It is of course giving, and our current favourite Youtube channel MisterDoc has been uploading some incredible finds recently – the first ever You Bet! Various interesting Krypton Factor specials, and we can’t wait to see this sometime over Christmas, the first (of apparently many!) episodes of Body Heat – the 90s Mike Smith physical gameshow some of us have been looking for for years and which amazingly hasn’t made it to Youtube other than one short clip. The vid goes live Xmas Day at 6pm.
We’ve often joked about pitching Million Pound Bleep Test as an idea, I can’t remember if it was in this first series – I enjoyed the more extended later shows which I also think had a great final round, the first series finished on a straight batak wall which was fun enough, the later ones finished on the Tri-Batak where you had a time limit to complete three challenges *before* you used the rest of the time to earn points on the batak wall, which I always thought was quite a fun mechanic.
God this was such fun, so relentlessly 90s it’s almost offensive.
Particularly enjoyed Sally Gunnell trying to interview a man who had just blasted a treadmill for seven minutes. Also I never twigged at the time the bed for Power Point was an instrumental of Ebeneezer Goode by The Shamen.
The Bleep Test remains more compelling than it ought to be, still think they improved the Batak in later series in having the exercise as part of the game.
Still, fun fun fun. Reboot this you ITV1 bastards.
Oh goodness, Krypton Factor Celebrity Special. Kendal! Strachan! Brooks! Steve Coogan as Ben Elton as Alan Partridge!
https://youtu.be/WQem6C5iRdA?si=X17Derl7geYMW4KV