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The Great Egg Race
GenreGame show
Presented by
  • Brian Cant (Series 1)
  • Charlotte Allen (Series 1 & 4)
  • Johnny Ball (Series 2)
  • Hilary Henson (Series 2-3)
  • Heinz Wolff (Series 5-8)
  • Lesley Judd (Series 6)
  • Howard Stableford (Series 8)
Theme music composer
  • Richard Denton
  • Martin Cook
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series8
No. of episodes68 (list of episodes)
Production
Producers
  • Peter Bruce (Series 1-4)
  • Charles Huff (Series 4-8)
Production locationPebble Mill Studios
Running time30 minutes
Production companyBBC Television
Original release
NetworkBBC Two
Release2 January 1979 (1979-01-02) –
12 September 1986 (1986-09-12)
Related
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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.

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