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
Cathy Rogers During the same period, she played keyboards and sang vocals in the twee pop group Heavenly. In 1995 Rogers moved to the independent production company RDF Media, where she helped devise and produced the popular Channel 4 technology reality game show "Scrapheap Challenge", known in North America as "Junkyard Wars". She appeared onscreen as co-presenter of "Scrapheap Challenge" from the second series onwards until 2001 when Lisa Rogers (no relation) took over, and of "Junkyard Wars" for the first three series until replaced by Karyn Bryant. She also created and hosted a related programme, "Full Metal Challenge". She continued her