shows that should RETURN!!

Indeed. When Challenge TV launched on February 3 1997 the schedule was like this:

17:00 Challenge Prize Time with Andy Crane
17:05 Blockbusters with Bob Holness
17:50 Spellbound with Paul Coia
18:30 Catchphrase with Roy Walker
19:05 All New Sale of the Century with Keith Chegwin
19:40 Give us a Clue
20:20 All Clued Up
21:00 Through the Keyhole
21:25 Challenge Prize Time with Andrea Boardman
21:35 Busman's Holiday
22:05 Treasure Hunt
23:20 Love at First Sight
00:00 All New Sale of the Century
00:30 Family Late

I've also got a list of weekends as well

What a fab schedule, I could easily watch that all night. I want that back.

That is the Challenge TV we all loved, luckily I have some old Cable Guides from 1997, by Autumn there was little difference to the schedule, except that they had Crosswits at 5.05pm. I would rather watch the Challenege TV with the old ITV Quiz shows rather than Challenge? with crappy American reality shows.

BTW Whatever happened to "Question Mark"?

Challenge anneka was fab - remember that theme!!!
I also think The Crystal Maze and The Krypton Factor should relaunch

And weekends was:

17.00 Challenge Prize Time with Pat Sharp
17.05 As Weekdays
19.05 A Word In Your Ear with Gordon Burns
19.40 Second Guess with that bloke whatshisname
20.20 Concentration ??
20.50 Challenge Prize Time with Annabel Giles
21.00 Trivial Pursuit with Tony Slattery
21.35 3-2-1 with Ted Rogers and a load of women with big black glasses
22.50 Roll with It!
23.25 Simply Irresistible
00.00 Trivial Pursuit
00.30 Family Late

I remember when I used to watch Challenge TV in those days, it all went wrong when they launched The Games Room

Most of that, except Treasure Hunt, is very rarely seen on the channel now. Sale Of The Century and Trivial Pursuit still turn up every so often but more chance of finding a needle in a haystack now.

Hasn't Give Us A Clue been on UK Gold as well? All Clued up was essentially crap in hindsight wasn't it? Saw it on the old Family channel. Haven't seen Busman's Holiday for years, love to see it again. Same for Bob Holness Blockbusters as opposed to the crappy remakes.

Great schedule, wish it would come back

Same here too, when they dropped Prize Time for The Games Room, Challenge TV went alot worse, considering they got tons of new presenters who were pretty rubbish. What I didn't get was why did they drop Prize Time, even though they only revamped a few months before The Games Room appeared, but when TGR came on two of the main presenters disappeared off screen. But luckily by the end of 1999 it was ditched, then for about ten months there was no IVC at all, then they got one of the presenter's back, it was the woman, she was called Caril or something like that and they got Toby Antsis, then the channel went good for a while, but it all ended at 4.59pm on Monday 20th May 2002.

Shame other channels can't pick up these shows, for a while Carlton Select repeated Blockbusters at 5.00pm, which was good viewing. Apparently The Krypton Factor was on Granada Plus in the early days. I assume Give Us a Clue was on Gold's early days considering that the old UK Gold was half Thames.

Just a shame that the BBC, Carlton, Granada and Fremantle Media can't see an empty gap in the Digital TV market for repeating OLD shows.