Hey everyone! Hope you enjoy this one. Although there were only 22 episodes of The Adventure Game, I'm sure you'll agree it's an absolute classic, and I hope you enjoy this video. Let me know your memories of this show in the comments below. Thank you once again for your incredible support - it really means a lot. See you again soon!
Great vid. :) Have you considered looking at "Now Get Out Of That" (1981-84)? It was aimed at a slightly older audience, but contained puzzle solving sections. In addition the show was played out mostly in the great outdoors, had opposing teams and some survival elements. Definitely worth checking out.
This was my introduction to Ian Messiter (I wasn't born early enough to catch the first run but did watch later... early 2000s, perhaps... when it was shown on some satellite channel like Challenge or equivalent). I was unaware of who he was until, much later, I started listening to Just A Minute and Nicholas Parsons would always say at the end of each show that it was "devised by Ian Messiter". For a while, that name would bug me until it all clicked into place and I made the connection to the human form of the Rangdo from the first series! (On going back through JAM's archives, I also discovered that he would be sitting next to Nicholas for each show and he was the one providing the topics to speak on and also blowing the whistle after a minute was up.) But yeah... The Adventure Game is something I like to watch every few years and experience all over again (I bought the DVD set, obviously). Another great moment for me was when, in one episode, Gandor gave such a clear explanation of how to work out the value of the Drogna, which up until then had been slightly baffling. When he came very close to explaining it really clearly and explicitly and I worked it for myself from the clues he gave, it was the closest I've come to having an epiphany! Oh, and edit to add: I have a version of those sweatshirts with the Galactic Archaelogy Team logo, as shown in three of the seasons, and I often wear it out and about. I haven't had anyone notice it and make any TAG references from it yet, though, but I live in hope!
I loved The Vortex game at the end, but didn't have a clue what the other games were about, but I was 6 when this thing started. And that triangular wall panelling at 4:46 was used an awful lot in the sets on Doctor Who 😂
Absolutely superb show, featuring loads of my favourite presenters and celebs from back in the day. I was 6 when it started and 12 when it finished, and I always enjoyed watching it. I'm guessing it was pitched at families - am I right in thinking it had an early evening slot on BBC2? To show how much of a cultural impact it had, i went on a school trip to the Roman baths in Bath, and in one room there was a large plant in a vase on a stone column. Every single one of us bowed and said "Gronda gronda!" as we walked past it! 😂
Bloody hell, I'd forgotten all about this! I remember the coloured shapes and the vortex but most of the rest had escaped me. Shows like this and Knightmare (probably my favourite after The Crystal Maze) were so good. Anyone else lament the loss of playing a game just for the sheer joy of it, or for low value prizes like a "I cracked the Crystal Maze" crystal? Now it's all win a million quid on vapid and uninteresting American imports. Or something with those prats Ant and Dec on a seeming unending loop. We need good gameshows like this back again! Imagine how amazing Knightmare would be with today's CGI! Anyway, thanks for gogging my aging memory about this show, I'll have to try and find it!
Absolutely yea, we need more gameshows like this back. I think that's why I loved the Gladiators reboot on the BBC. There wasn't a crazy amount of money on offer to the series winner. It was about hard work, determination, and just having fun! Thanks for checking out the video :)
Wow! I'd completely forgotten about this show, I remember watching this as a kid with my mum. She hated me watching mindless crap but this got approval as it wasn't just "junk TV", it taught logical thinking skills. The visual effects were cheesy and the show's budget was obviously quite small but it linked nicely to the Hitchiker's Guide TV show as some of the sci-fi sets and scenes were obviously made by the same BBC set design teams. As a kid I really wanted some of those Drogna currency, they looked so cool! ha ha!! Back when i was a kid in the 1970s and early 1980s we had kid's shows like this, they didn't insult us and patronise us. We had presenters like Johnny Ball, Fred Harris and John Craven who would talk to us like we were young adults, they'd slightly tone down adult material to make it suitable for kids but then teach us all these amazing things about science, maths and the world around us. I compare that to the crap I had to fight off with my own kids some times, mindless US drivel that was simply trying to sell merchandise. The BBC only had one sales pitch to kids in the 70s and 80s, sell us knowledge and it's the reason so many in my generation got well paid careers in science and technology. As I watched this restrospective I started calling out the names of the personalities I saw as they were often quite well known on British TV, people like Richard Stillgo a satrist, Fred Harris a very well known kids presetner and the amazing James Burke who was a childhood hero of mine. James Burke wasn't a scientist he was awriter but he'd often do the more odd side of science and physics presentations, trying to explain things like quantum theory to a TV audience in 1980s, and I had a couple of his books as a kid.
