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 the UK by ’89 (correct me if I’m wrong), here with intriguing scoring. The intelligence test feels like it goes on for ages (or I think so anyway). Incidentally, the rather brilliant The Last Duet with O’ Connor and Martin was also used in the UK 1988 final. We’ve no idea why it shows the ‘general knowledge’ sequence when they mean ‘observation’. Also interesting use of non-diagetic background music you wouldn’t have found in the UK version.
So all I need to see now are a) really old UK episodes, b) 1995 UK episodes and c) the brilliantly titled German version, The Krypton Faktor, which from what I’ve discerned seemed to consist of about 26 different rounds, and then I can be happy.
Incidentally a lot of people coming here searching for information on the Spanish The Whole 19 Yards. What you’re looking for here is Los Ultimos 20 Metros. Yes there are videos, but be aware that it sounds as though the show’s being modified a bit for the UK audiences (four contestants, “a tense endgame” and up to £100,000 to be won). Let’s hope they aren’t doing the rather cheap thing with the questions to determine the money where the first clue is something like “place”. I’ve applied for a ticket, so.
I actually liked the knockout mental agility rounds, seeing how the questions were usually tougher than in the speed tests. The way I see it, if players were tied they each received the lower point value. Also, the Observation scoring comes from the 1986-1987 UK series.
I do have four episodes from the 1995 series, including the Grand Final, but it’s missing the first few minutes and the series premiere is missing the bottom part of the screen.