Winner Takes All
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Contestants start with fifty points and answer a series of five questions, wagering between five and fifty of their accumulated total on their ability to select the correct answer from the five displayed. | Contestants start with fifty points and answer a series of five questions, wagering between five and fifty of their accumulated total on their ability to select the correct answer from the five displayed. | ||
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Each answer was associated with a set of odds, between 2-1 and 5-1 and the outsider at 10-1. Correct answers paid off at the illustrated odds. | Each answer was associated with a set of odds, between 2-1 and 5-1 and the outsider at 10-1. Correct answers paid off at the illustrated odds. | ||
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This takes place twice before the break, and once afterwards, but for pounds instead of points. There was a returning-champion complication somewhere along the line, too. | This takes place twice before the break, and once afterwards, but for pounds instead of points. There was a returning-champion complication somewhere along the line, too. | ||
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"Ho-ho!" Tarbuck hosted in the early days, accompanied by the disembodied voice of [[Geoffrey Wheeler]] to read out the questions, answers and commentate upon the outcomes. Later shows dispensed with Tarbuck and Wheeler performed both jobs. | "Ho-ho!" Tarbuck hosted in the early days, accompanied by the disembodied voice of [[Geoffrey Wheeler]] to read out the questions, answers and commentate upon the outcomes. Later shows dispensed with Tarbuck and Wheeler performed both jobs. | ||
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A modern version starring Bobby Davro was made for cable station Challenge TV and two things strike you about the show. Firstly, Davro's actually a very quick witted host, and secondly how inconsequential the betting procedure is. If you'd just count how many questions each contestant got right, most of the time you'd reach exactly the same outcome. The Davro revival also saw the return of the disembodied voiceover reading the questions, in the form of YTV newsreader Gaynor Barnes. | A modern version starring Bobby Davro was made for cable station Challenge TV and two things strike you about the show. Firstly, Davro's actually a very quick witted host, and secondly how inconsequential the betting procedure is. If you'd just count how many questions each contestant got right, most of the time you'd reach exactly the same outcome. The Davro revival also saw the return of the disembodied voiceover reading the questions, in the form of YTV newsreader Gaynor Barnes. | ||
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<div class="image">[[File:Winner takes all jimmy with hostess.jpg|200px]]''The 1970s truly were the decade that taste forgot''</div> | <div class="image">[[File:Winner takes all jimmy with hostess.jpg|200px]]''The 1970s truly were the decade that taste forgot''</div> | ||
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Revision as of 04:07, 7 August 2016
Contents |
Host
Jimmy Tarbuck (1975-86)
Geoffrey Wheeler (1987-8)
Bobby Davro (1997)
Co-hosts
Voiceover: Geoffrey Wheeler (1975-86)
Vicky McDonald (1987-8)
Announcer: Gaynor Barnes (1997)
Broadcast
Yorkshire Television (regional), 20 April to 13 July 1975 (13 episodes in 1 series)
Yorkshire Television for ITV, 14 May 1976 to 28 June 1988 (235 episodes in 13 series + 3 specials)
Challenge TV, 1997
Synopsis
Contestants start with fifty points and answer a series of five questions, wagering between five and fifty of their accumulated total on their ability to select the correct answer from the five displayed.
I want my bathroom tiled like thatEach answer was associated with a set of odds, between 2-1 and 5-1 and the outsider at 10-1. Correct answers paid off at the illustrated odds.
Geoffrey and Jimmy togetherThis takes place twice before the break, and once afterwards, but for pounds instead of points. There was a returning-champion complication somewhere along the line, too.
Jimmy Tarbuck and hostesses"Ho-ho!" Tarbuck hosted in the early days, accompanied by the disembodied voice of Geoffrey Wheeler to read out the questions, answers and commentate upon the outcomes. Later shows dispensed with Tarbuck and Wheeler performed both jobs.
The set of winner takes all. The contestants indicated their "bet" via the lights in front of their desks.A modern version starring Bobby Davro was made for cable station Challenge TV and two things strike you about the show. Firstly, Davro's actually a very quick witted host, and secondly how inconsequential the betting procedure is. If you'd just count how many questions each contestant got right, most of the time you'd reach exactly the same outcome. The Davro revival also saw the return of the disembodied voiceover reading the questions, in the form of YTV newsreader Gaynor Barnes.
Bobby Davro hosted the most recent versionFor this reason, we can't praise this show to the heights, but nevertheless it's a quiz that was popular in its day.
Key moments
In 1981, redundant sausage cook John Smith won £6620, the highest prize awarded on a British game show at the time. This was bettered in 1986, when Michael Dixon's winnings totalled £7455. It remained the record cash prize for over a decade.
In the Wheeler version, one outtake concerned a hostess introducing one contestant as "Tony Gold from Haughton-le-Spring" when his nametag actually said Chris.
Catchphrases
Classic early-'80s quiz show dialogue. Jim: "Press your buttons and gamble away!" Geoffrey: "Wide difference of opinion here, Jim!"
Inventor
The show was actually invented by Geoffrey Wheeler, who originally was the voiceover and later the host.
Host, Geoffrey Wheeler (he's the one on the left) with hostess.Theme music
The original theme was an instrumental piece of library music called Joy Ride by Jim Lawless.
Trivia
The grand prize was £1,000 in the form of one thousand one-pound notes (remember them?) in a display case - much like Who Wants to be a Millionaire?'s £1,000,000-worth of thick wads of fifties (albeit fake), but not nearly as impressive. We were all hard up in those days, y'see.
The first series was shown in the Yorkshire, Tyne Tees, and Border regions only. It was shown later in 1975 in some other regions, including LWT from 22 August 1975.
Web links
Pictures
Jimmy's just got in
The 1970s truly were the decade that taste forgot