|
|
QUEEN FOR A DAY USA / x30m-e / 1955-64 black and white Game
show in which each edition five contestants came out with a story about why they
should be Queen For a Day the audience decided which contestant should be the
'lucky' winner. he show was hosted by Jack Bailey. His "Vanna White"
was Jean Cagney, Jimmy's sister. (Thanks to John Standen for additional info)
A QUESTION OF EASTENDERS UK / BBC1 / 1x30m-e / 2000 15 February - Tuesday 8.00pm Producer: Noleen Doyle / Director: Joanna Ball The Question of Sport format given an Eastenders spin, celebrating that shows fifteenth birthday. Host was Gaby Roslin, the team captains were Wendy Richard and Adam Woodyatt and the celebs on the panel were Katy Hill, Michelle Collins, Harry Hill and Jeremy Spake.
A QUESTION OF POP UK / BBC1 / x30m-e / 2000 Season One started 8 April Saturday 6.00pm Producer: Robin Ashbrook / Director: Joanna Ball Music quiz based on the format of A Question of Sport (with the same rounds). Hosted by Jamie Theakston. Team Captains were Suggs and Noddy Holder. In the pilot broadcast 3 Jan 2000 - Monday 6.00pm Tony Hadley appeared as team captain in place of Noddy Holder.
UK / BBC1 / x30m-e / 1970-continuing Long running sports quiz show, rounds include the Mystery Guest, Picture Board and What Happened Next. Hosts have been David Vine, David Coleman and currently Sue Barker. The show has a panel format with two team captains and sporting celebrities as guests. Team captains over the years team captains included Bill Beaumont, Emlyn Hughes. Current team captains are snooker player John Parrott and Scottish footballer Ali McCoist. Special: When A Question of Sport Met Match of the Day (2 Jul 2000 / Sunday 5.45pm 1x30m-e ). A one off that preceded the coverage of the Euro 2000 football final between France and Italy. Guest panelists were all BBC1 soccer pundits:- Gary Lineker and Mark Lawrenson (both with Ali) and Alan Hansen and Trevor Brooking (with John).
QUIZBALL UK / BBC1 / x30m-e / 1966-71 Creator: George Woolley / Producer: Bill Wright Ingenious general knowledge quiz in the form of a football match with two teams of three plus celebrity guest answering questions to advance towards the goal, the show utilised a large 'electronic' pitch, questions ranged in toughness from 1(easy) to 4(hard). Presented by David Vine.
READY STEADY COOK UK / BBC-Bazal / x30m-e / 1996-continuing 4.25pm Afternoon cookery challenge show in which 2 members of the public are helped by a celebrity chef to prepare a dish in 20 minutes. A spin off series emerged called Celebrity Ready Steady Cook with celebrities as the members of the public. Presented until 2000 by Fern Britton then since then by chef turned TV personality Ainsley Harriott.
REMOTELY FUNNY UK / BBC1 / 6x30m-e / started 8 June 2002 Series
Producer: Simon Welton RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH UK / BBC1 / 1x60m-e / 2000 22 June Thurs 8.00pm Producer: Martin Pailthorpe / Executive Producer: Dick Colthurst Game show. A pair of 'fit' families take part in a series of challenges in the Lake District. Hosted by John Inverdale and Shauna Lowry.
ROBOT WARS UK / BBC2-TV 21 / x30m-e / 1997-continuing Producer: Stephen Carsey Bizarre challenge show in which teams of contestants build robots to do battle against the might of the BBC's own in order to win through to the grand final. Presented by Phillipa Forrester and Craig Charles (Jeremy Clarkson hosted for season one). From 22 September 2000 Julia Peel took over from Phillipa Forrester. The commentary was by the extremely over enthusiastic Jonathan Pearce. The show is currently one of BBC2's most popular. SPECIAL: The International League Championship (Friday 15 September 2000 / 1x45m-e / 6.25pm). A look at an international Robot Wars competition featuring teams from the UK, USA, Australia, Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands.
ROLL WITH IT UK / Family Channel-Initial / x30m-e / 1995 Writer: Les Scott / Producer: Andy Wood / Executive Producers: Penny Harris, J Nigel Pickard, Ken Bolam Music based game show with celebrities taking part in singing and music knowledge rounds. Hosted by Keith Chegwin and regular team captains Noddy Holder and Toyah Wilcox.
ROUGH SCIENCE UK / BBC2 / 16x30m-e / 2000-2002 (Season One: 26 May - 16 June Fridays 7.30pm) Producer: Paul Manners Game show. On an island in the Mediterranean five scientists are dumped and have to complete various tasks improvising the equipment needed from the things around them. Presented by Kate Humble.
RUN THE GAUNTLET UK / Thames-Creative Action / x60m-e / 1988 Producer: Julia Grant / Executive Producer: Keith Mosedale / Director: Jim Brown An action based game show hosted by Martin Shaw with international teams from the UK, Australia and New Zealand and Holland took part in a series of extremely physically demanding challenges.
