The Great Egg Race

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.

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 253678
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired January 2, 1979
  • Recent September 12, 1986
  • Network BBC BBC Two
  • Average Runtime 29 minutes
  • Genres Game Show
  • Original Country Great Britain
  • Original Language English
  • On Other Sites IMDB
  • Episode Screenshot Format 4:3 Screencap
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  • Created November 16, 2011 by
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  • Modified March 23, 2024 by
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Season From To Episodes
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Specials 0
Season 1 January 1979 January 1979 3
Season 3 May 1981 1
Season 4 April 1982 June 1982 9
Season 5 August 1983 October 1983 9
Season 6 June 1984 July 1984 3
Season 7 May 1985 June 1985 9
Season 8 June 1986 September 1986 9
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
Unassigned Episodes 43
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Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 43

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Name Number of Episodes Dates
Julie Harrup 5 05/03/1985 - 09/05/1986
Patrick Titley 3 06/12/1984 - 07/10/1984
Max Whitby 1 09/06/1983
Brian Davies 1 05/05/1981
Roy Norton 1 01/02/1979

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