Shows that people forget or get lost in time

Has anyone mention that strange CITV gameshow with Michael underwood: Eliminator

Personally my memory of Heathcliff was on Channel 4. First thing before The Channel 4 Daily. And my parents catching me up so early watching it and sending me back to bed.

It was held across studios A, B and D at Elstree ( Studio C was used for Top of the Pops at the time). There was no tap dancing in the lift though.

At this point someone should really post an episode.

In one episode there was - such a bizarre reference for a 90s kids show.

Maybe there was in one episode, but it's not in any of the episodes I personally have a copy of.

Could have easily been the other way round:

Grandstand is obviously still widely remembered... but I wonder if Sportsnight is now a programme that tends to be forgotten, despite running for nearly thirty years and having its own great theme tune?

Of course, it ended ten years before Grandstand did. According to Genome, the last regular edition aired on 30 April 1997, and the last edition of all aired two weeks later - live coverage of that year's Cup Winners' Cup final between Barcelona and PSG. It seems to have ended rather quietly, too - did Des make any reference to its impending demise during either edition?

Here's the first few minutes of the edition of 9 November 1988 - featuring the then-new BBC Sport atom globe rotating the wrong way, and a title sequence where the programme's logo of the time stays on screen more or less throughout:

I remember this! A bit like a more 'physical' version of The Chase in some way.

Its demise was announced earlier, around November 1996, because in Giles Smith's book of reviews of sport on TV he makes reference to it having just been announced. Indeed, he says...

"Goodnight, Sportsnight. The BBC has announced that the programme will end in May 1997 and will then enter the garage for a complete strip-down and remoulding of the bodywork. Then it will re-emerge, at a different time of the week (possibly at flexible times) and be given a new name to indicate a radical and absolute break with the past. Something like Sports Tonight, perhaps."

In fact, that sort of happened because in the autumn of 1997 we had On Side which incorporated the more magaziney elements of Sportsnight, and that lasted a few years, and of course whenever there was football there would be Match of the Day in midweek. I think the loss of the FA Cup and England from 1997 was probably the final nail for Sportsnight, it meant they wouldn't have any regular midweek football.

The first time I ever wrote to the BBC was to ask where I could find a copy of the Sportsnight theme. Amazing piece of music.

I've seen the repeat on Challenge a couple of times. He didn't win.

Here's an entire episode of TV's Ruthless Quiz Show:



Here's a question I've never seen answered: is the voiceover at the start Anthony Davis himself?

Sounded like Iain Lee