Don't Quote Me
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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. | ||
| - | 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 | + | 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&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&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> | + | <div class="video"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/zhyKV3SBHJE?fs=1&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&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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Current revision as of 02:07, 5 September 2024
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Host
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)
