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Wetten Dass removed. (December 2010)

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David 8 December 2010 6:51pm

Thanks for those clips, exactly what I was looking for

I have a copy of the whole episode and at this point in the shows history they had the Whirly Wheel feature

I thought it was earlier in the first series that this happened, in it's original less successful incarnation. The Santa Pod stuff wasn't a Whirly Wheel feature though was it?

This episode was from 10th September 1983. The car jumping was not a Whirly Wheel stunt but the Whirly Wheel stunt (a member of the public flying a gyrocopter) also took place at Santa Pod.

Steve Williams 8 December 2010 7:48pm

Inspector Sands posted:

I thought it was earlier in the first series that this happened, in it's original less successful incarnation. The Santa Pod stuff wasn't a Whirly Wheel feature though was it?

No, this was billed in the Radio Times as a special, and I've actually seen the episode before this one where Noel more or less invites anyone at all who fancies doing a bit of car jumping to come down and do it. That Tom Jones interview, edited, was on Tom Jones At The BBC the other week.

As mentioned, it was the second show of the second series. They did do a couple of shows based around record attempts, the first episode of the next series was live from Dover where "attempts will be made to break at least a dozen cross-channel records", and there was also one where Leo Sayer headed a team trying to drive from London to Paris in the fastest possible time. They loved their pointless live outside broadcasts on that show.