The BEST episodes of Scrapheap Challenge season 10
Every episode of Scrapheap Challenge season 10, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Scrapheap Challenge season 10!
Teams compete to construct junk machines, using what they can scavenge from the scrapheap.
#1 - Scooter Shooters
Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/4/2008
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.
#2 - Scrap Speed Record
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/27/2008
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.
#3 - Rocket Railway
Season 10 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/8/2008
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.
#4 - Snow Shifters
Season 10 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/22/2008
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.
#5 - Land Tugs
Season 10 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/6/2008
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.
#6 - Decoration Dash
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/18/2008
It's a decorator's dream as two teams compete to build a mobile painting machine capable of decorating a house from a distance
#7 - Dune Bashers
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/25/2008
The teams must build super-swift vehicles capable of racing up and over the Scrapheap's very own desert dunes.
#8 - Powerboats
Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/1/2008
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.
#9 - Fire Fighters
Season 10 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/15/2008
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.
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#10 - Manphibious Madness
Season 10 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/13/2008
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
#11 - Speedy Superbikes
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/11/2008
The teams build high speed motorbikes capable of racing each other head-to-head around the twisty Scrapheap circuit.
#12 - Savvy Salvaging
Season 10 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/29/2008
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.
#13 - Hovercraft Bother
Season 10 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/27/2008
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.
#14 - Dragsters
Season 10 - Episode 14 - Aired 8/3/2008
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.
#15 - Ballistas
Season 10 - Episode 15 - Aired 8/10/2008
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.
#16 - 10 Years on the Heap
Season 10 - Episode 16 - Aired 8/10/2008
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.