The Great Egg Race

    Season 4 1982
    TV-G

    • 1982-04-14T23:00:00Z on BBC Two
    • 29m
    • 4h 30m (9 episodes)
    • United Kingdom
    • English
    Teams of university boffins would create weird and frequently Heath-Robinson gadgets out of shockingly scant apparatus in order to crack problems like building bridges to support someone's weight, burglar alarm detectors that people couldn't avoid triggering, or indeed the weekly challenge of transporting an egg over some great distance without breaking it. The programme went through a number of different formats. Originally it was studio based and featured teams trying to race home-made machines as fast as possible without cracking their egg-like cargo. Meanwhile, Professor Heinz Wolff would set three other teams challenges to solve. Over the years, the egg racing was dropped and it became a purely challenge-based programme. Later series broke out of the studio, with challenges varying from building a wave machine to taking a photograph of an oil rig using a kite.

    9 episodes

    Season Premiere

    1982-04-14T23:00:00Z

    4x01 The Egg Poachers

    Season Premiere

    4x01 The Egg Poachers

    • 1982-04-14T23:00:00Z30m

    Problem-solving teams are challenged to design, construct and demonstrate a moving problem with a cracking result.

    1982-04-21T23:00:00Z

    4x02 Badminton

    4x02 Badminton

    • 1982-04-21T23:00:00Z30m

    Problem-solving teams are challenged on how to construct an automatic badminton server.

    1982-04-28T23:00:00Z

    4x03 Music Without Tears

    4x03 Music Without Tears

    • 1982-04-28T23:00:00Z30m

    Problem-solving teams are challenged to do for music what the pocket calculator has done for mathematics, specifically to build a machine to play one or two recorders.

    1982-05-05T23:00:00Z

    4x04 TBA

    4x04 TBA

    • 1982-05-05T23:00:00Z30m

    Problem-solving teams are given three hours to set their sights on a rather unusual target.

    1982-05-12T23:00:00Z

    4x05 Bridge That Gap

    4x05 Bridge That Gap

    • 1982-05-12T23:00:00Z30m

    Problem-solving teams have a narrow ledge, a chasm with a raging torrent below, and no bridge - how to get across?

    1982-05-19T23:00:00Z

    4x06 In One Minute from Now

    4x06 In One Minute from Now

    • 1982-05-19T23:00:00Z30m

    Problem-solving teams are given the problem of designing and building a one-minute ticking clock.

    1982-05-26T23:00:00Z

    4x07 The Big Deal

    4x07 The Big Deal

    • 1982-05-26T23:00:00Z30m

    Problem-solving teams are given a pack of cards to design and construct a machine which will automatically deal four hands of 13 cards.

    1982-06-02T23:00:00Z

    4x08 The Ovipositor

    4x08 The Ovipositor

    • 1982-06-02T23:00:00Z30m

    Problem-solving teams are set the problem of inventing a 'handy' kitchen gadget.

    Season Finale

    1982-06-09T23:00:00Z

    4x09 The Egg Walker

    Season Finale

    4x09 The Egg Walker

    • 1982-06-09T23:00:00Z30m

    Problem-solving teams are set the problem of designing, building and racing an Egg Walker.

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