The reason Crystal Maze is so popular is because the original presenter was the same Richard O’Brian that wrote The Rocky Horror Picture Show and starred in it beside Tim Curry. The show was rebooted and there is an actual place where people can go to experience the Crystal Maze challenges
The Crystal Maze was absolutely amazing! It has been updated with other presenters, but the original with Richard O'Brian is the best. I'm sure they could show re-runs of it and it would be popular all over again with today's younger generation as well as us oldies 😄
The Krypton Factor was truly hardcore. You had to complete the army obstacle course, so you needed good physical ability, but you also needed great general knowledge, to be able to land a plane in a simulator, to observe differences and so much more. Truly had to have skills in every area
British 'Deal or No Deal' is different to US version, where I believe the boxes are carried on by glamourous models. Here they just sit in front of the contestants the whole time. It started here the same year as in the US but was originally a Dutch Format. One of my favourite Mastermind moments ever was a guy who chose to answer on some aspect of Japanese history, and managed to correct the pronunciation of the host on each question, and still get more points than anyone else on that round! (which is strictly timed) You can claim American Gladiators- it started about 3 years before ours. 'Millionnaire' on the other hand was ours!
If you think Mastermind was difficult with obscure questions? One they missed which has been going since 1962 is 'University Challenge'. Two teams of University Students, representing their University or University College, being asked British University level specialist questions. Most viewers would be content in being able to answer somewhere near 20% of the questions? Some of the older shows from the sixties through to the nineties are worth looking at, due to some of the contestants now being famous comedians, writers, politicians etc..........
Ask them a question about classical music and they've no idea whatsoever.They've even stopped asking them about this subject.Talk about missing out on one of the peaks of Western civilization and talk about dumbing down.😡
The Crystal Maze was one of my favourite shows as a kid. My sister and I would watch with our mum just before bed. Super chaotic, with an irreplaceable presenter and great atmosphere. Always wanted to try it out.
If you're intrigued by Countdown, there's a popular variation known as 8 out of 10 cats does Countdown. It originally started as a one-off mash up show where the hosts and contenders of the satirical show 8 out of 10 cats did an episode of Countdown. It proved a huge success that it became a regular thing. Deal or No Deal, unfortunately, isn't British in origin. It first aired in the Netherlands in 2000 and was adopted by the UK in October 2005 and the USA in December 2005. American Gladiators was the first in the format introduced in 1989. It arrived in the UK in 1992. It was rebooted in both the UK and the USA in 2009 but, as you said, they weren't as popular as the original run.
@@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey 8 our of 10 cats is made to be funny. It's all the classic rounds of normal countdown except it's entertaining, full of humour and the cast can be themselves instead of being bored out of their minds, at least that's how I see it anyway.
The Crystal Maze was so popular there are now 2 Crystal Maze experiences where you can go and have a go at some of the games. I went with my office to the one in Manchester it was brilliant
Blankety Blank was a popular TV game show in the UK. I'm surprised it's not included. I believe it was based on a US TV show, where celebrities guessed words that would fill in the blanks of a sentence. It was hosted over the years by three different hosts. Terry Wogan, Les Dawson and drag queen Lily Savage, more commonly known as Paul O'Grady. All of those hosts are no longer alive. Paul O'Grady passed away early this week aged 67.
The game show Catch Phrase is a game that was created in the United States of America. The show was on American televisions from 1985-1986 before it was picked up by the UK and eventually by Australia.
the narrator said that The Crystal Maze is the ultimate British game show, and as much as I love the show and always wanted to be on it as a kid, it really falls second place to... and I IMPLORE you to check this out... KNIGHTMARE A kid was put in a massive sight-blocking helmet, and was guided around chroma-keyed dungeons and dragons inspired environments by four friends, whilst being aided, hindered, or guided by a kinda gamesmaster called Treguard, whose participation really depended on what mood he was in. It really is quite possibly the best game show ever conceived, and nothing like it has ever come before or since. Die I mention your REALLY should go check it out? Else i'll call the goblins on you...
Tyler, a little bit of trivia for you is that Countdown was the first show to be broadcast on Channel 4 when that channel started on 2nd November 1982 and it's still going strong today over 40 years later.
I'm lucky enough to have grown up with British gladiator Cobra (mick) and his younger siblings as they lived a few doors from me growing up. I grew up watching all of these programs lots of them being my favorites.
I remember it was totally dominated by a family called the Pains or something for a whole series and the two daughters were absolutely stunning and made it worth watching just for them!
The Crystal Maze is awesome and was a favourite of our family in the 90s. They released a couple of series more recently too. My kids loved it. It can be so stressful to watch at times!
Some of this has probably been mentioned already but here goes: 2:51 Deal or No Deal originated in Holland. But yes the British version came after the US version. 4:13 Closest thing on this side of the Atlantic was a sports themed quizzer on ESPN called 2-minute drill. 5:37 Gladiators originated in the US, several countries have adaptated it. 7:51 There was a pilot for a US version for Game Show Network but it didn't get picked up. 10:15 Millionaire originated in the Uk, producer Micheal Davies was trying unsuccessfully to get a reboot going of the $64,000 question in the US, after seeing millionaire in the uk, he told his business partners "I know what we're doing wrong!" He bought the US rights and....history.
11:17 Catch Phrase actually originated in the US in 85 (I think) but it never took off here only lasted a year, BIG hit in the uk. 12:47 The Krypton factor was attempted twice in the US, didnt do well. 14:01 Piloted for the US in 1990 but never got on the air, originated in France as "Des Chiffres et Des Letters " (numbers and letters) where it's still a highly rated show since 1972. There was also a version in Australia that ran a year. 16:06 Crystal Maze did get adapted for the US it got a 10 episode run on Nickelodeon and had families playing. There was a one-off with a similar format aired in the US as well called Conquer Fort Boyard,
They had a kids version of The Crystal Maze for the Christmas special. A few of my friends at school planned to go on together even wrote our parents permission slips (we were around 8/10) not knowing at the time it was a random bunch of people put together. It was always my favourite show, had the boardgame and signed up at the chance to bring it back. First as an immersive experience, then they brought it back on screen but something was missing. Richard O Brien was the ultimate presenter with the humerus quips, and loads of clueless contestants who got locked in standing on the spot. It was amazing to watch. I believe R.O.B influenced my sarcasm and the CM my love for escape rooms. All that's missing is getting a Crystal ( I got one saying "I built the Crystal Maze"), and to experience being in the dome, and hear the phrase.. "Will you start the fans please". You may be able to find an episode or two on UA-cam to watch. If you do check out each host but Richard O Brien is legend status.
You can find full episodes of many of these shows on UA-cam. Would love to see you react to some of them. A new one I really like is called I Literally Just Told You. As others mentioned, watch 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. It’s a comedic mash up of a panel show, 8 out of 10 Cats, and the game show Countdown. The US has also done spin-offs of The Weakest Link, The Chase, and just last year, a version of that Generation game called Generation Gap, hosted by Kelly Ripa and features her dad. The UK does have Family Feud but it’s called Family Fortunes. One of the few shows they borrowed from the US.
Master Mind is an intelligent quiz contest. There are four contestants in each show who have to answer questions firstly on their specialised subject and then a tough general knowledge round. The winner then goes into the next knockout round until that years champion is decided. The specialised subject can be almost anything within reason, but tend to be fairly intellectual e.g. a certain period of history such as the Napoleonic wars, the books of a classic author, or life of a famous historical figure, etc. However you could choose your favourite film franchise or TV series, etc. The winner of each show has to choose a new specialised subject in the next round. The Krypton Factor had a similar knock out format, but you were tested on a variety of things: Your fitness on an assault course, a general knowledge round, a puzzle round, etc. You'd get points for how you placed 1st-4th.
CONGRATULATIONS! You have won tonights Star Prize! Family Feuds is a US show from 1976 and is actually one the UK copied in 1980 and renamed Family Fortunes
Deal or no deal originally came from mainland Europe. My husband and I watched it in Paris, years before it came to the UK. Didn’t understand the concept, at all! Then when we got it in the UK, we were hooked! I remember hearing that when Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was run past the commissioning boss, they had the people in the office as the ‘audience’, for one of the three lives of the contestant, and specific people as the ‘friend’. Family Feud comes from our Family Fortunes.
Crystal Maze was/is the epitome of brilliant game shows. When I moved to Australia from England in the 80s, my Mum would record it on VCR and send me the cassettes in the mail!
