Imagine gambling all nine prizes, wondering if you're gonna win a speedboat, a holiday in the Seychelles or a Mini Metro. Nope, it's just some shite from Argos
This was the 80s, this show had good prizes for the time even the money was great. Mind you I know a guy who won a speedboat and I am not joking it sat in a car park in Allershaw place (In Gowkthrapple) for years, untouched and unused. He couldn't sell the thing either - not because of rules, because nobody wanted it and it was costly to move to people would buy it. So sadly it sat and rusted away.
Did your parents live in the midlands miles away from the sea and have a speedboat covered in moss sitting on their driveway? That would confirm your suspicion.
That charity shop next door to the bullseye studio must have loved seeing Jim bowen coming in every Friday morning to pick out the prizes for bully's prize board
1988 the stuff them 2 lads won, round our way folks would have come round to gawp!! A brand new washing machine as opposed to a twin tub or weekly trip to the laundrette for starters!! They played well then showed bottle & kept their nerve in the days before being on tv had been normalised so to speak. I bet ppl still talk of a little bit of Bully round their's!!
Nah mate north wales. What do you not remember the 1980s;- strikes ,power cuts, mass unemployment etc. I remember going to neighbours to watch FA cup final on a colour tv +not our B&W set. Why where were u living & going to school? Mozambique? poverty was real man round our way.@@alanoconnor6921
@@contingency9 You could still get some pretty good sound from the record deck. Copy music onto decent tapes for playing on the Sony Walkman when out and about. Better than most digital music today, where the instruments are dulled away or they have done a Sharon Osbourne remaster on the original tapes.
My favourite bit is watching Jim's genuinely animated reaction when the contestants win. Particularly when he starts grabbing them and ragging them in the direction of the prize, occasionally slapping their arms or back, grabbing their necks and forcing them in to the car or to face the camera before aggressively pointing to the camera and waving like a mad man, asking them to follow his lead! It's just absolutely hilarious. You can see where Keith Lemon gets his Bo Selecta inspiration from!
Somebody once asked Jim how he felt when somebody gambled and lost i.e did he and his team feel sorry. His answer was... ' Do we bollocks. Greedy B,stards. We p!ss ourselves laughing...' There ya go. Nowt like a bit o bully...
Grandma Phyllis' favourite TV show. We used to schlep out from Watford to Clacton to see her on Sundays (what a ball ache pre M25 !) and get to her nursing home only to be assailed by Bullseye at ear splitting volume. If anyone spoke the volume went up ! Vale Phyllis...
It's cos the prizes were shit, lol. They were sharing 9 crap prizes between two fellas, might as well have a go if you're even a little bit confident of hitting 101!
In 1986 a couple won all the 9 prizes then gabled then lost it all a holiday. They did take home £980 or something in the £900s ( I worked out the exact sum that's £2,550.17 s in todays money November 2023) in cash between them though.This has only happened twice in the history of Bullseye 1981 - 1995.
The star prize was usually a caravan or a boat - the people that won the boat invariably lived nowhere near a body of water big enough to sail it on - the municipal swimming pool or the boating lake in the town park were too small! The prizes on gameshows in the 70s were fairly cheap usually carriage clocks or Timex watches - the biggest cash prize rarely exceeded £1,000 and the “star prize” was usually a foreign car (the budget wouldn’t run to a British one) - over time, the budget has increased - but most of today’s gameshows tend to give away cash!
@@quack437 Or two blokes, not even related (sometimes barely friends) who win a car, a caravan or a speedboat. You couldn't move in Scunthorpe in the 80s for bloody speedboats.
I worked on production on this very edition and i remember it so well coz i had to get into a brand new ford Fiesta and quickly drive off and replace it with a kitchen unit 💯
Funny thing was that when they got home their benefits were stopped coz they were unavailable for work the day they were recording,that’s a true story coz it was me that grassed them up lol lol.
Yeh but that means pretty much same prize to each of the guys Ps-bear in mind if you won a bunch of stuff today what folk 40 years ago will be saying and laughing at you lol
Always found it hilarious when they won a kitchen between them. I’ll take the dishwasher mate you have the fridge and we will split the tumble dryer where you have it one week I’ll have it the next.
