So obviously it’s the 30th anniversary of Channel 4 today, and we’ve been following TV Cream’s retrospective. It includes a full episode of DFYT from the first series.
But doing some digging there’s also an episode (in six parts) of the Australian show, hosted by comic Tim Ferguson:
And do you know what? Once you get over the slight sense of the Uncanny Valley, it’s really watchable. They’ve very obviously lifted a lot of the ideas and mannerisms and even clothes from the original UK show – Tim Ferguson is effectively Chris Evans if he looked and sounded a bit more like Alexander Armstrong – but there’s just enough localised stuff to keep it interesting. For some reaosn, it went out on Nine live on Tuesday nights (Tuesday!) and was repeated on Saturday mornings.
Some of us were trying to work out on Twitter if Bet on Your Budgie (part four I think) was something we did in the UK or was an Aussie original idea. I have access to lots of series two Toothbrush, but series one is a bit more difficult to research. Anyone?
I can’t believe there’s no examples of the throw-things-out-your-windows game on Youtube.