I longed to do The Crystal Maze ... but was too chicken to apply. I just know on my challenge - I would have failed and been locked in the room. My friends would never have let me forget it if that had happened !!!😅
Well done on the SARCASM buddy ! Deal or No Deal was invented by ENDEMOL UK and sold to 45 countries. First shown in the UK in 2005. On Mastermind you choose your own specialist subject followed by a General Knowledge round. The highest score wins. Millionaire is a British game show. Started in 1998 and still runs today. Countdown has a hilarious spin off called 8 OUT OF 10 CATS DOES COUNTDOWN. A mix of 2 different shows. Hosted by Jimmy Carr and has different comedians on 2 panels solving numbers and words rounds.
Endemol UK was founded by Sir Peter Bazalgette who brought Big Brother to the UK and he was the great great grandson of Sir Joseph Bazalgette who was responsible for creating the London sewage system in the 19th century and the irony is while Joseph Bazalgette pumped sh!t out of London Peter Bazalgette pumped it back in!
Deal or No Deal is a British game show, hosted by Noel Edmonds, which aired from 31 October 2005 to 23 December 2016 on Channel 4.(pretty much started same time as US).
I think our love of TV game shows comes from our love of family party games at Christmas get-togethers. People from a certain generation just love to have fun in an old-fashioned kind of way.
How on EARTH did Mojo have the brass neck to omit The Chase, Only Connect and University Challenge, AND totally snub game show god, Bradley Walsh? How DID Bradley's legendary 'Fanny Chmelar Moment' not get in to this compilation?
Oh, boy. The Generation Game was a staple in my Kiwi household. Bruce Forsythe was a living legend even back then. So many awesome little catchphrases. And the way with words he had. Along with the connection to pretty much every contestant. Was a joy to watch. I can vaguely recall the theme.
🎵life....Is the name of the game And I wanna play the game with you Life...can be terribly tame If you don't play the game with 2 And I wanna play the game with you🎵
I enjoyed your enthusiasm to the UK game shows, I grew up with watching most of the shows. If you can react to UK game shows, that would be fantastic 🙂
"Treasure Hunt" was one of the greatest British 'game shows' in my opinion. It deserved a mention in my opinion and I kind of wish they'd bring it back. You should look it up, not only is it a great game show but it is a great way to see Britain ... 1980's Britain anyway. The other classic "hunt" of UK game shows has to be "Bargain Hunt" ... you just can't get more British that that, lol. Perfect daytime telly.
@@miaschu8175anneka and Annabel who replaced her on treasure hunt have both been on strictly. Anneka danced in 2019 with Kevin Clifton. Annabel was 2023 with Johannes Radebe
I can easily come up with another 10, and that being said, I'm not particularly old to remember them so I'm sure the older generations could add some more classics. I know some of these had American versions, not sure which came first but these feel very British even if they're not. Things like: The chase Family fortunes Tipping point Weakest link The price is right Play your cards right Bullseye Fun house Supermarket sweep Eggheads
I used to enjoy Treasure Hunt. A couple in the studio had a large scale map of an area, and a small library of text books that could help them decypher clues to the location of the next clue. They then had to guide a fit young Anneka Rice in a yellow jumpsuit with a camera crew and a helicopter to find the next clue on the ground. There was a fair bit of running and climbing over fences, with lots of views of Anneka's rear end. If they found all the clues in the alloted time, they found and won the treasure.
A lot of TV shows around the world have been off shoots of British game shows and TV series. A lot of other countries don't know about. We only had 4channels for years and years so the content had to be good. Because of this fact I think that's why we had the best of the best with the writers etc. We're still very proud though of our exported shows. It's a shame other countries believe such shows are originally theirs though. I need to do research myself to see which shows actually originated from other places aswell.
We had Deal or No Deal, maybe 30 years ago! Mastermind fantastic, but stressful too! Gladiators, great characters - Australians loved it! I still watch Pointless most days! Who wants be a Millionaire, probably from Australia or England! Catch Phrase probably not in Australia! Countdown was a music show in Australia, now it's about English and Maths, yes like school! Crystal Maze? Yes, physical challenges are more fun, like Australian Ninja, Holey Moley, Challenge, SAS Australia, Survivor! They didn't mention The Chase? We also have It's Academic, QI, Lego Masters, The Hundred, The Wall, Would I lie to you? Have you been paying attention? It's great to challenge yourself and have a laugh! 😃
Gladiators was originally started in the US but moved into about a dozen different countries, but even the American Gladiators team admitted that UK Gladiators was the best. Probably the reason why both International series were in the UK. If you want to watch. All of the domestic series, the international series and the Ashes series are all on UA-cam.
The Crystal Maze was a great concept. 4 unique zones to play games in - Aztec, Industrial (later Ocean), Medieval and Futuristic. Each zones games were tailored to the style of the zone. Each zone had a unique way of getting in. 4 categories of task - Physical, Mental, Mystery and Skill. The challenges lasted between about 90 seconds and 3 minutes to gain a crystal. If you took too long to get out, you were "locked in" and could only be released by being bought out at the cost of 1 crystal. The end was the Crystal Dome (as seen in the video) which the contestants enter and then wind machines under the floor blew gold and silver slips into the air. The object was to catch as many gold (positive points) and as few silver (negative points) as possible in the time you have, determined by the number of crystals you won (5 seconds per crystal), and put them in the collection point. Win enough gold to win the grand prizes.
My favourite show is Richard Osman's House of Games (lots of episodes on UA-cam) which is a quiz with four contestants and five rounds every day for a week, every new week there are new contestants. They play for themselves or in pairs, depending on the round and you never know which of the many possible rounds comes up next. The last round is always the same, though, every day. The most points win every day (and the contestant gets a prize) and the most points per week is the week's winner then (and the winner gets a trophy). The questions can be knowing trivia, guessing things, the questions are very different in each round, sometimes even in a foreign language or in code! This is huge fun and because you can stop the video on UA-cam, easy to guess along as a viewer, even as a non-native viewer like me.
Before the video started the board from quiz show Blockbusters was shown. Noel Edmonds hosted Deal or No Deal in England, it is under a new host. Deal Or No Deal launched in Holland first. ITV in Britain came up with Who Wants To Be A Millonaire hosted by Chris Tarrant, Jeremy Clarkson Top Gear (has being cancelled by the BBC due to injury occurring to presenter Freddie Flintoff ex-Cricketer), The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm (the last two will not be renewed by amazon, good news), Clarkson was sacked as presenter of Who Wants To Be A Millonaire. Junior Krpton Factor’s assault course was at the american adventure theme park in Derbyshire, I saw it being filmed once.
There are episodes of, 'The Generation Game', available to view on UA-cam, from the 70's. It's an interesting glimpse into 70's culture, what with the clothing worn and the mannerisms of members of the public who played the games from the time. Bruce Forsythe was the consummate game show host with the right amount of humour at the expense of the contestants. 'The Crystal Maze', was quite innovative at the time and consisted of a team who had to solve physical puzzles inside a locked room that usually had a theme attached to it, in a certain amount of time. If they managed to solve the puzzle they got the crystal, but more often than not they would choose to exit the room before the time expired, as if they ran out of time they would be locked in and to get them out would cost a crystal. The idea of the game was to get as many crystals as possible with as many team members remaining.
There's something quite satisfying about the simplicity of Countdown. You get 9 random letters and have to make the biggest word possible. You get 5 numbers and have to use basic maths functions to get as close to a randomly generated 3-digit number as possible. There is some strategy to how you choose the letters or the numbers, but the actual games themselves are pretty straightforward.
