Episode guide
Scrapheap Challenge: Season 4
14 episodes · premiered Sep 9, 2001
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- Episode 1: Egg Shooter Sep 9, 2001 The new series kicks off with our barmiest challenge yet: to build a machine that will fire an ostrich egg as far as possible and bring it back to earth in one piece. The machines must be…
- Episode 2: Monster Truck Sep 16, 2001 The challenge for the second heat is to build a 'monster truck' and drive it around an 'S'-shaped course in a dirt oval. The trucks will have to climb dirt hillocks and crush a line of…
- Episode 3: Torpedos Sep 23, 2001 This week's challenge is to torpedo the opposition. Each team must build re-usable torpedoes that run just under the surface of the water, like the torpedoes used to attack boats (rather…
- Episode 4: Street Cleaner Sep 30, 2001 The teams have to build a four-man machine to clean up litter. Different kinds of rubbish (such as old cans, plastic bottles, newspapers, cardboard, old clothes and bin liners) will be…
- Episode 5: White Water Rider Oct 7, 2001 The challenge is to build a powered craft to negotiate a stretch of white-water river. The craft must be powerful enough to get up the rapids but also have enough manoeuvrability to avoid…
- Episode 6: Snowmobile Oct 14, 2001 The challenge is to build a one-man snowmobile. The test course, in the Mammoth Mountains, northern California, is circular with a 300-metre diameter. Each team has 10 minutes; the winner…
- Episode 7: Mobile Crane Oct 21, 2001 This challenge is to build mobile cranes to lift and carry scrap down a course to a drop-off point. Each piece of scrap is allocated a points value relating to its weight or awkwardness…
- Episode 8: Minesweeper Oct 28, 2001 This week's challenge is to build minesweepers.The test is over two rounds. In round one, each team is given 10 minutes to destroy as many paint-bomb mines as possible in a minefield…
- Episode 9: Hill Climber Nov 4, 2001 The challenge this week is to build a one-man hill climber. The teams will have three attempts to scale a 360ft slope with a 1:2 gradient. The team that makes it to the top the most times…
- Episode 10: Tunneller Nov 11, 2001 At vast expense, this week we have constructed our very own Wormwood Scraps Prison. The challenge facing the teams is to build tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) to break out and into the…
- Episode 11: Final: Hydrofoil Nov 18, 2001 The ultimate challenge in this series is to build a hydrofoil a boat with wing-like structures underneath its hull to lift the hull out of the water at speed. The team with the fastest…
- Episode 12: Grand Final: Car Jousting Nov 25, 2001 The champions' challenge is to take an ordinary car and convert it into a radio-controlled fighting machine. In the contest, points are scored for hitting targets on the opposing machine…
- Episode 13: Christmas Special: Scrapheap Mega Challenge: All-Terrain Marathon Dec 23, 2001 The mega challenge is to build a hybrid machine to face a two-day triathlon. Stage one is flat out on the salt-flats. Stage two is in a canyon littered with giant boulders. And stage three…
- Episode 14: Rusty Awards