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An indepth guide to pretty much every Quiz and Game Show ever seen on TV, all entries include cast and crew details as well as running times, plot details, when it was on, what it was about and more besides. Simply click on the links below to access the information.

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USA / CBS / x30 minute episodes / 1966 (7 May - 3 September / Saturdays @ 9.30pm )

Quiz show. This quiz hosted by Jack Whitaker teamed a celebrity with a member of the public. There were two teams and the premise involved the teams having to guess the identity of a person from a jumbled up picture. $200 was won for each correct guess – the bonus round was worth $500 and contestants had to identify someone just from seeing a picture of their nose, eyes, etc.

Game show. This very early show featured an artist (Bill Dunn) having to draw a picture of a celebrity simply by hearing their voice, the celeb generally sat on the other side of a curtain to the artist so the audience could moniter his progress. Eddie Dunn and towards the end of the shows run a lady called Sugar hosted.

Game show hosted by funnymen Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer in which two families have to perform a series of outrageous and just plain weird challenges. Also on hand was co-presenter Alice Beer. The previous year there had been a pilot edition of the show.

A quiz show which saw parents involved in general knowledge rounds whilst their children played 10 pin bowl, with their scores being combined to decide the winner.

An evening version of the kids challenge game show featuring children and their parents - generally getting pretty messy. Host was Larry Emdur.

Long running quiz based on an equally long running US original in which two teams of five family members did battle against each other in a series of rounds, the questions were of the sort "we asked 100 people...." and the teams had to guess which answers made up the 100%. Celeb specials were seen between 1990-91. Hosts were Tony Barber (1977-80), Daryl Somers (1980-83), Sandy Scott (1984) and Rob Brough (1989-)

A weekday quiz show which saw parents being pitted against their children. Hosted by Howard Craven.

Very short lived ( a matter of a couple of weeks) gameshow hosted by Macr Yellin and involving people attempting to win $50,000 by confronting their worst fears. Each episode featured six contestants having to go through four extreme challenges. Based on US original.

Daytime general knowledge knockout quiz starting with fifteen contestants arranged in a semi-circle being whittled down to one. Presented by former comedy producer William G. Stewart. Like Mastermind the winner of each series won a trophy not money and over 24,000 contestants have appeared on the show.

Quiz show hosted by Robin Ray in which he asked pretty tough question about cinema and movie history to a panel of four contestants in a bid to discover who was Film Buff of the Year. Opening music was music was You Oughta Be In Pictures.

Creators: Wolfgang Speiser, Rus Noelte / Music: Simon Etchell / Titles: Steve Williams / Executive Producers: Stephen Leahy, David Staitie

Game show with Emma B and Ed Saunders taking to the streets to try to persuade two couple to take part in a race that could win them a holiday with whichever couple getting to the airport first winning.

Adventure game show based on a French original, this series saw a team of fit contestants taking part in a series of challenges (often very similar in style and content to The Crystal Maze - although often quite dangerous) and collecting letters that would help them in the final game that saw them with a chance to win a fortune in gold. Melinda Messenger hosted with Leslie Grantham and Geoffrey Bayldon also appearing. The show was recorded at an actual fort off the coast of rance.

Celebrity Special:- 26 December Sunday 7.40pm / 1x80m-e / 1999 Guests: Gabby Yorath, Frank Bruno, Sharon Davies, Sam Kane, Glenda McKay

UK / BBC1 / 9x50m-e / 1999-2000 Pilot: 6 Nov 1999 Sat 6.55pm / Season One: 12 Feb - 1 April 2000 Saturdays 6.15pm

Producer: Marion Farrelly / Creator/Executive Producer: David Young / Titles: Deep End

Game show in which five young friends take part part in a series of challenges to try and win a holiday, the groups had to rely on their knowledge of each to make the most of their chances. Presented by Ant McPartlin and Decland Donnelly (Season one) and then by ex footballer Ian Wright.

Long running panel based game show in which the four panelists (after seeing a short film full of clues) tried to guess the identity of a mystery guest. Hosted by Win Barron and Fred Davies.

An occasional short (x15m-e) classical music quiz that appears during the interval of ballets or operas. Hosted by Francine Stock.