Look for a whole episode on UA-cam for The Crystal Maze! Preferably with the original presenter Richard O"Brian because he's batshit crazy and British eccentricity at it's finest! BTW Richard is the lead actor AND creator of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, so yeah, his brain is about as random as it gets! 😂 The Crystal Maze has four destinations, four separate "themed sets" and they spend just under a quarter of the whole show (one hour total show) in each area. The team is made up of individual public applicants, they don't know each other, so may gel seamlessly, or may not like each other much...but the point is to work as a team. In each of the four zones, are individual rooms with puzzles inside, a mixture of physical tasks, mental tasks, agility etc.... Richard will pick a room, and the team chooses which of them would be best for that particular puzzle. They have a set time to complete it, usually around 2 minutes. The rest of the team can yell out directions, or answers etc...which is sometimes appreciated or sometimes bitterly resented, depending on personalities clashing! 🤣 Each completed puzzle wins a crystal, about the size of a tennis ball, each of those crystals is worth ten seconds. If someone fails to complete a puzzle and doesn't make it back out the door before the time runs out, they get locked into their room. It's up to the team captain, as to whether to buy that person out of their room in exchange for one crystal, or go on and leave them behind. After all four zones are completed, the crystals are added up, a typical average is around 6 crystals in total that they won - a few have won more, some haven't won any! 😂 Richard will first ask if they wish to buy back any locked up players from earlier, if any are still back there, and the captain has to think of what's more useful for the team's final challenge??? Does he want to keep all the crystals for time value or have more hands to help out? So if they have six crystals for example, 6 x 10 seconds = 1 minute. The team has one minute to enter the Crystal Dome. In the dome, huge electric fans are started, and gold and silver "tickets" are blown up all around them. They are like pieces of foil, around a banknote size. The minute countdown begins and the team have to frantically catch as many tickets as they can. The goal, to win, is to catch 100 gold tickets.....not silver! Silver tickets are DEDUCTED from the total of gold!!! That's why the captain has to think, what would be better, leave two people locked up and have 20 seconds more time or have two extra people to help but give up 20 seconds on the timer? If they win or lose, they are each awarded a souvenir crystal in a presentation box ANYWAY, but if they did get more than a 100 gold tickets they would win a prize. Prizes were usually a day's activity, canoeing white rapids or rock climbing up a mountain, with travel and lunch included for the whole team to enjoy. That sort of thing. The overall idea, is teamwork, with strangers who've never met before! There have also been celebrity teams who obviously do know each other, and the gold tickets they collect are worth money for a charity! It's my favourite game show ever! So imaginative, so random, so much fun, it reminded me of the film The Goonies in a way, but better! 😁😁😁
The krypton factor was a show to find Britains superperson, testing mental agility, response, observation, mental ability, physical ability, and general knowledge, Mental agility was solving math equations, response was varying tasks from but the most noticeable were using the airline flight simulators. Goal to land a 747 the best, judged by an airline pilot instructor. Observation was watching a clip of tv program and answering questions about what was shown. Mental ability was solving complex puzzles, and physical ability was running a military assault course in the fastest time. General knowledge was answering general knowledge questions.
According to Wikipedia's detailed description of the show, Deal or No Deal originated as 'Miljoenenjacht' in The Netherlands in November 2000, with premiers in the UK and US in October and December, respectively, 2005. In Mastermind, the specialist subject first round in followed by a general knowledge round; if an answer isn't known, the contestant (or 'contender' as they're known in this show) can guess, lose time struggling, or just say 'pass'. If there's a tie at the end, the winner's decided by the player with the fewer/fewest passes.
"The Crystal Maze" took over the Channel 4 TV slot of "The Adventure Game", where Anneka Rice (a seemingly ageless TV personality) flew around the UK in a helicopter to find clues, as two people in a TV studio tried to decipher them and direct her. It was filmed as if live in an hour (I'm sure it wasn't, but at least close). Channel 4 was new and innovative. I think it should have been on the list.
To properly understand current UK game shows you need to experience '8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown' (Sean Lock and Joe Wilkinson clips) and 'Would I Lie To You?' (Bob Mortimer and David Mitchell clips). The titles of the shows are frequently shortened to Cats Does Countdown and WILTY?, should you happen to search for them.
Great video as always. The crystal maze now has a place in Manchester where you can take part in the crystal maze games just for fun not TV. Would love to go some day, but my chronic Ill health sadly stops me travelling right now. I used to have a friend Called Greg Scott and he was the warm up man on countdown and the krypton factor.
Great twist to the Crystal maze, was that it was a team game were having a full team at the end (the crystal dome) meant you could do a lot better. But there were points in the episode, where teams could 'turn' on each other. That was the real (hidden) challenge imo. Each of the challenges leading up to the 'crystal dome', was set in a separate room with a timer, and only one team member was allowed in for each. The rest of the team could only look on and shout advice. If a person doing the challenge took too long, even if they got the crystal, they could get locked in the room meaning they wouldn't be present for the final challenge in the Dome. If that happened, then the rest of the team had to decide whether they left the person trapped, or traded their release by giving up a precious crystal. Each crystal they had at the end, would mean an extra 5second in the Dome (that's a lot). It was brutal to see teams leave their friends locked in. The whole shows just had loads of great dynamics, and the sets were excellent too. The only issue, with the show (imo), was that not enough new challenges were added over the cause of a season. I guess it was hard too think up new puzzles, then build an entire room for each to be set in. We had a local "crystal maze" next to a 'Laser Quest' near where I grew up. Must've gone through it a dozen times.
it's kinda funny that ideal or no deal was so popular in the us, since when i saw a comment on one of ours from an american, it said "this is a show from the uk? it will never catch on here" (while talking about how horrible it looked). it was a couple of months after that that the us version was revealed.
"Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" and "Britain's Got Talent" (thus 'America's Got Talent') are both UK shows sold around the world! "Deal or No Deal" is from The Netherlands... Just saying!
Crystal maze is/was amazing. You get locked in if you don't get out quick enough. The team have to buy you back with a crystal they have won. Many a team promise they will come back for team mates and buy them out. Then never do 😂.
Deal or No Deal is a British game show, hosted by Noel Edmonds, which aired from 31 October 2005 to 23 December 2016 on Channel 4, and is due to return with Stephen Mulhern in 2023 on ITV.
One very recent UK game show that I think is unique and engaging is The 1% Club. Rather than a typical trivia show, it's actually an IQ show, where you have to think outside the box, using logic and reason with the questions being asked and it's usually visual. Anyone of all ages can get involved with the questions and it gets harder and harder as the show progresses; the last question being that only 1% of the U.K. public got the answer right. It really gets the mind working.
Crystal maze is the show that started escape rooms because people always wanted to go on the show. I loved it so much. The whole show is you go into room and get locked in and you have to either correctly, guessed the puzzles or correctly, complete the obstacle if you was successful and did it in the timeframe, you got a crystal and could get out if you didn’t think you’d be locked in the room until they either used a crystal to buy you out or just leave him in there for the rest of the show The show has now made a massive one which is in Scotland, where the Public can pay to go in and try and complete the real thing
Surely The Adventure Game has a better claim to be the origin of escape rooms. A cheap bu absolutely brilliant show - ua-cam.com/video/rOuAzHjsiOg/v-deo.html
Bit surprised The Chase didn't make the count. I also used to love It's A Knockout back in the day, but of course I suppose that's tainted by Stuart Hall...
I volunteered on the revival series of The Crystal Maze a few years ago. Bit of an uber-nerd about it. Got a load of merch from the original show, done a lot of blogging about every possible detail I could think of, auditioned for the remake and ended up as a games tester.
I think you should do some themed episodes where you focus on some of these specific shows. The greatest hits of catchphrase, the crystal maze, etc… most of which here in the UK are still on television and haven’t been ended. Gladiators is also coming back to the UK later this year.
Mastermind is based on the situation of being interrogated in the army. The name, occupation & specialist subject being alike to name, rank & number. From that you also get the single black chair & spotlight. The theme music was given the name Approaching Menace. Since it started in 1972, it has only had a handful of presenters, the longest was the first, Magnus Magnassun. Back when it started the questions were asked fairly quickly & the highest ever score 40, 20 on the specialist subject & 20 on general knowledge. Nowadays it is rare for them to get into the 30s. You can ask for virtually any subject as your specialist, they do not pick it, you do. If you get through the 1st round, the next round has to be different, but you can go back to your original for the final. In Pointless, 100 unknowing members of the public are given 100 seconds to give all the possible correct answers in a category. You just glimpsed The SuperBowl as a category. The contestants would have to name any team that had appeared. The points given correspond with the number of the 100 that had given that answer. If it is wrong they get 100 points, if no one said it they get zero. The point being the the pair with the highest score goes out. You start with 4 pairs & you cannot confer. After 2 rounds you get the head to head when it is usually an answer from a choice of 5 things. In the final you are given a choice from 5 general categories, like European Football, Country Music in 80's, US Politics, from which you get a more specialised choice of 3: European Football might be name players from 3 particular teams from a particular tournament. You don't have to do all 3, you can pick just 1 team for all 3 answers. The jackpot starts at £2000 & goes up £250 everytime a pointless answer is given within a particular show & £1000 if it is not won by the winning pair giving at least 1 pointless answer in the final. Every winning pair does get a Pointless trophy each (a perspex thing about 6 inches high & 2 inches square, sometimes I think it has the right name as does the celebrity version where pairs of celebs play for charities of their choice as it is called Pointless Celebrities). Countdown is the longest running quiz show. It was the 1st thing on the then new Channel 4 & hasn't stopped. In the letters round you pick 9 unknown random letters that are split into vowels & consonants, you can have upto 4 vowels only & you get points for the number of letters used. If you have the longer word it is you that gets the points, if both contestants have the same length word you both get points. You get 18 points if you use all 9 letters. In the numbers round there are16 cards upside down on a grid, 4 x 4. The numbers 25, 50, 75 & 100 on the top row & the numbers 1 - 10 on 12 other cards. the contestants pick 6 random cards & have 30 seconds to get the random answer generated by the computer. They can have any number of the top row cards, all you know at the start of the round is what they are. In The Crystal Maze, the zones were things like Aztec, Futuristic, Medieval, Industrial, but that was just to cover the sets. Within each zone the contestants (6 at the start, I think) had physical, mental, (there were others, I forget now!!) types of puzzles to be completed within a set time usually between 1 & half and 3 minutes. Complete it & you get a crystal. Because some where difficult the contestant might not be able to finish, it which case they could just come out. If the failed under the time they were locked in & could only be gotten outby sacrificing a won crystal. At the end each crystal won gave 10 seconds in the Crystal Dome. In which the contestants had the allotted time to collect as many gold pieces of paper that were mixed with silver ones as they could. In the early series the contestants seemed to say what they wanted to win, things like holidays or experiences like hot air ballooning. If they got over a certain number of gold tokens they got their prizes.
