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- 12:57, 23 December 2024 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Champions: effing yes!! Sorry, I'm just so delighted that a 26-year wait for a female series champion is over... :)) (top)
- 23:27, 18 December 2024 (hist) (diff) The Price is Right (→Theme music: Lawrence Oakley did the full score for Joe's version (hence his plain "Music" credit). Nothing imported from the other side of the Atlantic this time - not even the "losing horns") (top)
- 23:11, 18 December 2024 (hist) (diff) The Price is Right (→Theme music: forgot that Bob's version didn't air in just *one* calendar year... :))
- 23:09, 18 December 2024 (hist) (diff) The Price is Right (After being absent in '95, the "losing horns" returned in '96. As for the rest of the BPIR score, I'm thinking Kevin Kitchen - some of his compositions for Supermarket Sweep sound *very* similar)
- 22:41, 18 December 2024 (hist) (diff) The Price is Right (→Theme music: the sax arrangement used on Bruce's version also came over from Stateside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmG68kv8Tc&ab_channel=markyyy)
- 22:29, 18 December 2024 (hist) (diff) The Price is Right (At least two Bob Warman eps on YouTube, and from them we learn that not only was the original American theme used here, but the "come on down" music and "losing horns" came over from Stateside too :))
- 21:50, 18 December 2024 (hist) (diff) Humdingers (If I may be pedantic and say that this show and Who's Bluffing Who? appeared in the *late spring* of '91. Summer technically starts on 21 June, and kids aren't out of school until late July... ;)) (top)
- 21:43, 18 December 2024 (hist) (diff) Who's Bluffing Who? (If I may be pedantic and say that this show and Humdingers appeared in the *late spring* of 1991. After all, 21 June is the first day of summer and kids stay in school for another month afterwards ;)) (top)
- 21:24, 18 December 2024 (hist) (diff) Sky Star Search (→Synopsis: just spotted a third 'i' in "hilarious" :)) (top)
- 21:23, 18 December 2024 (hist) (diff) Sky Star Search (→Synopsis: basically made the first paragraph flow better, removing the superfluous "there was", and also the parentheses around "with Peter Marshall" since there are none around "with Bob Warman")
- 21:08, 18 December 2024 (hist) (diff) Winner Takes All ("Michael Dixon's £7455 in 1986 remained the record cash prize for over a decade." Actually, only eight years later Wheel of Fortune contestants were winning £10,000 for solving the final puzzle ;)) (top)
- 21:04, 18 December 2024 (hist) (diff) Winner Takes All ("The set of Winner Takes All. The contestants indicated their "bet" via the lights in front of their desks." That's Geoffrey and Vicky in the middle, isn't it? So, specifically, the late '80s set)
- 18:49, 17 December 2024 (hist) (diff) Catchphrase (→Theme music: on the other hand, the present theme *is* the Welch theme, or rather a rave arrangement thereof - hence Welch *does* get a credit) (top)
- 18:42, 17 December 2024 (hist) (diff) Catchphrase (→Theme music: and of course, Etchell himself danced it up for the Weir and Curry eras)
- 18:41, 17 December 2024 (hist) (diff) Catchphrase (Etchell's theme was clearly based on Welch's, yet there was no need to give Welch a credit because it was different enough. Might be worth pointing this out - but feel perfectly free to disagree :))
- 18:27, 17 December 2024 (hist) (diff) Midas Touch (→Trivia: a Central show, in the mid '90s - so it couldn't have been made anywhere other than Nottingham, right? ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35GU5P3bvuU&ab_channel=MisterDoc) (top)
- 18:18, 17 December 2024 (hist) (diff) Sabotage (...and that this was *yet another* Action Time show for which Simon Etchell composed the music :)) (top)
- 18:16, 17 December 2024 (hist) (diff) Sabotage (Did you watch this clip too, Gareth? :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpugZdLjR8U&ab_channel=61citystars We can also see that Messrs Leahy and O'Connor were exec producers as well as the creators...)
- 16:33, 4 September 2024 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (→Good morning from Central!: removing repetition of "providing" following a reconsideration) (top)
- 14:13, 4 September 2024 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (→"We asked 100 people to name...": put "leapfrog" after all the 'K's and "leaf cleanser", and - just because I'm fussy - italicised "Coronation Street" ;)) (top)
- 14:08, 4 September 2024 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (→"We asked 100 people to name...": just now on a 1988 episode on Challenge. Les: "It's finger-licking good, but it's the wrong part of America..." ;))
- 00:12, 28 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Dirty Money (→Catchphrases: what Marcus said to eliminated contestants ;))
- 00:11, 28 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Dirty Money (→Catchphrases: the rest of the "clock is ticking" catchphrase ;))
- 23:12, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Index B (→Shows: Bury Your Hatchet should precede all the "Bus" shows, and The Bunker: Crisis Command (as it was piloted) should precede all the "Bur" shows ;))
- 22:46, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold (→Synopsis: British *TV* game show, I should probably clarify) (top)
- 22:31, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Jackpot!: continuing the series numbers, it was 7, 8, 9 and 10 in which the contestant played for £20k or the car)
- 22:16, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Jackpot!: ...but then, of course, along came Raise the Roof)
- 22:08, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Jackpot!: viewers of Pot of Gold could win up to £25,000. WoF series 6's occasional package of two cars and £10,000 can't have been far off that figure, if indeed not bigger...)
