Fave 0925 game show

There was much more variety in those days as it was less competitive, these days the channels are scared of taking off a popular show as viewers would immediately be lost, so air them all year round.

And here of course is TV Forum favourite Greg Scott in an early appearance as contestant on a Beadle edition of Chain Letters :

There are always more rules to a game behind the scenes than you see on screen; in the case of the Sweep nowhere in Dale's patter was the "you get a fine if you leave an item on the floor" rule, which was only ever mentioned in the commentary for the three way dash.

15 to One had a rule, also apparently never mentioned on screen, about returning contestants; it wasn't allowed, but somebody tried it and got away with it at the time, until somebody spotted it on a rerun. The other example I can think of was Strike It Lucky and maybe Rich too; it was revealed years later nobody won anything on the screens but they had vouchers instead.



It may be pot luck but IIRC the inflatables only went up to £100 and if you've received that while Fred & Daphne were in grasp of the shopping list, the pick-and-mix, the lucky dip and the whatever else, there's an extra £150 odd quid there admittedly for extra work but it was almost certainly guaranteed to beat any of the inflatables. If you were lucky enough to get the mini-sweep as well you're practically laughing.




The contents of the internal jumble sale shelves you find in Aldi are pretty much a Dale's shopping list on their own. Can just imagine he wants some Gorilla tape, size 8 men's pumps and a packet of begonia seeds - all of which are two shelves apart in there

Strike It Rich always listed Red Letter Days in the credits. A bit odd if they never gave the opportunity to take the prize.

You mean those old pensioners never did win the skydiving lessons or whatever unsuitable prize they sometimes won!

Chain Letters must go down in history as having the largest number of presenters in such a short space of time (at excluding shows that came back as a remake 10 years later), and each host didn’t make it their own, or change the look, they just carried on with a show identical to the previous series. I wonder why nobody did it for the long haul.

In the later years it seemed like the Tyne Tees presenters training school, as the hosts were generally quite new and nervous/wooden. David Spikey’s delivery of gags was definitely improved later.

It didn't help for most of its early run it wasn't network, yet other series which managed to get the 14.55 slot were networked, like:

First series of Win lose or draw, Tell the truth or Sounds like music

Thames: PSI


Later series of Connections : ( actually the daytime 17.15 series in 1988 was never broadcast in scotland because there had no room)



All Clued Up

Out of the list of shows there doesn't seem to be any footage or much info about these:

1988 Password - Ulster production hosted by Gordon Burns

1989 Born Lucky - Tyne Tees production hosted by Jeremy Beadle

There is a full episode of Password on YouTube but it's from an earlier 1985 series which I think went out on UTV only.

Born Lucky was a show where they went out to shopping malls (and a beach somewhere one episode IIRC) and played on a massive board. I don't remember much else about it, but it was hosted by Beadle and was apparently based on a US show.

Happy days loved ITV back then, watching a 9:25 well produced gameshow, The Time the Place with any itv region getting involved, then This Morning, a kids show at 12:10, I could go on but it reminds me of a bygone era.

I hope STV bring back all of Win, Lose Or Draw back to YouTube.

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