"Total Recall (game show) Total Recall is an Australian children's game show that aired on the Seven Network. It was hosted by Michael Pope who also the host of the Australian version of the popular game show ""Blockbusters"". The series was first originally broadcast in 1994 and ended in 1995. It was also repeated on Pay-Tv channel Nickelodeon a few years later. The show saw two competing schools play a memory game. On Monday to Thursday, four kids from one of the schools would play and the person with the most points at the end of the day was declared"
"the competitive nature of the show jarred with modern educational philosophy. Each school fielded a team of four pupils ranging in age from under 13 to under 18. The programme was first aired on TV in two special experiments the first on 25 April 1953, featuring Sheffield High School (girls) v. Marylebone Grammar School (boys) . A second TV broadcast was performed in 1954 featuring Lady Margaret High School for Girls (Cardiff) v Solihull School for Boys. The programme fully migrated to TV later. It ran from 1962 to 1975, and was called ""Television Top of the Form"". It began"
"Spelling Bee (game show) Spelling Bee was a 15-minute United Kingdom radio and live television show that was the first television game show. Hosted by Freddie Grisewood, and transmitted live from Alexandra Palace at 10pm on 31 May 1938, about four episodes were produced of the television version. As the title suggests, it was a spelling bee. In the TV version, contestants competed against well known television stars of the era. The running times varied, with the first episode aired in a 15-minute time-slot, the second and third episodes aired in a 20-minute time-slot, and the fourth and fifth episodes"
"Incredible Games Incredible Games is a children's game show that originally aired from 30 January to 1 May 1994 on BBC2 and then from 10 January to 28 March 1995 on BBC1. It included a variety of games, performed by contestants between the ages of 10 and 13. The show itself was set in a fictional skyscraper (which was depicted in the titles by a London council tower block, Trellick Tower, in North Kensington) with a talking lift. In the first series, the lift was played by David Walliams, who later starred in ""Little Britain"". In the second series, the"
"aired in a 30-minute time-slot. The last episode aired in 1 September 1938. The original ""Inter Regional Spelling Competition"" was a one-off radio contest for children, aired on 25 November 1937 at 5.30pm Spelling Bee (game show) Spelling Bee was a 15-minute United Kingdom radio and live television show that was the first television game show. Hosted by Freddie Grisewood, and transmitted live from Alexandra Palace at 10pm on 31 May 1938, about four episodes were produced of the television version. As the title suggests, it was a spelling bee. In the TV version, contestants competed against well known television"
"Jamie Kane Jamie Kane is an alternative reality game created by the British Broadcasting Corporation, aimed primarily at teens, aged 14 years to 18 years, appealing to both sexes due to its mix of mystery and drama. The game is named after the main character in it, a fictional pop star. In addition to a primary web site, the game is noted for involving interspersing fictional content related to the game in many of the BBC's web sites, including fictional interviews between BBC Radio 1 presenters and Jamie Kane, fake ""Top of the Pops"" appearances by the character, and fake"
"over to the cartoon. When the time was up or if all six words were guessed correctly, the team was given another 10 seconds to think of a solution and then, solve the puzzle. Solving the puzzle awarded another £200. Jumble (TV series) Jumble was a daytime game show series that was produced by Anglia Television and ran for 2 series on the ITV network from 12 March 1991 until 4 September 1992, the programme was hosted by Jeff Stevenson. The game was played with two contestants each with a celebrity partner. To start, a cartoon puzzle was revealed, along"
"Child's Play (UK game show) Child's Play was a British game show based on a U.S. format of the same name. It aired on ITV from 7 January 1984 to 26 August 1988 and was hosted by Michael Aspel. The first series was produced by Keith Stewart with subsequent series produced by Richard Hearsey who also worked on the first series as associate producer. Two teams, consisting of one celebrity and one contestant, competed. The object of the game was to correctly identify words based on videotaped definitions given by primary school-age children. The game was played in four rounds."