Deal or No Deal seems to be Dutch "Deal or No Deal is the name of several closely related television game shows, the first of which (launching the format) was the Dutch Miljoenenjacht (Hunt/Chase for Millions)." Wikipeada. It seems that the USA had it several years before the UK.
there were also tons of children's games shows such as Trapped, Jungle Run, Raven. All complete classics and very nostalgic especially Raven. Not to mention Total Wipeout which was for adults but it was addicting to watch and everyone at home believed they could do it.
I think that "Deal or No Deal" started in the US, but "Gladiators" and "...Millionaire" started in the UK. IMO the best British game shows are the ones where celebrities are the contestants - "Would I Lie to You", "Taskmaster", and "8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown" (a comedy version of "Countdown") are great. As far as old-style game shows, I half expected "It's a Knockout", "University Challenge", and maybe even "The Golden Shot" in the list.
I beg to differ on the origins of “Gladiators”, James. I remember watching the American version on late night ITV whilst waiting for that night/morning’s music related program waaaaay before the British version ever showed up on Saturday nights in England
I loved "Catchphrase" and "Pointless", also "Impossible!" (not shown in this video). The concept for Deal or no deal actually comes from the Netherlands in a game they called "Miljoenjacht "or directly translated "Million chase" . Both UK and USA took the general idea I THINK around 2004/5 and produced two very different versions, USA with the suitcase girls, and UK with 22 contestants. "Gladiators" started in USA in 1989 and in 1991 UK started theirs. OY! Where is "The Chase"? Such a classic should never have been left off this list!! Who wants to be a millionaire = British 1998
The funny thing is Deal or no Deal is actually a Dutch show originally I believe, and Who Wants to be a Millionaire is a British show originally, but CatchPhrase was originally American but it was never as popular in the US as it became in the UK.
The Crystal Maze was like a series of mini escape rooms. Solve the puzzle/challenge, get the crystal and escape the room. Every crystal won got you extra time in the final challenge.
The gameshow countdown has a more adult/comedy version called 8 out of 10 cats does countdown, you really should react to some of them, it is always celebrities on there with some great comedians like Sean Locke, Greg Davies, Jimmy Carr etc and it is hilarious.
You should try and find a video about the British gameshow from the 1980s called 3-2-1 that was so bizzare that even the host had no idea what was going on. The premise was to win prizes through solving clues that were so cryptic even The Times crossword clue setters wouldn't be able to solve and most people ended up going home with a dustbin (that's trashcan in America).
Gladiators was mostly copied from the American version, except they created most of the games played, such as slingshot to skytrak to atlaspheres i think. However the British series of gladiators did inspire other countries to create their own gladiators series such as Australia and South Africa
The laws in UK say some things should be sold weighed in metric but if you ask for something in imperial measure they shop keeper will just convert it to a metric measurement ,the metric system is easier because all measurements are based on the number ten ,if you want to multiply a number by ten just move the decimal point one position to the right ,by a hundred 2 places to the right ,1000 millimetres= a metre ,100 centimetres = a metre ,all the numbers are based on 10 ,same with weights 1000 grams = kilogramme ,half a kilo = 500 grams .one reason for not changing to metric is the cost of changing every thing ,at work when metric was introduced our lathes and milling machines weren't calibrated in metric, if an engineering drawing was in metric it involved at lot converting measurements to imperial measurements,happened a lot with orders for companies from the European Union .
Countdown is still probably the most popular, but the toughest must be Only Connect, a real brain teaser. For those of an academic bent, there's University Challenge, where understanding the question is the hardest part!
The list is of British game shows, so they were made initially by Britain. If you have it in America then it's the American VERSION of the original British show. They weren't on this list (probably because they're not generally regarded as "game shows" - even though they kind of are) but American Idol was a copy of the British "Pop Idol" and the X Factor also originated in the UK and was taken over to US. That being said there are also things the UK has versions of that originated in America. If something works then it works!
The reason Crystal Maze is so popular is because the original presenter was the same Richard O’Brian that wrote The Rocky Horror Picture Show and starred in it beside Tim Curry. The show was rebooted and there is an actual place where people can go to experience the Crystal Maze challenges
The experience is pretty good, did it last year.
I was just going to say that. We need this back. It was awesome
@@mandysharp4571 It *is* back, it started again in 2016, currently presented by Richard Ayoade. I believe there are episodes on All 4 😊
The Crystal Maze was absolutely amazing! It has been updated with other presenters, but the original with Richard O'Brian is the best. I'm sure they could show re-runs of it and it would be popular all over again with today's younger generation as well as us oldies 😄
Did it earlier this year my sister kept singing the theme tune as we were moving from zone to zone was so much fun
The Krypton Factor was truly hardcore. You had to complete the army obstacle course, so you needed good physical ability, but you also needed great general knowledge, to be able to land a plane in a simulator, to observe differences and so much more. Truly had to have skills in every area
One woman broke her ankle running the obstacle course still finished came second overall (I think) then was taken to Hospital.
Yep, Monday around 7pm (thought it was mint as a kid)
The krypton factor was unique and amazing as covered so much. All the contests had to be good at everything both mentally and physically.
Both the UK and US version of 'Deal or No Deal' are based on a Dutch gameshow. 'Family Feud' is called 'Family Fortunes' in the UK.
yes miljoenen jacht ( million hunt)
British 'Deal or No Deal' is different to US version, where I believe the boxes are carried on by glamourous models. Here they just sit in front of the contestants the whole time. It started here the same year as in the US but was originally a Dutch Format.
One of my favourite Mastermind moments ever was a guy who chose to answer on some aspect of Japanese history, and managed to correct the pronunciation of the host on each question, and still get more points than anyone else on that round! (which is strictly timed)
You can claim American Gladiators- it started about 3 years before ours. 'Millionnaire' on the other hand was ours!
Meghan Markle was in deal or no deal
If you think Mastermind was difficult with obscure questions? One they missed which has been going since 1962 is 'University Challenge'. Two teams of University Students, representing their University or University College, being asked British University level specialist questions. Most viewers would be content in being able to answer somewhere near 20% of the questions? Some of the older shows from the sixties through to the nineties are worth looking at, due to some of the contestants now being famous comedians, writers, politicians etc..........
Yes, but it was originally based on an American show, College Bowl, from the 1950s, so I suppose it wouldn’t count.
@@arwelp Then again, these shown aren't all British either! Deal or no deal was originally Dutch and Countdown was French.
If you mention University Challenge, you can't leave "Only Connect" out...
Ask them a question about classical music and they've no idea whatsoever.They've even stopped asking them about this subject.Talk about missing out on one of the peaks of Western civilization and talk about dumbing down.😡
The Crystal Maze was one of my favourite shows as a kid. My sister and I would watch with our mum just before bed. Super chaotic, with an irreplaceable presenter and great atmosphere. Always wanted to try it out.
Ever tried the crystal maze experience in either London or Manchester? I highly recommend it.
If you're intrigued by Countdown, there's a popular variation known as 8 out of 10 cats does Countdown. It originally started as a one-off mash up show where the hosts and contenders of the satirical show 8 out of 10 cats did an episode of Countdown. It proved a huge success that it became a regular thing.
