our CDT teachers with support of the PTA ran a greay egg race in the evening at school a couple of years running. Parents and kids got to make things using school tools and materials and compete. Awesome fun.
Didn’t there used to be a bus stop in space? Or did I make that up? My sister turned the vortex into a board game that we used to play with our other sister- with a book propped up in the middle to hide where the vortex moved to- we used to love it.
The Adventure Game was a groundbreaking children's TV show, the likes of which we will probably never see again, unfortunately. It appealed to kids and adults alike, in a sort of similarity to Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy meets The Crystal Maze! I will always have fond memories of this programme, and so with those, I bid you "Gronda Gronda!" ❤ Thank you uploader 👌
I actually used to have a Text adventure game of "Hitchhikers" on my old Commodore 64. Played out very much like the PC game these people played, without the animations.
Finally! Every time I talk about this show, I get blank looks from everyone! I'm so glad to see this and a sending this link to everyone I know. Thank you for proving I'm not making this programme up.
You missed out the second most memorable thing in this show, after the final game, that's them standing at a bus stop in space waiting to be returned home.
“He used to be an aspidistra but one day he woke up and decided to be a teapot”. Who’d have thought you get people doing the same thing 37 years later?
Roy Kane (Coventry School Caretaker of the year who also won an Evening Telegraph's Pride of Coventry and Warwickshire Community Awards in 2004!). Sheelagh Gilbey (now aged 70) was a former presenter on several BBC children's TV programmes, including Play School, Play Away and Zig Zag. Ian McNaught-Davies was a British television presenter best known for presenting the BBC television series The Computer Programme, Making the Most of the Micro and Micro Live in the 1980s. He was also a mountaineer and alpinist. He was managing director of the British subsidiary of Comshare Inc. he sadly passed away in 2014 aged 84.
Yes, even in the 80s this was F**king Weird. Probably why I liked it so much, Silly and smart at the same time with an oddball cast of characters and some puzzles and lateral thinking thrown in. Kids Telly in the 70s and 80s was wonderfully mental.
I loved this show, I used to watch it with my dad. Its beyond me why so many people don't even remember it being on the television! And Sheelagh Gilbey was great on "Do It".
I watched this show every week but I’m sure the early series had a different set of puzzles each week. These really appealed to me as I was well into text adventures on my zx81 at the time.
Oh wow! I was too young to remember the name of this show, but I loved it! Scared to death of the vortex. Over 37 years later I finally see it again. Thank you for sharing.
Oh and the BBC Model B home computer too! Haha, I wanted a Commodore C64, or Sinclair Spectrum, but.. But Dad got me what the schools had (it cost him more though), but, I admit, with what you could do with it, it certainly became a very useful computer! IF anyone remembers a company called Viglen, we got a 'PC-kit' for it that converted the shape of the good old 'Beeb' to a twin front disk drive base unit and separate keyboard unit. Played hundreds of hours of Firebird software 'Elite' space game (the OG to the late trading/fighting/exploration online game 'Elite Dangerous'. It's one hell of a game! 🤔👍 😎🇬🇧
Yes it's a very iconic machine. I recommend a short BBC TV film called MICRO MEN, which features the BBC machine and how it came to be, you can find the full film on RU-vid - It's a trip down memory lane
@@rustyjames_shortfilms Yeah I've seen it. When I got it I also subscribed to a weekly subscription programming mag (for the Spectrum, C16/64, Amstrad CPC, Electron, 'Beeb' and others) that opened teens eyes to 'The world of home computing and programming' - ie, 'Input' (I built up all four complete binders). Had many hours of fun (and frustrations) of typing in the long lists of programs (to find that some failed due to typing errors of either mine or the magazine programmers etc). Ohhhh then were the days! Hahaha 🤔😉👍. 😎🇬🇧
@@davedogge2280 Well, maybe haha, but, actually, the Electron came out before the 'Beeb', and it competed against the Sinclair ZX80/ZX81 and similar...
@@thedarkknight1971 if you're going to do a "well actually", then at least make sure you're actually right 🤔🤦♂️ The beeb came out before the electron, which was nothing like a zx81 (or 80). It was same generation as the zx spectrum
My dad nearly always watched the six o'clock news over on BBC1 so I very seldom got to see these, I liked the Aspidistra and the bed of nails... I think that was an earlier series though.
Oh my god! This was pure magic when i was a kid. Drogmas are so more imaginative than im a celebrity stars. You actually needed imagination to make tv back then
I watched this last night. I thought I recognised the Programme, but I don't think I ever saw it. Mind is a blur. But enjoyed it. Was a bit like Crystal Maze with a hint of Knightmare.
I remember this show well as I was always after a BBC micro for my birthday or Christmas. Looking back it looks like a precursor to the Crystal Maze, but less stressful.
I once worked on a TV show with a guy named Mike Sutcliffe who was the lighting designer on Crystal Maze. I asked him why they always seemed to find the most incompetent planks to throw together as a team, and he explained that it was absolutely deliberate. There was an application form, and then an interview, and there was a very narrow margin for entry. Too dumb and you wouldn't make it, too smart and you weren't getting in either. The people they really wanted were big headed yuppie types who thought they were the mutts nuts, but were actually thick as two short planks. These days it would be referred to as something like the Dunning Kruger Sweet Spot. Once in a while they let someone with a brain in so they might have a chance of winning. They would also use yellow lighting on the final ticket game to make the silver tickets appear gold... Mike said that the crew became so good at gauging the contestants that they would be able to say "They'll win..." or "No chance!" after about 5 minutes with them before the show even started shooting.
@@andrewtomlinson5237 The contestants always just seemed like very ordinary, bland middle class people aged 20-40 (but the young 20 somethings always looked a bit old and frumpy for their age - crap hairstyles and big glasses). Hardly any stood out as personalities, there was once this American guy who was a bit of a buffoon. There were never any spiky working class people (no one you might see on Big Brother) and but also there never seemed to be any cocky yuppies like you'd get on The Apprentice. I've seen repeats on Challenge over the years, and bits on RU-vid, I'm not just going from distant memories from the early 90s. Some of those games weren't easy though, plus it was probably more stressful if you were actually there rather than just watching it on TV. But the teams often never worked particularly efficiently together, they'd shout useless, distracting things at each other.
@@andrewtomlinson5237 Also, interesting to hear about that trick with the lighting to make the silver tickets look gold, but really there was rarely enough time for them to do anything but randomly grab whatever they could and shove it into the box.
I watched this programme all the time. I always thought that space grid at the end was a bit weird - I mean in reality it wasn’t actual space, and no one was lost lol. Like Casper says tho, the bus stop was good!
