Murphy's Micro Quiz-m

branie

anyone here remember this TV quiz show that used to be on a Sunday evening?

Fuzzy Clam

Some things best left forgotten.

Ann22

I do remember it, it was one of the programmes that remind me of the gloomy back to school feeling:(..like Glenroe or Where in the World. Do you remember The Live Mike? Now, that brings me a happy Friday feeling:o...like Play Your Cards Right.

kelle

Yes, i remember this. I also remember Blathnaid Ni Chofaigh was a guest on it at the age of 13 along with her parents and brother.

Firetrap

Yes I do. It was all very hi-tech at the time. Was the computer called Sylvester? The kid from the family would play something like Pacman and then at the end you could try to win a car if you got enough questions right. I seem to recall as well that they gave away a lot of Cross pens made in Ballinasloe and bagless vacuum cleaners.

Joey the lips

Yeah remember it well and i am not old. 30ish! I remember i loved the video games cause all the kids had an atari and i did not:( I hated it case they would never finish the video games they would just play a certain time and then stop and the kids with the highest score won

corblimey

Ann22 wrote: »

I do remember it, it was one of the programmes that remind me of the gloomy back to school feeling:(..like Glenroe or Where in the World. Do you remember The Live Mike? Now, that brings me a happy Friday feeling:o...like Play Your Cards Right.

Oh God, that feeling. Glenroe then Murphy's Micro Quiz-m or Where in the World with Teresa Lowe (?) then bath while the news was on and if you were lucky, allowed to stay up and watch Spitting Image or the end of the snooker

All done with the dread of school the next morning hanging over you and that bloody Irish essay still unfinished.

Best days of my life.

kelle

corblimey wrote: »

Oh God, that feeling. Glenroe then Murphy's Micro Quiz-m or Where in the World with Teresa Lowe (?) then bath while the news was on and if you were lucky, allowed to stay up and watch Spitting Image or the end of the snooker

All done with the dread of school the next morning hanging over you and that bloody Irish essay still unfinished.

Best days of my life.

I was relieved when Glenroe finished, as the music still gave me that horrible sinking feeling in my stomach - I had to make myself remember I no longer attended school and the worry of unfinished homework was a thing of the past! Glad to know I'm not the only one with those memories.

nlgbbbblth

it ran from 1983 to 1987 and was on before Glenroe.

Think they used a BBC Micro for the games.

My mate appeared on it in 1986. He still has the videotape.

Aglomerado

Loved it, even though prizes were crap. Had one of the quiz books too, probably still do in my parents' house.

I miss family quiz programmes. The Weakest Link and WWTBAM just aren't the same (hate the drawn out bits between questions).

Jip

Firetrap wrote: »

he kid from the family would play something like Pacman

It was usually Q-Bert or some form of it. Used to love this show purely for the computer game part !

Koloman

How many people actually won the Ford Sierra at the end of the show?

Sizzler

Koloman wrote: »

How many people actually won the Ford Sierra at the end of the show?

A sierra :eek: They were lucky to get a Ford Orion some weeks, most of the time it was an escort!

Koloman

Sizzler wrote: »

A sierra :eek: They were lucky to get a Ford Orion some weeks, most of the time it was an escort!

I thought it was a Ford Sierra but I bow to your better knowledge. I do remember the former Miss Ireland Olivia Tracey caressing the car each week! A highlight of her career I'm sure!

komodosp

I used to love Murphy's Micro Quiz-m!

Though I'm still not sure what a Quiz-m is... I liked computers so that helped... But it was the one thing I liked about Sundays, a small break in the sunday evening gloom. I think it was on after Remington Steele... And maybe before Glenroe

I remember they used to play the game "Snapper" which was just a Pac-Man rip-off - My uncle had the same game on his computer (yes it was a BBC Micro)

kelle

komodosp wrote: »

Though I'm still not sure what a Quiz-m is...

"m" was probably the "i" of the 80's!

Firetrap

Yeah, what's that whole "i" thing about anyway? I saw an iToaster in Tesco the other week but it doesn't appear to do anything but toast bread.

They should revive that quiz - it would be good fun.

pauro 76

Fond memories of that show...

DublinWriter

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

Think they used a BBC Micro for the games.

They did, Glanmire Software of Cork wrote the custom software (they haven't gone away you know...)

Cicero

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

it ran from 1983 to 1987 and was on before Glenroe.

Think they used a BBC Micro for the games.

My mate appeared on it in 1986. He still has the videotape.

Would love to see that show again ..... there was a 6-8 week gap between major prizes- this wasn't a co-incidence- they simply asked v. difficult Qs for the first 4 weeks and easier Qs for the final weeks until someone got the prize- it was like asking a £250,000 Question equiv. on who wants to be a millionare one week for the winning prize, and asking a £5000 question 6 weeks later- it was a total con in terms of the 'big' prize and the smaller prizes' were worse than 'Sale of the Century' in the 1970s' -- producers of Murphy's micro Quiz'em ...hang ure collective heads in shame now!!!..

damonjewel

Ann22 wrote: »

Where in the World

I always thought it should´ve been retitled as what on earth? Poor old Teresa, where is she now?

Firetrap

Believe it or not, she's a barrister now :eek:

Link

imme

Sizzler wrote: »

A sierra :eek: They were lucky to get a Ford Orion some weeks, most of the time it was an escort!

yeah it was an Orion that they could win, wasn't it? they turned out to be rust-buckets.

