Quotation Marks

Current revision as of 20:12, 29 July 2024

Host

Broadcast

BBC Birmingham for BBC One, 24 July to 31 August 2000 (27 episodes in 1 series)

Synopsis

Talk show diva Vanessa Feltz invites three contestants to answer a series of questions based around quotations, who said them, where and why.

Vanessa Feltz staring into our souls.

There's no messing around in the first minute of the show, contestants get introduced, opening titles are played and then we go straight into the first round. Each contestant gets two quotations and they are given a multiple choice of three answers, picking the one that corresponds to the quotation wins them two points, which means a maximum of four is on offer.

An example quotation in Round One

Talking Heads is the name of the second round and it's a Telly Addicts-like round where members of the public, walking down the street, are asked to put on their best acting skills and recite a quotation from either a film, TV show, book, play or song and the contestants have to identify where it's from. A correct answer is worth two points and they are then asked a question based on that answer, which is worth one point if answered correctly. There's six people to choose from and each contestant has two goes, which means they can choose two people.

Clickity Click, it's time to take your pick of the six. Two of them in fact.

The third round is a subject round where contestants get to choose one of six categories and they have 90 seconds to correctly answer as many quotation questions as they can for five points apiece. If they don't know the answer immediately, they can ask for a clue; they have a maximum of three clues available to them, but the points value goes down with each clue, to three, then two and finally one.

So many categories, so little choice

Gossip Columns is the fourth round where two columns of six names will appear, each contestant gets different names on the columns and they are given four quotations in 90 seconds to try and identify which person on the left column said what about which person on the right column, they will have to get each one of the four correct in order to move on, each correct answer is worth two points and the names that were correctly answered are wiped from the board.

Look at those columns! So Columny!!

It's fingers on buzzers for the fifth round where a quotation is read out and then an anagram of the person who said it quotation will appear, contestants will then have to unscramble the letters on a board and if one of the contestants figures out who that person is, they will have to buzz in and answer correctly for five points. Again, there are clues to help them out, but like with the subject round, the value of points go down.

How amusing.

It's back to the third round for the sixth round where the remaining three categories out of six remain on the board but this time they only have 60 seconds to answer as many quotation questions correctly as possible.

Clue please?

Finishing Lines is the seventh and final round of the show and a quotation that is blank will appear, each quotation in this round is either a literary line, a lyric from a song or a title, each word in that blank quotation will be revealed in a random order and if a contestant knows what the quotation is, they have to buzz in and say the full quotation, every correct answer is worth one point for each word of the quotation that had not been revealed.

I remember when someone said "When At Once I A A Of". Good times.

After all seven rounds, the winner who scored the most points won a grand prize of book tokens. Really? That's it? They spent half an hour going through seven rounds full of quotations and that's all they get for winning? Bit of a let down don't you think?

The show went out in a 12pm slot during the summer months when Wipeout was taking a break and let's be honest, as awful as the daytime version of Wipeout was with Bob Monkhouse at the helm, we would rather watch that over Quotation Marks. Hell, we would rather watch Pass the Buck over this, which went out in the same slot and we gave a favourable review to.

Quotation Marks seemed vastly over-produced for a lunchtime show and a bit of a one-trick pony. It also tried way too hard to make the show be like Who Wants to be a Millionaire? with its serious tone. Sorry, Millionaire had a top prize of £1 million to give away within 15 questions, all you had to give away was book tokens for the winner, so you have no reason to give your show a darker tone.

And for Vanessa Feltz's first and only game show she hosted? We just couldn't stand her. She had no banter with the contestants and didn't even bother explaining the rules at the start of the show, which left us viewers in the dark.

We were not surprised when after three weeks into the run, the show was moved to a different slot...30 minutes later at 12.30pm. But at least the 12pm slot was now replaced by repeats of Call My Bluff, which is a show that's a lot lighter, funnier and easy to play along with at home.

Quotation Marks was dropped after one series, which we all breathed a sigh of relief. We just can't bear having a second series of this, we just can't.

Catchphrases

"Clue!" - when people wanted a clue.