Rewatching these again on Challenge each weekday evening (and Sunday mornings). You often see the non dart player get a good score, and the dart player absolutely blow it. Even though some of these episodes are close to 40 years ago, it still leaves you feeling sick. More often than not too, it's a 'Holiday of a lifetime' type prize, just to rub salt into the wounds! (though my favorite gamble win was the two guys who won a Vauxhall Nova and then told Jim that neither of them could drive!) The nostalgia value of the old pros like Cliff Lazarenko, Bobby George, Maureen Flowers, Bristow and Lowe etc is good fun. Plus the prize board is like a sociological study in and of itself. You can see how certain things like Microwaves, stereos, TVs and computers became more and more common. Plus it's always a thrill when you see a prize that you actually had in the old days. My dad had the Chinon 35mm camera that's been a prize a few times. The big old Ferguson TV my nan and grandad had, my Commodore 64 and even the Nicam stereo Goodmans VHS (with flip down front control panel) my dad had. I also saw the identical JVC video camera that Marty McFly had in Back to the Future!
Enjoyable post but did anyone have a Fizzy Drinks Machine immortalized by one episode where Jim proclaimed "You've won the fizzy drinks machine!!" closely followed by the NON Darts player landing in the same bed "You've LOST the fizzy drinks machine!!" 😀
To be fair, i still have that exact Hotpoint washing machine 😂. My nan & grandad brought it in the 80s, gave it to my mum & dad in the 90s and they gave it to me when i got my own place about 10 years ago. My mum & dad have gone through 3 washing machines since. So in this case "they don't make them like they used to!"
@@nelsonhibbert5267 Unfortunately they aren't very good anymore, 2 of the ones my parents had to replace within the past 10 years were Hotpoint. Although i don't think bosch are any better either now. Sadly things aren't built to last anymore.
@@adamholmes91 Ahh bugger. They do a 10 year parts guarantee though (no idea if that's a good sign or not) and it'll likely only get light use so if I can get 5 years out of it I'll be happy. But it's great that Bullseye is inspiring conversations about domestic appliances long after it's inception.
@@huna1950 Haven't been called a kid since the 1980's and my shock comes the fact the prizes were not usually from brands like Sony. Usually any kind of stereo or hi-fi would be some cheapo off brand like Saisho.
He nearly messed that up! Was gambling thinking 10 or 15 but three tens would have been a disaster. Had he gone between 11/14 he wouldn’t have had that problem. Even three 11s would have done the trick. Squeaky bum time at the end there 😂
@@madabbafan Yes they did. If you lost Bully's Prize Gamble, until 1991 you kept the money won earlier. After 1991, when BFH was introduced, the money was staked as well as the prizes so if you took the gamble and lost then you went home with nothing.
The boys gave the prizes away I believe to charity....Good lads they were...guy in the pink shirt Glenn Billam was a tremendous local cricketer, and played football for Worksop Town when they were Northern Premier, for those of us old enough to remember it .
I might have seen him play. I used to watch South Liverpool in those days and Worksop were one of the teams in the league, which, as you say, was the Northern Premier.
Lol, people are quick to forget that back In the early 80s these sort of prices were actually pretty decent for the working class! Hence the gamble reaction a lot of people couldn’t believe they would risk it!
@violet They were allowed to choose the cash value of the star prize. Most of the stuff was no good unless the pair were family. Can hardly share a kitchen or a three piece suite😂
"You have to decide if you want to gamble all these prizes for Bulleys Star prize" that's what was said...one prize, not a combination of prizes. If they had lost I bet the car would have been shown as the prize.
Classic example of greed. It didn't occur to either of them to give the other contestants a chance to go for the Star prize. They obviously hadn't won enough in their minds.
Notice the "child's robot toy" looked very different when it was with all the other prizes at 2.45. Bloody rob dogs. I bet Jim swiped the first one for his grandkids !
Jim B. prob swiped it… def. gives off the air of someone that didn’t like others getting more than him. So the star prize was a cooker, fridge and a microwave. They already won a washing machine.
Best ones were when they won the special prize and their faces would be lit up until they dragged a beige Metro out and you could see their faces drop in the realisation of what they just actually won .