Deal or No Deal, unfortunately, isn't British in origin. It first aired in the Netherlands in 2000 and was adopted by the UK in October 2005 and the USA in December 2005.
American Gladiators was the first in the format introduced in 1989. It arrived in the UK in 1992. It was rebooted in both the UK and the USA in 2009 but, as you said, they weren't as popular as the original run.
I loved 'Countdown' but never 'got' what the point was of '8 out of 10 cats does Countdown'. Why?
@@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey 8 our of 10 cats is made to be funny.
It's all the classic rounds of normal countdown except it's entertaining, full of humour and the cast can be themselves instead of being bored out of their minds, at least that's how I see it anyway.
@@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey Are you in possession of what we call “a sense of humour”?
I would say that having a sense of humour is why someone wouldn't see the point of 8 out of 10 cats does countdown (or even just 8 out of 10 cats).
The Crystal Maze was so popular there are now 2 Crystal Maze experiences where you can go and have a go at some of the games. I went with my office to the one in Manchester it was brilliant
Blankety Blank was a popular TV game show in the UK. I'm surprised it's not included. I believe it was based on a US TV show, where celebrities guessed words that would fill in the blanks of a sentence. It was hosted over the years by three different hosts. Terry Wogan, Les Dawson and drag queen Lily Savage, more commonly known as Paul O'Grady. All of those hosts are no longer alive. Paul O'Grady passed away early this week aged 67.
America’s Family Feud was known in the U.K. as Family Fortunes.
R.I.P Paul o Grady
It's not included cause it was an American show. Thes are all shows that first started in Britain.
@@mrdarren1045Yes. I thought that Tyler might be interested. I don’t know if it was popular in the U.K.
@@bookwoman53 ok fair play.
The game show Catch Phrase is a game that was created in the United States of America. The show was on American televisions from 1985-1986 before it was picked up by the UK and eventually by Australia.
the narrator said that The Crystal Maze is the ultimate British game show, and as much as I love the show and always wanted to be on it as a kid, it really falls second place to...
and I IMPLORE you to check this out...
KNIGHTMARE
A kid was put in a massive sight-blocking helmet, and was guided around chroma-keyed dungeons and dragons inspired environments by four friends, whilst being aided, hindered, or guided by a kinda gamesmaster called Treguard, whose participation really depended on what mood he was in.
It really is quite possibly the best game show ever conceived, and nothing like it has ever come before or since.
Die I mention your REALLY should go check it out? Else i'll call the goblins on you...
The Crystal Maze, Krypton Factor and Catchphrase are my top three I loved those shows so much. :)
I met Jet when I was at school she was a friend of one of my PE teachers (Ex-professional Rugby player.) She came to train us for our sports day.
Those are all high on the list for me, but then, I'm a Yorkshireman, so Countdown & 8oo10CdC probably just edge a win.
For me it's Catchphrase, Crystal Maze and -throwing in a wildcard- supermarket sweep
Tyler, a little bit of trivia for you is that Countdown was the first show to be broadcast on Channel 4 when that channel started on 2nd November 1982 and it's still going strong today over 40 years later.
I'm lucky enough to have grown up with British gladiator Cobra (mick) and his younger siblings as they lived a few doors from me growing up. I grew up watching all of these programs lots of them being my favorites.
I loved Telly Addicts when i was a kid. Great show.
I went on telly addicts lost but it was fantastic 😊
Yes, it should have got some more love, again with Noel Edmonds
I remember it was totally dominated by a family called the Pains or something for a whole series and the two daughters were absolutely stunning and made it worth watching just for them!
It took three auditions before I qualified to get onto Countdown as a contestant, it was an amazing experience
The Crystal Maze is awesome and was a favourite of our family in the 90s. They released a couple of series more recently too. My kids loved it. It can be so stressful to watch at times!
the crystal maze was good the host was the guy who wrote the musical the rocky horror and yes we also have family fude we call it family fortunes
I remember when Bob Monkhouse hosted that. God that's going back a bit!
Some of this has probably been mentioned already but here goes:
2:51 Deal or No Deal originated in Holland. But yes the British version came after the US version.
4:13 Closest thing on this side of the Atlantic was a sports themed quizzer on ESPN called 2-minute drill.
5:37 Gladiators originated in the US, several countries have adaptated it.
7:51 There was a pilot for a US version for Game Show Network but it didn't get picked up.
10:15 Millionaire originated in the Uk, producer Micheal Davies was trying unsuccessfully to get a reboot going of the $64,000 question in the US, after seeing millionaire in the uk, he told his business partners "I know what we're doing wrong!" He bought the US rights and....history.
11:17 Catch Phrase actually originated in the US in 85 (I think) but it never took off here only lasted a year, BIG hit in the uk.
12:47 The Krypton factor was attempted twice in the US, didnt do well.
14:01 Piloted for the US in 1990 but never got on the air, originated in France as "Des Chiffres et Des Letters " (numbers and letters) where it's still a highly rated show since 1972. There was also a version in Australia that ran a year.
16:06 Crystal Maze did get adapted for the US it got a 10 episode run on Nickelodeon and had families playing. There was a one-off with a similar format aired in the US as well called Conquer Fort Boyard,
My kids loved the Crystal Maze. My 4 year old daughter used to just ask me to put on the Baldy Man. She loved Richard.
They had a kids version of The Crystal Maze for the Christmas special. A few of my friends at school planned to go on together even wrote our parents permission slips (we were around 8/10) not knowing at the time it was a random bunch of people put together. It was always my favourite show, had the boardgame and signed up at the chance to bring it back. First as an immersive experience, then they brought it back on screen but something was missing. Richard O Brien was the ultimate presenter with the humerus quips, and loads of clueless contestants who got locked in standing on the spot. It was amazing to watch. I believe R.O.B influenced my sarcasm and the CM my love for escape rooms. All that's missing is getting a Crystal ( I got one saying "I built the Crystal Maze"), and to experience being in the dome, and hear the phrase.. "Will you start the fans please". You may be able to find an episode or two on UA-cam to watch. If you do check out each host but Richard O Brien is legend status.
You can find full episodes of many of these shows on UA-cam. Would love to see you react to some of them. A new one I really like is called I Literally Just Told You. As others mentioned, watch 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. It’s a comedic mash up of a panel show, 8 out of 10 Cats, and the game show Countdown. The US has also done spin-offs of The Weakest Link, The Chase, and just last year, a version of that Generation game called Generation Gap, hosted by Kelly Ripa and features her dad. The UK does have Family Feud but it’s called Family Fortunes. One of the few shows they borrowed from the US.
Master Mind is an intelligent quiz contest.
There are four contestants in each show who have to answer questions firstly on their specialised subject and then a tough general knowledge round. The winner then goes into the next knockout round until that years champion is decided.
The specialised subject can be almost anything within reason, but tend to be fairly intellectual e.g. a certain period of history such as the Napoleonic wars, the books of a classic author, or life of a famous historical figure, etc. However you could choose your favourite film franchise or TV series, etc. The winner of each show has to choose a new specialised subject in the next round.
The Krypton Factor had a similar knock out format, but you were tested on a variety of things: Your fitness on an assault course, a general knowledge round, a puzzle round, etc. You'd get points for how you placed 1st-4th.
CONGRATULATIONS! You have won tonights Star Prize! Family Feuds is a US show from 1976 and is actually one the UK copied in 1980 and renamed Family Fortunes
Deal or no deal originally came from mainland Europe. My husband and I watched it in Paris, years before it came to the UK. Didn’t understand the concept, at all! Then when we got it in the UK, we were hooked!
I remember hearing that when Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was run past the commissioning boss, they had the people in the office as the ‘audience’, for one of the three lives of the contestant, and specific people as the ‘friend’.
Family Feud comes from our Family Fortunes.
Our game show were great growing up and there are so many missing off this list. Glad you enjoyed them though.👍
Crystal Maze was/is the epitome of brilliant game shows. When I moved to Australia from England in the 80s, my Mum would record it on VCR and send me the cassettes in the mail!
I longed to do The Crystal Maze ... but was too chicken to apply. I just know on my challenge - I would have failed and been locked in the room. My friends would never have let me forget it if that had happened !!!😅
Well done on the SARCASM buddy !
Deal or No Deal was invented by ENDEMOL UK and sold to 45 countries. First shown in the UK in 2005.
On Mastermind you choose your own specialist subject followed by a General Knowledge round. The highest score wins.
Millionaire is a British game show. Started in 1998 and still runs today.
