Unfortunately – someone stuffing the ballot box has affected Semi Final Two of the People's UK Gameshow Vote. Its had too much effect, so as a result we are re-doing the poll!
— Ben Justice (@RoarJustice) June 2, 2020
You have 24 hours, and now only one vote per person.https://t.co/dAeXy75tVc
Vote away (once)!
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While you’re “doing” walls in game shows, I have a left-field pick from a not-really-competitive game show I saw half an episode of, a third of a century ago, and never quite forgot. (Though didn’t remember at all reliably!) Skip through if you like, which you will, but it’s on-topic just for featuring Sinitta, and there’s an entry in the credits that’s worth sticking for. The host bears a distinct resemblance to a current Aikido instructor of the same name, so I suspect that even half his lifetime ago he could have beaten you up quite nicely.
If you missed this Tom F of the parish (@whattheflynn on Twitter) posed an interesting question: what are the five best gameshow walls?
Matt Clemson may have just won with: https://youtu.be/Am-R5-y2gjQ
My initial answers were: Granitas, The Wall from Gladiators, The Wall, The Wall of Hole in the Wall, and then a fifth to be determined which turned out to be The Wonderwall off of Winning Lines, obv.
Good shouts for: The Warped Wall from Sasuke, Only Connect’s Connecting Wall, David Walliams’ Wall of Fame, The Sucker Punch from [Total] Wipeout.
£23 in 1985 money is a princely seventy quid today, and The Wall Game has a fantastic, fantastic theme, to be compared to Thames compatriot Give Us A Clue for similarly being as epic as a three-movement concerto.
Changing the subject here, but the same YouTube user who uploaded that Pass the Baton episode of University Challenge has now uploaded the Gameshow Losers doc from 2002:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoDrSOGiqIk
Had to include Duncan Bickley losing £218k and the Reverend David Smith throwing a wobbly after being voted off tactically, although I’ll never get tired of watching these clips (or, indeed, of watching Bob “Turkey” Johnson). The twin brothers losing £16k on The Waiting Game, and Patrick Hoey winning nothing on Irish Millionaire after being let down by the audience, are also great fun to watch.
But my favourite bit – even if its inclusion was also predictable – is *that* New Hall Cambridge team. Interestingly, this documentary aired less than two weeks after “40 Years of University Challenge” on BBC2, which also inevitably featured that team and its captain, Sarah Davies, looking back on the whole experience along with a teammate (on that occasion it was Rosie Shaw, who said of her continued buzzing even when it was clear they weren’t going to come back: “I think I’m good at lost causes.”)
I’d happily watch any Bamber episode and most other Paxman episodes from before 2012-13 – but *that* episode is one I’d really, *really* like to watch in full (and without the picture cropped to fit the widescreen frame, obviously), along with the one from 1996-97 in which the Open University – featuring septuagenarian Ida Staples – scored 415 against Charing Cross Hospital. Sadly, Challenge almost certainly won’t show them (and at the rate it’s going, will be closed in the next 18 months anyway…)