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The Best Episodes of Scrapheap Challenge

Every episode of Scrapheap Challenge ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Scrapheap Challenge!

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Scrapheap Challenge Season 1 Episode 1 - Hovercraft
    8.4/10(7 votes)

    #1 - Hovercraft

    S1:E1

    The teams must build Hovercraft's in the Pilot of the now successful show.

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  2. Scrapheap Challenge Season 2 Episode 1 - Flying Machines
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    #2 - Flying Machines

    S2:E1

    In this episode the two teams must make a machine capable of flight.

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  3. Scrapheap Challenge Season 1 Episode 6 - Off Road Buggies
    7.5/10(6 votes)

    #3 - Off Road Buggies

    S1:E6

    In this episode the teams must make buggies that are capable of going off road.

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  4. Scrapheap Challenge Season 1 Episode 2 - Siege Engines
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #4 - Siege Engines

    S1:E2

    In the first episode of the first series the two teams must make siege engines.

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  5. Scrapheap Challenge Season 1 Episode 3 - Power Pullers
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #5 - Power Pullers

    S1:E3

    In this episode the two teams must make machines capable of moving heavy weights.

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  6. Scrapheap Challenge Season 1 Episode 4 - Sub-Aqua
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #6 - Sub-Aqua

    S1:E4

    This week the two teams must make diving rings from the scrap.

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  7. Scrapheap Challenge Season 1 Episode 5 - Powerboats
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #7 - Powerboats

    S1:E5

    In this episode the two teams must make powers boats from the scrap.

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  8. Scrapheap Challenge Season 1 Episode 7 - Final: Rockets
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #8 - Final: Rockets

    S1:E7

    In this episode the teams must build rockets from the scrap to see who's can go the highest.

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  9. Scrapheap Challenge Season 2 Episode 2 - Cannons
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #9 - Cannons

    S2:E2

    In this episode the two teams must create fully functional cannons

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  10. Scrapheap Challenge Season 2 Episode 3 - Amphibious Vehicles
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #10 - Amphibious Vehicles

    S2:E3

    Robert Llewellyn and co-presenter Cathy Rogers unveil a doubly hard challenge - build a car that thinks it's a boat!

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  11. Scrapheap Challenge Season 2 Episode 4 - Land Yachts
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #11 - Land Yachts

    S2:E4

    The teams are asked to build a yacht, but not one for the high seas - a land yacht capable of carrying the entire team. The winners will sail through to the semi-finals.

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  12. Scrapheap Challenge Season 2 Episode 5 - Mileage Marathon
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - Mileage Marathon

    S2:E5

    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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  13. Scrapheap Challenge Season 2 Episode 6 - Marine Salvage
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - Marine Salvage

    S2:E6

    The challenge is to build a salvage machine capable of raising a Mini from the bottom of a murky lake and park it safely in a car park.

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  14. Scrapheap Challenge Season 2 Episode 7 - Final: Walking Machines
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - Final: Walking Machines

    S2:E7

    The teams are challenged to make a walking machine: the winning contraption must carry the whole team and a heavy safe across a haphazard obstacle course.

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  15. Scrapheap Challenge Season 3 Episode 1 - Demolition
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - Demolition

    S3:E1

    The teams each have to build a machine capable of demolishing a set of industrial outbuildings at an old power station in Norwich. Sadly, no explosives are allowed, but they manage all the same. The Beach Boys, a group of twentysomething surfers, decide on a straightforward, human-powered battering ram, and do something no other team has ever managed — they finish building before time is up. The Chaos Crew keeps the Junkyard Wars tradition alive, with a great, big, nasty-looking machine. They build a big hydraulic claw that can rip down walls.

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  16. Scrapheap Challenge Season 3 Episode 2 - Aerial Bomber
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Aerial Bomber

    S3:E2

    Teams must build a nonpiloted flying vehicle that can accurately drop paint bombs on a target on the ground. Both teams need to go with radio-controlled vehicles, but that's where the similarities end. Three Revs a Minute are three trainee ministers (Get it? Revs?) who decide to build a working model airplane. Their opponents, The Mothers of Invention, go for a big blimp made of Mylar. The challenge begins at 3 a.m., since both teams want to avoid any wind.

