The Tennis Elbow Foot Game
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Host
unknown
Broadcast
BBC Home Service and Radio 4, 4 October 1966 to 7 May 1968 (39 episodes in 2 series)
BBC2, 14 July - 3 October 1968 (10 programmes)
Synopsis
A competitive word association game. The chairman throws out a word, such as tennis. One panellist comes up with a word linked to tennis, such as elbow, as in tennis elbow. The other player must link to elbow, for instance foot, as in parts of the body. Points are won if the opposition cannot come up with a word within the short time limit, if they could not convince the chairman of a link between their words, or if they repeated themselves.
The inventor, David Hatch, used the idea again for one of the rounds on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, the antidote to panel games. In their version, the object is to provide words that are completely unrelated to each other.
No episodes of The Tennis Elbow Foot Game survive in the BBC Sound Archive. The BBC Treasure Hunt would welcome any off-air recordings.
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