Old quiz/game shows from 80s and 90s

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Last night I dreamed I was watching Busman's Holiday although I haven't watched it for years! But when I woke up I had the Krypton Factor on my mind. I enjoyed both of these as a child.

I don't like these kinds of shows anymore but it git me thinking about how many I watched as a kid:

Strike it Lucky
Family Fortunes with Les Dennis
The Price is Right with Leslie Crowther
Gladiators
Blockbusters with Bob Holness
The one with a dart game but can't remember the name? The players could win a Bully?
Catchphrase
The Weakest Link

I just don't like modern shows. I watched some of Who Wants to be a Millionaire and another I can't remember.

Which ones did/do you watch?

Yeah I think that was it...then after the yes no game I think you got a key to open a box and he'd offer you money and you had to choose whether you'd take the cash or open the box

Loved that show!

Anyone else remember 'Face the Music'? You actually had to be quite knowledgeable.

@SpeculatingRooksthe heat is on, the time is right, it’s time for you for you to play your game - and that’s from memory not google!

Does anyone else remember Steal? It featured an animated cat burglar.

Hans Zimmer wrote the theme tune to Going for Gold.

Oh yeah runaround was the Mike Reid one

Going to try and find it on Spotify 😄

@AllPlayedOut yes it was Jewels The Cat!

I used to like Every Second Counts with Paul Daniels, and Big Break with Jim Davidson and John Virgo.

@BlueEyedBogWitch No! What a great fact!

We all have to start somewhere!

Or an E.

Name that tune

Fun House
Big Break
Wheel of Fortune
Supermarket Sweep

Oh my god, remember watching that in the 70s!

’I’ll name that tune in one….’

I doubt it mate, surely it was fixed???

I remember Ask the family - Mum, Dad and 2 children but I can't remember who presented it.

Going for Gold was our shared house entertainment at lunchtimes as a student

I loved Fun House and Wheel of Fortune!

One plink of a piano key...I don't think so.

I was on the TV show Puzzle Party with Gyles Brandreth, the year above me were chosen but then needed 4 more and the 4 eldest from the year below were added, me being one of them. No one probably remembers it but I still remember the theme tune and we had the Gnu we won in a display cabinet in the school reception. It was VERY exciting at the time, probably 1976

I remember vividly watching with my dad, and he guessed ‘In A Persian Market’ from one plink.

It impressed me so much I’ve remembered the title for 45 years!

Robert Robinson?

I used to like Screen Test with Chris Kelly. Robert Robertson did Ask The Family.

There used to be one called Cabbages and Kings on in the afternoons that made no sense to me at all. I think Frank Muir might have been involved.

There was also one called Gambit presented by Jimmy Tarbuck.

Ours was supermarket sweep😂