This it the program I've been waiting for you to cover (without knowing it). My only minor complaint is that Richard Stilgoe, who looms large in my memory of 80s TV, didn't get a name check 😂 Great Video!
Your recent coverage of You Bet! reminded me of The Moment of Truth with Cilla Black. Not a show I look back on with great fondness, but still it's a suggestion at least.
Wild, first time I've ever heard or seen this show. I guess in those years though, it wouldnt have been seen in USA unless imported like Monty Python , Doctor Who, Fawlty Towers and Are You Being served? as our local PBS bought different British series and played them but there was another cable channel or two that also ran other Brit TV shows. My grandmother liked Fawlty Towers.
It was years before I found out Twister wasn't a way of playing the vortex game at home.. that was all we ever used a twister mat for when I was a kid lol
@offcialbackintheday They had a BBC computer in my primary school as well when I was a pupil during the mid-ish nineties too! Though by the time I'd left in the late nineties, I believed they had replaced them with a more (non-bbc) modern one.
Which programme had a game similar to vortex, but with a sinister character dressed in black who tried to capture the contestant? I just can't place it.
Id love to rewatch this but its soo hard to track down a way to watch it. some of the ep's was on youtube at one point but they got deleated and its not even on the internet archive.
The Vortex game… there was a kids game show in the 90s that had something similar. Can’t remember the name of it, but their maze was made up of light up squares and they had a black knight or something making moves against the kids as they tried to cross and it would envelope them in its cloak if it caught them. I think the knight was blind or could only see where the kids had been not where they were.
I was too young for this show, but it's clearly a precursor to The Crystal Maze. In fact, in one scene of this documentary, isn't there a crystal on a chair? I might have been imagining it. Great documentary though. Is there any chance you could make one on Big Break or Noel's House Party? Those were two good gameshows that I remember growing up. It was nice to see Moira Stewart as anything other than a BBC News reader. Keep up the great work!
Yea I thought those crystals looked quite similar to the ones in the crystal maze! I did a little short on big break recently. Definitely going to be doing a full video on it in the future. Stay tuned!
@@officialbackintheday Awesome, yes, I saw the short, that's why I wondered if you'd do a full documentary on it. Thank you for taking the time to reply!
This rings a bell but I must have seen shows talking about it rather than the show itself. I'm a sad old git, but I'm not that old of a sad git. Yet . . .
So the code was .... the number of sides of the shape x the number of the colour in the spectrum My memory is that basically nobody ever worked it out.
Does anyone have / know where to find a copy of the missing Series 2, Episode 4 which was originally uploaded to UA-cam in 2020? I’ve searched high and low but can’t find it anywhere! 😭
Nothing like it before or since. Sure Crystal Maze owes a massive debt to it, but for sheer “wtf were the production crew smoking when they made it?” This show wins hands down. 🤣 I absolutely loved this show. Saw it first time round.
Does anybody remember this 90s show where a guy in a hood walked towards people, and if he caught them, they would fall down a hole? Someone told me it's 80s shows Nightmare or Atmosfear but I'm not sure? I have no other information. 😂
Hey everyone! Hope you enjoy this one. Although there were only 22 episodes of The Adventure Game, I'm sure you'll agree it's an absolute classic, and I hope you enjoy this video. Let me know your memories of this show in the comments below. Thank you once again for your incredible support - it really means a lot. See you again soon!
