7:01 Paul: Right on with the game. Barry: Hang on just a minute just a minute. The blue have won a coconut haven't they? Paul: Ohh I was hoping you forgotten that.
It's so clearly set up and not random on the light switch. 1. The celebrity Time Downie has already arrived so has to be used. 2 They give the other kids a chance by lighting up the home square.
It was certainly convenient for the production team that the more expensive looking prizes suddenly started being added to the trolley in the latter half of the program, only for that whole third trolley full to simply dissappear when the 'times up' hooter sounded. The illusion of having loads of good prizes on the show, without necessarily going to the expensive of actually giving them away. Regarding the celebrity though, I did wonder if both teams had already filmed a celebrity challenge (and perhaps some of the other bits, such as the chuckle chuck and swamp game) prior to the filming of the actual game, so that the celebrity would have done something to earn their fee even if genuine random selection on the wheel meant neither team's celebrity challenge was shown or affected the scores.
Luton isn't a city, but they have applied for city status several times. It's a children's game show I'm glad they weren't harsh or it would have spoiled the fun.
I had to go back and rewatch it. I genuinely thought Barry had said Luton was 'no good' on first watch, but it does seem they took it as an acceptable answer (or at least Barry thought they accepted that particular answer, but it's possible that the person tasked with keeping score reacted to some other correct answer being said, as we can't hear everything they say because of the other kids all shouting, so they could have said ten in addition to Luton).
My cousins (twins) appeared in an episode of this. They weren't contestants but were in the background representing their school. I remember watching this show after I got back home from primary school. I knew the answer to the competition and I asked my dad if I could ring up the show and answer the question. Unfortunately I didn't win the prizes!
RIP Barry Chuckle. I posted this message over 2 years ago. As I said before I loved this show. I remember watching it with my father one day and got his permission to answer the quiz question to win prizes as I mentioned before. Hopefully one day I'll come across the episode in which my cousins were in.
.You dont seem, very enthusiastic at points , both teams dont. Why is this? Also did you get a chance for a discussion with Paul and Barry. I'm big fan of them and you were stood really close to them.
It's a bit of an unfortunate format choice that they (in this edition at least) spent much of the latter part of the program bigging up the several slightly more expensive looking prizes that were being added to the trolley, only for that that last trolley full to simply dissappear at the sounding of the hooter at the end of the game. If I was the producer I might have devised a way to distribute whatever was on the trolley at the point when the time ran out (perhaps give the teams alternate quick fire selections from the trolley, with the team with the most cocunuts going first. Budget willing, and reserving say 30 seconds of the program to do that). Were the BBC sneakily giving various expensive products air time, by claiming them to be prizes, but ensuring they didn't have to run to the expense of actually giving them away by sounding the hooter before they were won?
All quiz show i.e the more recent the Chase, Who Wants to be a MIllionaire, are are slightly rigged when you think about it. End of the day it would be boring if they won everything.
