← Scrapheap Challenge

Season 10

17 episodes · 2008

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    Scrap Speed Record

    Apr 27, 200847 min

    To get the series off to a smashing start, the first episode challenges the teams to break one of Scrapheap's longest-standing records. Back in series six, The Catalysts set a top speed of 72mph in the Grand Prix Challenge. Now The Rocketeers, a team of pyrotechnicians from Bath, and The Brum Brums, motor mechanics from Birmingham, are challenged to beat that time, in the scrap speed record attempt. Where better to do it than historic Pendine Sands, the spiritual home of British land speed record attempts? The teams are under expert scrutiny as they attempt to race their way into the 'heap record books - this week's judge is two-time land speed record-holder Richard Noble.

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    Scooter Shooters

    May 4, 200844 min

    This week's mechanical migraine promises to be a Scrapheap classic. The teams must build contraptions to throw a 100-kilogramme scooter as far as they can, without the help of compressed gas or gunpowder. The Balloonatics, a trio of hot air balloonists from Liverpool, take on The Aquarium Crew, a team of aquarium constructors from Dorset.

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    Superbikes

    May 11, 200845 min

    The teams build high speed motorbikes capable of racing each other head-to-head around the twisty Scrapheap circuit.

  4. 4

    Decoration Dash

    May 18, 200846 min

    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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    Dune Bashers

    May 25, 200846 min

    The teams must build super-swift vehicles capable of racing up and over the Scrapheap's very own desert dunes.

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    Powerboats

    Jun 1, 200844 min

    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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    Rocket Railway

    Jun 8, 2008

    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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    Fire Fighters

    Jun 15, 200845 min

    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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    Snow Shifters

    Jun 22, 200845 min

    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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    Savvy Salvaging

    Jun 29, 2008

    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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    Final: Land Tugs

    Jul 6, 200845 min

    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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    Grand Final: Manphibious Madness

    Jul 13, 200845 min

    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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    10th Anniversary Special: Hover Bother

    Jul 27, 200846 min

    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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    Scrapheap Challenge Roadshow 4: Dragsters

    Aug 3, 200846 min

    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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    Scrapheap Challenge Roadshow 5: Ballistas

    Aug 10, 200846 min

    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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    10 Years on the Heap

    Aug 10, 2008

    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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    Scrapheap Retrospective: Series 10

    Aug 10, 2008