Great vid. :)
Have you considered looking at "Now Get Out Of That" (1981-84)? It was aimed at a slightly older audience, but contained puzzle solving sections. In addition the show was played out mostly in the great outdoors, had opposing teams and some survival elements. Definitely worth checking out.
Bloody loved this as a child. Still make references to it to this day - but nobody else seemed to remember it!! 😀
This was my introduction to Ian Messiter (I wasn't born early enough to catch the first run but did watch later... early 2000s, perhaps... when it was shown on some satellite channel like Challenge or equivalent). I was unaware of who he was until, much later, I started listening to Just A Minute and Nicholas Parsons would always say at the end of each show that it was "devised by Ian Messiter". For a while, that name would bug me until it all clicked into place and I made the connection to the human form of the Rangdo from the first series! (On going back through JAM's archives, I also discovered that he would be sitting next to Nicholas for each show and he was the one providing the topics to speak on and also blowing the whistle after a minute was up.)
But yeah... The Adventure Game is something I like to watch every few years and experience all over again (I bought the DVD set, obviously).
Another great moment for me was when, in one episode, Gandor gave such a clear explanation of how to work out the value of the Drogna, which up until then had been slightly baffling. When he came very close to explaining it really clearly and explicitly and I worked it for myself from the clues he gave, it was the closest I've come to having an epiphany!
Oh, and edit to add: I have a version of those sweatshirts with the Galactic Archaelogy Team logo, as shown in three of the seasons, and I often wear it out and about. I haven't had anyone notice it and make any TAG references from it yet, though, but I live in hope!
Wow that's awesome. Thanks for sharing your memories of the show. :)
Doogy rev! I absolutely loved this programme.
Loofy llis!
Absolutely fabulous show - loved it.
I loved this show. Watching it now reminds me of an early days escape room.
I loved The Vortex game at the end, but didn't have a clue what the other games were about, but I was 6 when this thing started. And that triangular wall panelling at 4:46 was used an awful lot in the sets on Doctor Who 😂
I'd like to see the story of Incredible Games
I loved this when I was younger.
Absolutely superb show, featuring loads of my favourite presenters and celebs from back in the day. I was 6 when it started and 12 when it finished, and I always enjoyed watching it. I'm guessing it was pitched at families - am I right in thinking it had an early evening slot on BBC2?
To show how much of a cultural impact it had, i went on a school trip to the Roman baths in Bath, and in one room there was a large plant in a vase on a stone column. Every single one of us bowed and said "Gronda gronda!" as we walked past it! 😂
Ah great memories as a kid of the late 70s and 80s. This, Rentaghost and Monkey were my tv childhood favs 😍
Gronda gronda, sir! :)
Gronda Gronda!
Bloody hell, I'd forgotten all about this! I remember the coloured shapes and the vortex but most of the rest had escaped me. Shows like this and Knightmare (probably my favourite after The Crystal Maze) were so good.
Anyone else lament the loss of playing a game just for the sheer joy of it, or for low value prizes like a "I cracked the Crystal Maze" crystal? Now it's all win a million quid on vapid and uninteresting American imports. Or something with those prats Ant and Dec on a seeming unending loop. We need good gameshows like this back again! Imagine how amazing Knightmare would be with today's CGI!
Anyway, thanks for gogging my aging memory about this show, I'll have to try and find it!
Absolutely yea, we need more gameshows like this back. I think that's why I loved the Gladiators reboot on the BBC. There wasn't a crazy amount of money on offer to the series winner. It was about hard work, determination, and just having fun! Thanks for checking out the video :)
I wish I had access to the Granada Reports archive. I was on it on TV in 1997.
Gronda Gronda! Doogy Rev weiver!
Great show with great insanely difficult puzzles at times.
Thank you. This was great.
Would love to see you cover these two shows from around that era.
• The great egg race
• Now get out of that!
Thanks for checking out the video and thanks for the suggestions. Will get them on the list :)
Since the dvd has come out i believe the last two missing episodes have been found.
Hope someone releases an updated dvd.
Got this for Xmas a while back.
I remember watching this !
