Our Catchphrase: Let's meet the eight we're going
to denigrate!
Family Fortunes: Based on asking contestants to guess, not the right answers to questions, but the answers most people would give; one contestant won a cassette recorder, so host Max Bygraves chipped in one of his Singalongamax! albums to go with it. It was the
LP-record version.
Double Or Drop: A sadistic quiz-game strand of the children's show Crackerjack!, designed to demonstrate to the tinies that Life Is Not Fair. Correct answers were rewarded with toys and games - but the contestant had to hold them all about his person, and
any that were dropped were
lost, heh-heh. Wrong answers
won cabbages.
Take Your Pick: Jovially presented by giant, posh New Zealander Michael Miles, this corrupted proletarian Brits in the early 1960s with the prospect of undreamed-of bourgeois luxuries like a three-piece suite, a canteen of cutlery, or an electric razor. Or, if they weren't lucky in their choice between Taking the Money and Opening the Box, a prune or a comb with no teeth. How we laughed!
Bullseye: Magnificently contemptuous darts-based game presented by Jim ''Loovely'' Bowen, in which the losers got to take home a rubber effigy of the show's bovine mascot, Bully. Bowen lacked the ability to fake empathy - one memorable exchange with a contestant ran: ''What do you do for a living, Fred?'' ''I'm unemployed, actually, Jim.'' ''Loovely!''
Mr and Mrs: Border Television's greatest contribution to the ITV network was a quiz designed to test how well married couples knew each other, famed for the incredible age of contestants and audience and for presenter Derek Batey's status as a sex symbol for the over-60s. Questions like ''What's the last thing your husband does at night?'' were fraught with danger.
Blankety Blank: Terry Wogan and later Les Dawson presented the genre's equivalent of the Theatre of Cruelty, specialising in the humiliation of the public by their celebrity team-mates and awarding prizes so useless they were often left in the studio: a 72-year-old woman won a body-building kit and the BBC refused to let her swop.
The Golden Shot: Bob Monkhouse's finest hour and the first interactive TV show, with contestants at home guiding a crossbow bolt to hit a target that would release a pile of moolah and/or deluge Golden Girl Anne Aston in apple juice. A clergyman who complained of its Sunday timing and materialism was invited to join the studio audience: the bolt ricocheted off two studio lamps and knocked him cold.
Double Your Money: Hughie Green honed the glowing sincerity that served him so well in Opportunity Knocks, the first ITV gameshow, a terrifying parade of plucky grannies and cute newlyweds aiming for the dizzy heights of #32 and the Treasure Trail. Dropped in 1968, much to Greene's disgust: ''Do people really want more culture? I doubt it!'' Right on!
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