RIP Jim Bowen - Nothing for two in a bed

Berserker

Not sure how popular Bullseye was over here but I used to love it. Great guy Jim, RIP

JohnnyFlash

Easily one of the best TV quiz shows ever. Great presenter as well.

deco nate

Let's have a look at what you could have won.... Rip

splinter65

Sunday evening teatime

eurokev

Gutted, watch at least 5 episodes a week on challenge.
Hopefully they put on a marathon session now in his honour. Great great show and Jim presented it brilliantly

The Backwards Man

I used to love the fact that people could go on and say they were on the dole or a cleaner or a navvie or whatever and Jim treated them as equals.

Everyone on quiz shows now is a student or retired.

Different era I guess.

RIP

minikin

Super, smashing, lovely... they should bury him in a motorboat shaped coffin.

velo.2010

This is mad stuff. They hit all 9 prizes and then gambled....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ5mpmB7td4

minikin

The prize descriptions were genius...
"You'll have no trouble with your Ps and Qs with this economical motor scooter"

123balltv

RIP Jim

theoneeyedman

Spent 5 years as Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church too IIRC......

Mysterypunter

Funny man, was watching reruns recently and a couple of lads were considering going for the speedboat, can't remember how much money they had exactly, think the pair who won the prizes had decided not to gamble. The 2 boys were Jock's, he said before they answered, "335 quid lads, that's a lot of money for a Scotsman" wasn't nasty or anything, just comical. RIP

Doctors room ghost

bfh BUS FARE HOME.rip Jim lad

NickNickleby

Many a Sunday afternoon was spent glued to it. Ahh, memories. I think we may have finally been able to afford a colour telly, by the time it aired. I certainly remember watching it in colour at some stage.

Road-Hog

NickNickleby wrote: »

Many a Sunday afternoon was spent glued to it. Ahh, memories. I think we may have finally been able to afford a colour telly, by the time it aired. I certainly remember watching it in colour at some stage.

I may get pilloried for this but did any of you every watch or attend his stand up comedy routines.....un-pc sexist racist would sum him up.....some of his one liners on bulls eye were borderline if you look back.....he obviously had to be careful on TV

khaldrogo

Road-Hog wrote:

I may get pilloried for this but did any of you every watch or attend his stand up comedy routines.....un-pc sexist racist would sum him up.....some of his one liners on bulls eye were borderline if you look back.....he obviously had to be careful on TV

Different times.......when funny was just funny

flazio

I actually thought he was already gone. He looked quite old presenting Bullseye and that was nearly 30 years ago.

Road-Hog

khaldrogo wrote: »

Different times.......when funny was just funny

Don’t think so. He continued with his one liners well into the ‘00’s

Itssoeasy

deco nate wrote: »

Let's have a look at what you could have won.... Rip

And the non dart player ready to stick the head in the dart player who couldn't get 59 or more with their three darts. Haha.

Beechwoodspark

RIP Jim. No airs or graces but an Utter professional as a presenter. Working men’s club tradition. He had a great sense of humanity and innate decency. As someone said before, he treated the contestants with respect and warmth and it shone through, the viewers appreciated it.

Bullseye was a great format for the time. He did some good comedy turns on the likes of Phoenix nights too over the years.

Grandeeod

Oh the memories of Bullseye on a Sunday. Such an ordinary, but delightful quiz show. Jim had a stroke a few years ago and did really well to come back from it.

RIP to the lad.

Gonad

Used to watch this in the nanny’s back in the day of a Sunday . All the family together sitting in front of the tv . Better days

anewme

Bully’s Prize Board.

A cringingly brilliant show.

The best part of it was that it was hilarious especially when it was not intending to be.

As someone else said, the random descriptions of the prizes was bizarrely brilliant.

Jim Bowen connected with the contestants and the audience and came across as a genuine guy, that’s what people loved about him.

A personality that was genuine as opposed to some of the fake z listers today.

Loved it as a kid and love the repeats.

RIP Jim.

Thanks for the memories.

martingriff

I watch it a lot on challenge. Just saw 1 last weekend where they gambled for the 101 or more with the non Darts player going first hitting TRIPLE 20 TRIPLE 20 he was gobsmacked. It was also the first time Bobby George was on

martingriff

Road-Hog wrote: »

I may get pilloried for this but did any of you every watch or attend his stand up comedy routines.....un-pc sexist racist would sum him up.....some of his one liners on bulls eye were borderline if you look back.....he obviously had to be careful on TV

It was the era where you go do those kind of jokes and as another poster said lots were just jokes said for a joke nothing more. Wasn't there a thread on AH in relation to Friends been been sexist and crude. If we are going to start doing that then anything post 2000 has to be shelved and destroyed

Road-Hog

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

RIP Jim. No airs or graces but an Utter professional as a presenter. Working men’s club tradition. He had a great sense of humanity and innate decency. As someone said before, he treated the contestants with respect and warmth and it shone through, the viewers appreciated it.

Bullseye was a great format for the time. He did some good comedy turns on the likes of Phoenix nights too over the years.