- 21:42, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold (→Synopsis: if the jackpot total matched what was on your game card, you stood to win up to £25k - which, in fact, was the biggest jackpot offered on a British game show at the time)
- 21:26, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold (→Synopsis: the highest-scoring act *did* go through to an "all-winners" final, and won a grand too)
- 21:08, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold (→Synopsis: fifty pounds was the prize for you if an act's total score matched that on your game card. You had to write in to claim it, though)
- 20:29, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold (Here's the logo, in the correct 4:3 aspect ratio ;))
- 20:27, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:PotOfGold.jpg (People are coming, everyone's trying, trying to be the best that they can, on the ITV show Pot of Gold... well, Grundy were involved in this show too ;)) (top)
- 19:56, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold (I note that Colin Keyes, who did the Des O'Connor Tonight theme and provided that show's orchestra, was "Musical Associate". Actually wondering now, was *he* PoG's composer with Monk merely arranging?)
- 19:30, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold (→Trivia: the gradual Carltonisation of Central resulted in The Television House being renamed accordingly, of course, although Pot of Gold had disappeared from the airwaves by then)
- 18:42, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold (Also, Des appeared "by arrangement with Thames Television". They'd lost their ITV franchise but were still producing Des O'Connor Tonight, so I guess the contract he had with them still applied)
- 18:31, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold (Central, mid '90s... ergo it was made in Nottingham. ;) Obvious to us game show fans, but of course *not* every reader is a game show fan. Plus, it wasn't produced *solely* by Central)
- 17:59, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold ("Musical Director" was more often than not the composer's credit on Central's game shows, wasn't it? Mike Alexander was credited as such on FF, and so too Paul Maguire on Leslie's Price is Right...)
- 17:51, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold (→Synopsis: Ray Monk did this show's theme, and he also did an arrangement of Des's own theme for Take Your Pick. Can't imagine that was a coincidence... ;))
- 17:47, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Robin Houston (→Shows: add Pot of Gold to the already impressive list of shows for which Robin has provided his voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NerzadYc5Fw) (top)
- 17:45, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold (There's a full ep on YouTube, even though it has been stretched to fill the 16:9 frame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NerzadYc5Fw. But thanks to it, we can now add this show to Robin Houston's CV)
- 03:59, 6 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Bognor or Bust (→Co-hosts: "Voiceover: X" is the style these days, rather than "X (voiceover)" ;)) (top)
- 18:12, 29 July 2024 (hist) (diff) News Archive (Well, not quite *every* event - he started the Wall with "Contenders, you will go on my first whistle; Gladiators, you will go on my second whistle" and the Eliminator with almost the same words ;))
- 19:05, 26 July 2024 (hist) (diff) Mark Curry (I think there only needs to be one link to the Blue Peter article... Also, isn't "Lego" usually spelled with a capital 'L'? ;)) (top)
- 18:58, 26 July 2024 (hist) (diff) Catchphrase (→Catchphrase for The New Millennium: I do like his question card pose, though ;))
- 18:58, 26 July 2024 (hist) (diff) Catchphrase (→Catchphrase for The New Millennium: Mark's time on Blue Peter wasn't *that* long before his time on the 'Phrase, was it? He was on Pointless Celebs relatively recently, too ;))
- 00:47, 21 July 2024 (hist) (diff) Passport (From the credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFZioH_RQXA&ab_channel=AmmanfordNinja) (top)
- 13:18, 6 July 2024 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Champions: time to add the Series 89 champ, and start the 23rd row of this table... Excluding Series 33, there have now been as many champs in the 15-round era as there were in the 9-round era)
- 21:42, 13 June 2024 (hist) (diff) Walk the Line (→Trivia: https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/versa-london-walk-the-line-studio-1235135913/ and https://tvstudiohistory.co.uk/independent-tv-studios/versa-london-studio-acton/)
- 18:01, 12 April 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (You know what? Let's add the members of each winning team too. ;) The Professionals was effectively a successor to Reunited - and Christmas UC is effectively a successor to The Professionals)
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