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  17. Scrapheap Challenge Season 3 Episode 3 - Underwater Chariot
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - Underwater Chariot

    S3:E3

    In this challenge, The N.E.R.D.S. (New England Rubbish Deconstruction Society) — the first American team to compete in the show — take on The Dipsticks, three undersea-oil-drilling platform engineers. The task of the day turns out to be a minisubmarine, which can pull two scuba-clad divers around an underwater obstacle course. The Dipsticks create an elaborate vehicle to ride in. The N.E.R.D.S. stick to their KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) philosophy and build a James-Bond-style diver tow, a submersible engine and a propeller, which pulls the divers behind it.

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  18. Scrapheap Challenge Season 3 Episode 4 - Windmill
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Windmill

    S3:E4

    The Techno-Teachers go up against The Manic Mechanics to see who can harness the forces of Mother Nature and build a windmill to power a machine crucial to life as we know it — a coffee grinder! One team constructs a conventional fan-bladed windmill, while their opponents go for a vertical-axis Savonious rotor. Quick on-screen sketches reveal which is best for which wind conditions. But a half-hour before the competition, the weather services release a gale warning, forcing one team to clip the blades off their windmill for fear of having them ripped off. But at competition time, the wind doesn't get over 2 miles per hour.

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  19. Scrapheap Challenge Season 3 Episode 5 - Missile Launcher
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Missile Launcher

    S3:E5

    This time, a team called Filth goes up against the winner of Demolition (Chaos Crew or Beach Boys) to design and build a machine that can throw a rugby football as far as possible using only their own muscle power, so no motors allowed. They have to create something that can store muscle power gradually, then release it in a controlled burst. Filth decides to ignore their expert and creates a huge cross-bow-type machine. The other team decides to pump up an air cannon to shoot the ball. And while the winner can't be revealed, one team captain manages to throw his rugby ball farther than his machine could.

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  20. Scrapheap Challenge Season 3 Episode 6 - Bridging Machines
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Bridging Machines

    S3:E6

    Brothers in Arms go up against the winner of Bomber (3 Revs a Minute or Mothers of Invention) in a challenge to build a vehicle that can carry all four members across a 30-foot ravine. The vehicle must also be capable of both deploying a bridge and retrieving it once the team is across. The Brothers go for a van-based bridger, while their opponents use bikes.

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  21. Scrapheap Challenge Season 3 Episode 7 - Giant Mower
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - Giant Mower

    S3:E7

    There's an acre of wheat to cut and collect. This semifinal Junkyard challenge sends the competitors down to the farm to see who can build the best mower. One team turns a taxicab into a take-no-prisoners lawnmower, while their opponents turn a pickup truck into a harvester. Amid lots of smoke and chugging, both teams' machines "buy the farm." The winning machine is an impromptu scythe made out of a foot of metal.

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  22. Scrapheap Challenge Season 3 Episode 8 - Steam-Powered Car
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Steam-Powered Car

    S3:E8

    In the second semifinal match, the challenge is to make a vehicle that drives on steam power. One team finds a weird little three-wheeled car and adds a steam engine, their opponents decide to build a dragster. But don't think that these machines will be on the roads anytime soon. A broken drive shaft on one car has to be welded back together mid-race, while the other car has no brakes, and must be thrown into reverse to make it up hills.

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  23. Scrapheap Challenge Season 3 Episode 9 - Final: Fireboat
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Final: Fireboat

    S3:E9

    In the championship match, the two surviving teams see who can build a boat that will go across a lake and put out a fire in a burning building. One team builds a Land-Rover-based fireboat with an amazing pump, but their boat is less maneuverable than they'd like. The other team's pump is not as strong, and their boat keeps taking on water.

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  24. Scrapheap Challenge Season 3 Episode 10 - Grand Final: Dragster
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - Grand Final: Dragster

    S3:E10

    Drag racing. Nothing gets a Junkyard Warrior's blood stirring like sheer speed. In this special match-up, the Season 3 champs go up against last year's winner to see who can go as fast as possible while staying on the ground. The champs go for a classic dragster car, but when their gearbox blows up, they have to flip the back axle upside down, making reverse gear push the car forward. Last year's winners go for a trike, which increases the possible speed, but takes much more precision to build.

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  25. Scrapheap Challenge Season 3 Episode 11 - Christmas Special: Car Crusher
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - Christmas Special: Car Crusher

    S3:E11

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Best Episodes Summary

"Hovercraft" is the best rated episode of "Scrapheap Challenge". It scored 8.4/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/12/1998. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Flying Machines".