@@Xofttam No, not true. He came around to my place of work last month to give a seminar on how flat drinks could help fight Covid. I won't lie, it was a weird choice of seminar for the managers to allow, given we ran a Soho strip club, but it turned out to be very informative.
All the prizes from this show can now be found on a council estate near you. Caravans, Jetskis, Small economy cars (with fancy power steering) and even crystal decanter sets.
My old girl brought a bex bissel carpet sweep for 8 Bob from the old geezer down the boozer that he had won on bullseye, tells everyone when’s she’s pissed at crimbo
I rarely laugh out loud, but the comments underneath these Bullseye videos regularly have me *hurting* with laughter. Thank you, English people. Thank you.
i knew chris johns who was a pro darter and was cursing when he was the top score in the charity part till the last show ........the guy who beat threw his darts and it was a terrible score but they hadn't recorded it so he got a 2nd chance and beat his score
@@user-ur2kn8qy5t yeah, I remember me and my sister went to a social club where my parents lived, there was a small room with a big tv in it, I used to play BamBoozle on it 😂 for some reason we didn’t have it at home on the tv
@@speedbirdconcordeBOABKeep up with the programme mate as I am about to enter my 8th decade. I KNOW it was. Only today I watched an old episode of "The Saint" called "Ieis" and as he was born and raised 4 miles from me,I know all about Roger from "Ivanhoe" onwards. When I loved 11 miles next to a massive park, he lived on the "posh" side with Singer; Dorothy Squires. I was ADDING to your "LAWN" joke by referring to veteran Actor: Patrick MOWER so the "Whoosh" is very much on you, mon ami...
Eh? Add up the value of the prizes they'd won and it was probably a couple of months wages, and they didn't even play very well... It was a simpler time when people weren't such brain dead consumers.
It’s better than a Ferrari. You can sell the council house buy a Ferrari with the cash and live in the caravan. Thrifty audience. As a minimum, you could probably do a deal with Central TV to get the 4 guys in the bully shirts pulling it out to tow it about for you. They seem to be fairly good at it. Ok coffee time.
Begs the question though of what happens if you are in a fringe or overlap area for ITV reception. Where I'm from we could get HTV or Central depending on where in the town we were, my grandparents were ten minutes up the road and were lifelong TWW/HTV, whilst we only got Central (well we could get a very very weak HTV signal on the upstairs TV which for some reason had a different roof aerial to the downstairs sets), A small minority in one part of town could even get TVS/Meridian. So had someone from my neck of the woods gone on would they have been able to self-identify as the station they actually saw on their personal TV at home (however unusual their roof aerial's direction, or their geographic circumstance), or would my whole town have always been identified by whichever ever station was 'supposed' to cover it according to ITV, or to Central who made this show?
@@pomerakchild Swindon is my home town too. I grew up in Nythe and always had Central in our house, but my grandparents in Gorse Hill were always HTV. My sister actually made a brief appearance on HTV once as a teen, and afterwards someone involved in the show rang us about it and were surprised that we hadn't even see it properly, but they were able to send her a contributor copy on VHS of her literal five minutes of fame. That day was actually the reason I know that we could get a very very weak HTV upstairs if we very carefully turn the dial on the TV just right. That makes me feel ancient by the way (though I'm only 38), the fact that one of our TVs was still dial operated when I was a child.
@@MrDannyDetail late to the party but I'm between Gloucester and Cheltenham and always had the same. Still the same today - TV in one room gets Central, the other gets West and the regions can't be changed in the settings 😄
"and you've won a fizzy drinks maker!"... 30 seconds later ...."you've lost the fizzy drinks maker" Classic....but who the hell goes on bullseye with a broken arm..
Contestant throws a bad dart... Tony always says "Now settle down". "Im trying to settle down but you keep saying settle down so I cant".. he was definitely there to put the contestants off was Tony. Bustler.
Correct evertime they went to throw he would say something to put them off.He wasn't I the first serious but producers must have thought mm there idea to save cash.
