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All posts tagged "Members of the public mentally jousting for miserly prizes"
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9.3K6TV: E is for...Every Second Counts
THE SECOND, and undoubtedly the greatest, instalment of PAUL DANIELS's great Beeb game show trilogy (alongside ODD ONE OUT and WIPEOUT), this...
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5.6K1TV: O is for...Odd One Out
PAUL DANIELS haunted this grim quiz
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11.3K11TV: F is for...Family Fortunes
YEAH YEAH, "turkey" and all that, but there was much more to it than that.
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5.2K2A bit of business“Number 10? Maggie’s Den!”
Are you enjoying the re-runs of Bob’s Full House on Challenge as much as we are? (That’s every Saturday at 8pm) In...
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7.3K9TV: B is for...Bob’s Full House
Here's the man's finest hour
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2.6KA bit of businessTV Cream’s Puzzle Trail: Clue 9
We know how many blueberries he has for breakfast, but will you be able to unlock The Da Brucie Code? It's today's...
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8.4K8TV: I is for...Interceptor, The
"I LIKE IT!"
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15.3K22TV: B is for...
Bullseye
DESPITE LATTERDAY APPROPRIATION BY lazy stand-ups, this is still a sleeping giant as far as fondly-remembered classics go
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6.4K3TV: G is for...
Gambit
THIS AND SALE OF THE CENTURY were the only times the rest of the country ever willingly sat down to watch Anglia's...
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6.7K7TV: G is for...
Going for Gold
PAN-CONTINENTAL LATE 80s joke, mainly thanks to ludicrously ambitious Euro-harmony raison d'etre, and much-derided sub-Wogan compere HENRY KELLY.
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3.2KTV: Q is for...
Quiz Night
ONE-TIME NORTH WEST-ONLY, then nationwide, shamblathon hosted by the mighty STUART HALL (in contractual obligation mode).
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3.2KTV: C is for...
Crosswits
IMPOSSIBLE TO DISLIKE monochrome-gridded semantic chicanery helmed by first by BARRY CRYER (in mid-black, mid-white hair phase) then the great TOM O'CONNOR.
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3.6KTV: A is for...
All Clued Up
WORD GAME (as they so often were) favoured mainly by senior citizens (both watching at home and playing in the studio).
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4.5K1TV: S is for...
Strike it Lucky
"TOP, MIDDLE OR BOTTOM?"
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10.8K6TV: K is for...Krypton Factor, The
SUPERLATIVE GREY CELLS weeknight workout, hosted by the unflappable Uncle GORDON BURNS in a quest to find "the UK's superperson".
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8.4K7TV: S is for...Sale of the Century
IT CAME from Norwich.
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6.5KTV: B is for...Bruce Forsyth’s Big Night
Brucie follows Morecambe and Wise to ITV
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3.3KTV: P is for...
Pass the Buck
BRIEF BUT not brief enough Wednesday night quizzer
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6.3K8TV: C is for...
Catchphrase
LIKE A PETULANT BOOMERANG this keeps coming back
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3.6KTV: T is for...
Trick or Treat
SHORT-LIVED SATURDAY night "people show" from the South Bank
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3.2KTV: B is for...
Box Clever
EMLYN HUGHES graduates from A QUESTION OF SPORT in order to host would-be cerebral early afternoon effort
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2.9KTV: C is for...
Concentration
BIZARRE ROBOT-MAN NICK "who hell he?" JACKSON was the original frontman for this remember-where-you-saw-the-prizes-and-match-up-a-pair-and-reveal-bits-of-Pippin-comic-style rebus win-a-pressure-cooker-themed Friday night quiz.
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2.9KTV: T is for...
Three Little Words
INITIALLY DON MOSS, then ventriloquist RAY "LORD CHARLES" ALAN, fronted this wordy afternoon quizfest
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4.1K2TV: G is for...
Get Set Go!
EARLY RUN-OUT for your blueprint Barrymore
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25.0K25TV: 0-9 are for...3-2-1
HAND JIVER extraordinaire TED ROGERS flipped his wrists throughout this hour-long Spanish-derived mystery quiz
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8.1K1TV: D is for...
Double Your Money
"GOOD EVENING folks!"
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3.5KTV: V is for...
Vintage Quiz
ANOTHER AFTERNOON vehicle for the redoubtable FRED "GAMBIT" DINENAGE.
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2.8KTV: L is for...
Lucky Numbers
OUR FIRST glimpse of "Noely" in primetime
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2.9KTV: H is for...
Hitman
QUITE POSSIBLY the dullest quiz show of all time.
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3.7KTV: W is for...Winner Takes All
CHIRPY, GAP-TOOTHED scouser JIMMY TARBUCK waffled chummily through this tatty provincial gamblo-general knowledge quiz.
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4.2KTV: W is for...
Wednesday at Eight
BRIAN ROGERS-SATURATED variety show
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4.2K1TV: M is for...
Masterspy
UPMARKET RIDDLE-ME-REE business doled out in weekly 45 minute doses.
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2.8KTV: H is for...
Hollywood or Bust
THE ONE stain on Brucie's CV.
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3.4KTV: L is for...
Lingo
L! I! N! G! O! ran the sub-Ottawan theme tune to this half-remembered, half-arsed bingo-based Thursday night quiz
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2.8KTV: S is for...
Sensible Show, The
BARELY-BELIEVABLE QUIZ quackery hosted by a bristling MATTHEW KELLY.
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6.3K2TV: U is for...
Ultra Quiz
POSSIBLY THE only instance of a Japanese-originated format crossing over to the west.
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