He was still too good not to present it for another 20 years back then. Why did they replace him with Jeremy Paxmsn? Strangely when Paxman took over it was produced by Granada Television (ITV) for the BBC, not the BBC producing it as well. A commercial channel's production on a public sector channel very strange.
University Challenge - Pro-Celebrity Edition 1992 2033pm 8.2.22 not as sent up as most quiz shows but done to a tee via ben elton and co with their violent ode the young ones. seek out the bambi episode. that poncer abouter mr fry appears...
One of the many differences between affable Bamber and his less likeable successor is that, as you were fortunate enough to see firsthand, the former set the questions while Paxo simply approves questions written by others. Perhaps that's why Paxman sometimes acts like a viewer who's delighted with themselves when they actually know an answer; you hear it in the way he reacts to an incorrectly answering student, repeating their wrong attempt in sneering disbelief and then barking out "NO!" By contrast, when a student wrongly answers a question to which Paxman himself wouldn't have known the answer had it not been given to him in advance, he simply supplies the correct answer.
@@karent-s7639 Have tracked down past series of UC and watched one episode a day for more than a year and cannot recall Mr Paxman ever sneering, let alone 'barking out "NO!" His bantering manner may have been quite different Mr Gascoigne's but to suggest he was ever rude is simply absurd.
@@castelodeossos3947 I didn't track down some episodes on UA-cam. I didn't have to because I clearly remember several occasions when Paxman rudely repeated wrong answers in an effort to humiliate a student while attempting to give the impression that he knew all the subjects so well that he would never have given such an answer. Paxman, unlike Bamber, was lazy, obnoxious, and unmannerly.
Also on Sundays on ITV in those days the 1970's up until at least 1982 anyway was Link/Getting On, Farming Outlook. Weekend World (just before University Challenge), The Muppet Show, Sale of The Century, a Roger Royle religious programme at 6.40pm, Winner Takes All, Family Fortunes (briefly), and The South Bank Show.
This is a treasure. I don't even know how I found it but I'm ecstatic that I did. Without doubt this is the toughest quiz show on tv. If I know one answer in 50 it's a lot.
Yeah, I went back and started counting his personal points, he was over seventy by less than halfway through the quiz! (I stopped there, someone else can total it up.)
Bamber Gascoigne absolute Legend, remember watching Sunday afternoon as a kid, couldn't answer the questions but strangely addictive. Think it was down to Bamber and that great theme. Rest In Peace Bamber.
Even though I was very young, I always watched it on Sunday's. Way too academic for me, but Bamber's personality and warmth just made it such lovely viewing and then the 'gong' ....the good ol days of TV :)
@@jamiengo2343 I never said he was. I said Bamber was best host on UC. Paxman was decent as a newsreader who knew how to get answers from politicians etc
Utterly wonderful of course too thank you so much. A truly great series with its best presenter too. When it went from ITV to BBC2 so too. A shame that Bamber did not take it on in 1994 though so too. This also makes me rather sad as I saw this then with my now alas late mum and dad; but I know that they would like this too.
And also one of Granada's best series too. I know on ITV it was one of the few series with no ads in too before alas they later ended it in 1987 so too. I know when it was revived I remember hearing Jeremy Paxman say that with the state of ITV today it would not be on even at 3am so too?! He was right of course when it went to BBC2 anyway. I also remember where I live in the Thames and LWT London ITV area of old it would be on a Sunday at 1 or 2pm? I believe that it started later at night time but later they moved it to daytime anyway too.
Without doubt the best quiz on tv along with Mastermind of course too when that had Magnus Magnusson on BBC1; although of course also later revived on BBC2 with John Humphrys before Clive Myrie and so on too.
I guessed it faster AND guessed the same - elephant. Then I worried it was too easy and I must have been tricked - but I had answered - though I only have a cat as witness... I got 8 questions - but the most plebeian of them. I beat Stephen easily, to O being the 15th, as I already have memorised I is 9, m is 13, r is 18 and of course, z is 26. And the first 5 are automatic. I don't know the number of points I would have claimed, as I don't recall if any were bonuses. Everyone is so young!
