Scrapheap Challenge

Flying Machines

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

Cannons

In this episode the two teams must create fully functional cannons

Amphibious Vehicles

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

Land Yachts

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

Mileage Marathon

The first of the Scrapheap Challenge semi-finals, where two teams are challenged to build a vehicle to travel as far as

Marine Salvage

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

Final: Walking Machines

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

Demolition

The teams each have to build a machine capable of demolishing a set of industrial outbuildings at an old power station i

Aerial Bomber

Teams must build a nonpiloted flying vehicle that can accurately drop paint bombs on a target on the ground. Both teams

Underwater Chariot

In this challenge, The N.E.R.D.S. (New England Rubbish Deconstruction Society) — the first American team to compete in

Windmill

The Techno-Teachers go up against The Manic Mechanics to see who can harness the forces of Mother Nature and build a win

Missile Launcher

This time, a team called Filth goes up against the winner of Demolition (Chaos Crew or Beach Boys) to design and build a

Bridging Machines

Brothers in Arms go up against the winner of Bomber (3 Revs a Minute or Mothers of Invention) in a challenge to build a

Giant Mower

There's an acre of wheat to cut and collect. This semifinal Junkyard challenge sends the competitors down to the farm to

Steam-Powered Car

In the second semifinal match, the challenge is to make a vehicle that drives on steam power. One team finds a weird lit

Final: Fireboat

In the championship match, the two surviving teams see who can build a boat that will go across a lake and put out a fir

Grand Final: Dragster

Drag racing. Nothing gets a Junkyard Warrior's blood stirring like sheer speed. In this special match-up, the Season 3 c

Christmas Special: Car Crusher

Egg Shooter

The new series kicks off with our barmiest challenge yet: to build a machine that will fire an ostrich egg as far as pos

Monster Truck

The challenge for the second heat is to build a 'monster truck' and drive it around an 'S'-shaped course in a dirt oval.

Torpedos

This week's challenge is to torpedo the opposition. Each team must build re-usable torpedoes that run just under the sur

Street Cleaner

The teams have to build a four-man machine to clean up litter. Different kinds of rubbish (such as old cans, plastic bot

White Water Rider

The challenge is to build a powered craft to negotiate a stretch of white-water river. The craft must be powerful enough

Snowmobile

The challenge is to build a one-man snowmobile. The test course, in the Mammoth Mountains, northern California, is circu

Mobile Crane

This challenge is to build mobile cranes to lift and carry scrap down a course to a drop-off point. Each piece of scrap

Minesweeper

This week's challenge is to build minesweepers.The test is over two rounds. In round one, each team is given 10 minutes

Hill Climber

The challenge this week is to build a one-man hill climber. The teams will have three attempts to scale a 360ft slope wi

Tunneller

At vast expense, this week we have constructed our very own Wormwood Scraps Prison. The challenge facing the teams is to

Final: Hydrofoil

The ultimate challenge in this series is to build a hydrofoil ­ a boat with wing-like structures underneath its hull to

Grand Final: Car Jousting

The champions' challenge is to take an ordinary car and convert it into a radio-controlled fighting machine. In the cont

Christmas Special: Scrapheap Mega Challenge: All-Terrain Marathon

The mega challenge is to build a hybrid machine to face a two-day triathlon. Stage one is flat out on the salt-flats. St

Rusty Awards

Mud Monsters

The first test of the new series was a closely fought three-round contest. The Barleys won the first round convincingly,

Hovercraft

This week saw a remarkable comeback by the Martial Mechanics, proving once again that nothing is certain on Scrapheap. T

Rapid Fire

This week sees two new teams battling to become the fastest golf-ball guns on the scrapheap. The day started badly for

Blind Navigation

Academics get stuck in a maze This week the teams have been asked to map uncharted territory. The Hammerlocks, a team of

Railroad Racer

Clockwork Cars

Smooth Rider

Monowheel

Tugs of War

Digger

The Coventry wrestlers and the Hammerlocks have to dig deep - the challenge is to build a machine that can dig up as muc

Final: Destroyer

Grand Final: Car Flinger

Best of Scrapheap Challenge Series 5

A chance to see some of the funniest, most ridiculous and memorable moments of Scrapheap Challenge.

