• Gaffer tape and Sticky tape are two different things? Sticky tape (or Duct tape as it's known in North America) is grey in color and has a mesh embedded into the fabric. Gaffer tape is black in color and got its name from the people who use it...gaffers on movies/TV sets

• George Gray, host of the 1st US Series, was also host of the remake of The Gong Show? It was called 'Extreme Gong' and aired on Game Show Network. He now hosts the syndicated Weakest Link (Jan 2002 - present)

• Only 3 people have appeared in the first 3 UK series'? Colonel (he was a Major) Dick Strawbridge, Richard "Bowser" Munson and Neal Davis (judging)

• The scrapheap is 4 acres in size? It's a small corner of a much larger scrapheap. For the 4th series, it was set in a scrapheap in Los Angeles (for series 5, they went to another scrapheap in Britan). For the 2nd US series on, they use an American set

• When the 1st American series was done, they did the same machines as the 1st UK series? They also did the pilot machine (hovercraft) and inter-series machine (dragster)

• To make 1 hour of television (45 minutes without commercials) it takes 140 hours of tape, filmed over 2 days

• All junk used on the show is recycled after the machines are used. That's why you sometimes see parts of machines used in other machines or even just laying in the junkyard

• The junk is hand selected and some was even shipped over from the UK for the 4th series

• The 4th UK series wasn't supposed to have an American team? The original team was a team of farmers, from the UK. They weren't allowed to leave the country because of the hoof&mouth epidemic of 2001

• Operation Junkyard's hosts full names are Rob Czarnecki and Kamaya Jones

• George Gray (US Series 1) and Karyn Bryant (US Series 4 onward) were both co-hosts of TBS Superstation's Movies For Guys Who Like Movies