RUSSIAN ROULETTE UK / ITV1 / 1x60m / 7 November 2002 Director:
Sue McMahon / Producer: Mirella Breda UK / Anglia / 1971-85 Tacky quiz show which billed itself 'Live From Norwich- The Quiz of The Week'. Hosted by Nicholas Parsons the shows star prizes usually was a car (often a Skoda). Satellite channel Sky briefly revived the show in 1991. Sale of the Century has also been running in Australia since 1980 and has now produced some 4000+ editions, the show is produced by Grundy and shown on the Nine Network.
SAY THE WORD UK / Challenge TV-Action Time / x30m-e / 1997 Creator/Producer: David Housham / Music: Ded Good Music Co. / Executive Producer: Stephen Leahy, J. Nigel Pickard Quiz show in which three members of the public compete in various word based rounds hosted by Andy Crane.
SCRAPHEAP UK / Channel Four-RDF / 13x60m-e / 1998-99 Season Two: 5 September - 17 October 1999 Sundays 6.30pm Music: Simon Lacey / Executive Producer: David Frank / Producer: Cathy Rogers ( season 1), Amanda Murphy (season 2) / Director: Gary Hunter (season 1), Amanda Murphy (season 2) Somewhat bizarre show presented by Robert Llewellyn in which two teams of four (all with some kind of mechanical background) attempt to invent various machines against the clock from items found in a scrapyard. Season Two was retitled Scrapheap Challenge and the series made use of a knockout format competition. Cathy Rogers joined Llewellyn as Co-Presenter.
SHAFTED Australia / 9 Network / x30m-e / 2002 Quiz show broadcast weeknights at 8.30pm. Six players have to decide how much money they want to start the game with (the greediest player is then eliminated before the game begins), the remaining five then answer three rounds of questions, at the end of each round the winner "shafts" somebody off the show until only two players remain, they can choose to divide their winnings or go for the lot, however if one shafts and the other shares the shafter gets everything but if they both shaft they get nothing. Hosted by Red Symons.
SHIPMATES USA / Syndicated-Columbia Tristar / x30m-e / 2001 Game
show hosted by Comedian and actor Chris Hardwick, the weekly half-hour
strip, follows a single couple in each episode from their initial meeting
on board a Carnival Cruise Lines ship to their eventual farewells.
SHOOTING STARS UK / BBC2 / x30m-e / 1995-97/ 2002 Creators: Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer / Producer: Alan Marke, Lisa Clarke (2002) Frankly bizarre panel based quiz show with two teams of celebrities (captained by Mark Lamarr and Ulrika Johnson) were asked (often nonsensical) questions by hosts Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. Score master was comedian George Dawes (who appeared as a drum playing baby). The 2002 series was seen first on digital tv channel BBC Choice before being seen on BBC2.
SINGLED OUT USA / MTV / x30m-e / 1995-97 Dating game show with one woman choosing from one of fifty men she hadn't seen but who matched answers to her questions, then the situation was reversed with the man choosing a woman by the same process. Hosted by former Playboy playmate Jenny McCarthy (later replaced by Carmen Electra) and Chris Hardwick.
SINGLED OUT UK / Channel Five-MTV / x30m-e / 1998-continuing Executive Producer: Richard Godfrey / Producer: Debbie Phillips Dating game show presented by Sarah Cawood and Richard Blackwood. The show is seen on both Channel Five and MTV.
SIXTH FORM CHALLENGE UK / Granada / x30m-e / 1966-67 black and white Producer: Douglas Terry / Director: Peter Mullings Quiz show spun off from University Challenge with as the title makes plain sixth form students rather than college students. Hosted by Chris Kelly.
THE 60,000 QUESTION ATV / x30m-e / 1956-58 General knowledge quiz hosted by Jerry Desmonde based on the US $64,000 question but in this case the prize went up in increments of sixpences.
THE SKY'S THE LIMIT UK / Yorkshire / x30m-e / 1971-74 Producer: David Millard / Director: Keith Beckett A specialised subject quiz show, with travel prizes hosted by Hughie Green and his favourite assistant Monica Rose.
A SLICE OF THE ACTION UK / Carlton-Carlton Food Network / x30m-e / 1999 Producer: Mike Morrissey / Titles: Mischa Welsh / Executive Producer: John Bishop Quiz. Culinary based panel game hosted by Paul Ross with team captains Amanda Grant and Andrew Nutter.
SMALL TALK UK / BBC1 / x30m-e / 1995-97 Quiz show. Ronnie Corbett asks 9 children (on a giant video screen) the all important questions in life (such as "Do You Know who Doctor Who is?" ) etc and three contestants try to decide what the kids will answer.
