Scrapheap Challenge - Season 7 - Eps 2: Dam Buster
A brave-hearted bunch of Scottish boffins take on a rabble of right-on rickshaw riders in an epic Scrapheap battle. Following in the footsteps of Barnes Wallis, their mission, should they choose to accept it, is to manufacture machines that can pitch bouncing bombs across water to breach the Scrapheap dams.
About Scrapheap Challenge
Title: Scrapheap Challenge
First Air Date: 1998-04-12
Last Air Date: 2010-06-27
Status: Ended
Rating: 6.1/10 (from 19 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 13
Total Episodes: 165
Network: Channel 4
Genres: Reality, Action & Adventure
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
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.
Cast
Robert Llewellyn
Lisa Rogers
Dick Strawbridge
