Blockbusters - The ITV Quiz Game - Featuring Bob Holness

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The side who won the best of three matches went on to play the Gold Run. In this game, the participant (either the white player, or a nominated player from the blue team) had to work their way across the board from left to right within 60 seconds (or "within that magic minute", as Bob often put it). The hexagons had letter combinations such as "MTOC" and the contestants had to work out what these stood for using clues given by the host. e.g. "Famous humanitarian from India" would be "Mother Theresa of Calcutta". The answer to the question will start with the letter. ( this is what makes it such a great game for ESL and Native English Students. Anglia, Grampian and Scottish: Wednesdays to Fridays at 5.15pm and Saturdays at 5.05pm. Mondays and Tuesdays were filled with Emmerdale Farm. For the first 5 weeks, Scottish aired the series at 3.30pm as Crossroads held the 5.15pm slot, but that was changed from 10 October 1984. The fifth series didn't start airing until 12 September 1987. In early 1988, Anglia moved the series to 6 days a week and completed the series in March while Grampian and Scottish completed the series on 19 April 1988.

Now that there is a winner of the head-to-head challenge, the advantage is the winning team gets t choose the movie cards that go into the next round. All the cards fall into different genres, the idea is to collect them all, so this helps hedge the cards that are coming. The winners draw six movie cards, chooses three for them to take into their challenge and gives the remaining three to the other team. Remember which are the easier questions to give to the less able students, it is a great confidence booster to get something correct in a team. Collect as many Movie Cards in this round as you can in the 30 seconds provided. If you do a fantastic job and complete your three movies in time, you can move on to your rival's cards too. Stealing their cards will edge you closer to victory. The show was delayed by all ITV regions until January 1990 as no slots were available to air the show. This was because Home and Away took over the 5.10pm slot and Emmerdale was now being aired at 6.30pm, before it was moved to 7pm in January 1990. Anglia, Central and TSW were airing repeats from September to December 1989.For this version, a solo player faced a family pair. The solo player played red and went top to bottom, while the family pair played white and went side to side. If the solo player missed, only one half of the family pair could answer, with conference.

UTV: Mondays to Fridays at 3.20pm until August 1993, then switching to Saturday lunchtime until completed 15 January 1994. Scottish: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6.30pm from 3 January to April 1990. From May 1990, it was moved to a lunchtime slot around 1.30pm, with the number of episodes fluctuating from none to up to four from this point onward. Bob brought out his glove-puppet friend Harold the Hedgehog on the show on a semi-regular basis, apparently quite often as a result of requests from contestants and/or viewers. A double team who appeared on the show in 1985 brought in a spider puppet named Horace, whom they later sent to Bob, ostensibly to be a friend for Harold, but we don't seem to recall Horace making any further appearances. However, Harold did reappear, at the request of Sandi Toksvig, on at least one occasion during Bob's tenure as host of Call My Bluff many years later: Bob and Harold between them helped Sandi to define one of the words.

Great online store for board games. They always arrive perfectly and undamaged which is important to me. When everyone is ready the player who won the Head to Head starts. The 30-second timer is set by holding the buzzer down for three seconds. The timer begins when the horn sound is made. We have a few of these (all linked below) in case you don’t have time of the inclination to edit them. We have put them all in a zip file Anglia, Central and Thames: Aired three times a week from January 1990 onwards on Mondays to Thursdays at 5.10pm and aired Home and Away at 6pm. Days of the week changed and additional episodes were added as well to make it four per week on occasions.

there is a cool hand dance at the end to copy ( we will link the YouTube of that – but it was the 80s so excuse both the quality of the video, and the the hairstyles!) We do try to get our students to do this if they win, with varying levels of success. Teacher Instructions After you have completed one word or passed on it, you now do “quote it”. In this challenge, you must deliver a line of dialogue, word for word, to your teammate. They need to guess based on that. Once they name it, flip over your move card and move to the next challenge. Perhaps not an outtake as such, but two unusual answers were given when Bob asked the question, "What 'N' is meant by the phrase, 'Hit him on the Boko?'" One member of the double team buzzed and said, "Nob". The question was duly passed to the single player, who said' "Nag". The answer was in fact "Nose", so it could be argued that 'Nob' (not in the rude sense, obviously) was actually on the right lines. Gumtree.com Limited is an Appointed Representative of Compare The Market Limited who is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Their aim is to form a complete colored line either left to right ( Bue team) or vertically (Red team) and join up the colors along the top and bottom.

A 4×5 board of 20 hexagons was presented with a letter in each hexagon. A letter was chosen at random to start a game. The answer to the question would begin with the letter chosen. For example, if the letter B were chosen, a sample question could be, "What 'B' is a long silver rod twirled by a majorette or cheerleader?", in which case the correct answer would be "Baton". The contestant who buzzed in first would get a chance to answer the question. If correct, the space was marked with their color. If they were incorrect, the other side would get a chance to answer. If nobody answered correctly, another question was asked whose answer began with that same letter. Zatu has an excellent range of games and for most of them the best prices too. Delivery is always fast and I have never received a game in bad condition. 10/10 would recommend. Once everyone does their team performance rounds and collected their cards, if no one has won the game, rounds are repeated. A new member from each team is selected to compete in the head-to-head challenge which then leads into a team round. This continues until the game is over. For the record, the BBC2 editions in 1997 began at 4pm (pushing Today's the Day to a later slot of 5.30pm) but later moved to 1.40pm. Sky One's revival in 2000 aired at 6pm. Versions on Challenge and Comedy Central both went out after dinner, at 8pm. On another show, in which the double team were Welsh, Bob asked the question, "What 'C' is the Welsh word for 'Wales'?" The non-Welsh single player buzzed in first and gave the answer, 'Cymru', mispronouncing the word, but also spelling it correctly, and Bob accepted it because of the latter. Naturally, there were quite a few laughs - mainly from Bob, of course - at the fact that the double team had failed to answer the question, but they both took it very much in the right spirit.

Granada moved the time slots around during this period, In Autumn 1990, the series was moved to 5.10pm, on occasion moved 3.25pm to allow episodes of Families to have the 5.10pm slot. The series was moved again to 6pm from Wednesdays to Fridays in 1992. Contestants also quite often asked for a "B for Bob", to which Bob usually responded, "If this is the answer to the question, you're in trouble, mate!" or words to that effect - but it never was. Ironically, during the Mayo-version, the contestants were encouraged to use the NATO phonetic alphabet when selecting their letters, ie 'R for Romeo', 'T for Tango', etc, which presumably meant that the question-setters had to avoid using the relevant 26 words as answers to the questions. For around 18 months in 1991–92, Tyne Tees started airing more local output in the 6.30pm time slot, which resulted in fewer episodes per week. When Tyne Tees and Yorkshire decided to merge their scheduling in January 1993, Tyne Tees increased its episode output to catch up (In November 1992, it was airing four times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays), but had to drop over 50 episodes. He/she'll be doing that Gold Run - not right now, but in a couple of minutes' time - don't you dare go away!"Buzzing in and answering the question correctly meant that space would be turned your colour. One player had the white spaces, and a team of two players had blue. The idea of the game was to fill in as many spaces as necessary so that a contiguous line of your colour went across the board horizontally (for the blue team) or vertically (for the white player, who could make the journey in one less space than the blues to compensate for their single-ness). The 'two against one' concept proved rather contentious, with many viewers being of the opinion that the double team had an unfair advantage (even if they did have to answer more questions correctly to win), but the format was clearly such a winning one that the whole issue never really mattered that much and it certainly didn't affect the show's popularity or reputation. In any case, there were certainly plenty of single player-victories over all the series.