Scrapheap Challenge - Season 5 - Eps 4: Blind Navigation
Academics get stuck in a maze This week the teams have been asked to map uncharted territory. The Hammerlocks, a team of wrestlers from Coventry, and the Academics Anonymous, a team from Kingston University, have to navigate their way around a 'hostile environment' in a vehicle with the windows blacked out. The Academics seemed to start well but they had a major problem: they couldn't tell when all four wheels of their bus were off the ground or when the bus was level, and this cost them valuable time. They failed to negotiate the first turn in the 'maze', lost their bearings and crashed into the side or the course. Tension was high as the Hammerlocks took their turn in the 'maze'. They also had problems: their navigational devices weren't reliable. However, they were able to crawl their way around the course using a giant mechanical 'feeler' and eventually made it to within a stone's throw of their target - and into the next round!
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
