Dont Forget Your Toothbrush - A Sad Day For TV
David Michael Rowe
believe it when they said it was the last show _ever_.
I have been entertained every saturday night for the past few months and
it has now come to an end.... but what a prize the couple won at the end!
No more "Can You Play Golf With Food", "Is Joe Normal As Good As Joe 90" etc.
etc. This is (was) TV at its best - and is now gone forever :-( :-( :-( :-(
No more "Miss Put Your Hair Down" :-(
Is it not coming back coz chris evans has a job on radio 1?
What did everyone else think of the show. And relating to the other
posting about the music played when they have their silly games, i will
be sad to no longer see him "ringing" his leg to the sound of the bell!
divad
Simon Peach
Brilliant TV...I hope he is allowed to do his own thing on Radio
One.
Ten minutes of the RumpyPumpies on my way to the office will set
me up for the day.
SP
Chris Dickson
: Now to me this was certaintly an extremely unpleasant surprise. I could not
: believe it when they said it was the last show _ever_.
: I have been entertained every saturday night for the past few months and
: it has now come to an end.... but what a prize the couple won at the end!
Ohh! Er... I missed it, being a student and all that. Has anyone got a video
of it? As the last one, I guess it's got to be one for the records. And just
what was the prize they won?
Thanks in advance! Chris.
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Kristine.Hensel
>Now to me this was certaintly an extremely unpleasant surprise. I could not
>believe it when they said it was the last show _ever_.
>
>I have been entertained every saturday night for the past few months and
>it has now come to an end.... but what a prize the couple won at the end!
>
>No more "Can You Play Golf With Food", "Is Joe Normal As Good As Joe 90" etc.
>etc. This is (was) TV at its best - and is now gone forever :-( :-( :-( :-(
>
about 5 minutes of it on Saturday and saw Is Joe Normal...(in the
flower shop), but this didn't show up on Sunday night. Was I
hallucinating and/or blacking out at some point?
Kristine
Kevin Clark
st...@mansell.demon.co.uk (Steve Kerridge) writes:
> It was all very sad - I had a tear in my eye by the end......
> Blimey! Giving away a Ferrari must count as the biggest prize ever on TV! I
> loved the way Chris wound up the audience who were ALL expecting to go on
> holiday like last year.....
The Ferrari they gave away was only worth about £20,000. It was an old
308 GTB which was last made in the mid 80's. I still wouldn't mind one
though.
Kevin
kcl...@immsvr.jr2.ox.ac.uk
Institute of Molecular Medicine,
Oxford,UK.
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Kenny MacLeod
|> 308 GTB which was last made in the mid 80's. I still wouldn't mind one
|> though.
It was also a limited edition 308 - worth a bit more than usual.
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C Chan (UG3)
Did anyone else get the impression that the Ferrari contest at the end was
fixed. Getting the first four question correct and then losing the next four
to bring a sudden death situition was kind of suspect. Hey, it was the last
show and to have a cliffhanger question for the best prize of the series was
kind of coincidential don't you think. The lady contestent was kind of acting
a bit.
Mike Cowgill
cad...@ccsun.strath.ac.uk "Kenny MacLeod" writes:
> |> The Ferrari they gave away was only worth about 20,000. It was an old
> |> 308 GTB which was last made in the mid 80's. I still wouldn't mind one
> |> though.
>
> It was also a limited edition 308 - worth a bit more than usual.
Only limited in that thay haven't made them for five or so years. The
insurance is probably more than the car is worth.
Mike.
Peter Woodhouse
It certainly was in Saturdays. Don't know about Sundays though.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the bit with the loo, Lisa the producer
and the bottom burp. She looked mortified. I, however, laughed my socks
off! I would imagine this was chopped from Sundays show also. Was it?
Peter
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Keven Cook
kris...@joule.pcl (Kristine.Hensel) writes:
>Did anyone watch DFYT on both Saturday and Sunday nights? I caught
>about 5 minutes of it on Saturday and saw Is Joe Normal...(in the
>flower shop), but this didn't show up on Sunday night. Was I
>hallucinating and/or blacking out at some point?
Yes i too watched it on both Saturday and Sunday, and noticed the lack
of Is Joe Normal... on the Sunday repeat, i assumed that i had blinked,
but this backs up my thoghts that it had been cut, any ideas why? Complaints
from people complaining about cruelty to plants? :-)
Keven.
