NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Urinals and Wedgwood Jasperware
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 2/27/2022
It's the semi-final and the potters are left feeling flushed as they make fully functional urinals, before recreating the iconic Wedgwood Jasperware, for a place in the final
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6.6/1022 votesLoading...#2 - Native American Acoma Pottery & an Alabama Ring Bottle
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 2/28/2021
It's an all-American-themed quarter-final, and the remaining potters make Acoma pottery fired in cow dung and throw an Alabama ring bottle for a place in the semi-final.
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6.7/107 votesLoading...#3 - Staffordshire Flatbacks and a Surprise Challenge
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/2024
The remaining potters make Staffordshire flatbacks and face a close shave in a surprise challenge. But whose mantlepiece classic will take pride of place, and who will be left on the shelf?
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6.8/106 votesLoading...#4 - Bathroom Week
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 3/3/2024
In a bathroom-themed semi-final, the potters take on the infamous toilet challenge. Who'll take the plunge for a place in the final, and who'll be left with that sinking feeling?
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7.0/106 votesLoading...#5 - 1960s Glazed Vessels & Repeating Patterns
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 2/6/2022
It's back to the Swinging Sixties, as the potters create a psychedelic pair of highly decorative glazed vessels, before guest judge Orla Kiely tests their repeating-pattern skills
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7.0/109 votesLoading...#6 - Trio of Birds and Hot Water Bottle Challenge
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/2023
It's Retro Week, and Siobhán McSweeney takes the remaining potters back in time as they make a trio of flying birds and tackle an old-fashioned hot water bottle surprise challenge.
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7.0/1011 votesLoading...#7 - Roast Dinner Set and Identical Side Plates
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2024
As the battle of clay kicks off at the wheel, the potters make a roast dinner set and identical side plates that must survive the bucket of doom. Who will get roasted and who will get served?
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7.1/109 votesLoading...#8 - Birthday Tea Set and Handleless Jug
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2023
The potters take on a birthday tea set challenge, and a surprise second challenge that sees them making handleless milk jugs that must survive the bucket of doom
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7.2/106 votesLoading...#9 - Water Features and Hedgehog Houses
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2024
It's Garden Week and the potters create cascading water features and hedgehog houses. Whose structure will the judges be gushing over, and who will be hedging their bets?
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7.2/106 votesLoading...#10 - Novelty Teapots and Majolica Mugs
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/2024
It's teatime and the potters make novelty teapots and majolica decorated mugs. Plus, it's the return of the bucket of doom... but will it be a storm in a teacup? And whose brew will get them through?
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7.2/106 votesLoading...#11 - Vintage Water Filters and a Coffee Filter
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/2024
It's the quarter-final and the potters make vintage-style water filters fired in their own oil drum kilns and throw a coffee filter. Who'll bring the heat with semi-final-worthy filters?
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7.3/1021 votesLoading...#12 - Multi-Coloured Slip Cast & Blindfolded Throwing
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/2020
Melanie Sykes hosts as the remaining potters face a multi-coloured slip cast challenge to make two vases, and a blindfolded throwing challenge to throw the widest bowl.
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7.3/1020 votesLoading...#13 - Fruit Bowls & a Blindfolded Throw Down
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/24/2021
The remaining potters get fruity when they're challenged to make a bowl full of realistic ceramic fruits, and face a blindfolded throw down with a twist
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7.3/1019 votesLoading...#14 - Terracotta Week
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 2/14/2021
It's Terracotta Week in the pottery, and the potters are tasked to make their own range of cookware. Judge Rich Miller sets a second terracotta challenge to engrave tiles.
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7.4/1021 votesLoading...#15 - Matching Lamp Bases & a Ceramic Challenge
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/5/2020
The eight remaining potters are challenged to build a pair of matching lamp bases, hoping to impress judges Sue Pryke and Keith Brymer Jones. Later, guest judge Emma Bridgewater drops in to set an emotional ceramic challenge for the contestants.
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7.4/1020 votesLoading...#16 - Music Legend Busts & Mini Musical Instruments
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 2/7/2021
It's Music Week and the remaining potters sculpt a life-like bust of a music legend, receive a surprise special message from an iconic artist, and make mini musical instruments
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7.5/1038 votesLoading...#17 - Episode 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/3/2015
The search for a top potter begins with a four-day assignment to make stackable kitchen bowls from lumps of earthenware clay.
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#18 - Episode 1
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/2/2017
Ten home potters compete to become the new champion of British pottery. They must test their technical prowess in front of a special guest judge, ceramic designer Emma Bridgewater.
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7.5/1021 votesLoading...#19 - Raku & Animal Figurines
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/2020
Melanie Sykes hosts as the remaining potters tackle raku firing, hand-build two animal figurines and face the tricky ceramic technique of nerikomi
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7.5/1021 votesLoading...#20 - Nude Greek Statues & Greek Jugs
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/2020
It's Greek Week, and the remaining contestants are challenged to sculpt a nude Greek statue and throw Greek jugs at the wheel. Judges Keith Brymer Jones and Sue Pryke decide who will be potter of the week, and who will be leaving the competition.
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7.5/1020 votesLoading...#21 - Handmade Tiles & a Chimney
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 2/19/2020
Melanie Sykes hosts as the six remaining potters are challenged to produce handmade tiles for a fireplace and to throw a chimney for a place in the quarter-final.
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7.5/1019 votesLoading...#22 - Ginger Jars & a Scraffito Challenge
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 2/26/2020
Melanie Sykes hosts the quarter-final as the remaining five potters make two ginger jars and face a Scraffito challenge spot test for a place in the semi-final.
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7.5/1018 votesLoading...#23 - Victorian Week & a Fully Functioning Toilet
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 3/4/2020
Melanie Sykes hosts a Victorian-themed semi-final. The potters face their biggest challenge yet... to produce a fully functioning toilet for a place in the final.
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7.5/1023 votesLoading...#24 - 3D Slab-Build & Handmade Bricks
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/2021
It's all about bricks and mortar, as the 11 remaining potters slab-build a 3D building and, in a Throw Down first, judge Rich Miller tasks the potters with handmaking bricks
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7.5/108 votesLoading...#25 - Raku Week and Animal Busts
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/2024
It's Raku week and the potters create animal busts before taking on guest judge Jacqui Atkin's decorative challenge. Who will the judges go wild for and name potter of the week?
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The Worst Episodes of The Great Pottery Throw Down
Every episode of The Great Pottery Throw Down ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Great Pottery Throw Down!
Ten home potters from around the country head to Stoke-on-Trent, the home of pottery, in their quest to become Top Potter.
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Urinals and Wedgwood Jasperware" is the worst rated episode of "The Great Pottery Throw Down". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/27/2022. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Native American Acoma Pottery & an Alabama Ring Bottle".