Tomorrow's World Christmas Quiz
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Host
Howard Stableford, Judith Hann and Peter McCann
Broadcast
BBC1, 18 December 1986 to 23 December 1992 (7 annual editions)
Synopsis
Technology-based yuletide shenanigans from the Stableford/Hann/MacCann-era Tomorrow's World. There may have been variations over the years, but the main game involved guessing what an invention was for, with three options demonstrated by the Tomorrow's World presenters and various guests. The studio audience (voting on keypads) and a guest panel tried to pick out the truths from the bluffs.
Trivia
One thing we do dimly recall was the team being asked to work out what a metalled umbrella was for. How dimly we recall this can be seen from the fact that for years we said that it turned out to be a solar mulled wine heater - in fact that was one of the "bluffs" (along with being a cheap radar reflector for small boats) and it was actually a needle catcher for a Christmas tree, as demonstrated by - because it's Christmas! - Eartha Kitt.
Santa Baby, slip a folding needle catcher under the tree for me...Pictures
Howard Stableford in front of the Crystal Dome.
Paul Daniels doing physics.