I honestly think people were happier, because people had less,back doors not locked ,neighbour's would always chat even put oven on ect if parents were late finishing work.collections for families who had had a bereavement for flowers, street parties.i was once asked if I would of ever change anything from my childhood...not a thing I told them!
Everyone makes fun of the speedboat, but the worst star prize was always the crappy timeshare! One week a year (not of your choice) in a cramped, dingy apartment in a crumbling stately home down South... not a great prize when you're a bus driver from Yorkshire :-D
They were the best back then, such simple times. The singles chart was decided by actual sales, not all this complicated streaming. Okay, almost all the shops were shut on those Sundays with nothing much to do apart from watch the TV, but what fantastic TV it was!. Division 1 football match and Bullseye, only for school the next day to follow!.
@@georgepenn8922 yes he did george, i think it was the episode when Jim got confused when the prize was a Morris Marina and it started to rust behind the curtain. Apparently a stagehand had a warm cup of coffee and the steam off it started to peel off the vinyl roof
You're half right but the prizes on UK game shows were laughable compared their American equivalents at the time. ITV was better than the BBC. The BBC was particularly notorious for small prizes - still is... Look at Pointless, you'd be lucky to win five grand on there.
@@SpeccyHorace Bullseye is from ITV, a commercial channel, but I take your point. The BBC is a bit tight fisted. On Pointless the daily prize tends to be under 3 or 4 thousand. The daily £1000 rolls over if it isn't won, but it often is. The contestants probably get a couple of hundred just for appearing on the show so the prize money isn't great. Add a zero on the end £10,000, and now you're talking.
Husbands like... Where's the Mark1 ford feista🤔, ah well your sorted love, 😂😂😂, bit sexist, they didn't have like a multi tool set, dremmel, load of screw drivers, few drills, cement mixer, and a pile of sand paper, 🤔🤔🤔🤔
That's what the ruling class want us to say so that we accept our lot at the bottom if the pile. We create the wealth of the nation yet others live off it for themselves. We shouldn't have to wait for quiz shows to let us own nice stuff.
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly Jim wants to get the whole thing over as fast as humanly possible once the darts are landed. “Well done, you’ve won, get over there, start waving, piss off the lot of you!”
They recorded up to four shows a day and once the contestants had won, Jim had the Director in the control room telling him to get the new contestants on stage as quickly as possible.
I don't think I was seeing things, but wasn't the winning contestants prize money counted out twice, once in the studio where Jim Bowen gave them their prize money from the table they stood around when they don't take the gamble or lost the gamble, and once in the area where the prize was hiding behind bully. Because when the winning team won the gamble their money was together with the star prize.
To be fair those kitchen appliances probably lasted over 20 years. The fridge in our kitchen is 30 year old. It's had a couple thermostats but that's all
Actually Jim Bowen was a rude arrogant prick, off screen he wouldn't give the contestants the time of day he was only nice in front of the cameras,my wife met him and he was foul miserable twat.
He'd be done for sexual assault LOL. Funny to watch the old shows on the quiz channel and listen to Jim calling the pretty ladies 'delicious' and stuff like that. Different times!
It’s moments like this that makes Bullseye the greatest game show ever! And the ooooh from the women in the audience when the prize reveal super smashing great!
Great shows genuine results. Loved it. Feel good factor always there. Even when they may loose. Great families on these shows. Much better than now days. Thank you for showing us.
No words can adequately express my remorse regarding my inexcusable faux pas. I am mortified that I got to make such a Schoolboy error and I only try to crave your forgiveness for my brief moment of total complete and utter insanity in making this mistake. I have no excuses and I can only apologise ,profusely, for my stupidity, once again. You are a good man for pointing this out to me. I'm inconsolable at the moment.....:(
Well it's 4.40am in London Town and I am off to bed. Is this " remote Scottish highland " you refer to like a Scottish ISLAND as in " Isle Of Skye" my friend? I believe the correct expression you will be looking for to acknowledge my comeback in our battle of repartee is TOUCHE :)
Sorry, Guv but I'm a Cocknernee Geezer and I believe you mate but millions wouldn't :) Yes, you are au fait with the area but let's be charitable and say your comment to open to interpretation as the common phrase, as you well know, is " remote island (Scottish or otherwise ) " so methinks you are being a tad disingenuous there but as you are a fellow Londoner then we will move, swiftly, on. What we DO need to address is your desertion from the greatest place on earth ( a little biased, admittedly ). I, too, had enough by 1982 and on 9/5/83 I moved out from the heart of South East London just 10 miles and have had a fantastic further 37 years on the periphery just 1/2 mile from a London Postal Code. I can , honestly, tell you that I have had only 2 problems in all those years both with 30 year old Males who, at different times, were neighbours of mine. One was a cocky little Stockbroker and the other was just an insecure xxxx. For me, it's the best of all Worlds living here as Pre-Covid I could "use" London's multi-farius attractions and yet be in the heart of Kent within 20 minutes t'other way. We have 96 Open Spaces within a 7 mile radius and all I had to do was move 10 miles away from off The Old Kent Road, where my heart still is. Why on earth would you think I had any Scottish connection anyway, my son? Answer: I love "The Skye Boat Song". Every fibre of me is English, my friend. Where did you move to and how long ago ?
