Going For Gold Anyone???

steveone

did a search and couldn't find anything in the forum so i think its safe to start a new thread.....
anyone remember Going For Gold???...around 1;30, after kylie and plain jane superbrain in neighbours -weekdays after 1988 i think..
henry kelly was the presenter.......:)

Ruu_Old

"Lady and gentleman, will you please follow me - and (to the viewers) why don't you come too?"

steveone

when you're going for..going for GOLD!!:D

aidan_dunne

"What am I?"

"You're playing catch up, would you like to play or pass?"

Remember the really cheesy waves to camera the contestants would give during the opening titles? :rolleyes:

Anyway, here you go. I'm sure for some of you, like me, these'll bring back memories of days off school sick with nothing better to watch than crappy daytime telly........ oh, and 'Going For gold', of course! Enjoy!

Opening titles from 1991:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHv2GcXVb4Q

Series one final where a trip to the Seoul '88 Olympics was the grand prize, hence the name of the show in the first place!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaXOGgbq5Xo

Jesus Wept

what a show, Henry Sellers, brilliant

Bring it back!

wow, 24" TELLY! it looks gash!

admiralofthefleet

yeah deadly show, i now realise that ryan tubridy is the love child of henry kelly

Ruu_Old

Haha aidan, I forgot about how cheesy the intro was. All he needed was the glitzy jacket.

Irish Wolf

aidan_dunne wrote:

Series one final where a trip to the Seoul '88 Olympics was the grand prize, hence the name of the show in the first place!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaXOGgbq5Xo

Well.. something new everyday.. never realised that's where the name came from..

Whatever about Henry Kelly being a legend.. Daphne is brilliant.. wasn't she Fifteen-to-1 champion a billion times and I remember seeing her on a show on the BBC a couple of years back.. kind of a "beat the geeks" thingy..

aidan_dunne

Ruu wrote:

All he needed was the glitzy jacket.

Never mind a glitzy jacket, what I find hilarious is that he was wearing a tux for the final! Like he thought it was such a big and important event that he felt "oooh, I'd better dress up real snazzy for the final!" Jesus, Henry, it was the final of a daytime quiz show, not the bloody Oscars or something! :rolleyes:

admiralofthefleet wrote:

i now realise that ryan tubridy is the love child of henry kelly

You're only realising that now? Sure we've all suspected that for years, right back to when Tubridy first arrived on the scene! Sure, when Henry Kelly was a guest on 'Tubridy Tonight' last year, didn't they talk about how similar they looked, even to the point of Tubridy jokingly referring to Henry as "daddy"!

[conspiracy theory]Hmmm, makes me wonder if it was more than just a joking reference now, though! [/conspiracy theory]

Angus MacGyver

The-Rigger wrote:

what a show, Henry Sellers, brilliant

His name was Henry Kelly, Your thinking of the TV presenter from Fr Ted who came to the island and went nuts from drinking

Strangely,Henry Kelly was actually asked to play the part and turned it down.


Rember how no mater where the contestant came from he was able to say how lovely a place it was and how he had been there at one stage or another

Max_Damage

Ah the memories. I remember watching this when I was only about 5-6 yrs. old back in the early 90's. Haven't seen that intro. since then!

dfx-

Irish Wolf wrote:

Daphne is brilliant.. wasn't she Fifteen-to-1 champion a billion times and I remember seeing her on a show on the BBC a couple of years back.. kind of a "beat the geeks" thingy..

Eggheads?

Still on I think...good show