This video unlocked a memory I had seemingly locked away for years, that I watched this show once at least. Wild how much it brought back, great vid
Thanks so much. Glad you have brought back some good memories!
Wow T-Bag was a contestant on this show!!
I loved this show! Thanks for this video. I still have them on dvd. This show inspired me to get into game development all those years ago. ❤
Wow! I'd completely forgotten about this show, I remember watching this as a kid with my mum. She hated me watching mindless crap but this got approval as it wasn't just "junk TV", it taught logical thinking skills. The visual effects were cheesy and the show's budget was obviously quite small but it linked nicely to the Hitchiker's Guide TV show as some of the sci-fi sets and scenes were obviously made by the same BBC set design teams. As a kid I really wanted some of those Drogna currency, they looked so cool! ha ha!!
Back when i was a kid in the 1970s and early 1980s we had kid's shows like this, they didn't insult us and patronise us. We had presenters like Johnny Ball, Fred Harris and John Craven who would talk to us like we were young adults, they'd slightly tone down adult material to make it suitable for kids but then teach us all these amazing things about science, maths and the world around us. I compare that to the crap I had to fight off with my own kids some times, mindless US drivel that was simply trying to sell merchandise. The BBC only had one sales pitch to kids in the 70s and 80s, sell us knowledge and it's the reason so many in my generation got well paid careers in science and technology.
As I watched this restrospective I started calling out the names of the personalities I saw as they were often quite well known on British TV, people like Richard Stillgo a satrist, Fred Harris a very well known kids presetner and the amazing James Burke who was a childhood hero of mine. James Burke wasn't a scientist he was awriter but he'd often do the more odd side of science and physics presentations, trying to explain things like quantum theory to a TV audience in 1980s, and I had a couple of his books as a kid.
This it the program I've been waiting for you to cover (without knowing it). My only minor complaint is that Richard Stilgoe, who looms large in my memory of 80s TV, didn't get a name check 😂 Great Video!
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed! :)
This was a great show, loved it
Your recent coverage of You Bet! reminded me of The Moment of Truth with Cilla Black. Not a show I look back on with great fondness, but still it's a suggestion at least.
Wild, first time I've ever heard or seen this show. I guess in those years though, it wouldnt have been seen in USA unless imported like Monty Python , Doctor Who, Fawlty Towers and Are You Being served?
as our local PBS bought different British series and played them but there was another cable channel or two that also ran other Brit TV shows. My grandmother liked Fawlty Towers.
Great video. I remember watching this as a child and always knew it was off beat but fun. Have you covered Dempsey and Make piece?
Not yet, but good suggestion! Thanks :)
The vortex still haunts me.
I thought it was real!
It was years before I found out Twister wasn't a way of playing the vortex game at home.. that was all we ever used a twister mat for when I was a kid lol
Thanks for this!
I recall seeing this a few times but I could never remember what it was called~
Nice to remember it's name and learn more about it ^^
Doogy rev loved this show growing up i cant remember anybody winning this game completely thanks for posting
Thanks for watching!
With the current love of celebrity game shows and escape rooms, I think this is a show begging for a revival.
The Adventure Game was pre Knightmare. Pre Crystal Maze and pre Scavengers.
@offcialbackintheday They had a BBC computer in my primary school as well when I was a pupil during the mid-ish nineties too! Though by the time I'd left in the late nineties, I believed they had replaced them with a more (non-bbc) modern one.
Those computers seemed to be everywhere at the time!
@@officialbackintheday as a pupil at the time I played some floppy disc games on it as did my classmates 😃
Which programme had a game similar to vortex, but with a sinister character dressed in black who tried to capture the contestant? I just can't place it.
Maybe "Knightmare"
Incredible Games
@@Zomerset That's it! The Dark Knight in Incredible Games. Thank you. Goodness, I hadn't thought about that for decades.
Id love to rewatch this but its soo hard to track down a way to watch it. some of the ep's was on youtube at one point but they got deleated and its not even on the internet archive.
There's actually a DVD you can purchase with all of the surviving episodes on it!