Game show featuring various mathematical experts in puzzle solving. Presenters included Johnny Ball and Dr Rob Buckman.

Bizarre mish mash of practical jokes, silly games and candid camera type stuff. Presented by Jeremy Beadle, Matthew Kelly, Henry Kelly, Sarah Kennedy, Rustie Lee, Martin Daniels, Lee Peck and Debbie Rix.

Music: Mike Timoney / Executive Producer: Helen Bowdur / Producer: Ninushka Oller Stracey / Director: Peter Ross

Bizarre striptease style quiz hosted by TV Critic Garry Bushell with three contestants being 'rewarded' for answering questions correctly by one of three 'glamour' models disrobing.

Variety family based game show based on a Dutch (called Een Van De Aacht) original pairing family members of differing generations in fun and games. Bruce Forsyth and Anthea Redfearn hosted the show for 6 years then Larry Grayson and Isla St Clair took over until 1981. Bruce revived the show in 1991 with Rosemarie Ford. Jim Davidson then took over in 1995 and he co-hosts with Melanie Stace (Sally Meen briefly co-hosted when Jim Davidson first took over). The show is usually preceded by the host's name eg:- Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game.

Long running charades based game show pitting a team of four women celebrities against four male celebs, original host was Michael Aspel later replaced by Michael Parkinson. Team captains were Lionel Blair (al the way through) and Una Stuubs (who was later replaced by Liza Goddard). The guests were of the calibre of Ray Allen, Patricia Brakem Gareth Hunt, David Hamilton, Kenneth Williams and hundreds of other sundry celebs. The show was revived for the BBC daytime schedule in 1997 with Tim Clark as host.

Series producer: Steve Pinhay

16 contestants that are veterans from other quiz shows battle it out against each other with quick-fire general knowledge questions against the clock. With:- Carol Vorderman and James Richardson.

Canada / CBC / 7x30m-e / 1954 (2 July - 6 August / Fridays 8.00pm) black and white

Panel game show with three celebrities trying to guess the identity of a mystery guest. The program Front Page Challenge grew out of this show.

'Entertainment' in which ordinary 'contenders' had to battle against (the suprisingly scandal attracting) Gladiators in a series of physical challenges to win through to the assault course style final. The Gladiators had names like Wolf, Warrior, Saracen, Panther, Hunter, Jet and the like. Presented by Ulrika Johnson, Justin Fashinu and Jeremy Guscott.

Gladiators: The Final Battle / 3x60m-e 1999-2000 11 Dec 99 - 1 Jan 2000 Sat 5.25pm / Producer: Ken Warwick / A special trilogy of shows bring the series to a close. With former champions competing to become supreme Gladiator as well as the Gladiators taking on each other.

Dating game show in which a mob of 'ladies' judge a team of men on their seduction techniques, the winning man getting to go on a date with a member of the audience. Presented by Claudia Winkleman and featuring the voice of Stuart Hall.

Quiz show. For the time, a hi-tech interactive show in which a contestant on the telephone guided a blind folded cameraman to fire a crossbow at targets to win prizes. Hosted by Jackie Raine, then Bob Monkhouse and also Norman Vaughan and Charlie Williams.

A royal version of It's A Knockout with the team captains:- Prince Edward, The Duke and Duchess of York and Princess Anne.

Quiz show. A quintet of men attempt to become the man of the title by taking part in a variety of challenges and quiz type questions. Hosted first by Ted Brown and then Vera Vaugue

Antiques game show in which two teams take part in various rounds of 'antiques restoring' each edition coming from a different stately home.

A win a fortune style quiz show eerily similar to smash hit Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

UK / ITV / 7x60m-e / 1999-2000 Pilot: 4 September 1999 - Saturday 6.35pm / Season One: 4 March - 15 April 2000 Saturdays mainly 5.50pm

Game show in which friends who have fallen out take part in a series of action based challenges to sort out their differences. Presented by Lisa Rogers and Nicky Weir, with refereeing by former boxer Barry McGuigan.

