Not entirely Challenge related (seeing as they haven't shown this particular series), but I just found this episode of Wheel of Fortune from 2001 on YouTube. I genuinely have no memory of those titles and that set being used (or the show being in widescreen) when John Leslie was presenter, I'd only thought they'd been used on the Paul Hendy episodes, I'm clearly wrong! In fact I'm sure episodes with the old titles and set were being repeated through 2001.
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A former member
About 150 per were made for 2001 with john Leslie. I think he had enough after 400 with in a short space.. Thank goodness for this morning.
I remember John presenting on the older 90's set, but forgot about these purple daytime ones. It's always obvious when they make these shows daytime and churn out as many as possible in a quick time frame that they use awful sounding canned applause and laughter. If the set didn't already scream 'cheap' the prizes and "audience" certainly did.
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A former member
John did one series on the older 90s set for peak time, but then he did 250ep give or take, on the 90s set for 2000. Only STV, Grampian and Carlton screened all the episodes at 17.30. ( others had it around 2.40 and not all the time) Its why Challenge liked that series so many episodes.
I remember John presenting on the older 90's set, but forgot about these purple daytime ones. It's always obvious when they make these shows daytime and churn out as many as possible in a quick time frame that they use awful sounding canned applause and laughter. If the set didn't already scream 'cheap' the prizes and "audience" certainly did.
That looks bloody awful! It looks like a cheap pilot.
Would Scottish have been told by ITV to make it as cheaply as possible or were they simply following the trend?
I remember all the gameshows round about that time, ie Catchphrase, Family Fortunes and WOF reduced the prizes and jackpots and bunged them all into a 5pm weekday slot.