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A former member
I thought it was £100000 😛
RO
There was a lesser known quiz he hosted, initially for Thames in the London area only, before being shown as a repeat on Channel 4; Famous People Famous Places.
DE
Only eight episodes were made, and they all aired during Thames's final month on air:
http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Famous_People,_Famous_Places
There was a lesser known quiz he hosted, initially for Thames in the London area only, before being shown as a repeat on Channel 4; Famous People Famous Places.
Only eight episodes were made, and they all aired during Thames's final month on air:
http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Famous_People,_Famous_Places
JA
To be fair, doesn't that include the prize money? I don't think that episode gave away much! 
Brucie and WGS in the space of just five weeks. Gutted. 
Having been a big fan of Fifteen-to-One and Countdown ever since my first days at school, it's going to be kind of strange knowing that both William and Richard are no longer with us. But I'll always enjoy watching them and Carol together on that Christmas Countdown episode above, as well of course as this celeb edition of FTO from seven years before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7El5LFb2_mo
As regards Family Fortunes, WGS apparently had a role in the Turkey Incident. According to David N Mason in his Gameshow Handbook, one of the female members of the understandably embarrassed Johnson family asked Max after the recording how much money would be taken for the show not to be broadcast. Max consulted William, who then had to explain to Mrs Johnson that each episode cost £38,000 to make...
Having been a big fan of Fifteen-to-One and Countdown ever since my first days at school, it's going to be kind of strange knowing that both William and Richard are no longer with us. But I'll always enjoy watching them and Carol together on that Christmas Countdown episode above, as well of course as this celeb edition of FTO from seven years before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7El5LFb2_mo
As regards Family Fortunes, WGS apparently had a role in the Turkey Incident. According to David N Mason in his Gameshow Handbook, one of the female members of the understandably embarrassed Johnson family asked Max after the recording how much money would be taken for the show not to be broadcast. Max consulted William, who then had to explain to Mrs Johnson that each episode cost £38,000 to make...
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A former member
So that cuts the production costs to £31'000
DA
Wasn't that the one with an outtake where WGS dropped all the cards and they had to get a new set?
JA
Notice they're just using generic announcements- "following this week's sad news" and "we're celebrating the life of a legend"- no mention of WGS or 15 to 1. Surely it couldn't have been that hard to grab someone to record a specific announcement?
AN
It's quite odd seeing that often repeated clip and hearing those tales, because of course on Fifteen to One he always came across like a stern headmaster.
Andrew
Founding member
It's thanks to William that The Price is Right came to the UK. He single handedly hyped up the audience to lose their typically British stiff upper lip and to go crazy for the prizes.
It's quite odd seeing that often repeated clip and hearing those tales, because of course on Fifteen to One he always came across like a stern headmaster.