Aah, fond memories. I had one of the best days at ITV studios. They looked after me and my family superbly. The stars were all lovely and thanks to all at the studio. Great to find this on here as my old VCR cassette was getting ragged. I would love to see this gameshow make a comeback on TV
I'm cobbling together a tribute to Tom, since I met him in Pwllheli in '93. Nice chap. Glad you had a great life at ITV. Sounds like you lived the dream
I didn’t find out he had died until about 10pm last night, but something told me someone had died yesterday, I found him so funny, I regularly watched this with my Nan when I was a child, I still love my gameshows now, he will be missed by me for sure, maybe someone like John Bishop or Jason Manford could try and modernise this,
Did you know that in the Tyne Tees area during WWII, a man named Gregg's created his bakery chain and Lindisfarne mentions the two words 'Sausage Rolls' in Fog on the Tyne. Just a pity it is honoured by the ridiculous Ladbaby.
Tyme Tees during its unfortunate “Channel 3 North East” phase, losing its famous TTTV logo, although a new TTTV logo was brought in after Yorkshire Television & Tyne Tees were brought by Granada later in 1997.
Despite a couple of differences, this is based on the American show of the same name. It originally aired in syndication from December 1975 to September 1980, and was hosted by Jack Clark. Another syndicated version ran from September 1986 to May 1987, and was hosted by David Sparks.