Sporting Triangles
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Host
Nick Owen (original host)
Co-hosts
Team captains: Perm 3 from Andy Gray, Jimmy Greaves, Emlyn Hughes, Tessa Sanderson
Broadcast
Central for ITV, 1986-90
Synopsis
A Question of Sport a la ITV. Team captains were Greavesie, Tessa Sanderson and Emlyn Hughes, and they would be partnered by "Random Sports Stars 5, 6 and 7".
This was basically a Trivial Pursuit-style sports game. The board was computerised, and in the original version there was also a physical electronic one around the outside of the studio. As this was rather clever, and this being an ITV show, it was immediately removed from subsequent incarnations.
The second incarnation of the Sporting Triangles setTeams would roll an electronic dice to decide how many squares they moved. They would then get a question depending on what colour they landed on. There were four colours: three of them represented the teams, in which case they would get a question on one of that team's sports. If they landed on white they could get anything. In later series, they added other rounds into the game (Who am I? etc.). There was also a rule that let you change squares into your own colour if you answered a question while on an opponent's square, but we don't really care any more.
Inventor
Devised by Biffo Productions.
Merchandise
A Sporting Triangles board game was produced.