Just saw your comment is 7 years old. Ì saw your user name - are you a jack russell enthusiast? I hope any JRT's you had are still going strong, 7 years on. I run a dog/cat rescue. I had a Parson's Jack Russell myself, for about 15 years.
@@georgielancaster1356 Lol, no afraid not. If you split it, it’s really JR Terrier24, cos I’m James Robinson, and I support Huddersfield Town, who are known as the Terriers.👍
I came across this after searching “Bamber Gascoigne” because I was looking at the author of a book I’ve had for over 30 years, Castles of Britain. Didn’t know he was a quizmaster.
The BBC chsnged the music and the set on top of changing the host come the series. It was all far too much to bear.. It was the classic music, the classic set and the classic host for this special, the only thing missing was the classic Granafa idents.
What a contrast between Gascoigne’s Immaculate manners, elegant delivery and old school charm versus Jeremy Paxman’s condescending delivery and snide persona.
Bamber was charming, always. Paxman; like a strict schoolmaster who will use the cane if necessary. When they say - 'Asking the questions', I always answer BAMBER GASCOIGNE !
All that is missing here is the Granada G Colour Production on ITV at the start and end too. I think of course too that they were the only ITV company of old then not to have a jingle with their ident unlike the others or rest so they went straight into the programme so too?
I still watch it today. My best ever performance was 30% right but my average is more like 10% I rather miss Bamber but Paxmann is good too. I do admire the young men and women who know sooooo much already at their young age.
These teams would have hardly scored anything under the oppressive Paxman regime. Bambi the gentle tutor, a kind word and a glass of sherry vs. Paxo the attack dog with a monster energy drink and a poke in the eye.
So interesting! Certainly a very different vibe than Paxman’s show, but I like both. The game is more interesting with Paxman running a tight ship. People get to joke around more with Gascoigne.
He went like mad through in the last few minutes asking a lot more questions leading up to the gong. I can't recall if he speeded up when the scores weren't close. Mind you, Nicholas Parsons ftom Sale Of The Century rivalled Bamber on how many questions he could get through in the last 2 minutes. Sale of The Century used the gong as well.
The old upstalrs downstairs quiz. The questions on university challenge and Mastermind are near impossible for the vast majority of us watching. It was better when it was on on ITV on a Sunday at 1pm rather than 8pm during the week.
I got I think only eight or so questions right, which is humiliating,, but, which is rather strange, four of the seven or eight I got were questions which the contestants did NOT get. I was very surprised that they hadnt heard of Astrid Lindgrin and apparently nor had Bamber Gascoigne. Keble College sadly ignorant of elementary ornithology! I thought that the questions were a little slanted towards the past, giving the older folk an advantage. Stephen Fry's breadth of knowledge, including clasical music and football, is impressive. Without Stephen Fry it would have been a close match. He won it for the graduates. Good harmless fun.
Bamber reminds me of Richard Whiteley. They seem to have similar accents, despite being from different ends of England, both quietly spoken, sort of muttering. You sometimes struggle to hear what they are saying, before realising that whatever it is they are muttering about is as inconsequential as everything else they mutter about.
I wonder if this was the only time when the BBC actually made an episode of University Challenge, as when the programme returned in 1994 on BBC2 it was made by Granada for the BBC.
+Dealgaboy actually I sometimes think this, but then my faith in humankind gets restored when I watch 2015 university challenge and see there are still bright young people today!
All the contestants are brilliant and I would never dare claim the opposite, but (speaking as a German) them not knowing Astrid Lindgren absolutely baffled me
I seem to recall that when this was on ITV back in the day it was on on Sundays around 1 or 1.30pm. Least it was on Tyne Tees. Or was that when it was repeated(if indeed it was repeated)?