Magnum

Man I used to love that show...........

Dudess

I don't remember anything about it, other than I liked it. I specifically associate it with when I was six - interesting age to be into quizes.

burpington

"Though I'm still not sure what a Quiz-m is"

It's presumably a pun on Microcosm. HILARIOUS! (Not.)

B.

Monkeybonkers

Firetrap wrote: »

Believe it or not, she's a barrister now :eek:

Link

She is indeed, defended me once. When I asked her for her autograph afterwards she was delighted and waived her fee. Top girl!!:D

2 pound for an answer, 2 pound on the rebound. High stakes on the quiz. I think every kid in the country used to think that they could do better than the ones that used to play the video games. Some of them were rubbish. Ah, the memories!

Tomcat2

I remember it I used to always be cramming my homework for Monday morning whilst watching it.I think the computer graphics on the show were generated from an Acorn BBC Micro.

Little Alex

Each contestant got a pen from "A.T. Cross in Ballinasloe" and each family got a Goblin Rio vacuum cleaner and a Sinclair Spectrum, was it? And yeah, the top prize was a Sierra or Orion.

Would love to see an episode of it again. That and Garda Patrol. :pac:

Sizzler wrote: »

A sierra :eek: They were lucky to get a Ford Orion some weeks, most of the time it was an escort!

At least it wasn't an aul Feshty that they were playing for!

nlgbbbblth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NLMQrnxzCI

TheDriver

wasn't the set set and green with the car in the middle?

Remember marty Whelan taking over Where in the world and that God awful lighting line in front of the podium with different cities..........

DVD-Lots

I was on it, true story. In '88 I think, was only 15. Yeah it was an orion and me Ma got to the last round. Got the 1st 3 questions right, fluffed the fourth (haley's Comet Ma, HALEY'S FRICKIN COMET!!! DOH!) and didn't register the last question coz she got nervous. :rolleyes:

Yes it was the BBC Micro that the games were on, I played Pac-Man and me Fahder played a darts game. Funny thing was we did those games and a round of questions only to be told we had to go back and do them again due to a "technical fault". So I had to blitz through paccers again (I was l33t neways coz I played it to death in the arcade) and the fahder had to score the 180 again that he got in the 1st round. Little did they know the whole family was into games coz we had a speccy at the time so were all l33t.

The prizes we got were Jumpers (I kid u not!) a casio watch thing with a mini-computer that you could snap the watch into and synch crap up to, an electric frying pan (all the rage in the 80's) and a brand new 21" state of the art TV, oh and I think around £87 in prizemoney.....

Fond memories, nearly sure I have a video of it somewhere and almost as sure that I have it converted to an .avi somewhere. If I find I'll post it up. :P

Oh and yeah, Olivia was so frickin hot, was caught drooling at her in the green room, nothing like having Miss Ireland in fornt of a 15 year old boy......

Dotrel

I only watched it for the computer game round. They always got the son to play it and they were usually rubbish. Can't remember all the games they had on (or which format) but Pengo was definitely one of them. I remember because I used to be great at that game and was always left sneering with contempt at the players performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iokROSYd2Dk

strangel00p

DVD-Lots wrote: »

The prizes we got were Jumpers (I kid u not!) a casio watch thing with a mini-computer that you could snap the watch into and synch crap up to, an electric frying pan (all the rage in the 80's) and a brand new 21" state of the art TV, oh and I think around £87 in prizemoney.....

Fond memories, nearly sure I have a video of it somewhere and almost as sure that I have it converted to an .avi somewhere. If I find I'll post it up. :P

Jumpers for prizes - only in Ireland:D I love the £87 prize money - you think RTE would have rounded it up to a tidy £90....cheapskates. If you find the avi file, upload it!!

nlgbbbblth

DVD-Lots wrote: »

I was on it, true story. In '88 I think, was only 15. Yeah it was an orion and me Ma got to the last round. Got the 1st 3 questions right, fluffed the fourth (haley's Comet Ma, HALEY'S FRICKIN COMET!!! DOH!) and didn't register the last question coz she got nervous. :rolleyes:

Yes it was the BBC Micro that the games were on, I played Pac-Man and me Fahder played a darts game. Funny thing was we did those games and a round of questions only to be told we had to go back and do them again due to a "technical fault". So I had to blitz through paccers again (I was l33t neways coz I played it to death in the arcade) and the fahder had to score the 180 again that he got in the 1st round. Little did they know the whole family was into games coz we had a speccy at the time so were all l33t.

The prizes we got were Jumpers (I kid u not!) a casio watch thing with a mini-computer that you could snap the watch into and synch crap up to, an electric frying pan (all the rage in the 80's) and a brand new 21" state of the art TV, oh and I think around £87 in prizemoney.....

Fond memories, nearly sure I have a video of it somewhere and almost as sure that I have it converted to an .avi somewhere. If I find I'll post it up. :P

Oh and yeah, Olivia was so frickin hot, was caught drooling at her in the green room, nothing like having Miss Ireland in fornt of a 15 year old boy......

deadly!

post it up if you can.

I'd say it was 1987 - pretty sure ran for just four series (started in September 1983) and ended a few weeks before my Inter Cert that June.