Go Getters
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Host
Dave Lee Travis (1991-3?)
Chris Tarrant (dates unknown)
Loyd Grossman (1996?)
Broadcast
Yorkshire Television for ITV (Granada/HTV West only in 1996?), 21 July 1991 to 28 September? 1996
Synopsis
Kiddies show in the Challenge Anneka stylee.
Three teams of three kiddy celebs (quite good ones, whom the adults might actually have heard of: Cheggers, Timmy Mallett, Andi Peters, Janice Long, Lisa Stansfield) went around the country in vans.
Each day for about a week, each van of celebs went to a different town and had a day to solve three fanciful and faintly impossible challenges, such as "have a photo of the team taken six feet underwater".
A narrator/host type would give a running commentary of what they got up to and award marks out of ten. All three teams perform their third task each day in the same town in a sort of convoluted race, after which whoever was hosting that series awards marks out of ten on a whim.
Nicely produced and rather engaging, but ultimately inconsequential.
Key moments
One of the vehicles would always break down.
Trivia
The first event was sponsored by Anchor Butter and subtitled "The Anchor Challenge".
One of the series around 1995 was delayed due to celebrity particpant Craig Charles going through the courts on a charge of rape and his later acquittal.
