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Classic Family Fortunes on Challenge
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Me and mum enjoy watching this on Challenge, but for some reason they kept churning out the same episodes.
There's 545 episodes of the original run to choose from, so why repeat the same ones a few days apart?
There's 545 episodes of the original run to choose from, so why repeat the same ones a few days apart?
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Les Dennis.
They do it with everything they show - FF, Wheel of Fortune, The Chase, Play Your Cards Right, Bullseye. I watch Challenge quite a lot, it's good to have on in the background, but this aspect is quite annoying. Not to mention the fact they show the same three or four adverts over and over. I feel like I've seen that advert for the jubilee with Kay Burley gurning over Joanna Lumley about a million times.
They were showing Lily Savage's Blankety Blank for a couple of weeks last month and I was really enjoying that, but they only showed a fraction of the episodes and took it off, shame.
Ah right, I see - that makes sense.
Yeah it's a shame there's quite a lot of repeats.
No they haven't, it seems to be Les Dennis mainly.
I'm old enough to remember Max Bygraves as the host, plus the hideous brown and cream set.
Challenge has aired both eras before, Bob was last shown in 2014-15 and latter in the last year. The only two they've haven't aired are Andy Collins and Gino D'Acampo
Would be great to see them again, especially as they've shown the ATV series of Bullseye several times!
Have Challenge shown the Vernon Kay 'All Star Family Fortunes' ?
I think they have shown some, if not all, of the ATV era episodes at some point but they prefer the Les Dennis episodes as there were so many of them and they were a little more modern.
This link details the known archive status of the episodes:
https://www.tvbrain.info/tv-archive?showname=Family+fortunes&type=lostshow
A fair few editions are missing and only known to exist on an inferior tape format.
I think part of the charm with the old shows is how we used to get excited seeing someone win a grand or two.
Although it is nothing nowadays, back in the 80's it was still considered a fair amount of money.
https://itv.fandom.com/wiki/Independent_Broadcasting_Authority
Yes I do that..... When they have pregnant ladies on I also can't not think about the fact the bumps have been adults for a long time.
Les Dennis was brilliant on this. Sometimes when you see old game shows (yes going back to the 90s, I consider old), the hosts are of-their-time, if I am being polite. Not Les. Sharp, funny, warm and engaging. I get a weird satisfaction when he tells certain muppet contestants to move their hand off the buzzer and to the side, I have to say.
When you batch-watch FF you see the same spot prizes coming up time and again. That "Agatha Christie" hotel (?), his n hers gold watches, fashion vouchers and a video recorder. I think they did match the prize to the person but it's funny to see.
These are likely to be Bob Monkhouse's own home recordings.
"Turkey"
This must have been one of the funniest [silliest] episodes ever! I can remember watching at the time with my parents and we were crying with laughter. Even after all these years it still cracks me up 🤣 🤣 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHiGT_odU2Y&ab_channel=meganoikz
Yes.
Damn, missed them! I've only seen Bob's Central series on Challenge.
Cheers for that! I know there is a time coded episode on YouTube from the first series, allegedly episode 1. Would've loved to seen more!
Sometimes with the old 70s and 80s shows (and things like Look at Life from the 60s on TPTV, if there is an old person/couple we often say, 'wonder if they're still alive'
Yes. I also wonder if those contestants are actually watching the show now, and having a good laugh about it all.