Coronation Street

That does look very good.

What was the name and general format of the gameshow that Ken Barlow and family appeared on? It was presented by Philip Pope and I believe the set was laid out in a similar way to Family Fortunes with two families on either side of the set and the host in the middle. I don't think the Barlows did very well, Ken thought he had made an oaf of himself. Did he give the answer 'Turkey' for every question?

Was it called Family Tree?

EDIT: Was called Top of the Tree.

Thank you, it was called that.

It seems that every single thing I remembered about it was false (apart from the presenter). It is on YouTube. The format and execution actually looks terrible. A very amateur production indeed.


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Was this shown on Corrie?

What a bizarre storyline. Think that came during a particularly poor era for Corrie.

I don't remember that all. What year would that be? 2005-ish? Amy looks about 1.

I think it said 2004 in the description. I can remember it now but I'd completely forgotten about it till this. Certainly doesn't look like Corrie does it?!

It happened a few months prior to Karen leaving, they won the car, which Karen later torched on Christmas Eve, I think it was 2004.

iv just watched several weeks catch up of the street ending with the [ the play the white man steve] episode
this statement has no colour links at all. it comes from the days of black and white film , when the good guy wore
a white hat and the bad guy the black hat, has nothing to do with skin colour or race all . there are many racist
comments that should be addressed but get your facts right. other wise people will be afraid to open there mouths
in public in case of offending someone. tianluna

Got any evidence of the origin? It doesn't sound very plausible to me. I'll stick with Wikipedia's best guess that it's a relic of the colonial era, for now.

Wikipedia has been updated since that episode of Coronation Street aired. I looked up the phrase straight afterwards as I had never heard it before and there was the suggestion that its origin might be goodies=white, badies=black as the OP suggests. There were no sources given when I looked at it and there are no sources now so I don't know why you would assume it either is or was correct.