"in the UK panel show phenomenon. Game shows remained a fixture of US daytime television through the 1960s after the quiz show scandals. Lower-stakes games made a slight comeback in daytime in the early 1960s; examples include ""Jeopardy!"" which began in 1964 and the original version of ""The Match Game"" first aired in 1962. ""Let's Make a Deal"" began in 1963 and the 1960s also marked the debut of ""Hollywood Squares"", ""Password"", ""The Dating Game"", and ""The Newlywed Game"". Though CBS gave up on daytime game shows in 1968, the other networks did not follow suit. Color television was introduced"
"Game On (UK TV series) Game On (alternatively Two Men and a Blonde in Finland and The Game of Life in Portugal) was a British sitcom which ran for three series, and aired on BBC2 from 27 February 1995 to 6 February 1998. The central characters are three childhood friends from Herne Bay in Kent; laddish agoraphobe Matthew Malone (Ben Chaplin in the first series and Neil Stuke in the second and third), man-eater Amanda ""Mandy"" Wilkins (Samantha Womack née Janus), and wimpish Martin Henson (Matthew Cottle). When into their twenties, the trio move into and share a flat in"
"school children with their dialogue unscripted. However the final series was more fully scripted with young actors (many from the popular children's drama of the time ""Grange Hill"") only pretending to compete. So You Want to be Top? (UK game show) So You Want to be Top? was a British children's television programme presented by Gary Wilmot. It aired for 3 series from 7 November 1983 until 17 December 1985 normally on a Friday afternoon. The show included sketches and games that were slapstick in nature. The contestants were schoolchildren (except for series 3 - see Criticism). Much of the"
"Little Monsters (game show) Little Monsters is a British game show that aired on Sky One from 4 September to 6 November 2003. On a riverside wharf and abandoned warehouse in London, five misbehaving children take control of five unfortunate adults while they compete in a series of painful, messy and most of all humiliating games in order for the chance to play for £1,000. The “monsters” consist of five 10 year olds. (Adsy, Bigfoot, Flip, JJ and Scuds) Five adults start the game and after each game they awarded points based on their performance/position in the game, 10 points"
"Heatlie. In 2000, it was revealed by the BBC programme ""TV's Finest Failures"" that a spin-off of Fun House featuring adult contestants was also planned. A pilot was produced, which included Carol Smillie as a contestant, but it was ultimately never broadcast, and a full series was not commissioned. Each episode featured 2 teams each consisting of a boy and girl representing schools from around the UK. There were 3 rounds in each episode. The opening games, each worth 25 points, were referred to as messy games and typically used gunge as opposed to food. One game would be for"
"explained as being ""fair"". Only the first two episodes ranked in ITV 1's top 30 weekly BARB ratings at positions 25 and 26. Teenage Kicks (TV series) Teenage Kicks is a British sitcom starring Adrian Edmondson, Ed Coleman and Laura Aikman, filmed at Teddington Studios. Originally as a radio show for BBC Radio 2 in 2007, it was turned into a TV series by Phil McIntyre Productions for ITV. The show ran for 8 episodes beginning 28 March 2008 although the show was not recommissioned for any further series. The opening theme tune is ""Teenage Kicks"" by the band The"
"the following week, but this was eventually changed to the child choosing which presenter they wished to play against, and subsequently changed again to the drawing of straws. Another change to the game occurred towards the end of the series when the previous five lives became three. Jake Humphrey particularly disliked going in the tank and usually tried to find an excuse not to be gunged - this tended to fail, and he had to play the game. The Saturday Show (BBC TV series) The Saturday Show is a BBC children's show that aired on Saturday mornings. First aired in"
"only be available to people who have reached the point in the game for it to have appeared in Greta's blog. This is a list of tie-in websites for ""Jamie Kane"". Jamie Kane Jamie Kane is an alternative reality game created by the British Broadcasting Corporation, aimed primarily at teens, aged 14 years to 18 years, appealing to both sexes due to its mix of mystery and drama. The game is named after the main character in it, a fictional pop star. In addition to a primary web site, the game is noted for involving interspersing fictional content related to"
