Don't Quote Me

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== Host ==
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Was commissioned for an extraordinarily long 20-show run, which exhausted the production team and probably killed off any hopes of a returning series.
Was commissioned for an extraordinarily long 20-show run, which exhausted the production team and probably killed off any hopes of a returning series.
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Producers Open Media are perhaps best known for creating Channel 4's open-ended discussion show 'After Dark' - and later revived the topical monologue strand 'Opinions'. This was their first light entertainment commission.
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<div class="video"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/zhyKV3SBHJE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/zhyKV3SBHJE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br>''Part one of show 18 (1st October 1990)''</div>
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== Web links ==
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Quote_Me_(TV_series) Wikipedia entry]
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Current revision as of 02:07, 5 September 2024

Contents

Host

Geoffrey Perkins

Broadcast

Open Media for Channel 4, 4 June to 22 October 1990 (20 episodes in 1 series + 1 unaired)

Synopsis

Quotation quiz with a high-level concept of using things that some people might have preferred to have forgotten about - things like Margaret Thatcher's famous "I doubt there will be a female Prime Minister in my lifetime."

Notable for the closing line: "We'll be back next year with a new series ... but don't quote me." (It wasn't recommissioned - see below.)

Inventor

Justin Scroggie and David Britland

Trivia

Was commissioned for an extraordinarily long 20-show run, which exhausted the production team and probably killed off any hopes of a returning series.

Producers Open Media are perhaps best known for creating Channel 4's open-ended discussion show 'After Dark' - and later revived the topical monologue strand 'Opinions'. This was their first light entertainment commission.

Videos


Part one of show 18 (1st October 1990)

Web links

Wikipedia entry

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