Countdown has a hilarious spin off called 8 OUT OF 10 CATS DOES COUNTDOWN. A mix of 2 different shows. Hosted by Jimmy Carr and has different comedians on 2 panels solving numbers and words rounds.
Endemol UK was founded by Sir Peter Bazalgette who brought Big Brother to the UK and he was the great great grandson of Sir Joseph Bazalgette who was responsible for creating the London sewage system in the 19th century and the irony is while Joseph Bazalgette pumped sh!t out of London Peter Bazalgette pumped it back in!
Deal or No Deal is a British game show, hosted by Noel Edmonds, which aired from 31 October 2005 to 23 December 2016 on Channel 4.(pretty much started same time as US).
The game show was based from one from the Netherlands. 🇬🇧
@@Paul-hl8yg Thanks, didn't know
@@tedroper9195deal or no deal had recently got revived with Stephen mulhern presenting it
I think our love of TV game shows comes from our love of family party games at Christmas get-togethers. People from a certain generation just love to have fun in an old-fashioned kind of way.
How on EARTH did Mojo have the brass neck to omit The Chase, Only Connect and University Challenge, AND totally snub game show god, Bradley Walsh? How DID Bradley's legendary 'Fanny Chmelar Moment' not get in to this compilation?
Sadly I knew who Fanny Chmelar was - I use to watch all the skiing on Eurosport. Of course mu favorite ski jumper was Andreas Wank!
How? Simple, because it's a crap list!
University Challenge is the only one of note there. Now, it's a knockout!! COME ED!
Plus Bullseye and Big Break
Only Connect is just absolutely wonderful. A show so British it shits the Queen.
Oh, boy.
The Generation Game was a staple in my Kiwi household. Bruce Forsythe was a living legend even back then.
So many awesome little catchphrases. And the way with words he had. Along with the connection to pretty much every contestant. Was a joy to watch.
I can vaguely recall the theme.
And with more and more TV hosts of that era being taken down by sexual assault allegations, Brucie is still one of the good ones
🎵life....Is the name of the game
And I wanna play the game with you
Life...can be terribly tame
If you don't play the game with 2
And I wanna play the game with you🎵
I enjoyed your enthusiasm to the UK game shows, I grew up with watching most of the shows. If you can react to UK game shows, that would be fantastic 🙂
"Treasure Hunt" was one of the greatest British 'game shows' in my opinion. It deserved a mention in my opinion and I kind of wish they'd bring it back. You should look it up, not only is it a great game show but it is a great way to see Britain ... 1980's Britain anyway. The other classic "hunt" of UK game shows has to be "Bargain Hunt" ... you just can't get more British that that, lol. Perfect daytime telly.
Aneka Rice presenting Treasure Hunt was essential viewing, back in the day.
@@miaschu8175anneka and Annabel who replaced her on treasure hunt have both been on strictly. Anneka danced in 2019 with Kevin Clifton. Annabel was 2023 with Johannes Radebe
I can easily come up with another 10, and that being said, I'm not particularly old to remember them so I'm sure the older generations could add some more classics. I know some of these had American versions, not sure which came first but these feel very British even if they're not.
Things like:
The chase
Family fortunes
Tipping point
Weakest link
The price is right
Play your cards right
Bullseye
Fun house
Supermarket sweep
Eggheads
I used to enjoy Treasure Hunt. A couple in the studio had a large scale map of an area, and a small library of text books that could help them decypher clues to the location of the next clue. They then had to guide a fit young Anneka Rice in a yellow jumpsuit with a camera crew and a helicopter to find the next clue on the ground. There was a fair bit of running and climbing over fences, with lots of views of Anneka's rear end. If they found all the clues in the alloted time, they found and won the treasure.
I always got distracted by Anneka Rice's rear to notice what was actually going on!
The crystal maze was my jamm as a child, I loved that show growing up,
A lot of TV shows around the world have been off shoots of British game shows and TV series. A lot of other countries don't know about. We only had 4channels for years and years so the content had to be good. Because of this fact I think that's why we had the best of the best with the writers etc. We're still very proud though of our exported shows. It's a shame other countries believe such shows are originally theirs though. I need to do research myself to see which shows actually originated from other places aswell.
Both The Crystal Maze and The Krypton Factor both had short lived US versions. He 1981 US version of Krypton Factor was hosted by Dick Clark.
You should react to some episodes of the shows that interested you. Krypton Factor is top stuff. Crystal maze early years are brilliant.
"Call My Bluff" is one of my favourites - Joanna Lumley liked it so much that she persuaded the BBC to revive it, with herself as a team captain.
I loved Call My Bluff - a great linguistic game show with fabulous panelists, particularly Frank Muir.
We had Deal or No Deal, maybe 30 years ago! Mastermind fantastic, but stressful too! Gladiators, great characters - Australians loved it! I still watch Pointless most days! Who wants be a Millionaire, probably from Australia or England! Catch Phrase probably not in Australia! Countdown was a music show in Australia, now it's about English and Maths, yes like school! Crystal Maze? Yes, physical challenges are more fun, like Australian Ninja, Holey Moley, Challenge, SAS Australia, Survivor! They didn't mention The Chase? We also have It's Academic, QI, Lego Masters, The Hundred, The Wall, Would I lie to you? Have you been paying attention? It's great to challenge yourself and have a laugh! 😃
the "original' version of Deal or No Deal was from the year 2000 in The Netherlands called Miljoenenjacht en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miljoenenjacht
Gladiators was originally started in the US but moved into about a dozen different countries, but even the American Gladiators team admitted that UK Gladiators was the best. Probably the reason why both International series were in the UK.
If you want to watch. All of the domestic series, the international series and the Ashes series are all on UA-cam.
The Crystal Maze was a great concept. 4 unique zones to play games in - Aztec, Industrial (later Ocean), Medieval and Futuristic. Each zones games were tailored to the style of the zone. Each zone had a unique way of getting in. 4 categories of task - Physical, Mental, Mystery and Skill. The challenges lasted between about 90 seconds and 3 minutes to gain a crystal. If you took too long to get out, you were "locked in" and could only be released by being bought out at the cost of 1 crystal.
The end was the Crystal Dome (as seen in the video) which the contestants enter and then wind machines under the floor blew gold and silver slips into the air. The object was to catch as many gold (positive points) and as few silver (negative points) as possible in the time you have, determined by the number of crystals you won (5 seconds per crystal), and put them in the collection point. Win enough gold to win the grand prizes.
0:48 We came up with Millionaire. 😊 And BGT. Wheel of Fortune did air here, but Jeopardy never took off for some reason.
Gladiators is my all time favourite show and it's coming back this year!
My favourite show is Richard Osman's House of Games (lots of episodes on UA-cam) which is a quiz with four contestants and five rounds every day for a week, every new week there are new contestants. They play for themselves or in pairs, depending on the round and you never know which of the many possible rounds comes up next. The last round is always the same, though, every day. The most points win every day (and the contestant gets a prize) and the most points per week is the week's winner then (and the winner gets a trophy). The questions can be knowing trivia, guessing things, the questions are very different in each round, sometimes even in a foreign language or in code! This is huge fun and because you can stop the video on UA-cam, easy to guess along as a viewer, even as a non-native viewer like me.
We often describe something difficult as being like the krypton factor x
Before the video started the board from quiz show Blockbusters was shown. Noel Edmonds hosted Deal or No Deal in England, it is under a new host. Deal Or No Deal launched in Holland first. ITV in Britain came up with Who Wants To Be A Millonaire hosted by Chris Tarrant, Jeremy Clarkson Top Gear (has being cancelled by the BBC due to injury occurring to presenter Freddie Flintoff ex-Cricketer), The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm (the last two will not be renewed by amazon, good news), Clarkson was sacked as presenter of Who Wants To Be A Millonaire. Junior Krpton Factor’s assault course was at the american adventure theme park in Derbyshire, I saw it being filmed once.
There are episodes of, 'The Generation Game', available to view on UA-cam, from the 70's. It's an interesting glimpse into 70's culture, what with the clothing worn and the mannerisms of members of the public who played the games from the time. Bruce Forsythe was the consummate game show host with the right amount of humour at the expense of the contestants. 'The Crystal Maze', was quite innovative at the time and consisted of a team who had to solve physical puzzles inside a locked room that usually had a theme attached to it, in a certain amount of time. If they managed to solve the puzzle they got the crystal, but more often than not they would choose to exit the room before the time expired, as if they ran out of time they would be locked in and to get them out would cost a crystal. The idea of the game was to get as many crystals as possible with as many team members remaining.