"the rest of the clip was played for the opponent before he/she got to guess. Play continued until time was called. The team in the lead at the end of the game won the game and received a prize package. If the game ended in a tie, one additional word was played. Child's Play (UK game show) Child's Play was a British game show based on a U.S. format of the same name. It aired on ITV from 7 January 1984 to 26 August 1988 and was hosted by Michael Aspel. The first series was produced by Keith Stewart with"
"leave the Monster’s wharf with all their winnings. Little Monsters (game show) Little Monsters is a British game show that aired on Sky One from 4 September to 6 November 2003. On a riverside wharf and abandoned warehouse in London, five misbehaving children take control of five unfortunate adults while they compete in a series of painful, messy and most of all humiliating games in order for the chance to play for £1,000. The “monsters” consist of five 10 year olds. (Adsy, Bigfoot, Flip, JJ and Scuds) Five adults start the game and after each game they awarded points based"
"Game of Life (TV programme) Game of Life (also ""The Game of Life"") was an educational programme for teenagers, commissioned by the ABC and SBS in 1986.. The format was a compere (Mic Conway) would teleport seven youths to a disco in the opening credits, one of whom would be chosen as that episode's reporter . Topic included leaving high school, sex and drugs. Mic Conway said, ""It got a big response mainly from people who didn't like that it tackled ""youth"" issues like drugs, sex etc; just as families were settling down to dinner and the ABC news, so"
"cash prize on a game show in the United Kingdom. The first winner of this top prize, Paul Grimshaw from Wakefield, briefly held the UK record for the highest cash winnings on a game show. The series had 15 episodes and ran between 21 February to 30 May on Tuesdays at 19.00. A number of ITV companies moved the programme; Hitman (UK game show) Hitman is a quiz programme that was produced by Television South and aired on the ITV network for 1 series in 1989, the programme was hosted by Nick Owen. The program was based on the US"
"such as the short-lived 1988 syndicated game show ""Slime Time"" (no relation to Nickelodeon's later ""Slime Time Live""), in which schoolteachers were the victims of green gungings. In Britain and Europe, in the early 1980s, children's gunge-based game shows were the norm. Particularly shows like ""How Dare You!"" on ITV and ""Crackerjack"" on the BBC ensured that the gunging element featured on shows for the decade to come. On ""How Dare You!"", one of the main games was 'Teach Them a Lesson', where children got the opportunity to drench their teacher or representative from their school in gunge while sitting"
"Double Dare (UK game show) Double Dare was a British children's game show based on the US version of the same name, which ran from 26 September 1987 to 18 April 1992. It was aired as part of the Saturday morning show Going Live!. It was presented by Peter Simon for the entire run. After the show's run ended in April 1992, its successor ""Run the Risk"" began in September 1992 with most of the games and format being carried over from ""Double Dare"". Due to British TV law forbidding children from winning cash, the teams played for points and"
"games. Test Card F Test Card F is a test card that was created by the BBC and used on television in the United Kingdom and in countries elsewhere in the world for more than four decades. Like other test cards, it was usually shown while no programmes were being broadcast. It was the first to be transmitted in colour in the UK and the first to feature a person, and has become an iconic British image regularly subject to parody. The central image on the card shows eight-year-old Carole Hersee (born 1958) playing noughts and crosses with a clown"
"gaming show for an older, adult audience. However, changes in senior staff at Channel 4 were responsible for taking the show off the air. The new head of Channel 4 was Michael Jackson who had worked at LWT at the same time as Jane Hewland; the two never saw eye-to-eye. Alternatively, having been the head of BBC Two, Jackson may have wanted less entertainment programming on Channel 4. The first series of the show was repeated on Challenge in 2003, but no further episodes have been shown. Challenge thought the show was ""too dated"" and ""the games being played wouldn't"
"GamesMaster GamesMaster is a British television show, screened on Channel 4 from 1992 to 1998, and was the first ever UK television show dedicated to computer and video games. ""GamesMaster"" began when Jane Hewland, formerly of LWT, who had set up her own production company Hewland International, took an interest in her son's love of video games. She put together a pitch for a show that would translate the excitement of games playing into watchable television. It was Channel 4 that became interested in the concept and green lit the production. However, because it had been pitched as a competitive"