@@leeludlowart237 Ok i cant stop thinking about this now. You (as you had one) have to please tell me what could you "programme" onto the phone? The time??? I have to know. I cant...get..it...out...of...my...head.
@@schwantzrossi1266 The watch is a Seiko Data-2000, with an an initial MSRP of $295 (in 1983, so approximately equivalent to around £700 today). Examples in good condition sell for hundreds. It was the first watch in history that used used electromagnetic induction circuits to receive data from a wireless keyboard. It's basically the one of first ancestors of a smartwatch. You could programme future appointments into the watch, and you’ll be reminded of them at the start time (use of the word "programme" may have changed a little in the last 40 years).
Credit wasn't so easy to come by in those days, 150 quid in ready cash was not to be sniffed at. Places like Dixons used to phone up employers if you wanted an HP agreement, it was worse then being in the cop shop.
@@andymerrett It never happened, it was just a story Jim used to tell. It falls apart straight away when he said they only won £20, how come when the lowest value questions in round 1 were worth £30 ?
@@maxslain4543 True, it could happen in later series but in this story Jim points out that the Irish men were knocked out in the FIRST round so it was impossible for them to leave with £20.
@@cchance1973 In the FIRST series the value on Bully's category board were all lower. Working inward they were £20, £10, and £30, with the Bullseye worth £50. ruclips.net/video/yoZgF0KNQN8/видео.html
I think you overlook the beauty of it. Yes, it's low budget, but it was so lower class and working class that it really spoke to its intended audience. Often neglected, and sneered upon by the BBC, here was a simple show with a simple sport, for the people of Miner Estates, Steel Mill towns, and seaside resorts that had awful weather all year around. Jim spoke to people with charm, like they were equals, not afraid to tease and rib, but also to be supportive. Now if we want representation, it's Benefit Street, or something antagonistic.
I always thought of it the other way round. It was a simple show and he was still a terrible presenter. That's not to say I don't enjoy it, I still watch repeats. Jim may have been a good comedian and well received with the audience, he just wasn't chosen for his presenting skills.
I always thought that if the last contestants had a chance at taking the gamble they would be told beforehand even if they don't get the 101 they will be able to keep their money anyway, just to make the end of the show a bit more exciting. I was wrong thinking that 😀
apparantly this was a nightmare for the producers because they were hoping the first players would gamble or atleast the second and lose but all teams took alot of cash home that day it was nearly the show killer situation
Don't want to speak ill of the dead but bloke at work went on, cleaned up actually, first 180, won loads of money and they won the speedboat, he said Jim bowen was an absolute tosser
How things have changed.Remember the Generation Game? A toasted sandwich maker was on that conveyor belt. Those sandwich makers were the bees knees then. Actually they are still pretty cool.( Or hot) As far as a caravan went for a star prize I would still be chuffed.Just need somewhere to keep it and a car that will tow it.?Loved the 70,s and 80,s. So simple.
I still use my sandwich maker, (allthough I have upgraded it a few times) but it is still the same basic thing.....the only arse about it is that you still have to butter the "wrong" side of the bread to get a real crispy delicious cheese and onion toastie, but at least you don't have to get someone to cut the crusts off for you....
A crew member was overheard telling the contestants: "If none of you gamble tonight, they'll wheel out a caravan from the second door. If you do gamble, you're playing for a his and hers designer clothes set from Matalan". The rest is history
The audience gasped when the caravan came out not because it was a great prize but because before it was going to be a Dishwasher until they realised that no one could win it so they changed the prize to an unwinnable caravan😀😀
Don't think so a fiver really!? I remember going with my Mum shopping in the early 1980's in sainsbury's in Watford she used to spend circa £25 for a weekly shop .There were 4 of us and we weren't fancy eaters by any stretch of the imagination.
