Blockbusters - The ITV Quiz Game - Featuring Bob Holness

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Scottish: Continued to air the series between two and four times most week until 1 September 1993. Reappeared daily at 5.25am over the Christmas period from 18 December 1993 finally completing the series on 7 January 1994. As you see, the board is completely computer-generated. If you look closely, you can see the monitor that the contestants see the board in. The bigger image is (obviously) what we viewers see. Now that there is a winner of the head-to-head challenge, the advantage is the winning team gets t choose the movie cards that go into the next round. All the cards fall into different genres, the idea is to collect them all, so this helps hedge the cards that are coming. The winners draw six movie cards, chooses three for them to take into their challenge and gives the remaining three to the other team.

Granada: Aired 2–3 episodes most weeks at 5.10pm. From April to August, it was moved to 3.20pm. Completed in January 1994. Anglia and Central: Mondays to Wednesdays at 5.10pm, then switching Wednesday to Friday at 5.10pm. Completed on 19 May 1993.

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The 1987 theme and variants would later be reused on Know Your Heritage as well as numerous commercials and network promos for various products. On one edition, the contestants were asked, "What 'D' is a rag, usually yellow in colour, that's used for polishing furniture and ornaments?" and one unfortunate young man buzzed in and answered "Dishcloth" (the correct answer was 'Duster', of course). True, the former answer wasn't exactly a brilliant one (although, let's face it, we've all come out with wrong and embarrassing responses in the heat of the moment, whether on TV or not), but Bob, if anything, laughed rather too much at it, to the extent that the whole thing seemed unnecessarily silly and embarrassing for the contestant. Even sillier was the fact that when the latter's younger brother appeared in a later series (and fared considerably better), Bob insisted on showing the clip again - surely it would have been better not to have bothered? Ironically, the same incorrect answer was given to the same question by another contestant some years later, but thankfully, although some laughter was generated on that occasion, Bob did not blow it up quite as much out of proportion as he had previously, so it seemed that lessons had been learned.

For around 18 months in 1991–92, Tyne Tees started airing more local output in the 6.30pm time slot, which resulted in fewer episodes per week. When Tyne Tees and Yorkshire decided to merge their scheduling in January 1993, Tyne Tees increased its episode output to catch up (In November 1992, it was airing four times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays), but had to drop over 50 episodes.Change the number in the grey hexagon to the letter that matches your answer. Do this by highlighting the number and typing in the new letter. Granada moved the time slots around during this period, In Autumn 1990, the series was moved to 5.10pm, on occasion moved 3.25pm to allow episodes of Families to have the 5.10pm slot. The series was moved again to 6pm from Wednesdays to Fridays in 1992. Marc Sylvan and Richard Jacques updated the original theme for the Comedy Central version. [8] Title sequences [ edit ]

During the Sky/Holness era, the item of clothing given away was a t-shirt designed by a viewer. On it was the famous Zeus figurehead with a speech bubble saying "Can I Have A P Please, Bob?". The fan in question was interviewed by Bob in front of the gameboard after the first Gold Run of the series. Central in association with Talbot Television and Goodson-Todman Productions for ITV, 29 August 1983 to 19 May 1993 (1160 episodes in 10 series) Series 2 & 3 were actually merged into one with the first 71 episodes as Series 2 and the last 49 episodes as Series 3. [22] [23]Tyne Tees and Yorkshire: Around 70 episodes; Tuesdays to Thursdays at 6:30 pm from 11 July to 29 December 1995. Collect as many Movie Cards in this round as you can in the 30 seconds provided. If you do a fantastic job and complete your three movies in time, you can move on to your rival's cards too. Stealing their cards will edge you closer to victory. On another occasion, a highly unusual answer to the question, "What 'P' are known as 'the lungs of London?'" was 'Prostitutes' when in fact the answer was 'Parks'. Another was when Bob asked, "What 'L' do you make in the dark when you're making a wild guess?" and one contestant answered, 'Love' (the answer being 'Leap', of course). In the 1980 pilot, the podiums had three digit eggcrate displays. The current scores would only be shown in-between games. When the show went to series that same year, the displays would be covered. Regardless of your number of players, you need to have two teams. Split up the players and give yourselves a fun name (optional).