Category Archives: Fun Thing Found on Youtube

Well that’s my next hour-and-a-half ruined/sorted, it’s The Grand Knockout Tournament! Features a pre-Nightshade Nightshade from Gladiators!

Thanks to Setsunael for flagging this up on a forum elsewhere, it’s Les Bon Gènies, France’s very French version of Match Game (i.e. Blankety Blank) It is, of course, hosted by the legendary Patrice Laffont, and this clip comes from 1996. France 2 été 1996 Les Bons Génies – jeu téléUploaded by GregTV. – Videos… Read More »

You have the internet’s Tony du Mont to thank for discovering this, the entire Krypton Factor 1989 final… from New Zealand. Dougal Stevenson hosts. Part 2 can be found here and the final part here. There’s something that’s slightly off about it, I think it’s the pacing. They’d stopped doing knockout mental agility rounds in… Read More »

I watched a little bit of Take Me Out over the week and whilst not completely awful or anything, it did seem to lack a certain something. Substance, I think it was. But over ten years ago ITV were doing a sort of similar thing on Saturday nights based on a popular European format of… Read More »

Have you ever got up in the morning and thought to yourself “hmm, what I really want right now is the ability to watch every single title seuqnece of Treasure Hunt with Kenneth Kendall in sequential chronological order”? Did you think that very thing this morning? Well, I like to make dreams come true, so… Read More »

Yes. In the eighties, did you think Blockbusters was rather futuristic? Well you were wrong, because it was not as futuristic looking as the German version of the format, Super Grips. Unfortunately, what we really wanted to show you was a video of the show that had their version of the Gold Run actually overlaid… Read More »