There was an upper limit on the value of the prizes back then. Still a brand new caravan in the mid-1980s was not to be sniffed at. Jim did reveal that there was a courtesy bar backstage so he could well have had a drink with the contestants. They shot 2 episodes a day and got the whole series done in about a couple of weeks. They referred to the ITV regions for the contestants. I was born and grew up in Bradford so Yorkshire TV was the default region but in some parts of the city we could receive Granada or Tyne Tees so there was overlap in some places. This was before the days of Freeview when the TV broadcasts were analogue.
Fun Fact:- Bullseye was responsible for 95% of all of the speedboats seen on UK driveways in the 1980's.
Is that actually true
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏
Lol, whenever I see a speedboat parked outside a non coastal area, I wonder if they won Bullseye...
Brilliant 😂
I wonder if my neighbour was once on Bullseye. He's had a speedboat on his driveway since the 90's and we live 70 miles away from the coast.
"You've lost the fizzy drinks maker." BRING BACK THE EIGHTIES!!!!!
😂😂😂
They still sell SodaStream!
"You"ve lost the fizzy drinks maker" & so ended their dreams of joining the jet-set
hahaha I was watching thinking what would I rather have a snooker table or a speed boat LOL coming from Manchester take a guess :)
@@derek-press That snooker table was wank haha
@@mrmactknife I know me and my bruv had one in our bedroom hahahah
And then says 'settle down'.
Their dreams of joining the jet set ended on the day they were born. :-)
🤣 That’s 3 again ....... You’ve LOST the fizzy drinks maker 🤣🤣🤣 absolute gold.
Not the fizzy drink maker
His kids are going to cry 😢 the blues
Now they are not part of the “jet set”
corporation pop for the kids..
To this day.. Doug is still seriously fucked off about losing that fizzy drinks maker!
Made up for it with the shite lawn mower
They all saw the rolling shed back stage and thought ‘fuck that’..
'rolling shed' love that
Legend has it that the lawn raker mower has been stuck in the middle of Tony's overgrown backyard ever since their falling out in 1985
There's more beige in this video than the seventh layer of Hell
Hahahahaha
I like that, Jim and the first two chaps all had matching colour shirts!
What a load of shit prizes 😂😂😂
Beige shirts, beige suit,beige tie, beige set, beige prizes, and bullies special prize?....... a beige caravan 😂😂😂
I wonder if anyone ever said, why do i want any of this crap..lol.
Legend has it, Tony never recovered from losing the fizzy drinks maker.
I heard the shot himself over it. He couldn't take any more flat drinks poor bugger.
@@Xofttam No, not true. He came around to my place of work last month to give a seminar on how flat drinks could help fight Covid. I won't lie, it was a weird choice of seminar for the managers to allow, given we ran a Soho strip club, but it turned out to be very informative.
Bullseye = grey penny loafers with gold chain and white socks. 80s fashion was terrible
@@jimthefinger7391and that was the chicks..
The 80's wouldn't have missed a minute of it !!
God I miss these days.
You and me both … 😢
"Ooh the youngsters are saying gamble, the more senior members of the audience....." These clips are wonderful fun.
that seiko watch is worth a feckin fortune these days.
All the prizes from this show can now be found on a council estate near you.
Caravans, Jetskis, Small economy cars (with fancy power steering) and even crystal decanter sets.
All in a overgrown garden with the kids toys
@@Mike-vd7ee and the busted fence with a gate hanging off its hinges.
Pigeons kept in caravan.
Check out the low-grade snobs on this thread. Wind your necks in, you're the ones watching old clips of bullseye for Christ's sake.
Nah they are part of the garbage island of plastic in the Atlantic.
Jim probably drove back along the M6 after a few pints of bitter.
He may have been living in the redundant railway station he owned?
Bullseye. ... on a Sunday afternoon! Sundays were always beige in those days!
Everything was beige, even my Vesta Indian meal with poppadoms and a packet of powder!
Playing Bamboozle on Teletext was a daily highlight for me and my mates
I loved the advent calendar at Christmas.
Haha - I remember that!
