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BBC Radio 4 from 26 September 1970 – 1986. Joan Clark had produced a weekly radio quiz from 1945 called Quiz Team, with two teams of four, with question master Roy Rich. On Sunday 23 May 1948, this transformed into Ask Me, Another! on the Home Service, with teams of four, with question master Lionel Gamlin.
This is a list of British game shows.A game show is a type of radio, television, or internet programming genre in which contestants, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes.
The Challenge TV version kept the rules of the ITV version, except there was no "Open Sale", and players were spotted £15 to start. There were five rounds with questions being worth £1 in round one, £3 in rounds two and three, and £5 in rounds four and five. Finally, the game ended with 60 seconds of £5 questions.
The UK pilot was recorded in 1976 and became a 15-minute slot on the popular entertainment series Wednesday at Eight, which went on to become London Night Out. However because the game was so popular, producers Thames Television decided to turn Name That Tune into a half-hour weekly series in 1983. [ 2 ]
The $64,000 Question was a British quiz show based on the American format of the same name.The show originally ran from 19 May 1956 to 18 January 1958 produced by ATV and was originally hosted by Jerry Desmonde, and called simply The 64,000 Question with the top prize initially being 64,000 sixpences (£1,600), later doubling to 64,000 shillings (£3,200).
The pub quiz has become part of British culture since its popularization in the UK in the 1970s by Burns and Porter, although the first mentions in print can be traced to 1959. [4] [5] It then became a staple in Irish pub culture, and its popularity has continued to spread internationally. Although different pub quizzes can cover a range of ...
3–2–1 is a British game show that made by Yorkshire Television for ITV.It ran for ten years, from 29 July 1978 to 24 December 1988, with Ted Rogers as the host.. It was based on a Spanish game show called Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez and was a trio of three shows in one: a quiz, variety and a game show.