Now You See It
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Host
Johnny Beattie
Jack McLaughlin
Fred MacAulay
Broadcast
Scottish Television: 1980s?, networked for ITV: 1981
Kids version: STV, late 80s?
Synopsis
Quite enoyable word game which migrated south of the Border after a few successful seasons in Celticland. Four players answered questions which were hidden in four lines of letters which contain a number of overlapping words, like so:
SCOTLANDISCOVERYEAR
The game board was electronic and not dissimilar to Mr Babbage of Family Fortunes fame. There was a grid of numbers around the outside so that you could give the co-ordinate of the correct answer.
You had to identify the numbered square of the first letter and name the answer. For example, if the question asked "Who won the 2006 Tour de France?" you might say "Line 2, position 5, LANDIS". The score for each question was the co-ordinates multiplied, so in this example you'd score 2 x 5 = 10 points.
In part 2, the top three players went on to play a cryptic round, the winner being the first to score four correct answers.
Winners went away with £100, and all the contestants took away engraved crystal decanters and four glasses for turning up.
Inventor
Based on a Talbot Television format.
Quite a few years later, it returned in a kids version for Scottish TV hosted by Fred MacAulay. The board was replaced by computer graphics.
