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
Henry Jones (actor) role was as the title character's father-in-law in the 1970s CBS sitcom "Phyllis". Jones portrayed Jed McCoy on a 1961 episode of the ABC sitcom, "The Real McCoys", starring Walter Brennan, with fellow guest stars Pat Buttram and Jane Darwell as Cousin Carl and "Grandma McCoy", respectively. In the story line, the California McCoys return to West Virginia for Grandmother McCoy's 100th birthday. He had a regular role on the ABC drama "Channing", with Jason Evers. Jones also appeared on "Appointment with Adventure", "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "The Eleventh Hour", "Bewitched", "Night Gallery", "Emergency!," "The Mod Squad," "Daniel Boone", "Gunsmoke," "The