& my mum
If ebay existed back then all them prizes would be on there instantly.
followed by some negative feedback ;)
Asking for a partial refund
You can probably find prizes like that now sold as vintage, retro etc! 😆
My old girl brought a bex bissel carpet sweep for 8 Bob from the old geezer down the boozer that he had won on bullseye, tells everyone when’s she’s pissed at crimbo
It kinda did, was called a Market or Newspaper.
I rarely laugh out loud, but the comments underneath these Bullseye videos regularly have me *hurting* with laughter.
Thank you, English people. Thank you.
What English people Lol 😂
😂🤣👍.@@David.L291
They were so tight with the prizes. The snooker table was a kids table, hahahaha!
99% of British homes could not fit a full sized snooker table
A full sized snooker table costs more than the caravan
And that was Bully's special prize!!!!
5:09 RIP Jim.
None of them had a car to pull that caravan 🤣🤣🤣
😂
Imagine that caravan back on the Buttershaw estate ... Rita and Sue would be in there rocking
The charity money you won that goes to your unit in...
-forgets where they're from
...back at home
Jim was hopeless but that's why this show was so good
Didn't give a fuck. Best host ever
Brilliant.
i knew chris johns who was a pro darter and was cursing when he was the top score in the charity part till the last show ........the guy who beat threw his darts and it was a terrible score but they hadn't recorded it so he got a 2nd chance and beat his score
think chris was actually sponsored by tony green...think he won the worlds doubles with eric bristow
Goes to show how much 200 quid meant to someone back then!
Went a lot further.
Well at least that's one less caravan on the road.
Pint of beer was around 75p, packet of fags around £1.20 - £200 to the working classes was a lot of money.
Back in the early 80s i was earning £60 a week🤣
Teletext, the internet for the 80's
I remember getting the football results of the television text, I’m showing my age now, I use to watch the show
Great tv show 🎯🎯🎯
@@ian710 same for me😅 was it on a Sunday I believe?
@@psycoticbastard it was always remember watching this with my parents and two brothers
Can you remember “Bamboozle”.i don’t know whether it was on ceefax or oracle.
@@user-ur2kn8qy5t yeah, I remember me and my sister went to a social club where my parents lived, there was a small room with a big tv in it, I used to play BamBoozle on it 😂 for some reason we didn’t have it at home on the tv
Think about it, all that shit STILL exists in a landfill.
As will stuff of today in a few decades.
Thirty years later, I still think Three times table is a clever joke, and coincidentally, Lawnraker is my favourite Bond Film! 🏆🇬🇧
Was Roger Mower in Lawnraker?
@@speedbirdconcordeBOABPATRICK Mower .......lol
@@speedbirdconcordeBOABKeep up with the programme mate as I am about to enter my 8th decade. I KNOW it was. Only today I watched an old episode of "The Saint" called "Ieis" and as he was born and raised 4 miles from me,I know all about Roger from "Ivanhoe" onwards. When I loved 11 miles next to a massive park, he lived on the "posh" side with Singer; Dorothy Squires.
I was ADDING to your "LAWN" joke by referring to veteran Actor: Patrick MOWER so the "Whoosh" is very much on you, mon ami...
@@Isleofskye Which Bond film was Patrick Mower in? Soppy old fool.
Even in the 80's, they were shite prizes!
They could only spend six grand
@@tallthinkev
Fair enough...but were did the other £4,500 go?... Tony's sweater wardrobe??😂😂😂
But there is a computer watch!!
Win a speed boat while you live 13 stories up in London council estate.
Eh? Add up the value of the prizes they'd won and it was probably a couple of months wages, and they didn't even play very well... It was a simpler time when people weren't such brain dead consumers.
The audience gasps when the caravan is dragged in, as if its ferrari being brought on lol
It was back then...
As good as winning a car back then
The studio manager holds up and card telling them what and when to do it...
It’s better than a Ferrari. You can sell the council house buy a Ferrari with the cash and live in the caravan. Thrifty audience. As a minimum, you could probably do a deal with Central TV to get the 4 guys in the bully shirts pulling it out to tow it about for you. They seem to be fairly good at it. Ok coffee time.
