blockbusters.

[Retrogames]

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BS for Baker Street, Bob!

[DemonEyeX]

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Caught the show with Konnie Huq as a contestant on Challenge the other day.
I seem to enjoy Blockbusters more these days than I ever did when it was originally on.

Anyone ever played Blockbusters on the Spectrum ?
The game is great, but the rendition of the theme tune is completely crazed.

[darren]

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i love that blockbusters dance
although ut was 2 against one the single player had a slight advantage of nly needing 4 correct answers to the two player teams 5 correct answers..

Never liked it. I remember my old man used to take the mick out of the way Bob held the question cards. What really annoyed me as a kid was hearing the audience do that 'Blockbusters dance' to the music-stamping their feet and clapping their hands to the beat. Also, WHY did they have two on one team vs one person on their own??? Were the other two consisting of a thick person and a helper or something?!

[darren]

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a bit more blockbusters info i found
THE GOLD RUN

The winner of the match played the Gold Run, where they would have 5 chances to play. From 7th series, it was reduced to 3, in order that more contestants could take part over the course of a series. If players were successful they won a special prize. If the Gold Run was not won, each correct answer paid £5 later £10.
Defending champions could keep going for up to five matches undefeated, in order to win an even bigger prize. In the first Sky One series this was changed back up to five matches and reduced to three again on BBC2.
In the final Sky One series, it increased to five again.
A famous short piece of music three sharp notes on a horn in a slapstick style was played if a contestant ran out of time on a Gold Run, often producing amused reactions in the studio

CHAMPION BLOCKBUSTERS.

FOUR series of Champion Blockbusters were made from 1987 until 1990, in which winners of the fifth gold-run returned to battle against other five gold-run winners.

[darren]

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robert wentworth john holness was born november 12th 1928 in natal south africa.

[darren]

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different theme tunes as well as credits.
been on youtube and found these.
the first 3 are intros with slightly different music and the titles looks different.
which do members prefer.
http://youtu.be/LiP0j-LHv88

http://youtu.be/kKhnVvHWJ3A

http://youtu.be/q8ruvNskvIM

http://youtu.be/a91EJpWwLt4

[darren]

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yp..taken from show synopsis

A solo player competed against a pair of contestants, thus setting out to prove or disprove the old adage that two heads really were better than one.

id expect two to be better than one.
but i wonder what the record was between the single player and th two players.

[Heather74]

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yp..taken from show synopsis

A solo player competed against a pair of contestants, thus setting out to prove or disprove the old adage that two heads really were better than one.

[Heather74]

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I also seem to remember it being advertised as ' are two minds really better than one' ??

[Richard1978]

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The 2 on 1 was because the blues had to get one extra hexagon.

I quite liked it back in the day, some of the Goldrush questions could be really tricky.

[Trickyvee]

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Must admit I wasn't the greatest fan of the show but I still ended up watching it and some how ended up with a Blockbusters board game and computer game. The computer game made me laugh as it had a jerky picture of Bob's face reading out the questions.

Put yourself on that hot spot!

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ARGH! Just saw that 'hand jive' thing in the end credits to the last ever one clip....'oh William, the pain, the pain....' (work out that line for yourself...i.e. where its paraphrased from...its a rubbish film as a clue)....

I think the show ended because Central lost its franchise in 92, along with Thames.

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Never liked it. I remember my old man used to take the mick out of the way Bob held the question cards. What really annoyed me as a kid was hearing the audience do that 'Blockbusters dance' to the music-stamping their feet and clapping their hands to the beat. Also, WHY did they have two on one team vs one person on their own??? Were the other two consisting of a thick person and a helper or something?!

[darren]

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Ah Blockbusters a quiz show for teenagers which was perfectly timed for me in the mid to late 80's, I used to watch it religously often at my grandmother's who I'd visit on an afternoon after my tea. The theme tune was great and Bob Holness was a good presenter for it, some episodes from the early 90's are occasionally re-ran on Challenge and it's still good viewing.

its as good now as it ever was.
challenge show n odd episode.
it should be brought back.

there was always good crack between bob and the audience and contestants.

[Austin Maxi]

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'I'll have an 'E' please Bob!'

I met Bob Holness back in the late '80s when he opened a Christmas Fair in Ashford, Kent. He told me about going to college in Maidstone (at the time I was thinking of doing the same thing). A genuinely nice guy.