Paddles Up
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Host
Alan Parry (original host and commentator)
Michael Collie
Chris Rea
Co-host
Commentator: John Gosling
Broadcast
White Rabbit Productions for BBC, 13 July 1983 to 16 July 1993 (45 episodes in 10 series)
Synopsis
BBC1's canoeing-based answer to Kick Start.
Each show consisted of two rounds, a white water rafting leg and a sort of obstacle course leg where they had to barrel roll under gates, tilt their canoe so the end hits a levitating football, that sort of thing.
The final element of the course was to throw your paddle over the finishing gate to stop the clock (hence "Paddles... UP!"). There may have been a time bonus if they caught them, we can't remember.
Trivia
Early contests took place on the river at Llangollen, but in later years, this was changed to the new, purpose-built watersports centre on the River Trent in Nottingham.
