Something wicked this way comes.

Tom Hanks is unlikely inspiration for an engineering game show; he's best known for storming the beaches of Normandy and eating a box of chocolates. However, it was his orbiting antics in Apollo 13 that sparked an idea in the head of TV producer Cathy Rogers - 'What about a show in which members of the public try to build working machines from junk?' Lo and behold Scrapheap Challenge was born! The rest, as they say... is a cliche. The Emmy nominated hit entertainment show where teams have just one day to build incredible machines using only materials they find on the scrapheap. Scapehead Challenge is the most popular weekly program on ABC2, with a peak audience of 91,000. Hosted by Robert Llewellyn (of Red Dwarf fame) and Cathy Rogers.