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• 18:32, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice ‎ (No disrespect intended here... but the Sun is *not* a paper I readily trust, and nor are the Mail and the Express. I'm far more inclined to trust the Guardian, the Telegraph, and other broadsheets)
• 18:22, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone ‎ (No disrespect, but the last revisions by TS and JT *are* good, IMO ;))
• 18:08, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ‎ ("And/or" means these eps were either shown on both channels (the "and") or on only one of them (the "or"). And readers can work out when these situations applied when they click on the Trivia pointer)
• 12:17, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ‎ (...so perhaps the ITV Prods eps *can* be combined, since the first four aired on ITV1 only, the next thirteen on both ITV1 and CITV, and the last four on CITV only. Good idea to point to the Trivia)
• 12:01, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ‎ (→Trivia: a bit more about the ITV1/CITV arrangement, with the help of the It's A Stampede! blog: https://itsastampede.com/2022/08/11/revisiting-and-re-watching-ministry-of-mayhem/)
• 11:03, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ‎ (And the same with the Granada/ITV1, ITV Prods/ITV1 and ITV Prods/CITV eps of Showdown. I *know* this makes the infobox long, but sometimes there's no easy *and* elegant way round things like this...)
• 11:00, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ‎ (No disrespect, but I'm of the belief that the Carlton and Granada eps of MoM should still be kept separate, even if these were just brands by '04 and there were no major changes in the production crew)
• 10:48, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone ‎ (→Trivia: ahem... :))
• 10:10, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (No, 1st Jan '91 was when the IBA was replaced by the ITC, and the ITC did not abolish the limits immediately. Why else did WoF's jackpot remain at £4k, Fam Fortunes' and Strike it Lucky's at £3k, etc?)
• 16:23, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (Sometimes *two* cars would be on offer with the £10k. Before Raise the Roof (and not counting the Lottery), this must have been one of the biggest prize packages offered on a British TV game show...)
• 15:59, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Jackpot!: in 1994, solving the final puzzle won you a car *and* £10,000, which was brilliant. And wasn't it 1 January 1993 when the prize limits were abolished?)
• 01:54, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Jackpot!: the "Big Wheel Jackpot" was £4k in the second, third and fourth series, and £5k in the fifth series. And of course, another incarnation of Lingo has arrived on our screens since... ;))
• 01:48, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Jackpot!: clarified that it was in the first five series, 1988-93, that solving the final puzzle won you a car, a holiday or, in Steve Hamilton's own words, the "Big Wheel Jackpot")
• 00:14, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: one last bit of tidying up, I'm hoping ;))
• 23:59, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: at least the last two weeks were straightforward, with the Batons put away. The final being a best-of-three was a tradition in the Bamber Era, of course)
• 23:36, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: if how the Batons worked was difficult to get one's head around, then so was how it was determined which two teams joined the six weekly winners in the QFs...)
• 14:57, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: again, only in 1986 were the teams really seated one above the other - it was back to the usual split-screen effect in 1987, though of course the Batons remained)
• 14:44, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: standard game on Monday, baton game on Tuesday, standard game on Wednesday, baton game on Thursday - and then the weekly final on Friday ;))
• 14:40, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: still more tidying up (hopefully), including the removal of superfluous parentheses and of repetition of the Baton having six lights)
• 14:26, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: further tidying up (I hope), plus clarification that when a contestant got two right, the Baton passed on to the next contestant in the team)
• 11:06, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: well, it *was* a rather different format, wasn't it? Also, in both series, the Baton only featured in the first six weeks of the eight)
• 09:49, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: "Two series from the Bamber era (1986/87)" - well, specifically, the final two series of that era ;))
• 15:33, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) UK Game Show Records ‎ (→Longest running: and indeed, it's now aired its 8000th ;))
• 15:27, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) UK Game Show Records ‎ (→Longest running: "Countdown aired its 7000th episode..." That should be 7000th *regular* episode - not counting Masters eps (104 all told), Celebrity eps (14), or other special eps (50 all told))
• 15:12, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) UK Game Show Records ‎ (Bamber's final regular episode of UC aired on Friday 4 September 1987. Of course, there were the three UK v NZ specials at the end of that year, which were made at Quay Street but weren't regular eps)
• 14:56, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) A Question of Sport ‎ (→Host: "1979-1997" -> "1979-97", so that all year ranges within a single calendar century have two digits for the end year)
• 14:53, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) A Question of Sport ‎ (→Host: just to make clear that Sport Relief only took place in even-numbered years, and so three was the number of specials that Stephen Fry hosted)
• 22:05, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ‎ (...and of course, the last four of those *didn't* air on ITV1. Apologies that all this has lengthened the infobox considerably - though adding an image or two to the main text might not go amiss)
• 21:18, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ‎ (→Broadcast: then it was Saturday Showdown for 26 episodes...)