After Big Break with Jim Davidson and John Virgo started, they tried to get Jim Bowen and Tony Green to ham it up in the same way at the start of each episode of Bullseye.
So the big prize was actually some stuff from the prize board spread out a bit... (same washer, 14" TV and designer kettle & toaster etc). Did you notice that the robot was a cheap little one after they had won it and instead of three gold pens Jim said they won two? They must have wished for a speedboat. Still ace though.
@@klawlor3659 On a serious note, some of the cash prizes on Bullseye weren't to be sniffed at. Can't remember what year it was from but I saw one pair win £840. For arguments sake, if that was 1989, that:d be two and a half grand in todays money. Factor in that stuff in general was cheaper back then and I reckon that would be enough for both parties to go on a decent foreign holiday
@@MosesDeLaRoses Can't disagree with that pal. First wages I was on back in the mid 90s (and this was considered "decent") was around £117 a week after tax and NI. Pint of beer was around £1.20, cigs were around £2.40 for 20. So anything over £150, up north in the 80s, would have been decent cash!
@@klawlor3659 I was born in 89, and I started smoking around 04/05. I can remember paying well under a fiver for twenty Lambert and Butler back then. A bit later around 2006 I could get in to the indie disco in Derby on a Wednesday for a pound, and I could get a pint of cider (I know I know, the folly of youth) for £1.50. Even on the more expensive nights, £2.50 was the going rate for a pint. My late grandmother would give me £30 for a night out, and there was always enough left for a kebab. 2006 think on, not exactly the dim and distant past. Above all, it's food that gets me. Certain items just make my brain explode. Literally the whole point of Heinz macaroni cheese in a tin is it's dirty comfort food, and affordable. Stick a bit of crispy bacon through it, and there's your dinner. Now Sainsbury's feel it's reasonable to charge you two quid for it
Tony Green "THAT IS Thinking about it! " NO, IT WAS NOT !!!! He had 70 so just needed 31 and assuming, as the Darts player, he could and the dart between 2 Beds next to each other then EVERY date in "11" and "14" would do iy even if it was the lowest amount each time but going 10 and 15 meant he could get 3 x 10 and be one short so he got 2 x 10 then finally went for 11 or 14 both of which got him over the line and it nearly went in the "9"....haha
I don't know all fresh kitchen stuff not to be sniffed at .. Take today and Pointless. Jackpot can be £1000 BETWEEN them! A monkey each! Take you bought new clothes...day or 2 off work for filming and cost of getting to studios. Could be worse off by winning!🙄
@@stevebarker7552 You'd get most of your outlay back by winning a £1000 jackpot. If you didn't win it then you'd be totally out of pocket. I agree though, anything less than a £1500 jackpot between the two is maybe not worth winning.
Look on his face when he realises it's not a car....or a speedboat 🤣 Hell of a syrup & tash combo in the audience just before the go for the star prize 😂😂
Blokes on Friday at work: “We’re going on Bullseye on Sunday and will definitely be winning the star prize so want to book the next 2 weeks for a holiday when we win the trip to Cyprus!” Monday back at work: “Bollocks!”
what makes it odder is that he threw three at 10, 10 and 9 which is 29 and the non dart player threw 70, so that made it 99 out of 101, but I think they felt sorry for them and gave them the prizes.
@@panigalecars3485 Ha! I refrained from reading the comments first so I'm sure you can imagine the tension in my kitchen when they went for the gamble!!!
This brings back some massive memories - sat around the table at Sunday dinner with this blaring out. For a minute I almost got that chap with the tache was that wanted murder suspect who had appeared on the show once.
The Welsh boyo with the curly hair and tash,he was 1 bad article,in the end a pair of his sons shorts broke the case,ya dunno who's out there blending in with society, frightening 😮
I watched this and remembered my pink polo shirt! I wore this underneath my Bergerac Blouson and thought I was the Sh#######t when I stepped out of my Cavalier! 🙈👍🇬🇧
Imagine gambling all nine prizes, wondering if you're gonna win a speedboat, a holiday in the Seychelles or a Mini Metro. Nope, it's just some shite from Argos
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another episode was a fitted kitchen! how you split that between 2 :)
and ANOTHER washing mashine LOL
This was the 80s, this show had good prizes for the time even the money was great. Mind you I know a guy who won a speedboat and I am not joking it sat in a car park in Allershaw place (In Gowkthrapple) for years, untouched and unused. He couldn't sell the thing either - not because of rules, because nobody wanted it and it was costly to move to people would buy it.
