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Should it come back - With Bob (August 2003)

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Square Eyes Founding member
martinDTanderson posted:
I doubt if they brought Blockbusters Back in its original format with Bob, it would be a hit. Perhaps if they brought it back in PrimeTime with Bob, and instead of bringing students on, open it to all and bring in an audience. It would be a hit, with a bigger prize and no dictionaries please!!! lol

The prizes weren't that bad. If you got to the 5th Gold Run you usually won a decent holiday.
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moss Founding member
Blockbusters (the original ITV version) had the most amazing opening titles ever for a quiz show. Not only was the music great, but the visuals were fantastic. Building an entire model city to shoot for a daytime quiz - it would never happen nowadays...
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Isonstine Founding member
I loved the opening titles to Blockbusters - there were so amazing. I loved them as a little kid (in fact I learnt my alphabet early from watching Blockbusters!!) - I used to think it was so high tech and sci-fi like. Also you had to love the noise they played if the person failed a gold run!! Classic 80s synth!
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A former member
nwtv2003 posted:
swanseas-sound posted:
Why hasn't anyone mentioned yet about Bob Holness' unfortunate death last year?


I don't think he is dead, all he has done after Blockbusters is Raise The Roof (YTV, 1995, That was a cool quiz show) and Call My Bluff (BBC) and a cameo in Trigger Happy TV a couple of years ago. But there were adverts for Robinsons (Fruit Drinks) with the mystery of Who killed Bob Holeness, which was a joke and really the focus was never on him and the ads were crap.
Seems he's also patron for a charity: http://www.chhugs.co.uk/bholness.htm
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A former member
I was on the BBC-2 version of Blockbusters. It was crap!
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The Nurse
moss posted:
Blockbusters (the original ITV version) had the most amazing opening titles ever for a quiz show. Not only was the music great, but the visuals were fantastic. Building an entire model city to shoot for a daytime quiz - it would never happen nowadays...


You're right, they were very impressive. The whole Blockbusters board was pretty nifty too. Presumably each hexagon had bulbs in it to allow it to go white or blue (or whatever the other team's colour was) and back-projection for the letter. I can imagine it took a while to shuffle all the letters around between rounds. And the control system for it must've been quite complex too.

None of this computer graphics nonesense!!

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