@@CricketEngland Amaranth,y? Maybe after all the stupidity that has come from your mouth in the last few posts of yours you should just shut up.
That Seiko computer watch would cost a few hundred today for a collector.
If iits Amstrad its for landfill!
The fact that he refers to the players are from HTV is pure 80's
Robbie Dehora, he did that with all regions.!
Begs the question though of what happens if you are in a fringe or overlap area for ITV reception. Where I'm from we could get HTV or Central depending on where in the town we were, my grandparents were ten minutes up the road and were lifelong TWW/HTV, whilst we only got Central (well we could get a very very weak HTV signal on the upstairs TV which for some reason had a different roof aerial to the downstairs sets), A small minority in one part of town could even get TVS/Meridian. So had someone from my neck of the woods gone on would they have been able to self-identify as the station they actually saw on their personal TV at home (however unusual their roof aerial's direction, or their geographic circumstance), or would my whole town have always been identified by whichever ever station was 'supposed' to cover it according to ITV, or to Central who made this show?
@@MrDannyDetail We had the exact same scenario in Swindon.
@@pomerakchild Swindon is my home town too. I grew up in Nythe and always had Central in our house, but my grandparents in Gorse Hill were always HTV. My sister actually made a brief appearance on HTV once as a teen, and afterwards someone involved in the show rang us about it and were surprised that we hadn't even see it properly, but they were able to send her a contributor copy on VHS of her literal five minutes of fame. That day was actually the reason I know that we could get a very very weak HTV upstairs if we very carefully turn the dial on the TV just right. That makes me feel ancient by the way (though I'm only 38), the fact that one of our TVs was still dial operated when I was a child.
@@MrDannyDetail late to the party but I'm between Gloucester and Cheltenham and always had the same. Still the same today - TV in one room gets Central, the other gets West and the regions can't be changed in the settings 😄
"and you've won a fizzy drinks maker!"... 30 seconds later ...."you've lost the fizzy drinks maker" Classic....but who the hell goes on bullseye with a broken arm..
he was on Bullseye trying to win payoff money to the loan shark that 'done' his arm
I always wondered about that - so thanks for answering my question !
The future's so bright, I gotta wear beige
Contestant throws a bad dart... Tony always says "Now settle down".
"Im trying to settle down but you keep saying settle down so I cant".. he was definitely there to put the contestants off was Tony. Bustler.
Take your time.... .... just take your time
Correct evertime they went to throw he would say something to put them off.He wasn't I the first serious but producers must have thought mm there idea to save cash.
Glad to see the third pair didn't buckle and go for it, good on em👍👌
I wish game shows were this chill nowadays
RIP Jim Bowen
He is a great man
I remember watching this one!
Love how he introduced the last team as highest first losers!
Even if I had only won £5 and my darts partner was Eric Bristow, I would have definitely declined the gamble.....for a CARAVAN !!
A fucking caravan. (Perhaps they'd all had a sneaky peak behind Bully before choosing to run.
Say goodbye to the fizzy drinks maker and hello a computer watch! What the hell is a computer watch?
We had that 'Fizzy Drinks Maker' when I was a kid - I had no idea it qualified me as being part of the 'Jet Set' - id have kept hold of it.
Was it called the "Soda Stream"?
They must have known it was a caravan! You would have to pay me double to gamble on that mobile traffic jam 🤣🤣
The snooker table was a good prize.
£137 each and they didn't gamble, Them prizes you'd have found in any skip in 1988
"the computer watch" haha brilliant 😂
ha ha that looked so bad it was funny
Lol I had one when I was a kid.
“With its own memory”.
@@leeludlowart237 Ok i cant stop thinking about this now. You (as you had one) have to please tell me what could you "programme" onto the phone? The time??? I have to know. I cant...get..it...out...of...my...head.
