I remember this. Bob Monkhouse mentioned the following week Guinevere's Problem. A micro switch on the service door at the back of the machine had failed. Bob Monkhouse was a very funny man and had some fantastic one liners which made me laugh.
Yay, at last the complete incident is online! Thanks MisterLottery. The whole thing was dealt with as slick, as professional and as good humored as it could possibly have been. Lightning quick reaction for the continuity announcement over the end credits. On a different note, there are a couple of girls in the audience who are being really irritating throughout. They keep ping-ponging a scream of "WOOOOO" back and forth at one another. On a few occasions you can hear them doing it as a chant.
Brought back memories from my childhood. I remember this. I was only 6 years old and I can remember my Dad blaming me for it as I'd been switching lights on and off in the house earlier that night.
I like how Bob still picked up the line on autocue to say goodbye, even though it didn't make sense under the circumstances, "If your luck didn't hold, on to your luck, there's always next week".
It doesn’t take a genius to realise they actually sorted the fault as the closing titles were going and they sorted it whilst normal programming went ahead! The BBC did acknowledge that during the closing titles and it allowed Casualty to go ahead
I remember this when i was 8 years old, i even vaguely remember the first lottery in 1994. This was when saturday night TV was worth watching, *Entertainment* nowadays it's these embarrassing reality shows.
This was EXACTLY 2 weeks after my 2nd birthday. However, being American, I obviously don't remember it. Then again, who remembers something that happened when they were 2?
Bless him - There'd be pure silence at most of his jokes these days, how things have changed - I remember this technical fault happening! - The days when the lottery was so exciting as an 11 year old boy
When the Lottery first started, they always had two machines standing side by side. One chosen at random to do the draw, the other on standby to take over if there was a problem. After about a year, they revamped the show and kept the standby machine on the opposite side of the studio, screened off from view. Just to tidy up the appearance and to avoid confusion in some people who didn't understand what the other machine was for. Then the show underwent another slight revamp and they got rid of the standby machine altogether. So there were no other machines available, the other two were in storage elsewhere and not possible to use at short notice. They were at the mercy of that one machine working or not
Seems a bit dodgy tho that everyone would cheer and scream for a draw that never was tho! - Even back then seems a bit fake, or maybe we're forgetting how excited people got about it in the 90s
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Bob really was the ultimate professional. Great effort to keep it all together!
Thank GOD Bob Monkhouse was there.
4:40 - ahhhh, this is where Seth MacFarlane got the idea for "shut up Meg" from!!!!
I remember this. Bob Monkhouse mentioned the following week Guinevere's Problem. A micro switch on the service door at the back of the machine had failed.
Bob Monkhouse was a very funny man and had some fantastic one liners which made me laugh.
Yay, at last the complete incident is online! Thanks MisterLottery.
The whole thing was dealt with as slick, as professional and as good humored as it could possibly have been. Lightning quick reaction for the continuity announcement over the end credits.
On a different note, there are a couple of girls in the audience who are being really irritating throughout. They keep ping-ponging a scream of "WOOOOO" back and forth at one another. On a few occasions you can hear them doing it as a chant.
I'm 20 so had just turned 4 when this happened and remember it finely. This is proper lottery music not that crap tune we have nowadays
You're now 32
I dunno, but I thought that the bouncy soundtrack used between 2002 and 2006 was also good too.🥰
Ed Welsh I believe who composed title music for the TVS Catchphrase and Blockbusters… All 3 my favourites😊
My first discovery of a National Lottery Draw. The Machine's Battery gone flat was so hilarious.
Brought back memories from my childhood. I remember this. I was only 6 years old and I can remember my Dad blaming me for it as I'd been switching lights on and off in the house earlier that night.
I never thought I'd hear Bob Monkhouse impersonate a Vic Reeves catchphrase!
28 years on & Thank Goodness Bob Monkhouse was there to Save the Day!
I bet Mystic Meg never saw that coming
I like how Bob still picked up the line on autocue to say goodbye, even though it didn't make sense under the circumstances, "If your luck didn't hold, on to your luck, there's always next week".
back when Saturday TV was worth staying in for!
I remember this happening as we were in the studio next door for Noel’s House Party filming Celine Dion for the next week show
5:23 There they go !!
It doesn’t take a genius to realise they actually sorted the fault as the closing titles were going and they sorted it whilst normal programming went ahead! The BBC did acknowledge that during the closing titles and it allowed Casualty to go ahead
Saturday 30th November 1996
Remember the number 44! - Alan Dedicoat "IT'S THERE AGAIN...44!" - Something dodgy was going on there i reckon
I remember this when i was 8 years old, i even vaguely remember the first lottery in 1994. This was when saturday night TV was worth watching, *Entertainment* nowadays it's these embarrassing reality shows.
wow, forgot that back in the day that Mystic Meg used to be on the lottery show. Is she still going?
Wow, this was when Saturday nights and the lottery were actually worth watching....
Oh Fuck This Is The Day I Was Born
This was EXACTLY 2 weeks after my 2nd birthday. However, being American, I obviously don't remember it. Then again, who remembers something that happened when they were 2?
DaveStation94 so let me guess big brother you were born on 16/november 1994 ?
Pat Lewis aims a kick at the machine when it goes wrong!
Saturday 30th November 1996
National lottery draws
Rip mystic Meg
@Pakokelso2010 Yea...the same bit every time. It lasts for exactly six seconds.
fuck i miss the 90s
Bless him - There'd be pure silence at most of his jokes these days, how things have changed - I remember this technical fault happening! - The days when the lottery was so exciting as an 11 year old boy
What makes you say what you’ve said?
oh dear!
Why did they not use a different machine?
When the Lottery first started, they always had two machines standing side by side. One chosen at random to do the draw, the other on standby to take over if there was a problem. After about a year, they revamped the show and kept the standby machine on the opposite side of the studio, screened off from view. Just to tidy up the appearance and to avoid confusion in some people who didn't understand what the other machine was for. Then the show underwent another slight revamp and they got rid of the standby machine altogether. So there were no other machines available, the other two were in storage elsewhere and not possible to use at short notice. They were at the mercy of that one machine working or not
hahahahahhaha...i soooo remember this when i was 4 years old
@hate4me07 She didn't forsee herself losing her job at the News Of The World either!
This is when guinevere conks out, and the draw is later than planned. From Joe. X
we really want to see those fingers
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This exact moment when the Lottery Machine did not work happend just now.
Ha, that is superb. Dads, they're hilarious. And usually correct.
Bob the Job! RIP You god!
I remember when this happened, I was pissed because I was only little and it was past my bedtime :(
Seems a bit dodgy tho that everyone would cheer and scream for a draw that never was tho! - Even back then seems a bit fake, or maybe we're forgetting how excited people got about it in the 90s
WHAT?? the audience today is not real?
That's insane. I'm not wasting my money on this fraud any longer! Damn.
Where did they dig up that fake audience top of the pops ? 🤣😅😂🇬🇧 jun twenty three
Saturday 30th November 1996