Well done Robert. This show brought back many comical memories. As an 80s child, this was always on at lunchtimes when it was watched during the odd day off sick from school. The pink columns on the 4 in a row part always resembled giant pink marshmallows. Whenever the host said "What is my name?", my brothers and me would always call out "Henry Kelly", daft silly kids we were but it was a show we were too young to understand, but the music was upbeat and jolly which made it appealing, ultimately though the educational awareness and understanding of different European cultures of people was something to be grasped and that was of great learning. Thanks for uploading this.
Thanks for uploading this video. Whenever I was off sick from school as a young kid at the time, I enjoyed watching Going for Gold on BBC 1. There ain't no Going for Gold without the TV legend himself Henry Kelly.
Even if you were watching going for gold on you tv back then I have always wondered how long it took the stuido audience to clap throughout the ending.
Did the set designer own shares in a neon light company? Very harsh lighting too by today standards must have been hot with the lamps above to get it that bright.
@@rabduff hi Robert! I've been watching a lot of Going for Gold videos on RU-vid and this is the only one I've seen that doesn't look like a crappy VHS recording with tracking lines and so on. Is it from the BBC or superchannel archives? Or did you upscale it somehow?
Ahh, I did have a video recording, but it got lost, this episode i purchased from the bbc at a ridiculous cost, but, as you said, the quality is good so was worth it
What i remember, was flying down to Heathrow, and getting a taxi to the studios, 1988, and it was £40 back then, im pretty sure it was Elstree, I remember seeing Michelle and Pauline from Eastenders, and, clapped, roly the dog, they filmed there too
@@rabduff i had always wondered how did you ever get into a stuido i mean did you get a ticket to the stuido and become members of the audience of going for gold or any other show that went on.
That cheap music and expanded polystyrene looking set. The dumb line of questioning and the ‘quiz show’ itself was expertly sent up years later in an episode of Father Ted.