@@schwantzrossi1266 The watch is a Seiko Data-2000, with an an initial MSRP of $295 (in 1983, so approximately equivalent to around £700 today). Examples in good condition sell for hundreds.
It was the first watch in history that used used electromagnetic induction circuits to receive data from a wireless keyboard. It's basically the one of first ancestors of a smartwatch. You could programme future appointments into the watch, and you’ll be reminded of them at the start time (use of the word "programme" may have changed a little in the last 40 years).
If they lost the gamble for the star prize, it was three weeks in Aruba. If they won it' was a weekend at the Bridlington cheese festival.
They must have seen the caravan before and though nah
Bloody little cabin Cruiser Was Awful
None of them owned a car 😂
@@IMTHEBIGGESTCUNT I thought my name was good 🤣
It was a simpler time back then
It was the trepidation of possibly winning a speedboat. :)
Credit wasn't so easy to come by in those days, 150 quid in ready cash was not to be sniffed at. Places like Dixons used to phone up employers if you wanted an HP agreement, it was worse then being in the cop shop.
Happier days indeed.
A fizzy drinks maker, a hostess trolley, and an office desk that Ronnie Corbett would struggle to sit at....you can see why they were tempted..
Probably the most impressive board of prizes ever too. Those clothes lol.
On one of them C4 countdowns of 100 best of they said.Jim never had a drink with them afterwards.He shot out of studio as soon as recording stopped! 😀
@@andymerrett It never happened, it was just a story Jim used to tell. It falls apart straight away when he said they only won £20, how come when the lowest value questions in round 1 were worth £30 ?
@@cchance1973 In later series couples weren't knocked out after round 1. So a couple could score 0 in round 1, then go in to round 2 and score 20.
@@maxslain4543 True, it could happen in later series but in this story Jim points out that the Irish men were knocked out in the FIRST round so it was impossible for them to leave with £20.
@@cchance1973 In the FIRST series the value on Bully's category board were all lower. Working inward they were £20, £10, and £30, with the Bullseye worth £50.
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Those were the days ❤❤❤❤
The youngsters are now the most senior members
Jim bowan handled this complicated shitshow so effortlessly and was a fantastic presenter.
Hardly Complicated? But he was good alright.
I think you overlook the beauty of it. Yes, it's low budget, but it was so lower class and working class that it really spoke to its intended audience. Often neglected, and sneered upon by the BBC, here was a simple show with a simple sport, for the people of Miner Estates, Steel Mill towns, and seaside resorts that had awful weather all year around. Jim spoke to people with charm, like they were equals, not afraid to tease and rib, but also to be supportive. Now if we want representation, it's Benefit Street, or something antagonistic.
I always thought of it the other way round. It was a simple show and he was still a terrible presenter. That's not to say I don't enjoy it, I still watch repeats. Jim may have been a good comedian and well received with the audience, he just wasn't chosen for his presenting skills.
Jim was a better presenter than a comedian.
@@maxslain4543Jim was funny in this but I don’t think he intended to be a lot of the time
1:22
THAT'S.......
three.....
You can tell he originally thought it was bullseye!!
Settle down! ha ha! Love the 70/80s!
All three teams not gambling then finding out it was just a caravan anyway = prime time gold
You've won a speedboat.Congratulations.
Where do you live again ?
The Midlands.
Ah!!......the ubiquitous Soda Stream.....quality.
I don't blame the contestants for not gambling, even for 2023 standards they are absolute super prizes
He really didn't want that fizzy drinks maker. Didn't even want it in the car on the way home.
Can’t have a drink afterwards they lost the fizzy drink maker
Caravan would’ve been a problem storing back on the estate !
That seiko computer watch is probably worth a fortune now.
What the heck is a computer watch, I've only just got a smart watch this Christmas!
I notice the "winning" end theme was used here, even though nobody won the gamble because nobody played it.
interesting spot , now where was I...
The beige here is doing my head in!
2018 and most prizes still nice
2024 and most prizes still nice
Top snookers players would never miss on that table!
they would with the table roll of the plastic slate
No bendy bullies!!...that would break my heart that.