Bamber Gascoigne is a lovely man but sort of bumbling and overly gentle. I can see why whatshisname from League of Gentlemen played him. Paxman is tough but he lends a sense of jeopardy to the game
God rest your soul Bamber - an absolute legend!
Delightful. Bamber's erudition, warmth and love of learning shine through.
He was still too good not to present it for another 20 years back then. Why did they replace him with Jeremy Paxmsn?
Strangely when Paxman took over it was produced by Granada Television (ITV) for the BBC, not the BBC producing it as well. A commercial channel's production on a public sector channel very strange.
@@dvidclapperton His wife felt he'd had enough apparently. It was on a documentary here on UA-cam.
Well put Hugh 👍🏻
University Challenge - Pro-Celebrity Edition 1992 2033pm 8.2.22 not as sent up as most quiz shows but done to a tee via ben elton and co with their violent ode the young ones. seek out the bambi episode. that poncer abouter mr fry appears...
Came to this on the day Bamber death was announced. 8 Feb 22.
It is indeed a lovely watch, memories of times of a past. RIP
I was delighted to meet Bamber Gascoigne back in the early 70s at Richmond Library, where he was researching questions. A delightful gentleman.
One of the many differences between affable Bamber and his less likeable successor is that, as you were fortunate enough to see firsthand, the former set the questions while Paxo simply approves questions written by others. Perhaps that's why Paxman sometimes acts like a viewer who's delighted with themselves when they actually know an answer; you hear it in the way he reacts to an incorrectly answering student, repeating their wrong attempt in sneering disbelief and then barking out "NO!" By contrast, when a student wrongly answers a question to which Paxman himself wouldn't have known the answer had it not been given to him in advance, he simply supplies the correct answer.
@Stephen Cook
That could have been for one of the then upcoming contests on University Challenge.
@@karent-s7639
Have tracked down past series of UC and watched one episode a day for more than a year and cannot recall Mr Paxman ever sneering, let alone 'barking out "NO!" His bantering manner may have been quite different Mr Gascoigne's but to suggest he was ever rude is simply absurd.
@@castelodeossos3947 I didn't track down some episodes on UA-cam. I didn't have to because I clearly remember several occasions when Paxman rudely repeated wrong answers in an effort to humiliate a student while attempting to give the impression that he knew all the subjects so well that he would never have given such an answer. Paxman, unlike Bamber, was lazy, obnoxious, and unmannerly.
He is class is Bamber. A delight. And 20m viewers a week at the programme's prime! Remarkable.
Bamber at 1pm on ITV on Sundays was far better than Jeremy at 8pm on BBC2 on Mondays.
A lot of mediocre TV got 20m viewers a week in those days as well, mind you.
@@scottishwildcat and now 99% of it is less than mediocre TV.
Now we have 20m zombies watching Love Island. How utterly, utterly depressing.
Also on Sundays on ITV in those days the 1970's up until at least 1982 anyway was Link/Getting On, Farming Outlook. Weekend World (just before University Challenge), The Muppet Show, Sale of The Century, a Roger Royle religious programme at 6.40pm, Winner Takes All, Family Fortunes (briefly), and The South Bank Show.
This is a treasure. I don't even know how I found it but I'm ecstatic that I did. Without doubt this is the toughest quiz show on tv. If I know one answer in 50 it's a lot.
Stephen Fry was basically a team on his own.
Yeah, I went back and started counting his personal points, he was over seventy by less than halfway through the quiz! (I stopped there, someone else can total it up.)
Pretty much all arts questions though - nowt for maths or science students...
Proof there's no Fry in team ;)
Bamber Gascoigne absolute Legend, remember watching Sunday afternoon as a kid, couldn't answer the questions but strangely addictive. Think it was down to Bamber and that great theme. Rest In Peace Bamber.
Lovely theme tune from way back when, Bamber was simply ace, a real great at Granada Television.
Stephen Fry is simply brilliant.
Bamber Gasgoine was sheer class.
"...and your question master is ..." still to this day my mind will say "Bamber Gasgoine" Sorry Jeremy.
