Scrapheap Challenge events. Examples of challenges included making a jet car, a bridging machine, a car-crusher, and a machine to fling a British Leyland Mini as far as possible. Assistant producer Eve Kay had the idea for the show after watching a scene in the movie "Apollo 13", where NASA engineers had only a short period of time to construct a carbon dioxide filter out of parts available on the space capsule. The show also draws its inspiration from the 1980s TV series "The Great Egg Race". The UK show was originally presented by Robert Llewellyn, joined in series 2-4 by producer
William Windom (actor) William Windom (actor) William Windom (September 28, 1923 – August 16, 2012) was an American actor. He was perhaps best known for his work on television, including two episodes of "The Twilight Zone". He portrayed Glen Morley, a fictional congressman from Minnesota (a role based on Windom's own Republican great-grandfather and namesake), in the three-season sitcom "The Farmer's Daughter", co-starring Inger Stevens as the nanny for his children. Windom also achieved fame as the character of cartoonist John Monroe on the sitcom "My World and Welcome to It," for which he won an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a