There's something quite satisfying about the simplicity of Countdown. You get 9 random letters and have to make the biggest word possible. You get 5 numbers and have to use basic maths functions to get as close to a randomly generated 3-digit number as possible.
There is some strategy to how you choose the letters or the numbers, but the actual games themselves are pretty straightforward.
Look for a whole episode on UA-cam for The Crystal Maze!
Preferably with the original presenter Richard O"Brian because he's batshit crazy and British eccentricity at it's finest!
BTW Richard is the lead actor AND creator of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, so yeah, his brain is about as random as it gets! 😂
The Crystal Maze has four destinations, four separate "themed sets" and they spend just under a quarter of the whole show (one hour total show) in each area.
The team is made up of individual public applicants, they don't know each other, so may gel seamlessly, or may not like each other much...but the point is to work as a team.
In each of the four zones, are individual rooms with puzzles inside, a mixture of physical tasks, mental tasks, agility etc.... Richard will pick a room, and the team chooses which of them would be best for that particular puzzle. They have a set time to complete it, usually around 2 minutes. The rest of the team can yell out directions, or answers etc...which is sometimes appreciated or sometimes bitterly resented, depending on personalities clashing! 🤣
Each completed puzzle wins a crystal, about the size of a tennis ball, each of those crystals is worth ten seconds. If someone fails to complete a puzzle and doesn't make it back out the door before the time runs out, they get locked into their room. It's up to the team captain, as to whether to buy that person out of their room in exchange for one crystal, or go on and leave them behind.
After all four zones are completed, the crystals are added up, a typical average is around 6 crystals in total that they won - a few have won more, some haven't won any! 😂
Richard will first ask if they wish to buy back any locked up players from earlier, if any are still back there, and the captain has to think of what's more useful for the team's final challenge??? Does he want to keep all the crystals for time value or have more hands to help out?
So if they have six crystals for example, 6 x 10 seconds = 1 minute.
The team has one minute to enter the Crystal Dome.
In the dome, huge electric fans are started, and gold and silver "tickets" are blown up all around them. They are like pieces of foil, around a banknote size. The minute countdown begins and the team have to frantically catch as many tickets as they can.
The goal, to win, is to catch 100 gold tickets.....not silver!
Silver tickets are DEDUCTED from the total of gold!!!
That's why the captain has to think, what would be better, leave two people locked up and have 20 seconds more time or have two extra people to help but give up 20 seconds on the timer?
If they win or lose, they are each awarded a souvenir crystal in a presentation box ANYWAY, but if they did get more than a 100 gold tickets they would win a prize. Prizes were usually a day's activity, canoeing white rapids or rock climbing up a mountain, with travel and lunch included for the whole team to enjoy. That sort of thing.
The overall idea, is teamwork, with strangers who've never met before!
There have also been celebrity teams who obviously do know each other, and the gold tickets they collect are worth money for a charity!
It's my favourite game show ever! So imaginative, so random, so much fun, it reminded me of the film The Goonies in a way, but better! 😁😁😁
The krypton factor was a show to find Britains superperson, testing mental agility, response, observation, mental ability, physical ability, and general knowledge, Mental agility was solving math equations, response was varying tasks from but the most noticeable were using the airline flight simulators. Goal to land a 747 the best, judged by an airline pilot instructor. Observation was watching a clip of tv program and answering questions about what was shown. Mental ability was solving complex puzzles, and physical ability was running a military assault course in the fastest time. General knowledge was answering general knowledge questions.
According to Wikipedia's detailed description of the show, Deal or No Deal originated as 'Miljoenenjacht' in The Netherlands in November 2000, with premiers in the UK and US in October and December, respectively, 2005. In Mastermind, the specialist subject first round in followed by a general knowledge round; if an answer isn't known, the contestant (or 'contender' as they're known in this show) can guess, lose time struggling, or just say 'pass'. If there's a tie at the end, the winner's decided by the player with the fewer/fewest passes.
"The Crystal Maze" took over the Channel 4 TV slot of "The Adventure Game", where Anneka Rice (a seemingly ageless TV personality) flew around the UK in a helicopter to find clues, as two people in a TV studio tried to decipher them and direct her. It was filmed as if live in an hour (I'm sure it wasn't, but at least close). Channel 4 was new and innovative. I think it should have been on the list.
Its called "Treasure Hunt"
I vaguely remember that. I'm also pretty sure that Anneka Rice is doing another show as we speak.
@@mbwoods2001 Yes - would have made more sense if I’d mentioned the name!
To properly understand current UK game shows you need to experience '8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown' (Sean Lock and Joe Wilkinson clips) and 'Would I Lie To You?' (Bob Mortimer and David Mitchell clips). The titles of the shows are frequently shortened to Cats Does Countdown and WILTY?, should you happen to search for them.
Family Feud is a spin off of the British game Family Fortunes lol
The UK version of Deal or No Deal is like the twelfth version of the show and the UK version predates the US version by only two months.
Great video as always. The crystal maze now has a place in Manchester where you can take part in the crystal maze games just for fun not TV.
Would love to go some day, but my chronic Ill health sadly stops me travelling right now.
I used to have a friend Called Greg Scott and he was the warm up man on countdown and the krypton factor.
You should react to a catchphrase episode or crystal maze. They’re great! 😂
Great twist to the Crystal maze, was that it was a team game were having a full team at the end (the crystal dome) meant you could do a lot better. But there were points in the episode, where teams could 'turn' on each other. That was the real (hidden) challenge imo.
Each of the challenges leading up to the 'crystal dome', was set in a separate room with a timer, and only one team member was allowed in for each.
The rest of the team could only look on and shout advice. If a person doing the challenge took too long, even if they got the crystal, they could get locked in the room meaning they wouldn't be present for the final challenge in the Dome.
If that happened, then the rest of the team had to decide whether they left the person trapped, or traded their release by giving up a precious crystal. Each crystal they had at the end, would mean an extra 5second in the Dome (that's a lot). It was brutal to see teams leave their friends locked in. The whole shows just had loads of great dynamics, and the sets were excellent too.
The only issue, with the show (imo), was that not enough new challenges were added over the cause of a season. I guess it was hard too think up new puzzles, then build an entire room for each to be set in.
We had a local "crystal maze" next to a 'Laser Quest' near where I grew up. Must've gone through it a dozen times.
it's kinda funny that ideal or no deal was so popular in the us, since when i saw a comment on one of ours from an american, it said "this is a show from the uk? it will never catch on here" (while talking about how horrible it looked). it was a couple of months after that that the us version was revealed.
Deal or no deal was based on a game from the Netherlands. The British version started in 2005 🇬🇧🇺🇸
"Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" and "Britain's Got Talent" (thus 'America's Got Talent') are both UK shows sold around the world! "Deal or No Deal" is from The Netherlands... Just saying!
You can't beat carrot in a box 😀
100%
Haha. All three of them, lol.
Nope 🤣😅
Lol 😂😂
You should do a reaction video series for each show you liked.
Crystal maze is/was amazing. You get locked in if you don't get out quick enough. The team have to buy you back with a crystal they have won. Many a team promise they will come back for team mates and buy them out. Then never do 😂.
You definitely need reactions to full episodes of some of these 😄
Deal or No Deal is a British game show, hosted by Noel Edmonds, which aired from 31 October 2005 to 23 December 2016 on Channel 4, and is due to return with Stephen Mulhern in 2023 on ITV.
You should watch an episode of Gladiators or Crystal Maze for the channel! (really I just want an excuse to relive my childhood lol)
One very recent UK game show that I think is unique and engaging is The 1% Club. Rather than a typical trivia show, it's actually an IQ show, where you have to think outside the box, using logic and reason with the questions being asked and it's usually visual. Anyone of all ages can get involved with the questions and it gets harder and harder as the show progresses; the last question being that only 1% of the U.K. public got the answer right. It really gets the mind working.
Crystal maze is the show that started escape rooms because people always wanted to go on the show. I loved it so much.
The whole show is you go into room and get locked in and you have to either correctly, guessed the puzzles or correctly, complete the obstacle if you was successful and did it in the timeframe, you got a crystal and could get out if you didn’t think you’d be locked in the room until they either used a crystal to buy you out or just leave him in there for the rest of the show
The show has now made a massive one which is in Scotland, where the Public can pay to go in and try and complete the real thing
Surely The Adventure Game has a better claim to be the origin of escape rooms. A cheap bu absolutely brilliant show - ua-cam.com/video/rOuAzHjsiOg/v-deo.html
There was also a children's one called jungle run in the early-mid 2000s
There was a short lived US version of Mastermind called 2 Minute Drill that lasted from 2000 to 2001
The TV show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" was created by British television producer David Briggs, and was first aired in the UK in 1998 on ITV.
