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== Broadcast == | == Broadcast == | ||
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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
| - | Schools quiz involving two teams. In the first round, Pick A Pop, they had to run to the wall and pick a pop star then answer a question on that person. The second round was Pick A Number (hence the name). At the end, the team with the least points had to pick someone in their team to get gunged. | + | Schools quiz involving two teams. In the first round, Pick A Pop, they had to run to the wall and pick a pop star then answer a question on that person. The second round was Pick A Number (hence the name). At the end, the team with the least points had to pick someone in their team to get gunged. |
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| + | After an inital three-year stay at Border Television, the show was transferred to Grampian Television. Whilst at GTV, it was picked up by Scottish for a solitary series. Grampian kept it until 1996. | ||
== Devisor == | == Devisor == | ||
| - | Phil McKay himself. | + | Phil McKay himself. He was also credited as Programme Associate for the GTV version. |
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| + | == Trivia == | ||
| - | + | Had a clever scoring device. Yellow balls were put in a wiggly scoring track, a bit like a more tortuous version of [[Runaround]], and this enabled you to read the black numbers that were stuck to the front glass. | |
| - | + | Also span off into a Scotland-wide roadshow tour. | |
[[Category:Regional]] | [[Category:Regional]] | ||
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[[Category:Scotland]] | [[Category:Scotland]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Border Productions]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Grampian Productions]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Childrens]] | ||
Current revision as of 22:54, 1 September 2017
Contents |
Host
Phil McKay
Broadcast
Border, 1984-6
Grampian (also Scottish one year), 3 October 1987 to 4 August 1996
Synopsis
Schools quiz involving two teams. In the first round, Pick A Pop, they had to run to the wall and pick a pop star then answer a question on that person. The second round was Pick A Number (hence the name). At the end, the team with the least points had to pick someone in their team to get gunged.
After an inital three-year stay at Border Television, the show was transferred to Grampian Television. Whilst at GTV, it was picked up by Scottish for a solitary series. Grampian kept it until 1996.
Devisor
Phil McKay himself. He was also credited as Programme Associate for the GTV version.
Trivia
Had a clever scoring device. Yellow balls were put in a wiggly scoring track, a bit like a more tortuous version of Runaround, and this enabled you to read the black numbers that were stuck to the front glass.
Also span off into a Scotland-wide roadshow tour.
