Transworld Top Team
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Host
Co-hosts
Scorers: Bob Holness (1967-68), Mary Craig (1971?-3)
Broadcast
BBC1, 1967-1974
Synopsis
An international version of Television Top of the Form, featuring teams from the UK playing against international schools teams. The series took the form of a league format.
The first series was UK vs Australia. In 1968, the first UK/Canada play-off featured four-person 6th form teenage teams representing London, Edinburgh and Belfast playing against Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa.
The 1972 series included teams from Winnipeg, Edmonton and Halifax (for the Canadians) and Llanelli, Manchester and Banbury (for the UK). Llanelli won.
In 1973 the series went to Hong Kong and included a team of the children of British servicemen overseas.
The final series was UK vs USA and was won by a team from Baltimore.