Junior Criss Cross Quiz

Contents

Host

Jeremy Hawk (original host)

Chris Kelly

Bob Holness

Mike Sarne

Chris Howland

Gordon Luck

Peter Wheeler

Bill Grundy

Danny Blanchflower

Barbara Kelly

Broadcast

Granada for ITV, 13 November 1957 to 29 June 1967 (3 series)

Synopsis

Children's version of Criss Cross Quiz, played similarly but with hobby-related prizes instead of the cash prizes of the adult version.

Trivia

You wouldn't get away with that nowadays: On occasion the show awarded live animals as prizes. Budgies, fish and even a pedigree dog were all given away in the first year.

Jeremy Purser - a kind of junior Ken Jennings - won consecutive matches for months until they made him retire in the Ian Lygo stylee.

Questions were edited and verified by Newnes' Pictorial Knowledge.

Videos


Peter Wheeler in the chair for this last edition of the 1967 series

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