Theme music

David Lowe

Videos

A full Quotational Mark episode

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 == Synopsis ==
-Vanessa Feltz asks questions of members of the public based around quotations, who said them, where and why.
+Talk show diva [[Vanessa Feltz]] invites three contestants to answer a series of questions based around quotations, who said them, where and why.
+<div class="image">[[File:Quotation Marks Vanessa Feltz.png|400px]]''[[Vanessa Feltz]] staring into our souls.''</div>
+There's no messing around in the first minute of the show, contestants get introduced, opening titles are played and then we go straight into the first round. Each contestant gets two quotations and they are given a multiple choice of three answers, picking the one that corresponds to the quotation wins them two points, which means a maximum of four is on offer.
+<div class="image">[[File:Quotation Marks Round One.png|400px]]''An example quotation in Round One''</div>
+'''Talking Heads''' is the name of the second round and it's a [[Telly Addicts]]-like round where members of the public, walking down the street, are asked to put on their best acting skills and recite a quotation from either a film, TV show, book, play or song and the contestants have to identify where it's from. A correct answer is worth two points and they are then asked a question based on that answer, which is worth one point if answered correctly. There's six people to choose from and each contestant has two goes, which means they can choose two people.
+<div class="image">[[File:Quotation Marks Round Two.png|400px]]''Clickity Click, it's time to take your pick of the six. Two of them in fact.''</div>
+The third round is a subject round where contestants get to choose one of six categories and they have 90 seconds to correctly answer as many quotation questions as they can for five points apiece. If they don't know the answer immediately, they can ask for a clue; they have a maximum of three clues available to them, but the points value goes down with each clue, to three, then two and finally one.
+<div class="image">[[File:Quotation Marks Categories.png|400px]]''So many categories, so little choice''</div>
+'''Gossip Columns''' is the fourth round where two columns of six names will appear, each contestant gets different names on the columns and they are given four quotations in 90 seconds to try and identify which person on the left column said what about which person on the right column, they will have to get each one of the four correct in order to move on, each correct answer is worth two points and the names that were correctly answered are wiped from the board.
+<div class="image">[[File:Quotation Marks Round Four.png|400px]]''Look at those columns! So Columny!!''</div>
+It's fingers on buzzers for the fifth round where a quotation is read out and then an anagram of the person who said it quotation will appear, contestants will then have to unscramble the letters on a board and if one of the contestants figures out who that person is, they will have to buzz in and answer correctly for five points. Again, there are clues to help them out, but like with the subject round, the value of points go down.
+<div class="image">[[File:Quotation Marks Round Five.png|400px]]''How amusing.''</div>
+It's back to the third round for the sixth round where the remaining three categories out of six remain on the board but this time they only have 60 seconds to answer as many quotation questions correctly as possible.
+<div class="image">[[File:Quotation Marks Round Three And Six.png|400px]]''Clue please?''</div>
+'''Finishing Lines''' is the seventh and final round of the show and a quotation that is blank will appear, each quotation in this round is either a literary line, a lyric from a song or a title, each word in that blank quotation will be revealed in a random order and if a contestant knows what the quotation is, they have to buzz in and say the full quotation, every correct answer is worth one point for each word of the quotation that had not been revealed.
+<div class="image">[[File:Quotation Marks Round Seven.png|400px]]''I remember when someone said "When At Once I A A Of". Good times.''</div>
+After all seven rounds, the winner who scored the most points won a grand prize of book tokens. Really? That's it? They spent half an hour going through seven rounds full of quotations and that's all they get for winning? Bit of a let down don't you think?
+The show went out in a 12pm slot during the summer months when [[Wipeout]] was taking a break and let's be honest, as awful as the daytime version of ''Wipeout'' was with [[Bob Monkhouse]] at the helm, we would rather watch that over ''Quotation Marks''. Hell, we would rather watch [[Pass the Buck]] over this, which went out in the same slot and we gave a favourable review to.
+''Quotation Marks'' seemed vastly over-produced for a lunchtime show and a bit of a one-trick pony. It also tried way too hard to make the show be like [[Who Wants to be a Millionaire?]] with its serious tone. Sorry, ''Millionaire'' had a top prize of £1 million to give away within 15 questions, all you had to give away was book tokens for the winner, so you have no reason to give your show a darker tone.
+And for [[Vanessa Feltz]]'s first and only game show she hosted? We just couldn't stand her. She had no banter with the contestants and didn't even bother explaining the rules at the start of the show, which left us viewers in the dark.
-Three players played each day, they all got book tokens for playing.
+We were not surprised when after three weeks into the run, the show was moved to a different slot...30 minutes later at 12.30pm. But at least the 12pm slot was now replaced by repeats of [[Call My Bluff]], which is a show that's a lot lighter, funnier and easy to play along with at home.
-We remember the show seeming vastly over-produced and being a bit of a one-trick pony.
+''Quotation Marks'' was dropped after one series, which we all breathed a sigh of relief. We just can't bear having a second series of this, we just can't.
 == Catchphrases ==