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What's is the best game show we have/ have had?

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Starting this off the back of the "worst game show we have" thread ..

It's Wednesday, hump day, we don't need negativity.. let's reminisce instead !

My favorite was definitely Gladiators!! One quality theme tune & I always wanted to do that gauntlet.

Saturday night tele just hasn't been the same since the golden era of Baywatch followed by Gladiators & then Blind Date with aul Cilla !

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invicta

Anyone remember sale of the century, with Nicolas Parsons?

not yet

Alicano wrote: »

For me,
Home grown : Where in the world. The Lyrics board. Secrets with Gerry Ryan. (not really a game show?)
UK : Strike it lucky (Barrymore) Blankety Blank. Krypton Factor. Going for Gold (Jesus I loved that!) You Bet. +1 for Gladiators. And original Crystal Maze.. Bullseye was class too. "Settle in now settle down.. Plenty of time now plenty of time"

Was on this back in the day, won a bed for our troubles..

branie2

Hot Milk and Pepper, presented by Brendan O'Carroll

pawdee

Cross Country Quiz

Capt'n Midnight

The one with Velcro Girl

or Dave Fanning's one with yer man from Blind Tiger

branie2

Dodge the Question, presented by Jonathan Philbin Bowman

Frankie_Jaeger

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

Cant believe nobody has mentioned Bamboozled. Nothing to touch it in my opinion.
Anyone for Wicked Wango Card ?

Is bamboozled the quiz from teletext?

Poor Uncle Tom

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Quicksilver obviously - "I'll have a 1p question, Bunny"

...stop the lights.

tombliboo83

Strike it lucky. Loved it, Michael Barrymore before the dead guy in the pool

drillyeye

I'll go with winning streak too.

Its a 30 minute slice of entertainment for the handful of people directly involved. No skill, no questions, just flipping coins to see if you won 4 grand or 5, a Toyota car or a holiday.

There is no entertainment for anyone outside the families playing the thing.

Nothing!

ohnonotgmail

invicta wrote: »

Anyone remember sale of the century, with Nicolas Parsons?

"Tonight, from Norwich, its the quiz of the week"

how the hell do i still remember that after nearly 40 years?

yermanoffthetv

KF was Pure gold, dont make em like that any more.

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suicide_circus

I haven't sat down and actually watched a game show in about 15 years

byte

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The one with Velcro Girl

or Dave Fanning's one with yer man from Blind Tiger

2phat, I think that was called.

Meanwhile, what about this game show.. :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxSBih09YE4

Harry Palmr

Business Cat wrote: »

Anyone remember RTE's Play the Game?

A celebrity charades show with IIRC Ronan Collins hosting.

Ah the RTE mature women-a-thon, as it became over time.

https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/2163/045.html

https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/2276/011.html

storker

invicta wrote: »

Anyone remember sale of the century, with Nicolas Parsons?

Yes. Fast-moving, plenty of questions. It was great.

harry Bailey esq

tombliboo83 wrote: »

Strike it lucky. Loved it, Michael Barrymore before the dead guy in the pool

Strangely enough, Barrymore is a fully qualified lifeguard. He was a butlins redcoat and it would have been part of standard training. I think he was dealt a very unfair hand by the tabloids. A really funny guy. On topic, Where in the world with the lovely Theresa Lowe.

JohnnyFlash

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Strangely enough, Barrymore is a fully qualified lifeguard. He was a butlins redcoat and it would have been part of standard training. I think he was dealt a very unfair hand by the tabloids. A really funny guy. On topic, Where in the world with the lovely Theresa Lowe.

Didn't they find a lad floating in his swimming pool with an arse on him like the Jack Lynch tunnel?

Kevin Myers presented a quiz show called Challenging Times. Ireland's answer to University Challenge. The fúcker had more drink taken than most of the people watching it.

branie2

byte wrote: »

2phat, I think that was called.

Meanwhile, what about this game show.. :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxSBih09YE4

Henry Kelly also presented a game show for RTÉ called Flashback

Lorelli!

I liked Family Fortunes. The end part was always good although I don't like it with Vernon Kay.

Wrong thread but I inexplicably can't stand him.

WHIP IT!

This thread needs wayyyyyy more Catch Phrase!

harry Bailey esq

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Kevin Myers presented a quiz show called Challenging Times. Ireland's answer to University Challenge. The fúcker had more drink taken than most of the people watching it.

They did John, but after the media got their few pounds of flesh and an inquest was carried out he was cleared out he was cleared of any wrongdoing. In fairness, if it was a woman found in the pool in that state the police would probably have your good self high up on the list of 'persons of interest'

Challenging times was great, my da God rest him loved it. What was the one with Bob Holness, blockbusters was it?
'gimme an E please bob'

razorblunt

I have a begrudging admiration for Deal or No Deal and the fact they dragged it out for 1 hour, 5 days a week.
I have more than a begrudging admiration for the fella who would cut the show to just the box opening and Dealer conversations on YT an hour after the show. I think condensed it was at the 5 min total mark.

Badly Drunk Boy

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Challenging times was great, my da God rest him loved it. What was the one with Bob Holness, blockbusters was it?
'gimme an E please bob'

Yeah, I liked Blockbusters back in my teenage years. Did you know that Bob Holness was one of the people to play James Bond? It was a South African radio adaptation of Moonraker, in 1956.

Boom_Bap

The best game show by far is Come Dine With Me.
I've been mulling it over and trying to convince myself that it's a game show, and it is.
I could watch Come Dine With Me all day.

harry Bailey esq

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Yeah, I liked Blockbusters back in my teenage years. Did you know that Bob Holness was one of the people to play James Bond? It was a South African radio adaptation of Moonraker, in 1956.

Brilliant! I love drunken wisdom, I'll win many a pub bet with that.

Hector Bellend

Fifteen to One was the best quiz ever.

Its not the same with yer wan Sandi Toksvig though.

It's William G.Stewart all the way

[Deleted User]

Who wants to be a millionaire circa 1999 - 2002. I can remember when the rumour got out a few days beforehand that Judith Keppel would be the first person to win a million pounds and everyone was watching the night she was on. It was just massive leap up from the gameshows that were around a few years beforehand as far as prizes were concerned, and the fact it was a players raw knowledge that won them the prizes made it far more watchable than any other gameshow. Even the £250,000 prize just seemed like head-spinning money back then, never mind the two highest prizes.

We had our own version with Gay Byrne around 2001. I remember when I would watch it I had the feeling that, unlike in the uk version, the Irish version couldn't really afford big payouts (soooo "father ted-esque" and typical of Ireland of that era!) and so they would hope that only a few people would win big prizes!

w/s/p/c/

No mention of Play your Cards Right with Brucie? Classic show!

storker

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Didn't they find a lad floating in his swimming pool with an arse on him like the Jack Lynch tunnel?

Kevin Myers presented a quiz show called Challenging Times. Ireland's answer to University Challenge. The fúcker had more drink taken than most of the people watching it.

I'm a fan of University Challenge but the RTE version was (predictably) awful. The set was cheap-looking, and Myers waffled far too much. The worst thing I saw was when a contestant didn't know what TCP/IP was. "If I could give you points for not knowing that, I would" said Myers, showing that he couldn't tell the difference between a critical piece of technology that enabled the creation of and still underpins the Internet, and some kind of online fad like Bebo.