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

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  • #32
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭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?


  • #33
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,291 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #34
    irishgeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,030 ✭✭✭✭irishgeo


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


  • #35
    Endaaaagh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 639 ✭✭✭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


  • #36
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #37
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #38
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #39
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    iLikeWaffles wrote: »
    That's not weird.


    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-425L-dgSMX0/UsBV02TrbbI/AAAAAAAAFDE/BJEYG6IANsk/s1600/Level+4+-+01.jpg
    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4k5pxEIWeVg/UsBV4zHrJJI/AAAAAAAAFDM/HOtd5BFLYmA/s1600/Level+5+-+01.jpg
    https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/rachel-riley-on-countdown.png


    Maybe he just loves numbers! busted....

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


  • #40
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭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!


  • #41
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989




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  • #42
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #43
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,277 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    iLikeWaffles wrote: »
    That's not weird.


    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-425L-dgSMX0/UsBV02TrbbI/AAAAAAAAFDE/BJEYG6IANsk/s1600/Level+4+-+01.jpg
    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4k5pxEIWeVg/UsBV4zHrJJI/AAAAAAAAFDM/HOtd5BFLYmA/s1600/Level+5+-+01.jpg
    https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/rachel-riley-on-countdown.png


    Maybe he just loves numbers! busted....

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


  • #44
    FrKurtFahrt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 899 ✭✭✭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?


  • #45
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #46
    Kolido
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,918 ✭✭✭✭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"


  • #47
    Olishi4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭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 :)


  • #48
    McDermotX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,129 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #49
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,277 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #50
    Olishi4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭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. :)


  • #51
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,277 ✭✭✭✭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!!


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  • #52
    Summer wind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    "Pass Asia 11" that phrase and the Glenroe theme tune still fill me with dread:)


  • #53
    KKkitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Where in the world, Talkabout, Blackboard jungle, Play the game, The lyrics board and and the kids one with Mary Kingston and iotas I think were great. What happened with RTE and quiz shows at all?


  • #54
    Grandeeod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    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!

    Murphys Micro Quiz-m hosted by Mike Murphy.

    Here's a whole show.:D Utter sh1te.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG3bAkyr63A


  • #55
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Grandeeod wrote: »
    Murphys Micro Quiz-m hosted by Mike Murphy.

    Here's a whole show.:D Utter sh1te.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG3bAkyr63A

    I CAN'T STOP WATCHING.If someone could cut the power to Kildare I'd be forever in your debt.


  • #56
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    A "P" please Bob!

    Hahahahahahahaha!

    :confused:


  • #57
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I don't remember its initial run but I'm addicted to the reruns of Bullseye with Jim Bowan and Tony Green on Challenge Tv. I could watch it for hours.


  • #58
    Olishi4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Olishi4


    I used to love the theme song on Going for Gold


  • #59
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    razorblunt wrote: »
    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.

    Always a tiny triumph to get a starter for 10 right...when neither team gets it.

    It never happens me in any maths, chemistry or economics ones...for the first two I am sometimes wondering what did the question even mean.


  • #60
    Cortina_MK_IV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭Cortina_MK_IV


    Sale of The Century.

    A familiar face...



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  • #61
    Butters1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Butters1979


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    Challenge Annika or something like that, oddly compelling.

    With lots of camera shots of her hoop. Oddly compelling in a Rachel Riley Countdown sort of way?


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