels, an all-girl team of army-tank tinkerers in one of Scrapheap's most bizarre challenges to date. Our teams have just 10 hours to build a motorised bowling ball capable of toppling ten-foot skittles on a giant bowling alley.
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Episode 2 : Dam Buster
September. 12,2004
A brave-hearted bunch of Scottish boffins take on a rabble of right-on rickshaw riders in an epic Scrapheap battle. Following in the footsteps of Barnes Wallis, their mission, should they choose to accept it, is to manufacture machines that can pitch bouncing bombs across water to breach the Scrapheap dams.
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Episode 1 : Sand-Racers
September. 05,2004
In the first of the new series, Scrapheap takes to the dusty dunes of a Guildford sand quarry as a team of hot-blooded Lancashire fire fighters take on some nerdy off-road enthusiasts in a battle to build sand-racers that can climb precipitous inclines and dig their way out of the deepest dusty trench.
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