Bit surprised The Chase didn't make the count. I also used to love It's A Knockout back in the day, but of course I suppose that's tainted by Stuart Hall...
I volunteered on the revival series of The Crystal Maze a few years ago. Bit of an uber-nerd about it. Got a load of merch from the original show, done a lot of blogging about every possible detail I could think of, auditioned for the remake and ended up as a games tester.
I think you should do some themed episodes where you focus on some of these specific shows. The greatest hits of catchphrase, the crystal maze, etc… most of which here in the UK are still on television and haven’t been ended. Gladiators is also coming back to the UK later this year.
Mastermind is based on the situation of being interrogated in the army. The name, occupation & specialist subject being alike to name, rank & number. From that you also get the single black chair & spotlight. The theme music was given the name Approaching Menace. Since it started in 1972, it has only had a handful of presenters, the longest was the first, Magnus Magnassun. Back when it started the questions were asked fairly quickly & the highest ever score 40, 20 on the specialist subject & 20 on general knowledge. Nowadays it is rare for them to get into the 30s. You can ask for virtually any subject as your specialist, they do not pick it, you do. If you get through the 1st round, the next round has to be different, but you can go back to your original for the final.
In Pointless, 100 unknowing members of the public are given 100 seconds to give all the possible correct answers in a category. You just glimpsed The SuperBowl as a category. The contestants would have to name any team that had appeared. The points given correspond with the number of the 100 that had given that answer. If it is wrong they get 100 points, if no one said it they get zero. The point being the the pair with the highest score goes out. You start with 4 pairs & you cannot confer. After 2 rounds you get the head to head when it is usually an answer from a choice of 5 things. In the final you are given a choice from 5 general categories, like European Football, Country Music in 80's, US Politics, from which you get a more specialised choice of 3: European Football might be name players from 3 particular teams from a particular tournament. You don't have to do all 3, you can pick just 1 team for all 3 answers. The jackpot starts at £2000 & goes up £250 everytime a pointless answer is given within a particular show & £1000 if it is not won by the winning pair giving at least 1 pointless answer in the final. Every winning pair does get a Pointless trophy each (a perspex thing about 6 inches high & 2 inches square, sometimes I think it has the right name as does the celebrity version where pairs of celebs play for charities of their choice as it is called Pointless Celebrities).
Countdown is the longest running quiz show. It was the 1st thing on the then new Channel 4 & hasn't stopped. In the letters round you pick 9 unknown random letters that are split into vowels & consonants, you can have upto 4 vowels only & you get points for the number of letters used. If you have the longer word it is you that gets the points, if both contestants have the same length word you both get points. You get 18 points if you use all 9 letters. In the numbers round there are16 cards upside down on a grid, 4 x 4. The numbers 25, 50, 75 & 100 on the top row & the numbers 1 - 10 on 12 other cards. the contestants pick 6 random cards & have 30 seconds to get the random answer generated by the computer. They can have any number of the top row cards, all you know at the start of the round is what they are.
In The Crystal Maze, the zones were things like Aztec, Futuristic, Medieval, Industrial, but that was just to cover the sets. Within each zone the contestants (6 at the start, I think) had physical, mental, (there were others, I forget now!!) types of puzzles to be completed within a set time usually between 1 & half and 3 minutes. Complete it & you get a crystal. Because some where difficult the contestant might not be able to finish, it which case they could just come out. If the failed under the time they were locked in & could only be gotten outby sacrificing a won crystal. At the end each crystal won gave 10 seconds in the Crystal Dome. In which the contestants had the allotted time to collect as many gold pieces of paper that were mixed with silver ones as they could. In the early series the contestants seemed to say what they wanted to win, things like holidays or experiences like hot air ballooning. If they got over a certain number of gold tokens they got their prizes.
@Ian Love I hope you've copied and pasted that into notepad, for your next American reactor to UK TV shows.
Catchphrase was originally an American game show that had only one season in 1985 the British version began a year later in 1986.
Deal or No Deal seems to be Dutch "Deal or No Deal is the name of several closely related television game shows, the first of which (launching the format) was the Dutch Miljoenenjacht (Hunt/Chase for Millions)." Wikipeada. It seems that the USA had it several years before the UK.
there were also tons of children's games shows such as Trapped, Jungle Run, Raven. All complete classics and very nostalgic especially Raven. Not to mention Total Wipeout which was for adults but it was addicting to watch and everyone at home believed they could do it.
I think that "Deal or No Deal" started in the US, but "Gladiators" and "...Millionaire" started in the UK. IMO the best British game shows are the ones where celebrities are the contestants - "Would I Lie to You", "Taskmaster", and "8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown" (a comedy version of "Countdown") are great. As far as old-style game shows, I half expected "It's a Knockout", "University Challenge", and maybe even "The Golden Shot" in the list.
I beg to differ on the origins of “Gladiators”, James. I remember watching the American version on late night ITV whilst waiting for that night/morning’s music related program waaaaay before the British version ever showed up on Saturday nights in England
@@Goddzi I stand corrected!
I always liked 15 to 1 .One of the best general knowledge quizzes of all
I loved "Catchphrase" and "Pointless", also "Impossible!" (not shown in this video). The concept for Deal or no deal actually comes from the Netherlands in a game they called "Miljoenjacht "or directly translated "Million chase" . Both UK and USA took the general idea I THINK around 2004/5 and produced two very different versions, USA with the suitcase girls, and UK with 22 contestants. "Gladiators" started in USA in 1989 and in 1991 UK started theirs. OY! Where is "The Chase"? Such a classic should never have been left off this list!! Who wants to be a millionaire = British 1998
"contestant ready? Gladiator ready? 3-2-1" (The show is finally coming back after it's been gone for almost half my life)
The funny thing is Deal or no Deal is actually a Dutch show originally I believe, and Who Wants to be a Millionaire is a British show originally, but CatchPhrase was originally American but it was never as popular in the US as it became in the UK.
The Crystal Maze was like a series of mini escape rooms. Solve the puzzle/challenge, get the crystal and escape the room. Every crystal won got you extra time in the final challenge.
The gameshow countdown has a more adult/comedy version called 8 out of 10 cats does countdown, you really should react to some of them, it is always celebrities on there with some great comedians like Sean Locke, Greg Davies, Jimmy Carr etc and it is hilarious.
You should try and find a video about the British gameshow from the 1980s called 3-2-1 that was so bizzare that even the host had no idea what was going on. The premise was to win prizes through solving clues that were so cryptic even The Times crossword clue setters wouldn't be able to solve and most people ended up going home with a dustbin (that's trashcan in America).
Deal or No Deal (UK slightly before US with Dutch and German origins). American Gladiators (US 1st obviously), Millionaire (UK)
Gladiators was mostly copied from the American version, except they created most of the games played, such as slingshot to skytrak to atlaspheres i think. However the British series of gladiators did inspire other countries to create their own gladiators series such as Australia and South Africa
The laws in UK say some things should be sold weighed in metric but if you ask for something in imperial measure they shop keeper will just convert it to a metric measurement ,the metric system is easier because all measurements are based on the number ten ,if you want to multiply a number by ten just move the decimal point one position to the right ,by a hundred 2 places to the right ,1000 millimetres= a metre ,100 centimetres = a metre ,all the numbers are based on 10 ,same with weights 1000 grams = kilogramme ,half a kilo = 500 grams .one reason for not changing to metric is the cost of changing every thing ,at work when metric was introduced our lathes and milling machines weren't calibrated in metric, if an engineering drawing was in metric it involved at lot converting measurements to imperial measurements,happened a lot with orders for companies from the European Union .
Crystal maze was my favourite game show as a kid, so good!
Countdown is still probably the most popular, but the toughest must be Only Connect, a real brain teaser. For those of an academic bent, there's University Challenge, where understanding the question is the hardest part!
Deal or no deal originated in Nederland, in 2000, UK's version started in 2005, whilst the US's version started in 2008.
The bald guy at the end Richard O'Brien,co wrote The rocky horror picture show , x
The list is of British game shows, so they were made initially by Britain. If you have it in America then it's the American VERSION of the original British show. They weren't on this list (probably because they're not generally regarded as "game shows" - even though they kind of are) but American Idol was a copy of the British "Pop Idol" and the X Factor also originated in the UK and was taken over to US. That being said there are also things the UK has versions of that originated in America. If something works then it works!