Does anyone remember the 80's TV show 'It's a knockout?'

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What a bloody funny show that was. I remember it so well and I would watch it with my brother and parents and we would absolutely be creased and crying with laughter. 😂

I'm going to say that if you were of an age to watch that kind of TV programme particularly in the 1970s it would be impossible for you not to remember it 😂

With only 3 TV channels it must have audiences in the double figure millions every week

I remember “It’s a Royal Knockout”. Started me off in my lifetime commitment to Republicanism….….

Yes.. definitely...Stuart Hall used to compare ..and definitely remember the royal one

Yes I remember it, suppose it was the cheaper forerunner of Total Wipeout.

started in the 70s, then it went European with Jeux Sans Frontieres and was bloody brilliant.

I loved it as a kid in the 70s.

Of course, back then, Stuart Hall was just the funny man with a stupid laugh. We didn't know that he was a sexual predator. That's tainted the memory for me.

We had the board game.

the it’s a royal knockout was one of the maddest tv events I have ever seen

i have just googled and the teams make it even weirder than I remember

Yeah it has a bit hasn't it. 😬

But we all laughed at him laughing which made it even funnier.

It was brilliant tv, everyone watched it. Yes, his laughter made the show extra funny really....if only we knew !

It didn’t end well for the host Stuart Hall.

It was better in the 70's.

DH took part in it and broke his ankle.
Now we know what was going on behind the scenes with the presenter he feels he got off light

Oh I loved Its a Knockout! The British version was OK, but the European one was brilliant, much bigger, more money spent on the games!

The theme tunes have now entered my head!

Playing the Joker, and Eddie Waring the referee!

If you can bear to (now we know about Stuart Hall) there's some on YouTube I believe

They came to Cleethorpes Bathing pool.
My dad took me, I remember I had my new coat on and was on tv!

The U.K. ones were a bit cheap and cheerful with the cold and rain in Scunthorpe and games with packing cases and builder's pallets.

The European ones with fairy tale castles etc, bathed in the yellowy flood lights and Stuart Hall talking down a distorted telephone line on a hot evening in Antwerp or Basel were impossibly glamorous! 😃

Excellent!

And wasn't it Eddie Waring who used to help commentate? My family also used to cry with laughter at the competitors running up a greasy slope with bungee cords holding them back... And huge inflatables trying to squeeze through a tiny gap.
It was a simpler time.

Yes, I remember it and was in the audience in the mid 80's abroad with my family and cousins. They filmed various versions around the world too.

It was a 60s show! I saw them rehearsing for it at Blackpool Lido when I was a child!

I did prefer the Peter Gabriel song Jeux Sans Frontiers to the show though 😉

I didn't realise it went back that far!! Wow.

I just recall watching it in the 80's as a kid.

1966-1988, apparently!

It started in 1966! Good innocent hilarity, I enjoyed it as a kid.
(mind you same applied to Rolf Harris. )

I always just assumed it was the 80's 😂Never reaiised it was airing before I was even born 😅