The Crystal Maze - The out takes....
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Out-takes, some classic games and a few behind the scenes shots and pranks from this classic TV game show. All with the director and producers comments in the background.
This video is edited from some of the 'Christmas Tapes' put together by the show's engineer Graham Rendell at the end of each run
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Literally dying at the skeleton one "LEAVE THE SKELETON ALONE"
All in all you're just another rib in the cage.
*crackle * "The skeleton's got a fractured pelvis." LMAO!
This is the first time I've seen what went on behind the scenes. It's good to know that the producers were laughing at the contestants just as much as we were at home.
Oh trust me, if they released the talkback of a lot of game shows you’d find them hilarious with how much the crew play along and slag the contestants off. My friend worked on the reboot of this with Ayoade as the host, and I got to watch a recording from the Gallery. The recordings would be 18 rated if they had the directors commentary on them!
"Ron, send for the child of three please."
"On his way sir."
I did the games, that's a very young looking me sticking my head through the set and laughing at the end of the video
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Oh yeah!
What a great job. You must have had so much fun :)
I edited it together this morning from some old VHS tapes I had from when I used to work on the show
Just when I thought I couldn't love this show more.... looks so much fun to work on!
How have I never seen this until now. I've been watching CM reruns on TV the last few weeks. This is hilarious.
What a brilliant thing this is maybe a special should happen on TV of the outtakes sure it would get people watching
This must have been one of the best places to be a TV director...
7:17 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Send in the child of three!
I can't believe the stupidity of these idiots. I mean, if you can't drive a toy boat or a helicopter, how come these people are put in charge of a car? And the woman who threw the handle to the mechanism inside the enclosure. I couldn't believe that.
"take him outside and give him a good kicking!" LOL
Breathless was for continuity; because we shot the show over a whole day the contestants might just have come back from lunch but in the show they have just run from another zone so they should be out of breath.
Loved this as a teenager. Never thought the directors/producers etc would take the piss like this... brilliant :D
I don't have episodes, just some compilations of bits from series 1,2,3 and 5 (sadly I lent the tape I had from series 4 to someone on the crew and never got it back.
I guess there's just over an hour in total but a lot is of pranks and behind the scenes stuff that I didn't think would be of much interest to anyone but the crew - a lot of 'in jokes'....
If get a lot of views/interest I'll put another set together sometime.
hillarious,, I want Crystal maze back on air. now now now
OMG ! i've often dreamt there wold be a crystal maze outtakes video, but i never dreamt it would be so wonderful, thank you, thank you, thank you !
Funny as
" He's an idiot...Take him outside, give him a good kicking then send him back in and tell him to leave the bloody boats alone." You could probably do an entire programme with the directors comments etc'. Bloody hilarious!
He's awesome
Saw the bloke from 8:08 on Challenge again today. I don't know what was funnier, him playing the crystal bank game really fast in Future, or Ed and the team crying with laughter!
Thank you for uploading the videos, it will always be my favourite TV show.
The director is hilarious. The clip were the cameraman was soaked was very funny as they weren't expecting water to come out that pipe!
Wow puppy this video has made my day - please do a second. The crystal maze was way ahead of it's time and even now still looks current.
What on earth has happened to our TV shows - you just don't see programmes like this anymore!
Love the "Merry Christmas" shouts for the crew/production mistakes.
It's a long tradition in tv productions. Each year at Christmas, VT departments would make a video compilation of all the best fookups of the year and would be released for tv production people, but some did get out to the general public.
The original expression after a cockup was "Merry Christmas VT". Meaning the Video Tape dept had something to add to tbe Christmas cock up video compilation 😂
Cool vid, i'll always love this show!!! Hillarious moment @ 7:18am. and the boat - when Richard says "oh get out!" lmfao... loved it as a kid now im 20 !!! Bring it back !!
Give him a good kickin'
A chain pulled the ships along a shelf at the back of the cell.
The contestant moved a periscope which had a steel arm attached resting on the back shelf. The torpedoes were painted in UV paint on a rubber belt running along the arm.
As soon as they fired, a break stopped them from changing their aim and a motor ran the torpedo down the arm.
If it arrived as one of the ships was passing it set off a pyrotechnic on the ship.
It had various relays and microswitches that made it automatic.
I love this program so much, Im so glad they still put it on telly. :D
My goodness, that was amazing. I miss that program so much. =(
That was sooo funny! I love Richard O'Brien. He is amazing!!!
15 year old comment. How's it feel?
You know, I think they should have put the entire series on TV like THIS...
The woman in orange on the raft is TOO funny.