Two teams competing to solve puzzles is what they did in "Now Get Out of That"
The Vortex game… there was a kids game show in the 90s that had something similar. Can’t remember the name of it, but their maze was made up of light up squares and they had a black knight or something making moves against the kids as they tried to cross and it would envelope them in its cloak if it caught them. I think the knight was blind or could only see where the kids had been not where they were.
Knightmare.
@@T4TipsGuides I’m pretty familiar with Knightmare and I’m sure it wasn’t that. I remember this having a more sci-fi theme to it rather than medieval.
@@T4TipsGuides I think this is it; en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredible_Games
Yes, it was Incredible Games. If I remember correctly, the dark knight said “move” in a deep gravel voice, when it was the contestant’s turn
@mb2000 Not heard of that one. I'd stopped watching kids TV by then due to age, probably why I don't remember it. Sounds like a good show.
Fifteen year old me had a massive crush on Charmian Gradwell.
You're not alone!
(And I'm not into women normally, preferring my partners to be male.)
Her teeth were gorgeous 😍
@@ricperry8743You were looking at her teeth?!?
@@leeosborne3793 Lol. Everything I could, tbf.
One of my favourite shows as a young-un.
Can you imagine modern day “celebrities” on this show? They wouldn’t stand a chance.
I was too young for this show, but it's clearly a precursor to The Crystal Maze. In fact, in one scene of this documentary, isn't there a crystal on a chair? I might have been imagining it. Great documentary though. Is there any chance you could make one on Big Break or Noel's House Party? Those were two good gameshows that I remember growing up. It was nice to see Moira Stewart as anything other than a BBC News reader. Keep up the great work!
Yea I thought those crystals looked quite similar to the ones in the crystal maze! I did a little short on big break recently. Definitely going to be doing a full video on it in the future. Stay tuned!
@@officialbackintheday Awesome, yes, I saw the short, that's why I wondered if you'd do a full documentary on it.
Thank you for taking the time to reply!
Got the DVD release they did of it somewhere
That "orange snake" is straight out of Vision On.
Obscure one, but I'd love to see you do one on the CBBC gameshow Sub Zero.
This rings a bell but I must have seen shows talking about it rather than the show itself. I'm a sad old git, but I'm not that old of a sad git. Yet . . .
The Crystal in this Show, seems to be the Crystals in the Crystal Maze…. A new head-canon.
The original escape room!
So the code was .... the number of sides of the shape x the number of the colour in the spectrum
My memory is that basically nobody ever worked it out.
I remember the guy who spoke backwards being on other shows as himself. Doing the speak backwards thing as a gimmick
Does anyone have / know where to find a copy of the missing Series 2, Episode 4 which was originally uploaded to UA-cam in 2020? I’ve searched high and low but can’t find it anywhere! 😭
Is it just me? Kids TV was better in the 80s! I so remember this show! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
90s is my favourite decade for kids TV, but the 80s were also incredible!
2:03 - Kazuuma Kiryu cosplay
Nothing like it before or since. Sure Crystal Maze owes a massive debt to it, but for sheer “wtf were the production crew smoking when they made it?” This show wins hands down. 🤣
I absolutely loved this show. Saw it first time round.
I loved this and think i downloaded this from wayback machine
Back in a time when television could be both smart and fun.
Well said!
Great British tv 😊
It's almost similar to the Crystal Maze.
Moira Stewart is bloody gorgeous!
now you pay good money for escape rooms
I still Gronda gronda at cheese plants today.
Ganord was probably my first crush. She was just so hot in a “I have no idea I’m hot” way 😎
og escape room
8:50 SUS SUS SUS IMPOSTOR
Does anybody remember this 90s show where a guy in a hood walked towards people, and if he caught them, they would fall down a hole? Someone told me it's 80s shows Nightmare or Atmosfear but I'm not sure? I have no other information. 😂
Do Incredible Games. For years i described a guy in black after people and stepping forward, etc. People said Knightmare but it wasnt.
Sarah Greene........
Pretty gutted to realise The Cryastal Maze was a bit of a rip-off of this.