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Scrapheap Challenge - Season 10

Episode List

Scrap Speed Record
E1 - Scrap Speed Record

Aired: April 27, 2008

To get the series off to a smashing start, the first episode challenges the teams to break one of Scrapheap's longest-standing records. Back in series six, The Catalysts set a top speed of 72mph in the Grand Prix Challenge. Now The Rocketeers, a team of pyrotechnicians from Bath, and The Brum Brums, motor mechanics from Birmingham, are challenged to beat that time, in the scrap speed record attempt. Where better to do it than historic Pendine Sands, the spiritual home of British land speed record attempts? The teams are under expert scrutiny as they attempt to race their way into the 'heap record books - this week's judge is two-time land speed record-holder Richard Noble.

Scooter Shooters
E2 - Scooter Shooters

Aired: May 04, 2008

This week's mechanical migraine promises to be a Scrapheap classic. The teams must build contraptions to throw a 100-kilogramme scooter as far as they can, without the help of compressed gas or gunpowder. The Balloonatics, a trio of hot air balloonists from Liverpool, take on The Aquarium Crew, a team of aquarium constructors from Dorset.

Superbikes
E3 - Superbikes

Aired: May 11, 2008

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

Decoration Dash
E4 - Decoration Dash

Aired: May 18, 2008

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

Dune Bashers
E5 - Dune Bashers

Aired: May 25, 2008

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

Powerboats
E6 - Powerboats

Aired: June 01, 2008

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

Rocket Railway
E7 - Rocket Railway

Aired: June 08, 2008

Inspired by the sleds used to test supersonic planes and spacecraft, the teams are challenged to build a superfast railway... but all usual forms of propulsion are banned.

Fire Fighters
E8 - Fire Fighters

Aired: June 15, 2008

The teams are challenged to build fire engines in just 10 hours. They have to complete a tight course in the fastest possible time, extinguishing two burning mock jet engines.

Snow Shifters
E9 - Snow Shifters

Aired: June 22, 2008

The teams are challenged to build super snow shifting machines as well as having to race up a ten-degree slope in temperatures of minus four degrees.

Savvy Salvaging
E10 - Savvy Salvaging

Aired: June 29, 2008

This challenge tests the teams' underwater ingenuity as they build a salvage machine from a stockpile of scrap in order to retrieve lost treasure from the bottom of a mini ocean.

Final: Land Tugs
E11 - Final: Land Tugs

Aired: July 06, 2008

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 jet along.

Grand Final: Manphibious Madness
E12 - Grand Final: Manphibious Madness

Aired: July 13, 2008

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

10th Anniversary Special: Hover Bother
E13 - 10th Anniversary Special: Hover Bother

Aired: July 27, 2008

A blast from the past, taking inspiration from the very first episode, when two teams were challenged to race makeshift hovercraft around the Scrapheap course.

Scrapheap Challenge Roadshow 4: Dragsters
E14 - Scrapheap Challenge Roadshow 4: Dragsters

Aired: August 03, 2008

Sixteen teams of backyard bodgers from around the UK battle it out for the chance to take on the crème de la crème of the engineering world, the Scrapheap Allstars.

Scrapheap Challenge Roadshow 5: Ballistas
E15 - Scrapheap Challenge Roadshow 5: Ballistas

Aired: August 10, 2008

Teams from around the country have been challenged to build giant mechanical bows capable of launching four-foot arrows, making for an archery tournament of epic proportions.

10 Years on the Heap
E16 - 10 Years on the Heap

Aired: August 10, 2008

Robert Llewellyn looks back over the highlights of a decade on the heap with the presenters, experts and contestants who've made the show such a success.

Scrapheap Retrospective: Series 10
E17 - Scrapheap Retrospective: Series 10

Aired: August 10, 2008