SPACE CADETS UK / Channel 4 / 10x30m-e / 1997 Quiz show about science fiction in the style of Have I Got News For You etc with host Greg Proops and team captains Craig Charles and Bill Bailey getting into their parts by appearing in costume. Star guests included William Shatner, Paul Darrow, Walter Koenig, Claudia Christian, Armin Shimmerman and Sylvester McCoy.
SPECULATE UK / BBC1 / 1x40m-e / 1999 20 October - Wednesday 8.00pm Producer: Chris Jones / Executive Producer: David Young Game show. The studio audience attempt to win a fantastic holiday by trying to guess correctly which way various crazy stunts and games will pan out. The show, presented by Gaby Roslin, was similar in concept to LiveTV no budget cable show Life's A Punt.
SPORTING TRIANGLES UK / Central / x30m-e / 1987-89 Sports quiz show much in the mould of A Question of Sport with three teams of two made up of sporting celebrities. Hosts were initially Nick Owen and then Andy Craig.
SPOT THE TUNE UK / Granada / 209x30m-e / 1956-62 Quiz in which the contestants had to guess the title of a song after hearing only a small sample of it, usually sung by Marion Ryan accompanied by the Peter Knight Orchestra. Ken Platt, Ted Ray, Jackie Rae and Desmond O'Connor were all hosts during the shows run.
THE STAYING -IN SHOW C4 / 5x30m-e / 1999 First Episode: 27 Jul 1999 Tues 11.00pm Producers: Francis Dickinson, Caz Gorham Comedy/quiz. Panel type game show looking at aspects of sexuality. Hosted by Amy Lame, with team captains Jackie Clune and Scot Capurro.
STREETMATE UK / C4-Tiger Aspect / x30m-e / 1998-continuing Producer: Claudia Lloyd Dating game show in which Davina McCall travels the country looking to matchmake various single people she encounters on the street. A pair of specials Beachmate(20 Oct 1999 Wed 9.30pm) and Skimate (22 Dec Wed 9.30pm) saw Davina travels to Mykonos in Greece and Courcheval in the French Alps. There was also a highlights package (Best of Streetmate) broadcast 21 Jan 2000 Friday 11.40pm and a Carribean mate special on 4 August 2000. Presenter from the 2001 season was Tania Strecker.
STRIKE IT LUCKY UK / London Weekend Television-Grundy / x30m-e / 1986-continuing Executive Producer: Robert Louis Long running quiz hosted by the manic Michael Barrymore, three teams of two answered various multiple choice questions to try and win through to the big money end game. As from 12 December 1996 the show was retitled Strike It Rich (with bigger money prizes and sparklier lights).
SUPERCHEFS UK / Carlton Food Network / x30m-e / 1999 Cookery game show with 40 top chefs competing against each other in a knockout competition presided over by Penny Smith, with celebrity guests, food critics and the studio audience acting as judges.
UK / ITV / x30m-e / 1990's - continuing Daytime quiz (initially 9.25am weekday mornings before latterly moving to a mid afternoon slot) giving contestants the chance to go 'wild in the aisles'. Presented by Dale Winton three teams of two compete in various general knowledge rounds and take part in a trolley dash to try and win a cash prize in the end game. The set was mocked up to look like an actual Supermarket. The series has been latterly known as Dale's Supermarket Sweep.
SUPERSTARS UK / BBC1 / x50m-e / 1970's -early 80's Various sporting 'superstars' compete against each other in various events, such as circuit training, cycling, penalty shoot outs and the like. Most well known sportsmen of the era appeared (Kevin Keegan, Gareth Edwards etc) but Judo star Brian Jacks seemed to win most years and could go on doing squat thrusts and the like for what seemed like days on end.
USA / CBS / x60m-e / 2000-continuing Creator: Charlie Parsons Game show. 16 Contestants (split into two sets of eight) are cast adrift on the South Pacific island of Pulau Tiga, each week one of the contestants is voted. Prize money for the last one standing was one million dollars. Final four were Richard, Rudy, Kelly and Susan and the eventual winner was the self confessed schemer Richard Hatch. The show (which actually originated in Sweden) is up to season four in the US and has spawned a host of versions seen in other countries including the UK and and Australia.
THE SWEEPSTAKES GAME UK / London Weekend Television / x30m-e / 1976 Producer: Bruce Gowers Game show hosted by Bernard Braden with the audience being asked to bet on the celebrity guests ability to answer questions correctly.
THE SYNDICATE UK / BBC1 / 15x30m-e / 2000 ( 26 June - 15 September / Mondays 7.00pm) Executive Producer: Adam Wood / Director: Ian Hamilton / Music: Philip Pope / Producer: Tom Webber Tactical general knowledge and mental challenge quiz hosted by Nick Ross with two teams of four players competing in various rounds, some team - some solo. One of the rounds involved each team being asked questions (after first being allowed to research it) on the other team's specialist subject. As the game progressed players could end up being eliminated or sacrificed for points. The winners of season one were The Co-Horts.
|
|
|
