Old TV game shows... How much I miss them!

B.A._Baracus

Ready for a trip down memory lane? Well I wasn't

Was on YouTube last night trying to find the new episode of The Crystal Maze that aired last Sunday for Stand Up To Cancer. Couldn't find it but came across old game shows and man, this brings me back:

Strike It Lucky:

and another one I haven't thought of in over 20 years.... Concentration:

Have you got any others that just brings it back for you?

Hande hoche!

That episode of Crystal maze was surprisingly decent.

The Backwards Man

It's good, but it's not right.

Say what you see

B.A._Baracus

The Backwards Man wrote: »

It's good, but it's not right.

Say what you see

It was a classic...

How Soon Is Now

Used to love watching game shows with me nana on tv. Before all the reality tv bull**** Saturday used to be a great evening / night for family kinda game shows.

The generation game catchphrase Blind date The moment of truth etc.

Ah memory's of a more simple time :pac:

The flying mouse

Blankety blank

Hande hoche!

The sheer amount of panel shows makes you appreciate the variety in those older game shows these days.

iLikeWaffles

Stay outta the black and into the red because you can't beat a bit of bullie.

How Soon Is Now

iLikeWaffles wrote: »

Stay outta the black and into the red because you can't beat a bit of bullie.

Bulleye almost forgot about that

Cant go wrong with a bit of big break either!

discobeaker

iLikeWaffles wrote: »

Stay outta the black and into the red because you can't beat a bit of bullie.

If you don't get 101 or more,you leave with B.F.H ,yer bus fare home.

Not really a proper gameshow,but when I was a kid I used to love the kids game show Knightmare that used to on ITV at about 4pm

jamesbere

The flying mouse wrote: »

Blankety blank

With les Dawson

How Soon Is Now

I know it's not a game show but anyone remember Bamboozle the quiz on channel 4 teletext?

Ah man used to wait all week for new questions again used to play it with me nana haha.

iLikeWaffles

discobeaker wrote: »

If you don't get 101 or more,you leave with B.F.H ,yer bus fare home.

Not really a proper gameshow,but when I was a kid I used to love the kids game show Knightmare that used to on ITV at about 4pm

Great show "Lets take a look at what you would've won" priceless.

Potential Underachiever

That new episode of Crystal Maze is on the All 4 App, if that's any good to you OP, it's free.

P.s Going for gold was class viewing when I had a day off school!

How Soon Is Now

I remember hearing blockbusters on TV fair bit but never really watching it. The same with the krypton factor.

Funny enough my son has the weirdest obsession with Countdown!

iLikeWaffles

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

I remember hearing blockbusters on TV fair bit but never really watching it. The same with the krypton factor.

Funny enough my son has the weirdest obsession with Countdown!

That's not weird.


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Maybe he just loves numbers! busted....

Grayson

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

I remember hearing blockbusters on TV fair bit but never really watching it. The same with the krypton factor.

Funny enough my son has the weirdest obsession with Countdown!

When you arrived home from school it was all that was on.

iLikeWaffles

Grayson wrote: »

When you arrived home from school it was all that was on.

Jesus think I have the boardgame of that in the attic.

Grayson

iLikeWaffles wrote: »

Jesus think I have the boardgame of that in the attic.

I remember a teacher bringing in the boardgame on the last day of school

There were times growing up in the 80s and hearing all about these British game shows not available to all of us with 2 channels would make me think life sucked.

We had Quicksilver with Bunny Carr.

Thepoet85

Not a quiz show, but loved you bet.

Grandeeod

321!

Grandeeod

Grandeeod wrote: »

321!

Used to watch this religiously....


To this day I've no idea how it worked or how they deciphered the clues.

Would spend the breaks trying to master the 3-2-1 with my fingers...

SEPT 23 1989

Blankety Blank hosted by the comic genius that was Les Dawson

HensVassal

jamesbere wrote: »

With les Dawson

I'll never forget:

Les: So, Contestant number 1, Bob, tell us where you're from.

Bob: Hi Les, I'm from Bristol.

Les: And what do you do, Bob from Bristol?

Bob: I'm an unemployed Ear, Nose and Throat man.

Les: Well, that's a sinus of the times.

(Stamps foot and grins at camera)

:pac:

Estrellita

Couldn't find a clip of the intro, but Where in the world with Teresa Lowe.

http://youtu.be/AARktRXkeXQ

The Backwards Man

15-1 was the one that was on after school in our house. William G Stewart was the type of guy you would believe was actually thinking of the questions as he went along.

Badly Drunk Boy

The flying mouse wrote: »

Blankety blank

jamesbere wrote: »

With les Dawson

No, with Terry Wogan. Les Dawson wasn't very funny. (Tried too hard, and for cheap laughs).

Joe_ Public

Was it 3-2-1 or Bullseye that gave the speedboat out as special prize? Apparently the show's host had a bro-in-law who built or sold speedboats so they could get them at a knockdown price. So anytime the star prize was won, it was invariably a speedboat but when it was the "here's what you could have won" bit, it was always the ford fiesta or whatever.