How can you be so sure of his genuineness...did you meet him in person? ! It’s amazing how many people get carried away with celebs /tv personalities thinking they know them and how they think based on a half hour of tv show onc a week

anewme

Road-Hog wrote: »

How can you be so sure of his genuineness...did you meet him in person? ! It’s amazing how many people get carried away with celebs /tv personalities thinking they know them and how they think based on a half hour of tv show onc a week

You seem to have a grudge.

weird posts.

Did your great grandad and granny appear on the show and get BFH.?

Berserker

anewme wrote: »

You seem to have a grudge.

weird posts.

Did your great grandad and granny appear on the show and get BFH.?

Didn't win the star prize.

RobbingBandit

Loved the show as a kid very sad he was a good laugh. RIP

Richard Hillman

Still watch episodes. Still great entertainment. Very rare to see a truly working class man on Television back then.

Marty Bird

“I’ll be back while I count out this £26 pound” absolutely loved Bullyeye growing up RIP Jim.

Road-Hog

anewme wrote: »

You seem to have a grudge.

weird posts.

Did your great grandad and granny appear on the show and get BFH.?

No grudge but amazed at how Jim Bowen is being eulogized for his bulls eye show when If you took the time to research his other abilities such as ‘stand-up’ which he performed well into the 2000’s you would see a different side of his persona.....foul mouthed racist sexist jokes a milder version of Roy chubby brown or even Bernard manning

Can confirm that nobody in my family ever appeared on the show.

Mysterypunter

Road-Hog wrote: »

No grudge but amazed at how Jim Bowen is being eulogized for his bulls eye show when If you took the time to research his other abilities such as ‘stand-up’ which he performed well into the 2000’s you would see a different side of his persona.....foul mouthed racist sexist jokes a milder version of Roy chubby brown or even Bernard manning

Can confirm that nobody in my family ever appeared on the show.

Bernard Manning was very funny, the racism was a stage act, Liam Neeson doesn't go around shooting people, only in the movie's

Grid.

R.I.P Jim......thanks for the entertainment on a Sunday afternoon.

dd972

minikin wrote: »

Super, smashing, lovely... they should bury him in a motorboat shaped coffin.

Uncannily enough, people who won the motorboat usually lived somewhere like Northampton or Derby, so almost a waste of time! :pac:

Doctors room ghost

dd972 wrote: »

Uncannily enough, people who won the motorboat usually lived somewhere like Northampton or Derby, so almost a waste of time! :pac:

You didn’t have to take the boat though or any of the other prizes you won if you didn’t want them. The show would give you cash value instead.id say it was the same boat for years as most people would want the cash

Danny Donut

Great character.

RIP Jim

The J Stands for Jay

Mysterypunter wrote: »

Bernard Manning was very funny, the racism was a stage act, Liam Neeson doesn't go around shooting people, only in the movie's

I've seen interviews with Bernard Manning; the racism wasn't an act.

Hotblack Desiato

There's always some cùnt hopping onto an RIP thread just to have a wind up.

fleet_admiral

I'm going to reply, but it will take me 2 minutes

RIP

Badly Drunk Boy

Mysterypunter wrote: »

Bernard Manning was very funny, the racism was a stage act, Liam Neeson doesn't go around shooting people, only in the movie's

McGaggs wrote: »

I've seen interviews with Bernard Manning; the racism wasn't an act.

I've seen Liam Neeson; the 'going around shooting people' wasn't an act.

barney shamrock

RIP Ken Dodd and Jim Bowen.
(Non-dart player went first)

Welsh Megaman

Jim’s voiceover in this is brilliant! RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aloNixbli6g

Road-Hog

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Jim’s voiceover in this is brilliant! RIP


What is so brilliant about reading a scripted piece about a prize....are you suggesting it’s an off the cuff commentary or something....?

tayto lover

Still love the show. A show for the workingman who gets up early in the morning .....
With rubbish prizes.
RIP JIm

wandatowell

I'm sure they chose the prizes from down the local CO-OP.

rick_shaw

you know what was very funny about the show ( well one of the things )

you had two in each team where one person answered questions while his team mate threw darts but at the end the person who partook in the quiz aspect of the show would also be called to throw darts for the big prizes

it was hilarious , the guy or girl who up until then only answered questions , was without fail always always the worst dart thrower to ever walk the earth , i mean tony green ( at the ockey ) was almost in danger of being hit himself , they would barely ever manage to score ten from three darts as two of the darts would not hit the board at all

like they insisted that the person answering questions was only as good a dart player as you granny who was dead for thirty years

rick_shaw

" take a look at what you could have won "

anewme

rick_shaw wrote: »

you know what was very funny about the show ( well one of the things )

you had two in each team where one person answered questions while his team mate threw darts but at the end the person who partook in the quiz aspect of the show would also be called to throw darts for the big prizes

it was hilarious , the guy or girl who up until then only answered questions , was without fail always always the worst dart thrower to ever walk the earth , i mean tony green ( at the ockey ) was almost in danger of being hit himself , they would barely ever manage to score ten from three darts as two of the darts would not hit the board at all

like they insisted that the person answering questions was only as good a dart player as you granny who was dead for thirty years

The person named as the Darts playing one was more often than not terrible as well.

rick_shaw

anewme wrote: »

The person named as the Darts playing one was more often than not terrible as well.

some were decent and some were quite good but there partner was always beyond hopeless

Larbre34

Stephen Hawking and Jim eh? The non-darts player always goes first...