Even though I was very young, I always watched it on Sunday's. Way too academic for me, but Bamber's personality and warmth just made it such lovely viewing and then the 'gong' ....the good ol days of TV :)
Much happier times.
Bamber Gascoigne, such a gentleman. .. Paxman, well what can we say. . Game, Set and Match to Bamber. 😄
Papaxnagomennon
I liked bamber gasgoine better
Bamber was by far the better presenter but Paxman was better on Newsnight
Raj Nirvan Bamber wasn’t ever on Newsnight was he?
@@jamiengo2343 I never said he was. I said Bamber was best host on UC. Paxman was decent as a newsreader who knew how to get answers from politicians etc
Utterly wonderful of course too thank you so much. A truly great series with its best presenter too. When it went from ITV to BBC2 so too. A shame that Bamber did not take it on in 1994 though so too. This also makes me rather sad as I saw this then with my now alas late mum and dad; but I know that they would like this too.
And also one of Granada's best series too. I know on ITV it was one of the few series with no ads in too before alas they later ended it in 1987 so too. I know when it was revived I remember hearing Jeremy Paxman say that with the state of ITV today it would not be on even at 3am so too?! He was right of course when it went to BBC2 anyway. I also remember where I live in the Thames and LWT London ITV area of old it would be on a Sunday at 1 or 2pm? I believe that it started later at night time but later they moved it to daytime anyway too.
Is it just this episode or is the older series just happier in general haha like the audience proper goads them on too
Happier times altogether I'm afraid.
Without doubt the best quiz on tv along with Mastermind of course too when that had Magnus Magnusson on BBC1; although of course also later revived on BBC2 with John Humphrys before Clive Myrie and so on too.
ive found the best video on the internet
That Elephant alphabet question was brilliant, one of the best trick questions I've ever seen on TV!! :D
+JRTerrier24 I'd agree, except I think it's THE best !!!! Hilarious !!
I guessed it faster AND guessed the same - elephant. Then I worried it was too easy and I must have been tricked - but I had answered - though I only have a cat as witness...
I got 8 questions - but the most plebeian of them.
I beat Stephen easily, to O being the 15th, as I already have memorised I is 9, m is 13, r is 18 and of course, z is 26. And the first 5 are automatic.
I don't know the number of points I would have claimed, as I don't recall if any were bonuses.
Everyone is so young!
Just saw your comment is 7 years old. Ì saw your user name - are you a jack russell enthusiast?
I hope any JRT's you had are still going strong, 7 years on.
I run a dog/cat rescue. I had a Parson's Jack Russell myself, for about 15 years.
@@georgielancaster1356 Lol, no afraid not. If you split it, it’s really JR Terrier24, cos I’m James Robinson, and I support Huddersfield Town, who are known as the Terriers.👍
Such a ray of brilliant sunshine.
I keep coming back to this, just for Bamber's closing line.
They were much more lenient back then.
I keep finding you in the comment section of completely different videos :P I didn't expect to see you here
They did not deduct points for someone getting the answer wrong after buzzing in too early.
David Clapperton Think they gave other team 5?
What a gentleman Bamber Gascogne is and what a star Stephen Fry is.
The groan (uncredited) at the end, speaks for so many people.
Stephen Fry in this video (and in general) is the cutest thing in the world. ❤❤❤
Sad that they discontinued it and so sad that Bamber is no longer with us. My favourite tv and presenter.
I agree wonderful sense of humour great quiz master charming to the very last
Stephen Fry 150 - students 70
Great fun. Bamber puts Paxo in the shade.
Thank you for posting this very enjoyable!
I came across this after searching “Bamber Gascoigne” because I was looking at the author of a book I’ve had for over 30 years, Castles of Britain. Didn’t know he was a quizmaster.
this was a pleasure to watch, thank you
The theme music is called "College Boy" by Derek New.
And one of he best TV themes ever IMHO, epitomising student smarts and boisterousness!