Could be total urban myth, of course, but remember reading that somewhere.

Joe_ Public

The Backwards Man wrote: »

15-1 was the one that was on after school in our house. William G Stewart was the type of guy you would believe was actually thinking of the questions as he went along.

That show has noticeably dumbed down under his successor. I can generally answer maybe 33% of the questions now, more on a good day. In the great man's day, we were talking 15-20% with a slice of luck.

McDermotX

Going for....Going for Gold !

and here's your host. Henry Kelly !

Random fact.......Hans Zimmer worked on the theme music. Very odd.

HensVassal

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

No, with Terry Wogan. Les Dawson wasn't very funny. (Tried too hard, and for cheap laughs).

:eek:

Terry Wogan was a fine gent but he was about as funny as an aneurism.
Les Dawson was hilarious.

Les: "Good evening and welcome to another Blankety-Blank. If you miss this show it will be repeated on Thursday, so you can miss it again."

How can you not find that funny?

Standard Toaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFNYReIrMA4

Known fact - no one has ever been able to watch a complete episode of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k7DP0BoJo8

irishgeo

What was the show with a helicopter and some blonde flying around the country looking for clues.

Endaaaagh

irishgeo wrote: »

What was the show with a helicopter and some blonde flying around the country looking for clues.

Treasure Hunt with Anneka Rice

Joe_ Public

irishgeo wrote: »

What was the show with a helicopter and some blonde flying around the country looking for clues.

Challenge Annika or something like that, oddly compelling.

cdeb

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Known fact - no one has ever been able to watch a complete episode of this.

I used to get the Krypton Factor recorded so I could watch it when I got back in on Monday nights.

Great show.

cdeb

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Challenge Annika or something like that, oddly compelling.

No, it was Treasure Hunt.

Challenge Anneka was a later series where she had to build a children's hospital in two days using only bits of dead fish found in a nearby culvert.

Treasure Hunt was where the clues owuld be deciphered by teams back in studio with a local area map in front of them. Another great show.

Whatever else about the 80s, there was a serious amount of TV innovation back then.

Ken.

iLikeWaffles wrote: »

That's not weird.


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Maybe he just loves numbers! busted....

There is only one god and thou shall have no other gods above her.

Winterlong

Not a mention of any of the classic RTE quiz shows? (Not surprised to be honest)

'Where in the world' and 'Quicksilver' are the only two that spring to mind.
Stop the lights!

SEPT 23 1989

cdeb

Quizzes were better back then too. Just quick fire questions; no tedious set-ups. 15-to-1, University Challenge and this one, not with us any more - Masterteam. Used to love this.

How Soon Is Now

iLikeWaffles wrote: »

That's not weird.


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Maybe he just loves numbers! busted....

It's clocks ffs lol. Doesn't even look at new one old one on YouTube.

FrKurtFahrt

Winterlong wrote: »

Not a mention of any of the classic RTE quiz shows? (Not surprised to be honest)

'Where in the world' and 'Quicksilver' are the only two that spring to mind.
Stop the lights!

I was a very young lad watching Quicksilver, and my late father always told of his favourite answer (he swore it happened) - a rushed reply while under pressure as light after light went out:

Bunny Carr: What type of fruit is a mandarin?
Contestant: Ummm.....is it a fish?

razorblunt

Fort Boyard never took off like Crystal Maze did, with the French midgets and Tigers that were just there for effect (I learned dissapointedly after watching a few shows).

I still watch University Challenge every now and then, it's great if you have guests over, you get a really hard question right, shout it out then change the channel so the halo effect doesn't wear off.

Kolido

3 pages in and no mention of Blackboard Jungle

"the subject is arts and literature, will you stay or go again?"

"We'll go again please"

Olishi4

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

I know it's not a game show but anyone remember Bamboozle the quiz on channel 4 teletext?

Ah man used to wait all week for new questions again used to play it with me nana haha.

I used to play it with my dad.

You know we discovered a cheat though. The little coloured boxes that appeared beside the answers would load into the screen and the first box that appeared was always the right answer.

A couple of times, I played it with my friends and they'd be wondering how I knew all the answers

McDermotX

The futuristic Murphy’s Micro Quiz-M.

The computer nut in me watched it very week to see some technology at work. Massive prizes......like £50 (or even £100!) there for the taking.

How Soon Is Now

Olishi4 wrote: »

I used to play it with my dad.

You know we discovered a cheat though. The little coloured boxes that appeared beside the answers would load into the screen and the first box that appeared was always the right answer.

A couple of times, I played it with my friends and they'd be wondering how I knew all the answers

It used to glitch sometimes to when you tried picking a color for an answer the page would crash.

Olishi4

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

It used to glitch sometimes to when you tried picking a color for an answer the page would crash.

I think i remember something like that. You'd be on Q4 and then it would crash and you'd have to do it all over again.

How Soon Is Now

Olishi4 wrote: »

I think i remember something like that. You'd be on Q4 and then it would crash and you'd have to do it all over again.

Resulting in an absolute fit being had!!