Christmas Special: Scrapheap Mega Challenge: Aeroplanes

Wheelie Cars

Bomb Disposal Vehicles

Backpack Cars

Amphibious Motorbikes

Ice Racers

Giant Dart Throwers

Jet Powered Cars

Super Slick Speedboats

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Fire Engines

Car Curling

Final: Tanks

Grand Final: Grand Prix Racers

Best of Scrapheap Challenge Series 6

Robert Llewellyn and Lisa Rogers present the Golden Sprocket awards - the glitziest occasion in the scrap-metal calendar

Christmas Special: The Cold War

Sand-Racers

In the first of the new series, Scrapheap takes to the dusty dunes of a Guildford sand quarry as a team of hot-blooded L

Dam Buster

A brave-hearted bunch of Scottish boffins take on a rabble of right-on rickshaw riders in an epic Scrapheap battle. Foll

Bowling Bangers

This week, Geneva-based expats the Up 'n Atoms face up to the REME Rebels, an all-girl team of army-tank tinkerers in on

Off Road Rescue

The Challenge This week's challenge is to build off-road rescue machines capable of lifting a hampered hatchback from a

Jet Boat

The Challenge This week's challenge is to build jet-powered speed boats that are both agile and fast. The teams will be

Propeller Car

The Challenge This week our teams will have to earn their Scrapheap wings! Norfolk bikers, The Thirsty Knights, and Hon

Power Rower

The Challenge Power Rowers Scrapheap goes back to the water for the latest challenge as The Anoraks take on Maximus. I

Spy Cars

The Challenge Spy Cars The last quarter-final mission, should our challengers choose to accept it, is to build a steal

Landing Craft

The Challenge The Thirsty Knights of Norfolk and the Belfast boys Hairy Hogs go head to head as two teams of bikers bat

Flaming Flingers

Final: Roman Motor-Chariot

Grand Final: Juggernauts

Grand final.

Best of Scrapheap Challenge Series 7

A look back at the series' best bits of bodging, as Robert Llewellyn and Lisa Rogers present 'The Rusties': Scrapheap Ch

Top Ten Machines

Favourite Fast Moments

Christmas Special: Locomotives

Special edition of the engineering challenge, celebrating the 200th anniversary of Richard Trevithick's invention of the

Underwater Cars

The challenge In this first episode of the new series, Scrapheap is off to marvellous Margate where a team of forklifti

Kung Fu Cars

The challenge This week's Scrapheap Challenge is a test to see who can become a champion martial mechanic by building a

Sharp Shooters

The challenge This week’s Scrapheap Challenge is a test to see who can build the most extreme rapid-fire arrow launch

AC/DC Dairy Dash

The challenge Cornish, classic Jag lovers the Beasts of Bodmin take on The 7s, a team of easy-going Essex bikers. In an

Drag Boats

Car Fishing

Polar Pinball

Caber Tossers

Steeplechase

Monster Drag Racing

Final: Rock Crawler

Grand Final: Flying Machines

Best of Scrapheap Challenge Series 8

Christmas Special: Scrapheap Mega Challenge: Warships

Scrapheap Challenge Roadshow 1: Tomato Toss

Punkin' Chunk

Human Cannonballs

The Vikings, a team of Dark Ages battle re-enactment enthusiasts from Salisbury, face off against the Beach Bums, a team

Monster Trikes

The Engineering Eggheads, a team of mechanical engineering students from University College London, compete with the Dig

Muscle Trains

Plymouth's Super Subs vie with Sweet Chariots, a group of rugby players, to construct a train they has powered by the te

Snowmobiles

Suffolk builders The Cement Mixers, and Dorset cab drivers The Turbo Taxis build and race snowmobiles.