• 21:15, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ‎ (→Broadcast: so it was Ministry of Mayhem for 103 episodes, with the Carlton brand attached to the first 43 of those. Since it was on all year round, I'm guessing the "series" concept didn't apply)
• 21:06, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ‎ (Obviously, the show ended 2005 with one name and started 2006 with another. By the looks of things, it was on every single Saturday from when it started till when it ended, except New Year's Eve 2005)
• 15:59, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ‎ (I'm still not a fan of "Host A (and Host B in year)", alas. The style I have here is neater, IMO - and still makes clear that Stephen and Holly hosted throughout, while Michael only did the first year)
• 15:44, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Stephen Mulhern ‎ (→Shows: it was called Ministry of Mayhem *before* it was called Saturday Showdown. Is this something that one should be strict about, or does it matter?)
• 15:40, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Holly Willoughby ‎ (→Shows: it was called Ministry of Mayhem *before* it was called Saturday Showdown. Should one be strict about this, or does it matter?)
• 13:47, 10 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Aled Jones ‎ (→Trivia: there's a magical place with toys in their millions all under one roof... it's called Toys "R" Us, with the quotation marks around the 'R' only ;)) (top)
• 13:34, 29 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Popstar to Operastar ‎ (→Host: all right, all right... I should have made it a bit clearer that Myleene hosted both series) (top)
• 13:49, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Food Glorious Food ‎ (→Champion: as a sort of trade-off, removed the now-dead link to the white chicken korma dish. It's on the Wayback Machine, though, if anyone still wants to try it ;))
• 13:44, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Food Glorious Food ‎ (→Web links: I doubt there are people who have been meaning to watch the final and still haven't gotten round to it ten years later... ;))
• 13:42, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Food Glorious Food ‎ (Not universally approved, but here's a Wayback Machine link. If such links *are* more trouble than one bargained for, then remove them by all means - but keep the original URLs without linking to them)
• 13:17, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Popstar to Operastar ‎ (Meat Loaf's name is usually two words, and Vanessa-Mae's name is usually hyphenated... right?)
• 12:26, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Popstar to Operastar ‎ (It's probably neater to put Myleene and Titchy on separate lines - while still making clear that Titchy only co-hosted the first series, of course)
• 12:20, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Popstar to Operastar ‎ (Not universally approved, but here's a Wayback Machine link. If such links *do* wreak havoc one way or another, then by all means remove them - while keeping the original URLs without linking to them)
• 22:17, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers ‎ (→Edit queries - November 2023: I am and always have been a big fan of the Wayback Machine - though I respect the opposite view)
• 12:42, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Cleverdicks ‎ (Wayback Machine to the rescue - if nothing else, to maintain visual proof that Cleverdicks had its own pages on the old Sky Atlantic site)
• 12:33, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers ‎ (→Edit queries - November 2023: another reminder of the Wayback Machine)
• 01:56, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers ‎ (→Edit queries - November 2023: is there any way of increasing the character limit for edit summaries?)
• 01:32, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone ‎ (→Synopsis: at least *this* edit can be explained in less than 200 characters... replaced {{notaired}} with {{expand}} as a full series has now aired)
• 01:28, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone ‎ (→Trivia: from 1 September: https://web.archive.org/web/20230901061407/https://www.channel4.com/programmes/alone. Five eps up, but only the first four had been broadcast on TV at this point, right?)
• 01:28, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone ‎ (I only put that text there because I wanted to quickly pore over my rewrite before adding it, and I wanted to explain everything but had to work around the 200-character limit for these summaries...)
• 01:14, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone ‎ (→Trivia: I'd like to considerably rewrite this bit, as it appears from the Wayback Machine that C4 put *every* episode after the first on its catch-up service first and broadcast it on TV later...)

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