Panel game show much in the vein of What's My Line in which the celebrity guests tried to guess the identity of people in the public eye. Resident panelists were Helen Cherry, Pat Kirkwood and Michael Pertwee with each week a different guest celebrity panelist appearing. Hosted by Peter West.

Panel based quiz show hosted by Dick Kollmar featuring a quartet of different personalities each time trying to guess the origin of various quotations and the like.

Panel based game show hosted by lawyer Duncan Crux in which a jury made a decision about a trial they had just seen. The trials featured were all based on actual cases.

Producers: Karen Smith, Eileen Herlihy

Children aged between 11-14 must correctly spell a series of words put to them. 5 heats took place featuring contestants who had won their own regional non-televised contests and the winners of those heats competed in the grand final. Presented by Eamonn Holmes.

A topical news quiz with many a funny moment. Hosted by Angus Deayton and resident team captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop. The show switched to BBC1 in 2000. In October 2002 regular host Angus Deayton was sensationally sacked from the job by BBC bosses due to newspaper revelations of his private life which they believed compromised his credibility when delivering satirical gibes to the rich and famous. This occurred during a mid-run of the autumn/winter 2002 series. His final show was 25 October 2002. The ongoing series continued with guest presenters as follows:- Paul Merton, Anne Robinson, John Sergeant, Boris Johnson MP, Liza Tarbuck, Charles Kennedy MP, Jeremy Clarkson, Charlotte Church. Presenters for the 2003 (8 episodes from 25 April 2005) series, the guest presenter policy continued in the next series with the following taking the chair:- Martin Clunes, William Hague, Charlotte Church, Alexander Armstrong, John Sergeant, Hugh Dennis, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Bruce Forsyth.

Celebrity game show hosted by Derek Jameson and taking as its basis the weeks news. Team captains were Phillia Kennedy and Nigel Dempster.

Fourteen strangers from all walks of life take up a survival challenge, hoping to disprove their harshest critics. For 31 days the group are tracked from the Scottish Highlands half-way across the globe to some of the most stunning - and terrifying - terrain in the world. But first they must endure a punishing training regime overseen by an SAS survival supremo, and survive a vote that will reduce their number by half. Pilot for a forthcoming series.

In its 1974—76 incarnation, High Rollers featured a game
board of consisting of numbers, with each digit connected to a prize. A simple question was read, and the first of two competing contestants to sound a buzzer during or after the reading and answer the question correctly got control of play (a wrong answer gave the opponent control). The controlling player could elect to roll a pair of dice to match a digit on the board and claim the prize attached to it. However, once a number was rolled, it disappeared from the board, and a future roll of it during the round caused a contestant to lose that round and any prizes accumulated to that point. The first contestant to win two rounds got to play a bonus round just involving rolling the dice to remove all digits. Ruta Lee was on hand to cheer contestants on. Nearly two years after its first cancellation, the show got a revival with modified rules. Now nine digits from 1 to 9 lined up in three columns on the board, with at least one column able to be "cleared" by a high roll of the dice (e.g.,a column with numbers 2, 4, and 6 could be cleared with the roll of 12, since they totalled that amount).

Any column with all three numbers removed won a contestant the prize(s) underneath it, with one prize added to a column for each round no contestant won, up to a maximum of five prizes per column. Other rules remained intact, and the top prize m the bonus round was $10,000.
The show also aired in a night-time weekly syndicated version in 1974—75 with Trebek hosting and Elaine Stewart rolling the dice, and in syndication again in 1987 with Wink Martindale as host.

THE HONEYMOON RACE

USA / ABC / x30m-e / July 17, 1967-December 1, 1967 (Broadcast Mon.-Fri. 11-11:30 a.m. )

Meshing nicely in theme with ABCs other games at the time (The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game), The Honeymoon Race had three newlywed duos compete in a scavenger hunt of five items hidden in a mall in Hollywood, Florida. However, unlike its successor Supermarket Sweep, the couples used electric scooters rather than shopping carts to locate their booty. Another loser game show, Temptation, replaced this in 1968. Hosted by Bill Malone.

Panel game show with a self explanatory title and featuring on the panel Leslie Randall, Norma Ronald and Marjorie Proops. Hosted by Pete Murray.