Masterteam (1)
Revision as of 15:52, 12 February 2006
Synopsis
Tea-time team version of Mastermind. Rounds were:
Team Challenge - basically, questions on the buzzer.
In A Spin - Teams had to make the longest word from three given letters, supposedly selected at random, starting with the first and including the others in order within the word declared. Essentially Catchword before its time.
Spotlight - Teams choose a member of the opposition to answer questions on their own from a list of specialist subjects, including the Pot Pourri category ("a tough general knowledge", Angela would always remind us).
It's All Yours - This only happened from quarter-final onwards. Each team in turn was allowed to confer for answers.
The set of MasterteamThe winners of each series were Warrington Sports Club, Antrim Coasters and Carrick Plus One. When the programme schedulers decided what we should watch before the Six O'Clock News, Masterteam was dropped in favour of a new Australian soap - Neighbours.
Key moments
The gripping Masterteam leader board, with gold, silver and bronze positions for two, three or four consecutive wins.
The finals of 1986 and 1987 included In a Spin rounds with curious selections of letters. In 1986, one selection was the letters JIM. The Antrim Coasters could only declare JIM; their opponents (Good Guessers) came up with JURIMETRICS. In 1987, there was the more obscure selection of EKU. Neither team could come up with anything, and Angela proudly declared that their spell checker could only come up with three!
One member of the Warrington Sports Club team was a rather elderly lady called Olive. She became something of a star in the first series. The show's most memorable moment of all came in an open round, when Angela asked the question "Who is the lead singer of Motorhead?", to which Olive confidently replied "Lemmy"! She had done a lot of research into pop music, which was not otherwise a specialist subject.
In the last-ever edition of the show, a team called 'The Garbologists' was in the final, and one of them was a dustman. The answer to his final 'Spotlight' round question was, 'My Old Man's A Dustman'.
One member of the Antrim Coasters was asked in his 'Spotlight' round, 'In which children's television series does the character Hazel The McWitch appear?' He answered, "Masterteam".
Theme music
Theme specially recorded by Graham Preskett.
Web links
See also
Masterteam is also the title of a Radio 4 general knowledge quiz, presented by Peter Snow.
