The WORST episodes of The Great Pottery Throw Down
Every episode of The Great Pottery Throw Down ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Great Pottery Throw Down!
Twelve of Britain's best home potters compete to be crowned best at the wheel.
#2 - Multi-Coloured Slip Cast & Blindfolded Throwing
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/2020
Judge Sue Pryke sets a multi-coloured slip cast challenge to make two vases, before the competitors take part in a blindfolded throwing challenge. Who will be named potter of the week, and who will leave the pottery?
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#6 - Ginger Jars & a Scraffito Challenge
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/26/2020
In the quarter-final, the five remaining potter face two tough challenges, including producing two ginger jars around a pit fire. Back in the pottery, judges Sue Pryke and Keith Brymer Jones set the potters a Scraffito challenge spot test.
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#9 - Abstract Coffee Set and Rice Bowls
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/26/2023
It's the quarter-final, and the remaining five potters face an altered reality as they throw and radically alter an abstract coffee set. The bucket of doom returns as judges Keith and Rich set a second challenge to throw multiple high-footed rice bowls under pressure, but who will secure an all-important place in the semi-final?
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#13 - Episode 2
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/9/2017
It is week two and the nine remaining potters face three more tough challenges, set by judges Keith Brymer Jones and Kate Malone. In the throw down challenge, king of the wheel Keith demonstrates how to build a double-walled pot, but against the clock, which potter can produce the goods? Their spot test is handles, and the potters get to grips with pulling to create handles for a set of three casserole dishes. And finally, the main make challenge this week is to hand-build a large clock, slab rolling large amounts of clay to shape, then raw glaze and fire them to produce beautiful ceramic timepieces. But whose clock will win pot of the week and take their place in the winner's gallery? And whose time will be up and have to leave the competition?
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#15 - Episode 5
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/2/2017
In week five, the six remaining potters head to Stoke on Trent, all striving to win pot of the week. In the throw down, the potters rush to make as many goblets as they can in 15 minutes. Any that fail to meet the judges' exacting standards will be thrown into the bin of doom. Kate Malone chooses the spot test, as the potters must hand coil a jug to look like a piece of fruit. In the main make, the potters must throw two giant vases. For the first time in the competition, they are using one of the most exhilarating techniques in ceramics - pit firing. This ancient method of firing is one of the most unpredictable techniques in ceramics and requires the potters to head to the Staffordshire countryside to camp out overnight. Who will emerge from the camping adventure triumphant? And who will be heading home?
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#17 - Music Legend Busts & Mini Musical Instruments
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/7/2021
It's Music Week in the pottery, as the remaining potters sculpt a life-like bust of a music legend, kick starting with a surprise special message from an iconic artist. The potters then face a fiddly second challenge to make a mini musical instrument, before judges Rich Miller and Keith Brymer Jones decide who will be named potter of the week and who will be heading home.
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#20 - Terracotta Cookware & Engraved Tiles
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/14/2021
It's Terracotta Week in the pottery, and the potters are tasked to make their own range of cookware. Judge Rich Miller sets a second terracotta challenge to engrave tiles, before he and fellow judge Keith Brymer Jones decide who will be potter of the week and who will be leaving the competition. Siobhan McSweeney hosts.
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#23 - Matching Lamp Bases & a Ceramic Challenge
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/5/2020
The eight remaining potters are challenged to build a pair of matching lamp bases, hoping to impress judges Sue Pryke and Keither Brymer Jones. Later, guest judge Emma Bridgewater drops in to set an emotional ceramic challenge for the contestants.
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#24 - Native American Acoma Pottery & an Alabama Ring Bottle
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/28/2021
It's the quarter-final, and the remaining potters face a challenge inspired by Native American Acoma pottery that involves firing their pots in cow dung. Judges Rich Miller and Keith Brymer Jones set a tricky second challenge to throw an Alabama ring bottle in this all-American week, but who will secure an all-important place in the semi-final?
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