Scrapheap Challenge - Season 5 - Eps 3: Rapid Fire
This week sees two new teams battling to become the fastest golf-ball guns on the scrapheap. The day started badly for the Clean Sweeps. They discovered that their ball-feeding mechanism was jamming and were forced into a last-minute rethink. Unfortunately this turned out to be just the first of their problems. Round one was a test of speed and accuracy, and the Sweeps struggled on both fronts: their aim was wayward and motor problems reduced their rate of fire. The Boat Buoys on the other hand looked the genuine article, delivering a string of balls into the moving target and shooting themselves into the lead in the process. Round two was designed to test the machines' sheer power: the object was to smash a wall of bathroom tiles. The Sweeps were forced to abandon their erratic motor for a cordless drill and, although they made an impact, they were no match for the blazing firepower of the Boat Buoys.
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
