So! The other night I discovered someone had uploaded several episodes of Bother’s Bar mid-90s favourite Incredible Games after a recommended link chain going through The Alphabet Game, Andrew O’ Connor’s Joke Machine and Mouse Trap. They’re all from the David Walliams fronted first series which was certainly the funnier of the two, but the second series probably had slightly better games. None of them were hosted by the late Mark Speight, contrary to popular belief and Bother’s Bar in-joke lore.
I always loved Incredible Games‘ aesthetic, even if the music sounds like it took thirty seconds to create (although I’m a sucker for this sort of spacesynth, so).
Of course the link with this and the recent Alphabetical is that Andrew O’ Connor co-devised it. He really was one of my favourite TV people growing up, you’d think if there were any TV execs who’d have a grasp of what a daytime quiz requires and it’d be worth tempting out of presenting retirement it’d be him.
I took part in one of the run throughs when Alphabetical was still at the deveopmental stage (all of us sat around a table in a cramped office at The London Studios as I recall but that’s by the by) and, interestingly enough, Andrea O’Connor hosted that himself.
Ha! Amazing, I can see why they might have got the timings a bit wrong for doing it for real if that’s the case.
Wasn’t there an episode of this where the Black Knight tried to get in the lift? That scared the living daylights out of me as a kid!
I also remember the weird school room level not sure if that was Series 2
Yeah, the ghost headmaster was series two.
Series two also had nuclear waste thing, ice caves, captured players sent to laundry bins and an endgame in the penthouse. There may be more.