Well, they say travel broadens the mind but....:)It would have been quicker to list the Regions you haven't stayed in,mon ami :)Taking my 2 dogs (Dad and Daughter )and their Mum and Sister who live in my road to our local: Danson Park now in Bexley which is 50 yards away (CHEAP side lol ) and you can see it's right on the very edge of my beloved S E London. I will reply later and thanks for your comment.
I used to think they always had all the household goods prize sitting backstage for the winners, and the gold plated speedboat got rolled out for the losing “let’s see what you could have won...” moment.
They usually did. Then pushed out the prize they wanted to get rid of if the contestents won. I remember a quiz programme review thing where someone who worked on the programme saying they had an excellent deal ti get the cars and the boats were more expencive. Usually had both backstage and more often than not pushed out the car if it was a win and the boat if they lost
@@madabbafan I remember watching it in the late 80s and the “Here’s what you would have won” was a weekend at some sort of holiday camp akin Centre Parcs. They looked so pissed off they didn’t win and Jim was like “Wouldn’t that have been marvellous!?, but you’ve still got your Bully darts and tankard!”🤣🤣🤣
@@marcuslavaggi-bowen6539 Any relation to Jim? Also, I bet those darts and tankards are worth a fortune nowdays as collectables, much more than some jazzed up camping trip haha
Ah. Sunday afternoons, everyone in England tuned in to Bullesye. Golden memories - all the family, cups of tea, cat purring on lap. Jim Bowen was just brilliant...40 years later his catchphrases are STILL used: Super, Smashing, Great, Listen ta Tone-ah' , Keep out of the black and in the red...nothing in this game for 2 in a bed, Come and See What Ya Would've Won, Ya Cant beat a bit of Bully, your charity money....thats saaaaaafe, all you get is ya BFH...ya bus fair home God BLESS
No Internet, no reality shows , a lot of rain and one telly in the living room and mum was in charge of the remote. Growing up in 80's Britain this was considered drama. So glad we now live in a world where it's so easy to reminisce
Sundays were brilliant, in the morning go to the cafe, then watch some friends playing sunday league football, then in the pub and sink a gallon, back to moms for a sunday roast, fall asleep on the couch, then wake up to a bit of bully when the theme tune started, watch that then get ready for the evening session in the pub,,,, happy days
Best quiz show of all time. Jim is a legend. The show was unprofessional, many of the prizes were awful .... but its that what made it the best show lol. Just the simple things, like the guys were due £180 and Jim pulls out a wad of £200 and says "I'll take £20 off that, you take the rest. That's £90 a piece you know!"
That’s when 155 pounds was still 155 pounds! Thats probably the most genuine heartfelt affectionate hug I’ve ever seen two people exchange on TV! And that would’ve really been a prize worth having in the 1980’s! I wouldn’t mind winning that myself only my kitchen at home isn’t big enough to accommodate all those appliances.
I, too loved Bullseye. Bully's Bellow was funny. I remember Bully walking across the screen, with a dictionary, and pointing to the letters. Jim Bowen used to rub the contestants's noses in it, when he said, "It's probably the cruellest saying on Television. Let's have a look at what you would have won".
The highlight of my childhood Sunday before mother added another gallon of lacquer and we all headed to the working mans club for bingo. If we were flush, a pot of prawns when the seafood man came in with his wicker basket of delights
I was that seafood man .... when you can walk into a pub or club with a wicker basket full of manky crabsticks and a jacket with " Here comes Supercockle" on the back you have no fear 😉
Love how all the pipes from the washer and fridge are just out everywhere! Couldn’t give a shit on bullseye! The look on her face when that 2nd treble went in! More jam than Hartleys!
Bullseye- Jim Bowen/ The Generation Game - Bruce Forsyth / Family Fortunes- Bob Monkhouse. 3 great wholesome family game shows & 3 late Great entertainers.
Loved how Jim never used to let them celebrate, he was always more concerned with wrestling them into position for the camera and never forgot to drop in what TV region they were from!
These were fantastic days to grow up in, everything was soooo much simpler than this crazy world we have! look how happy the lady was with the prizes! Now it would have to be a Ferrari and a fortnight in Dubai!
Those were the days, church on a Sunday morning then down the pub for a few jars, then back home for one of mums roast dinners. Sleep it off and wake up in time for a bit of Bully...... See if someone would win his special prize..... And why was it ALWAYS a speedboat??!!! (Except for the times it was a miniMetro)
Top telly you can never recreate this program, they’ve tried but it never captured the magic of the original great,smashing,super Jim you were a ledgend god bless my friend.
Watching a load of reboots that failed (Family fortunes, Catchphrase, Blockbusters) shows how the host matters more than the format of the game does. No one that came to fame after 2000 has any idea about hosting a gameshow - even those that have been doing so for many years. Ben Shephard, Richard Osmon et al... None come close to the old-fashioned variety entertainers like Bob Monkhouse, Bruce Forsythe and Michael Barrymore.
"Put the apron on." Lol the amount of complaints if that was aired now... This was the best era for TV. So many good shows, which were far more entertaining than repetitive crap like strictly and I'm a celebrity.
Just watching this episode on Challenge TV tonight. What a great show it was, and I’m so sad we lost Tony Green recently. Bullseye brings back so many happy childhood memories, and I sincerely miss it!
Great Sunday evening memories back in the 80s,don't make shows like that anymore sadly. Always wondered though how they split a car or a speedboat if they won 😂😂😂
This episode was on Challenge TV just the other day. I didn't remember it even though we watched Bullseye every week back then, but that was truly incredible.