Steve Smith
ze...@myth.demon.co.uk "Mike Cowgill" writes:
Who would keep the car after the free insurance had run out ?
Would it be worth trying to insure it again ?
Would the car last the first year ?
Who knows?
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R Crowley
: In article <1995Feb27....@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk>,
I'd imagine it was simply a time problem. I think the Sunday repeat only
gets an hour slot while the Saturday night version gets and hour and 5
minutes. Is Joe Normal...on Saturday wasn't one of the best so I imagine
they decided that should go rather than something else.
And I'd like to know if the 'bottom part` got chopped from Sundays
episode. I thought it was funny but I truly wish it'd been Chris Evans
that had been caught rather than some poor producer. Still I'll miss the
programme - it truly was both very entertaining AND very innovative. If it'd
been on ITV at peak time it would have been a MASSIVE hit.
Rod
Carter J E
Express' on a saturday morning on Piccadilly?
Now there was something worth getting up for...
Simon
>And I'd like to know if the 'bottom part` got chopped from Sundays
>episode. I thought it was funny but I truly wish it'd been Chris Evans
>that had been caught rather than some poor producer. Still I'll miss the
>programme - it truly was both very entertaining AND very innovative.
No, it wasn't chopped, but it was slightly censored ... her bum was blacked
out at the crucial moment!! ... still very funny though.
Simon
Chris Dickson
: ze...@myth.demon.co.uk (Mike Cowgill) wrote:
: > ...The
: > insurance is probably more than the car is worth.
: Flicking through one of those trade books on car prices, a
: friend tells me the car is worth £50k and is in ins. group 20 -
: the highest.
FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS??? (Sorry for shouting!) Perhaps they should have made
a big thing about JUST how much it was worth, easily the largest prize on
British TV ever. Apart from the National Lottery and Premium Bonds, which
don't count.
: On the show, however, Chris did say the winners also got insurance
: for one year.
How old were the winners? If they were under 25 or so, I'm surprised that
they would find a company that would insure them. Similarly; Eunice Huthart
(who's fantastic!) won a rather nice-looking 4x4 on the final of the UK
Gladiators. However, nobody would insure it (as she lives in Liverpool - this
is not a Liverpool flame, merely a statement of fact) so she had to sell it
before she could get a chance to get a ride. She did get about ten grand
for it so I'm sure she's laughing all the way to the bank.
: I'm interested to know whether any rules were broken. In the distant
: past, the IBA had a max. £1000 prize per show which was later increased.
: So did Toothbrush break any rules?
AFAIK it was related to "the price of a small family car", which explains
why cars were such traditionally popular prizes for game shows, and things
like 3-2-1, Bob's Your Uncle, Bullseye, Wheel of Fortune etc. used to
advertise them as star prizes. Bob's Your Uncle was a really bad show but
the way the car used to roll onto the set amidst all the fireworks at the
end if they won it was undeniably spectacular.
From 1993, the IBA said enough of that, and prize values have grown at a
near-exponential rate (eg possible - but unlikely - 20 thou cash prize in
Lucky Numbers, 10000 and a car in Wheel, etc., cars worth between 15 and
20 thousand up for grabs in Play Your Cards Right) The Price is Right, which
Bruce the Chin is going to present when it returns in the Autumn, will be
going for EXCEEDINGLY valuable prizes - we're talking thirty thousand pounds
or thereabouts. Available weekly. It'll be interesting to see if huge sums
will pull in viewers... from Eastenders...? Then again, Interceptor only
needed to give away one grand a week, at most; Crystal Maze gives out
hardly anything and the Krypton Factor also next to nothing.
We live in interesting times. Chris.
B&C
Flicking through one of those trade books on car prices, a
friend tells me the car is worth £50k and is in ins. group 20 -
the highest.
On the show, however, Chris did say the winners also got insurance
for one year.
I'm interested to know whether any rules were broken. In the distant
past, the IBA had a max. £1000 prize per show which was later increased.
So did Toothbrush break any rules?
And as for the show being fixed...
No I don't believe the flashing lights bit is a fix. One week, the
house only had one bedroom window, and you could hear Chris stumble
as he converted his question cards from "Big bedroom window" to
"bedroom window".
It's obvious that he did try and help contestants by looking at them
in a certain way (!), whilst off-camera during "light your lemon".
But then the last two Caribbean holidays were lost!
Andrew Wiseman