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Revision as of 23:43, 10 April 2008
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Host
Pete Murray (1956)
Jerry Desmonde (1956)
Leslie Sands (1957)
Co-hosts
Not known
Broadcast
ATV Network for ITV, 1956-57
Synopsis
With the so-obvious-it-hurts subtitle of "Well, can you?", this was billed thus: "Fun and fortune await lucky contestants in this happy-go-lucky half-hour." More precisely, the show was a quiz with a dartboard involved - think Bullseye but more cheap and less cheerful.
How bad was it? Well, according to Pete Murray's autobiography, producer Reg Watson's first words to him were "I can't explain the rules to you" and Murray claims he never did understand how the game was supposed to work. What's more, filming locations ranged from ATV's Television Theatre, Aston (not so bad) to the positively exotic staff canteen of the Standard Motor Company, Coventry (oh dear).
Inventor
John P Wynn
Trivia
Subsequent programmes came from the canteens of English Electric, Stafford; ICI, Fleetwood; and the North Gas Board, Preston. We are not making this up.
