Scrapheap Challenge Season 9
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
1998Scrapheap 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 Season 9 Full Episode Guide
Robert and Lisa present a look at the highlights of this years series.
In this episode the Scrapheap Roadshow moves on and Welly Wanging is the objective and once again 16 teams battle it out to face the Scrapheap All-Stars.
16 teams fight to make the best vehicles out of anything they like so expect some rather silly looking vehicles.
In this Scrapheap special a team from the UK faces a team from the US to make Paddle Boats from scrap to commemorate the maritime achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
In the Grand Final, this series' winners Woof Justice take on last series' winners the Powerlifters to build Bulldozers from scrap.
In the final of this series Woof Justice take on the Beach Bums to see who can make the better swamp racer and become the Scrapheap Challenge champions 2007.
In the second semi-final Woof Justice face the Turbo Taxi's for a place in the final by building the fastest Drag Sled.
In the first semi-final the Beach Bums face the Extinguishers to see who can make the best machine capable of moving mounds of earth.
This week The Turbo Taxi's and The Super Subs have to make mechanical sumo cars that are capable of pushing the other teams vehicle out of the arena.
In this episode The Beach Bums face The Diggers to see who can build the better Airboat.
In this episode Woof Justice take on The Bus Boys in a race to create the most accurate and more mobile Mechanical Mortars.
In this episode The Extinguishers must face The Steaming Scots to see who can build the better Giant Skateboard.
Suffolk builders The Cement Mixers, and Dorset cab drivers The Turbo Taxis build and race snowmobiles.
Plymouth's Super Subs vie with Sweet Chariots, a group of rugby players, to construct a train they has powered by the teams muscle.
The Engineering Eggheads, a team of mechanical engineering students from University College London, compete with the Diggers, a team of heavy plant engineers from Hull, to build 5m-long "monster" trikes, that can race head-to-head over a slalom course, carrying all four team members.
The Vikings, a team of Dark Ages battle re-enactment enthusiasts from Salisbury, face off against the Beach Bums, a team of surfers from Torquay, to construct a machine which can hurl a human-sized mannequin into a disused quarry.