"have been homes, rather than viewers, as this was the way British television viewing figures were recorded at the time). This was on Sunday 19 April when Bruce Forsyth introduced the Bachelors, Hope and Keen and Frank Ifield with the Pamela Devis Dancers. After the Tiller Girls and the lesser acts in the first part was a game show imported from America, ""Beat the Clock"", the format of which was rather like Bruce Forsyth's later hit in ""The Generation Game"". It featured couples having to perform a trick or stunt, like even changing clothes (previously put on, on top of"
"his days at Sherborne School who, upon seeing the young Messiter daydreaming in a class, instructed him to repeat everything he had said in the previous minute without hesitation or repetition. To this, Messiter added a rule disallowing players from deviating from the subject, as well as a scoring system based on panellists' challenges. The format was first used in ""One Minute Please"", chaired by Roy Plomley, broadcast on BBC radio between 1951 and 1957. Whilst the fundamental rules were the same, the game was played in two teams of three rather than with four individual contestants. Other early incarnations"
"show various items of interest; 'Word Play,' a charades game performed by young actors and actresses from the Rank Organisation's ""Company of Youth,"" also known as the ""Charm School;"" the 'Memory Man' (Leslie Welch) and 'Be Your Own Detective,' a series of short thrillers designed to test the viewers' powers of observation, written by Mileson Horton in a similar style to his earlier series ""Telecrime"". There were also various comedy sketches – Tony Hancock had his first regular television role on the programme, appearing for four episodes in 1951. ""Kaleidoscope"" was transmitted live from the BBC's studios at Alexandra Palace."
"group of 16/17 year old pupils at [a] Comprehensive School in London."" Davis herself said about the show: ""As far as I know, there aren't any other comedies about girls of this age. Inbetweeners has shown what a rich area for comedy this age group is - but girls are very different and I thought they should have their own show."" The ""Daily Mirror"" made the first episode of ""Some Girls"" ""Tuesday's must-see TV"" and described the show as ""Energetic, irreverent and real"". ""The Stage"" online said: ""the relationship between the quartet of friends is well observed and firmly rooted"
"the team with the most points could win up to eight prizes in 60 seconds by running through the obstacle course. Double Dare (UK game show) Double Dare was a British children's game show based on the US version of the same name, which ran from 26 September 1987 to 18 April 1992. It was aired as part of the Saturday morning show Going Live!. It was presented by Peter Simon for the entire run. After the show's run ended in April 1992, its successor ""Run the Risk"" began in September 1992 with most of the games and format being"
"Play for Today Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration. A handful of these plays, including ""Rumpole of the Bailey"" and ""The Blackstuff"" (later ""Boys from the Blackstuff""), subsequently became television series in their own right. The strand was a successor to ""The Wednesday Play"", the 1960s anthology series, the title being"
"50/50 (UK game show) 50/50 was a British children's game show that aired from 7 April 1997 to 12 July 2005 on BBC One. The show featured two schools from the UK putting forward 50 students, with each contestant wearing a coloured T-shirt with a numbered badge from 1 to 50 clipped on. Each episode consisted of a series of physical and general knowledge rounds with points on offer. The team with the most points after all the rounds won a top prize for their school during the first six series. In the last five series, the winners won a"
"SMTV Live SMTV Live (an abbreviation of Saturday Morning Television Live), also stylised as SM:tv LIVE, and in early promotional material SMTV://live, is a British Saturday morning children's television programme, first broadcast on ITV on 29 August 1998 and last broadcast on 27 December 2003. On the surface, the programme did not seem to stray away from the format of other Saturday morning output, featuring an audience of children, competitions and cartoons, though it constantly won in ratings battles with the BBC's ""Live & Kicking"" and became ITV's most successful children's programme since ""Tiswas"". The major success of ""SMTV Live"""