Floundering around like a fish out of water with a total disregard for the rules.
Thank you for posting these are great
Thank you so much for sharing the out takes, proper made us howl with laughter!
Currently watching this while the 2017 crystal maze celebrity special plays in the background of my living room on channel "4seven". these outtakes are way more entertaining:)
I guess the woman at about 6:00 is the reason they added the rule that if you go in the water then it's an instant lock-in in some rooms!
Did you dream that one up ?
Generally if there was water it was intended to get people wet
@@MikkelMane Yeah they expected you to fall in the water generally. I think I vaguely recall they added a rule that if you went in the water you had to go back to the start on several of the rooms tho.
Not entirely her fault anyway, Richard told her she didn't need the raft, and once she was wet, she realised she didn't anyway
I used to watch this program when I was 5 or 6, although I didn't understand English at that time I knew every thing they were doing and I knew all the roles of this game.I was a big fan of that program. now that i speak English, I looked for it in UA-cam because I love this program.
I enjoyed that show a long time ago, thanks for the hard work and for sharing this video with us
yes I spent many a cold evening long after the rest of the crew had gone home finishing off a new game ready for the next day!
This is the best UA-cam ever! Thanks so much. Looks like TCM was a fun show to work on.
This is brilliant, we need this show back. The crud they put on nowadays in unwatchable
it is for a one off in october 2016 with celebs and stephen merchant as host....
And a new series with Richard Ayoade.
You're in luck, a new series of the crystal maze starts this friday with Richard Ayoade.
That was the first show that I worked on!
"COME ON GIRL GIVE IT SOME RIGHT HAND! " LMAO - bring it back.
wow - i'm not kidding when I say I could probably talk to you for weeks on end asking all sorts of questions about the show, the saying 'they don't make them like they used to' should be redefined as 'the crystal maze'... - brilliant vid!
Hilarious bloopers. The director's comments. 1:00 "LEAVE CHESTER COPPERPOT ALONE YOU DAFT PILLOCK!"
The Crystal Maze was 100% awesome and the best thing on telly, but seeing the producers cackling away at the contestants makes it even awesomer.
loved this show as a kid, richard must of had to work hard not to piss him self laughing at times
STILL the funniest clip on UA-cam, tell yer mates. The crew's laughter is a joy.
i always wondered what the staff said behind the scenes !
I want this show back really bad, loved it as a kid still love it now. I want to go on it.
Yes it was industrial first then changed to ocean for series 4 or 5. It mainly changed to allow us some new game ideas. We thought Industrial and future zones were a bit similar.
As I remember there was some talk of changing aztec if there'd been a series 7
the skeleton has got a fractured pelvis lmfao
LOVE IT!!! I say exactly what the producers say! I scream at the TV at this show!!
nice to see the production crew behaved EXACTLY as me and my family did when it was broadcast.
Skeleton attacked for no reason.
'Fractured pelvis'
this video just ROCKS --- just ROCKS! 5/5 i always wanted to see behind scene stuff on TCM :) thankkkkks :D:D
omg I love this crew!! Their comments are hilarious!!
Loved this show. Having worked in tv and movies since. I worked out a lot of the contestants knew what the challenge would be, after doing retakes.
It was fixed mostly. But love this mix of the daft moments along with the director and production team's off air transmission 😅
"fixed" is definitely the appropriate word to use. The games were clearly broken down into categories
-They're doing too well (near impossible to beat)
-They're not doing well enough (easy to beat)
So contestants would never do so badly that people would stop watching but also never do so well that they could win in the dome easily. Manipulating the game to end with around 30-45 seconds every time. Contestants had little say in it at the end of the day.
This is so funny! I could watch this for hours on end!
That actually looked dangerous at 7:14, walking along a narrow beam over water with giant spikes either side.
They were very likely made of foam so 0 risk of getting impaled on them.
Yep. Polystyrene 'spikes'. I'll be doing a close up vid in my channel soon as I now own 2 of them (from the 2017+ series).
I CANNOT WAIT TO GO ON THIS, GOT MY TICKET! AAAAAH :D :D :D
It just wasn't the same when Richard left, a true legend.
It was actually. Just a different presenter - Ed Tudorpole. 👍🏼👍🏼
@@philnewton-england7795 And he wasn't as good.
@@gordonm6108 I actually preferred Ed. I got fed up of O'Brien getting angry at the contestants. And Ed was certainly better than Ayoade - In my opinion anyway.
@@philnewton-england7795 Each to their own, I always much preferred Richard. Hard agree on Ayoade though.