The BBC chsnged the music and the set on top of changing the host come the series. It was all far too much to bear..
It was the classic music, the classic set and the classic host for this special, the only thing missing was the classic Granafa idents.
This video is a favourite, just for Gascoigne's closing line.
Happy 86th birthday to Bamber Gascoigne on this day, the 24th of January 2021.
86, .....How can that possibly be true ?
What a contrast between Gascoigne’s Immaculate manners, elegant delivery and old school charm versus Jeremy Paxman’s condescending delivery and snide persona.
Bamber was charming, always. Paxman; like a strict schoolmaster who will use the cane if necessary. When they say - 'Asking the questions', I always answer BAMBER GASCOIGNE !
I answer Bamber Gas stove
All that is missing here is the Granada G Colour Production on ITV at the start and end too. I think of course too that they were the only ITV company of old then not to have a jingle with their ident unlike the others or rest so they went straight into the programme so too?
I still watch it today. My best ever performance was 30% right but my average is more like 10% I rather miss Bamber but Paxmann is good too. I do admire the young men and women who know sooooo much already at their young age.
That's probably a decent percentage as I suspect each contestant knows a similar amount of answers.
RIP Bamber. Starting for 10.
What a brilliant find!
Thanks!
Absolutely delightful to watch.
Some brilliant personalities, there. Banger Gasket (RIP) and Stephen Fry.
Absolutely delightful!
I enjoyed that very much. Thank you.
These teams would have hardly scored anything under the oppressive Paxman regime.
Bambi the gentle tutor, a kind word and a glass of sherry vs. Paxo the attack dog with a monster energy drink and a poke in the eye.
“Oppressive Paxman regime,” sums it up. Barber was such a contrast; with his warm, encouraging style.
Hahaha
Aren't we all better for Mam's strict upbringing? 😅
So interesting! Certainly a very different vibe than Paxman’s show, but I like both. The game is more interesting with Paxman running a tight ship. People get to joke around more with Gascoigne.
As of August 2021 Gascogne is 86 years old…..How time flies.
Not any more.
RIP Bamber 😢
Don Murray Henderson used to do the announcers job till 1970.
My record is 5 consecutive correct answers. the questions were so wide and varied ! Bamber made this show his own, he WAS Universriy Challenge..
There was an air of "CLASS" when it was Bamber's quiz.
I still watch it all these years later.
In the week Bamber Gaiscoigne died the show still goes on. The hardest quiz on tv.
What a wonderfully warm human being.
We love Bamber ❤
Rest In Peace Bamber 🙏🏿
Bamber speaks at a rate of around 20 words per second
He went like mad through in the last few minutes asking a lot more questions leading up to the gong.
I can't recall if he speeded up when the scores weren't close.
Mind you, Nicholas Parsons ftom Sale Of The Century rivalled Bamber on how many questions he could get through in the last 2 minutes. Sale of The Century used the gong as well.
Gascoigne's a legend.
I’ve never got more than 15 questions correctly per episode, but I’ve always absolutely adored this programme nevertheless.
Bambi looks like he had no idea how happy he would be coming back to the show.
TRIBUTE TO A LEGEND BAMBER GASCOIGNE 1935 TO 2022
The old upstalrs downstairs quiz.
The questions on university challenge and Mastermind are near impossible for the vast majority of us watching.
It was better when it was on on ITV on a Sunday at 1pm rather than 8pm during the week.
RIP Bamber. A true gentleman and erudite with it.
Bamber Gascoigne = Organise BBC Game
well done!
great anagram love that.
if you like a celebrity anagram then : meg ryan = Germany . Britney spears = presbetarians!
I missed the y out.
and I spelled it wrongly too. I'm right dozy me!
They Do this now every Christmas with famous alumni from each collage
I got I think only eight or so questions right, which is humiliating,, but, which is rather strange, four of the seven or eight I got were questions which the contestants did NOT get. I was very surprised that they hadnt heard of Astrid Lindgrin and apparently nor had Bamber Gascoigne.
