Vernon Kay's Gameshow Marathon

The last incarnation was. The C4 version was made by Thames.

http://www.ukgameshows.com/page/index.php/Password



Yes they did.

http://www.ukgameshows.com/page/index.php/Category:Tyne_Tees_Productions



Channel made a few minor efforts:

http://www.ukgameshows.com/page/index.php/Category:Channel_Islands

Grampian made Try For Ten for a while, and a few regional shows like Shammy Dab , Pick a Number , Top Club and more recently the Gaelic-language Aon Dha Stri .

Referring to Chain Letters, I remember the Tyne Tees Logo featured on the question cards.

What about Keynotes for next series?

I remember this too, I think in the last series they even had 'Channel 3 North East' printed on the cards too.

Saying that Countdown used to have a Yorkshire TV mug and a Channel 4 mug too, they swapped the Channel 4 one when they changed the idents in 1996.

OT slightly, but does anyone else think that Chain Letters in particular, but Crosswits as well, are ripe for a repeat showing on Challenge?

It might spark interest in the shows again, and AFAIK several complete series of both shows (= hundreds of eps between them) exist in the archive.

Any programme that never changed its set, music or prize money, that looked cheap in 1986 and positively shoestring in 1997 (apparently the computer used dated back to 1983), yet still managed to pull in very respectable ratings must have something about it surely?

Crosswits was fab.

You had to love Tom O'Connor emerging from behind that crossword style set in the same sweater (just a different colour) and faking that look of surprise at the audience.

Anyone remember who the regular celebrities were, I seem to recall Floella Benjamin and Dickie Davis being on for some reason.

Can't remember what the main prize was, but didn't the runners up get a pen ?

Dickie Davies... now there's a name that reminds me of an extremely bizarre Channel 4 gameshow called "Jigsaw" from the 80's. A gameshow fundamentally about speed-completion of giant jigsaw puzzles, IIRC.

I remember Challenge did show them, although about ten years ago and they only ever showed the series between 1990 and 1992, but they were worth a watch. I never liked the later set to Crosswits, it just didn't look right. Plus later on in it's life it was never on at 9.25am either.

Do you have some kind of learning disability?

NO I DON'T! What makes you think that?

Take JH with a pinch of Salt.

Bypass alert.