Season 4 poster

Season 4

(2001)

Episodes

Egg Shooter poster

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September 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 po…

Monster Truck poster

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September 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…

Torpedos poster

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September 23, 2001

This week's challenge is to torpedo the opposition. Each team must build re-usable torpedoes that run just under the su…

Street Cleaner poster

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September 30, 2001

The teams have to build a four-man machine to clean up litter. Different kinds of rubbish (such as old cans, plastic bo…

White Water Rider poster

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October 7, 2001

The challenge is to build a powered craft to negotiate a stretch of white-water river. The craft must be powerful enoug…

Snowmobile poster

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October 14, 2001

The challenge is to build a one-man snowmobile. The test course, in the Mammoth Mountains, northern California, is circ…

Mobile Crane poster

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October 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…

Minesweeper poster

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October 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…

Hill Climber poster

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November 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 w…

Tunneller poster

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November 11, 2001

At vast expense, this week we have constructed our very own Wormwood Scraps Prison. The challenge facing the teams is t…

Final: Hydrofoil poster

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November 18, 2001

The ultimate challenge in this series is to build a hydrofoil ­ a boat with wing-like structures underneath its hull to…

Grand Final: Car Jousting poster

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November 25, 2001

The champions' challenge is to take an ordinary car and convert it into a radio-controlled fighting machine. In the con…

Christmas Special: Scrapheap Mega Challenge: All-Terrain Marathon poster

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December 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. S…

Rusty Awards poster

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