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The Great Egg Race (1979)

The Great Egg Race poster
Country
United Kingdom
Length
8 seasons, 68 episodes
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Teams compete to build contraptions from limited parts and time. The judges set a problem and the teams have to solve it.

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What happens

The Great Egg Race was a BBC television series, in which problem solving teams are given a challenge to design and build machines using limited resources and time, to solve a problem set by the judges. Sixty-eight episodes were produced and presented by seven presenters over the life of the show which ran for eight series from 1979 to 1986 and was broadcast on BBC 2. The first series consisted of five episodes and series two to eight consisted of nine episodes each. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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