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The Great Egg Race | The Oil Platform
The last episode of the final series.
CHANNEL | BBC 2
FIRST BROADCAST | 12 September 1986
DURATION | 29 minutes 33 seconds
FIRSTBROADCAST
1986
Synopsis
Finalists compete on an oil rig in the North Sea off the coast of Aberdeen. Their task is to take an aerial photograph of the platform without using an aircraft. Former RAF aerial photographer Tom Pratt is the guest judge. Heinz Wolff also takes the opportunity to look around and learn more about the rig itself.
Did you know?
In 1983, Heinz Wolff devised an experiment to monitor the brainwaves of astronauts in the Challenger Space Shuttle.
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