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The first contestant was introduced as "Jacqueline Evans, actress, dress-designer, horsewoman and racing motorist, who was married to a top Mexican bullfighter." Gladwell could only say "Well, that sounds like a very colourful career". Quite. | The first contestant was introduced as "Jacqueline Evans, actress, dress-designer, horsewoman and racing motorist, who was married to a top Mexican bullfighter." Gladwell could only say "Well, that sounds like a very colourful career". Quite. | ||
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The lines were drawn in by a team of technicians who joined up the dots by hand. | The lines were drawn in by a team of technicians who joined up the dots by hand. | ||
Revision as of 17:09, 26 January 2008
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Host
Robert Gladwell (original host)
Jimmy Handley
Broadcast
ATV for ITV, 13 September 1958 to 23 June 1960
Synopsis
A quiz programme based on dot-to-dot pictures containing 50 dots. Two contestants raced to guess the famous face to win the round, winning a fiver for each dot not used.
Trivia
The first contestant was introduced as "Jacqueline Evans, actress, dress-designer, horsewoman and racing motorist, who was married to a top Mexican bullfighter." Gladwell could only say "Well, that sounds like a very colourful career". Quite.
Gladwell welcomes Dotto's very first contestantThe lines were drawn in by a team of technicians who joined up the dots by hand.
Dotto was Shaw Taylor's first big hit on TV. In 1958, it was watched by 4.9 million homes, and was the most popular programme that year.
Pictures
Picture 1 - Original host, Robert Gladwell.
Picture 2 - This pair wrestle live alligators in their spare time. No, that was a lie.