Giant Skateboards

In this episode The Extinguishers must face The Steaming Scots to see who can build the better Giant Skateboard.

Mechanical Mortars

In this episode Woof Justice take on The Bus Boys in a race to create the most accurate and more mobile Mechanical Morta

Airboats

In this episode The Beach Bums face The Diggers to see who can build the better Airboat.

Skid Pan Sumo

This week The Turbo Taxi's and The Super Subs have to make mechanical sumo cars that are capable of pushing the other te

Earth Movers

In the first semi-final the Beach Bums face the Extinguishers to see who can make the best machine capable of moving mou

Drag Sleds

In the second semi-final Woof Justice face the Turbo Taxi's for a place in the final by building the fastest Drag Sled.

Final: Swamp Racers

In the final of this series Woof Justice take on the Beach Bums to see who can make the better swamp racer and become th

Grand Final: Dozers

In the Grand Final, this series' winners Woof Justice take on last series' winners the Powerlifters to build Bulldozers

Christmas Special: Paddle Boats

In this Scrapheap special a team from the UK faces a team from the US to make Paddle Boats from scrap to commemorate the

Scrapheap Challenge Roadshow 2: Sofa Speedway

16 teams fight to make the best vehicles out of anything they like so expect some rather silly looking vehicles.

Scrapheap Challenge Roadshow 3: Welly Wanging

In this episode the Scrapheap Roadshow moves on and Welly Wanging is the objective and once again 16 teams battle it out

Scrapheap Retrospective: Series 9

Robert and Lisa present a look at the highlights of this years series.

Scrap Speed Record

To get the series off to a smashing start, the first episode challenges the teams to break one of Scrapheap's longest-st

Scooter Shooters

This week's mechanical migraine promises to be a Scrapheap classic. The teams must build contraptions to throw a 100-kil

Superbikes

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

Decoration Dash

It's a decorator's dream as two teams compete to build a mobile painting machine capable of decorating a house from a di

Dune Bashers

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

Powerboats

The teams compete to build wave-pounding power boats capable of skimming across the Scrapheap lake. And it's not as easy

Rocket Railway

Inspired by the sleds used to test supersonic planes and spacecraft, the teams are challenged to build a superfast railw

Fire Fighters

The teams are challenged to build fire engines in just 10 hours. They have to complete a tight course in the fastest pos

Snow Shifters

The teams are challenged to build super snow shifting machines as well as having to race up a ten-degree slope in temper

Savvy Salvaging

This challenge tests the teams' underwater ingenuity as they build a salvage machine from a stockpile of scrap in order

Final: Land Tugs

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

Grand Final: Manphibious Madness

It's the grand final of Scrapheap Challenge and the Rusty Regiment go head-to-head with Woof Justice for 2008's Rings of

10th Anniversary Special: Hover Bother

A blast from the past, taking inspiration from the very first episode, when two teams were challenged to race makeshift

Scrapheap Challenge Roadshow 4: Dragsters

Sixteen teams of backyard bodgers from around the UK battle it out for the chance to take on the crème de la crème of

Scrapheap Challenge Roadshow 5: Ballistas

Teams from around the country have been challenged to build giant mechanical bows capable of launching four-foot arrows,

10 Years on the Heap

Robert Llewellyn looks back over the highlights of a decade on the heap with the presenters, experts and contestants who

Scrapheap Retrospective: Series 10

Chariots 1

Stuck in the Mud 1

Water Power 1

Blow Football 1

Medieval Thrower 1

Monster Golf 1

Super Surfboards 1

Mobile Mortars 1

Caber Tossing 1

Chariots 2

Stuck In the Mud 2

Water Power 2

Blow Football 2

Medieval Thrower 2

Monster Golf 2

Super Surfboards 2

Mobile Mortars 2

Caber Tossing 2

Semi Final

Grand Final

Chariots

Off-road mine-retrieval machines

Water Powered Racers

Football machines

Ice Racers

Giant Darts

Jet Cars

Speedboats

Fire Engines

Car Curlers

Tanks

Grand Prix