@@gordonm6108 Richard was vastly superior, he had charisma, humour and other virtues. Ed had nothing, just staring eyes.
this is too funny! can barely breath and am in tears laughing!!
3:04 send for the child of 3 please 😂😂😂 had me dying
"Where do we get them." That`s what I used to think..
I think we all asked ourselves the same question
LOL at that man running across the plank and falling in!! How could they keep straight faces? haha
I love the director
"And that leaves you with a final total of minus 52 gold."
"YES!"
"and sadly, that is the final episode in the series..."
'why is he messing with the skeleton?'
'maybe he likes skeletons.' LMFAO
Richard lol😂
Every time I watch this now I imagine that guy speaking behind the scenes.
*contestant finishes with over 2 minutes to spare*
"Well that was bollocks, where's that hard lock-in one?...Room 7 Rich...no 7 the other side.
This is brilliant.
That producer/director, the 'leave the skeleton alone' guy... he sounds like a grown-up Roger Klotz from Nickelodeon's Doug. That laugh at 3:29... my God. -__-
The skeleton now has a fractured pelvis. RIP skelly. :(
what's this volume for ants?
Jay Bernales These are obviously very old clips which could have been recorded from a tape or something, tapes are really bad video quality obvs so they probably wouldn't have great audio quality either. I assume if there was something the uploader could have done about it they would have.
At 3:30 they were quite clearly telling her that the third tap was the wrong way round, yet she couldn't work out what they were talking about. That's why the crew were laughing.
hahaha 7:17 when that bloke falls off the pole made me laugh and laugh and laugh! "are you alright, are you alright?" soooo funny! Richard O'Brien
This would be great if the gain could be adjusted to increase volume and then re-uploaded.
Yes it's David Croft, you also hear the voices of Malcom Hayworth (the producer) Dominic Brigstock (Who directed 2 series of CM) and various other members of the crew.
I probably have enough material for another video but I'm pretty busy at the moment so you'll have to wait until I have time to edit it together - sorry!
It’s 16 years later, have you got time now? 😅
Having to turn this video up high volume to just about hear it
Forgot i had done that an moved onto the next video which was VERY LOUD
give it some right hand!!!on his way sir!!! excellent!!
@puppydogbytes You are a legend for putting this on UA-cam!
"Do you know what your doing? There's instructions on the wall." I'm a man dammit! I don't read instructions!
The director is a legend!
7:50
I love how you can hear one of the producers saying "I'm glad he doesn't work for BA!"
Ha ha!
BRING IT BACK PLEASE
Please start this serial again............
I remember the game well because I broke my toe dropping it onto my foot when I was building it!
Like most of the games, after 4 or 5 plays we stripped all the useful bits off it and threw it in the skip!
Sorry Steffan and Ed, we made over 200 games for the 4 series I worked on and it was more than 15 years ago! I just don't remember them all...
A lot of the crystal releases just had someone standing behind them waiting for a cue to open them - I know because it was often me!
Half the games and things on Crystal Maze would never be allowed these days because of 'Elf 'N Safety! What happened at 7;15 for example, you'd get sued for that nowadays.
Also, this is a rare kind of adventure challenge program that is for adults and NOT annoying children like we see every time we turn on the tv, with some overly happy tv presenter patronising them, this was a challenging tv show with a quirky, funny presenter who didn't treat people like idiots.
God I miss the 90's! :(
even though kids did take part in this also
The crew, doing the exact same thing as every viewer at home...
The Scene in which it shows Catherine Mchale in the game of raft, looked awesome & bodacious.
From the British game show Crystal Maze, since debuting in 1990 on Channel Four, here's a montage of funny outtakes. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
The five "game shows" I shall forever hold in my mind as wonderful beyond belief were "The Crystal Maze", "Now Get Out Of That", "The Adventure Game", "The Great Egg Race" and "The Krypton Factor". Of those, "The Crystal Maze" is probably the closest I'd consider to being the Ultimate, a good test of every faculty and ability. If you'd unlimited time and money, and could borrow anything you liked from other shows, what would you do to make it the true ultimate contest?
Superb
best game ever
The producer who you are referring to is on Facebook, his name is David.G.Croft.
I thanked him personally for a great show.
THE THIRD TAP! lmao!
Very funny! Though can't believe some of the comments are 15 years old!
shame it's so low volume. but this is hilarious stuff.
Aw man, i wish they'd start this show again lol
"Where do we get them from?"... 😁
I loved this show, but they don't show it so much anymore. Challenge TV used to broadcast them like all day everyday.
GET BACK ON THE RAFT
Director is hilarious !