Great to see Richard and Carol together, and Tom is an absolute professional. Perfect timing for this to be post breakfast, kind of like the crossswords from the morning papers.
I fondly remember watching this on school holidays. It used to be on just after GMTV. Mary Tamm of "Doctor Who" fame was a regular guest. I seem to remember Jenny Aguetter and George Layton being regulars too!
I just can't understand why we now wake up to Jeremy Kyle instead of a lovely little game like this. Ooh goody, incoherent arguing and aggression, I'll put the kettle on.
Quite handy Richard and Carol were there - by this time Yorkshire Television owned Tyne Tees - again. Poor Tyne Tees - the hard done by station of the ITV network.
This looks like it's based on the version that originally aired in America. The original version in syndication ran from December 1975 to September 1980 with host Jack Clark. It got revived in September 1986, but it only ran until the following September. The revival was hosted by David Sparks.
Here in the UK Crosswits began in 1985 & was originally hosted by Barry Cryer, the show was seen once a week but in 1987 when Tom O Connor became the host it was twice weekly but then from series 4 (1988) until it ended in 1997 it was 5 times a week.
The timer board between commercials used the old Tyne Tees logo, was this a dig at their big brothers Yorkshire for destylising their logo into 4 boring letters?
