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First time without Alan? (September 2007)

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A former member 8 September 2007 7:11pm

Charlie Wells posted:

TVN posted:

There was a slight delay in the Thunderball draw a few weeks back, where the ball selector failed to select. That was a lottery first.

No, it's happened before from memory.

Didn't most of the special millenium lottery draws cock up?

PS Bring back Winning Lines!

nwtv2003 8 September 2007 7:23pm

The main Lottery manchine broke down on Bob Monkhouse once in the mid-1990's, he handled it well from what I remember, but they had to do the draw again after the programme that followed the Lottery, which probably would have been Casualty.

jrothwell97 8 September 2007 7:40pm

There have been incidents where Alan's said "...any minute now... come on..." while the selector waits for a ball to rest on it.

Is that how the selector works? Is there a sensor on the top that detects when a ball is sitting snugly in it?