Keble College sadly ignorant of elementary ornithology!
I thought that the questions were a little slanted towards the past, giving the older folk an advantage.
Stephen Fry's breadth of knowledge, including clasical music and football, is impressive. Without Stephen Fry it would have been a close match. He won it for the graduates.
Good harmless fun.
Stephen knows really a lot!
20:04 Mrs Hudson is not the cleaner for Sherlock Holmes, she's his landlady.
Not quite. She was the Housekeeper
RIP Bamber Gascoigne 1935-2022
Bamber reminds me of Richard Whiteley. They seem to have similar accents, despite being from different ends of England, both quietly spoken, sort of muttering. You sometimes struggle to hear what they are saying, before realising that whatever it is they are muttering about is as inconsequential as everything else they mutter about.
They really are cut from the same cloth, just from different ends of the roll.
How good was Bamber ❤
R.I.P. Bamber Gascoigne
Rip to the great Bamber
R.I.P Bamber Gascoigne
Mrs Hudson was Sherlock Holmes's housekeeper, not his cleaner: surprised that that slipped past.
R.I.P. Bamber.
Has there ever been any other person in the world called Bamber?
Jeremy Bamber?!
@@roddyteague6246 Apparently its his middle name, reminds me of Bamber Bridge in Lancashire
@@highpath4776 Quite right Sir. His first name is Arthur & it will be his 87th birthday on 24 January.
My favourite is Arthur, love him 😘
its a pitty you got to get old as i would welcome bamber back any day.
I wonder if this was the only time when the BBC actually made an episode of University Challenge, as when the programme returned in 1994 on BBC2 it was made by Granada for the BBC.
It was such a pity that Banber didn't return with the series. He's far superior to Paxo
I could be wrong but I think Bamber devised all the questions on the original run of University Challenge.
What a walk down memory lane that was. TV was so much more intelligent then than now, the dumbing down of society should be a concern
University Challenge is still on tv. BBC 1 8pm, Mondays.
+Dealgaboy actually I sometimes think this, but then my faith in humankind gets restored when I watch 2015 university challenge and see there are still bright young people today!
+Blackadder75 Yes, agreed. I mean, to think that we used to have Opportunity Knocks!
I'd completely forgotten UC was originally on ITV Sunday afternoons : )
Michael de Angelis R.I.P does the voiceover introduction. He was great in Boys From The Black Stuff
Good night, Bamber.
8:43 - my geography teacher .... omfg 'Richard arthur, from Roxdale, reading geography' well this is awkward.....
Bamber, ill have to hurry you. Paxman Come On!
God old Bamber.
All the contestants are brilliant and I would never dare claim the opposite, but (speaking as a German) them not knowing Astrid Lindgren absolutely baffled me
Answer for what does E stand for. Brilliant. You have to watch the whole thing to enjoy it.
I seem to recall that when this was on ITV back in the day it was on on Sundays around 1 or 1.30pm. Least it was on Tyne Tees. Or was that when it was repeated(if indeed it was repeated)?
Once only I knew the answer to a question that nobody knew. It was about hat designers.
Although of course after Bamber and Jeremy came Amol Rajan who is well different anyway too?!
With the original UC you had vocal student audiences.
Bring back Bamber, I can't stand the other one. University Challenge is now so serious, you forget they are students
The captain of Keble looks like a night club bouncer😁 but he's studying mathematics so he must be quite a clever night club bouncer.
Asking the questions Bam Bagascoine
RIP Bamber Gascoigne
I had no idea UC started on Granada.
21.49mins.....Cheeky Bastbamberdiousness! Love The Bam! x
To be honest, I thought "E's" were for raves? Woop! x
I never ever once thought, ever, that University Challenge was made for the upper classes... 🤣
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Bamber Gascoigne is a lovely man but sort of bumbling and overly gentle. I can see why whatshisname from League of Gentlemen played him.
Paxman is tough but he lends a sense of jeopardy to the game