I still love bully.
Back in the day. The good news one less caravan on the road causing a traffic jam.
I always thought that if the last contestants had a chance at taking the gamble they would be told beforehand even if they don't get the 101 they will be able to keep their money anyway, just to make the end of the show a bit more exciting. I was wrong thinking that 😀
I thought the same thought it was a free go to pan the episode out
apparantly this was a nightmare for the producers because they were hoping the first players would gamble or atleast the second and lose but all teams took alot of cash home that day it was nearly the show killer situation
Superb set of moustaches on the first team here. Wow!
Holy fuck i was part of the jet set in the 80's,should have known.
The caravan's entrance has something of the Dune about it.
£250 was a lot of cash in the 80’s
Yes but they had to share it, the amount was not each.
@@billgriffiths1685 £125 was a lot of cash in the 80’s
@@Nathan-wl7zp I'll put that down to the North South Divide, as a Londoner £125 was a good meal out not a weeks wages.
@@billgriffiths1685 Not in 1983 in The London Suburbs it wasn't !
We bought our 3 Bedroom House in Bexley with a £250 Deposit :)
@@Isleofskye real restaurants not McDonald's
Don't want to speak ill of the dead but bloke at work went on, cleaned up actually, first 180, won loads of money and they won the speedboat, he said Jim bowen was an absolute tosser
I'd be missing on purpose with those prizes 🤣
'Tek it away lads, tek it away!'...
How things have changed.Remember the Generation Game? A toasted sandwich maker was on that conveyor belt. Those sandwich makers were the bees knees then. Actually they are still pretty cool.( Or hot) As far as a caravan went for a star prize I would still be chuffed.Just need somewhere to keep it and a car that will tow it.?Loved the 70,s and 80,s. So simple.
Great show
I still use my sandwich maker, (allthough I have upgraded it a few times) but it is still the same basic thing.....the only arse about it is that you still have to butter the "wrong" side of the bread to get a real crispy delicious cheese and onion toastie, but at least you don't have to get someone to cut the crusts off for you....
A crew member was overheard telling the contestants: "If none of you gamble tonight, they'll wheel out a caravan from the second door. If you do gamble, you're playing for a his and hers designer clothes set from Matalan". The rest is history
The audience gasped when the caravan came out not because it was a great prize but because before it was going to be a Dishwasher until they realised that no one could win it so they changed the prize to an unwinnable caravan😀😀
I bet they were all glad they didn't gamble after seeing that :)
Let nobody ever deceive you into thinking the '80's were great.Just recession after recession.
Yep thank goodness we are in the 21st century.No more recessions for us. 😆
that caravans now on eBay 😆
in those day £5 could have bought you a weeks worth of groceries... so its understandable that people took prize money of 2-3 hundred quid
Don't think so a fiver really!? I remember going with my Mum shopping in the early 1980's in sainsbury's in Watford she used to spend circa £25 for a weekly shop .There were 4 of us and we weren't fancy eaters by any stretch of the imagination.
A was 17 got me first full time job, 42 quid a week,to lift.😭😭ya carnt beat a bit of bully.
There was an upper limit on the value of the prizes back then. Still a brand new caravan in the mid-1980s was not to be sniffed at. Jim did reveal that there was a courtesy bar backstage so he could well have had a drink with the contestants. They shot 2 episodes a day and got the whole series done in about a couple of weeks. They referred to the ITV regions for the contestants. I was born and grew up in Bradford so Yorkshire TV was the default region but in some parts of the city we could receive Granada or Tyne Tees so there was overlap in some places. This was before the days of Freeview when the TV broadcasts were analogue.
Jim Bowen was an absolute professional. Class act.
that caravan , always sticks around .
was it Yellowman weekend ? ya bendin me bullys man
The era of the dinosaurs prizes.
Ooohh that watch aye.
I want that watch
This point the contestants are aware that the £150 they have is probably worth more than the star prize