So sadly it sat and rusted away.
Your judging it with modern eyes man, them prizes would turn ur house middle class in 1 afternoon for real.
After seeing those prizes, I’m starting to think my parents went on bullseye when I was a kid and didn’t tell me.
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Did your parents live in the midlands miles away from the sea and have a speedboat covered in moss sitting on their driveway?
That would confirm your suspicion.
A sea of bloody dismal tat
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@@BlookbugIV Not back then it weren't.
The sheer joy and ecstasy on the faces of those two blokes, at the thrill and delight of winning half a kitchen each.
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What happened to speed boats as prizes!!
They win even more sh1t white goods when they wanted a Hillman Imp with a choke and clothes peg to hold the knob out.
@@kevinshanahan6064 😂😂😂😂
They had some terrible star prizes for 2 mates winning the gamble.
That charity shop next door to the bullseye studio must have loved seeing Jim bowen coming in every Friday morning to pick out the prizes for bully's prize board
That wasn't a charity shop! That was my nans house : )
Classic
And the competitors who won them donating them back on their way home Monday morning.
1988 the stuff them 2 lads won, round our way folks would have come round to gawp!! A brand new washing machine as opposed to a twin tub or weekly trip to the laundrette for starters!! They played well then showed bottle & kept their nerve in the days before being on tv had been normalised so to speak. I bet ppl still talk of a little bit of Bully round their's!!
Nah mate north wales. What do you not remember the 1980s;- strikes ,power cuts, mass unemployment etc. I remember going to neighbours to watch FA cup final on a colour tv +not our B&W set. Why where were u living & going to school? Mozambique? poverty was real man round our way.@@alanoconnor6921
We’ve had a great day Jim, we’d like to keep what we’ve won so far and take it straight down the boot sale.
Underrated comment of the day.
A tenner for the lot?
lol
Jim: “So you’re gambling?”
'We would like to take the prizes to the nearest skip'.
When life was simple.... happy days
Say what you like about the prizes, an 80s hi-fi system looks a million times more badass than anything Apple sell today!
Totally agree! Those things were awsome at the time! 😊
Doesn't sound anywhere as good though was a crappy cheap stereo not even hifi lol
@@contingency9 You could still get some pretty good sound from the record deck. Copy music onto decent tapes for playing on the Sony Walkman when out and about. Better than most digital music today, where the instruments are dulled away or they have done a Sharon Osbourne remaster on the original tapes.
Unless it's Amstrad.
Cheap rubbish
My favourite bit is watching Jim's genuinely animated reaction when the contestants win. Particularly when he starts grabbing them and ragging them in the direction of the prize, occasionally slapping their arms or back, grabbing their necks and forcing them in to the car or to face the camera before aggressively pointing to the camera and waving like a mad man, asking them to follow his lead! It's just absolutely hilarious. You can see where Keith Lemon gets his Bo Selecta inspiration from!
hha yeah spot on always dragging people about like an untrained circus master.
I'm watching bullseye first time in decades. Your observations are hilarious.
Somebody once asked Jim how he felt when somebody gambled and lost i.e did he and his team feel sorry. His answer was... ' Do we bollocks. Greedy B,stards. We p!ss ourselves laughing...' There ya go. Nowt like a bit o bully...
No charisma at all, Jim is only there for Jim....a man with NO PERSONALITY...
Hilarious, mate. I am typing this through tears of laughter.:)
They won a load of junk, gambled, and won even more junk 😂
And if they'd have lost, the prizes would have been switched to a holiday for 4 to an exotic place
@@lewisf18 Like Jaywick on Sea?
@@jaggass perhaps Fawlty Towers
Split the stuff and argued over who gets the kids robot
What bollocks
Jim Bowen always playing the dodgy salesman at the end, he knows the star prize is shit and he doesn’t want to give them any time to realise that
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Lol
It’s ok being unable to think of the 1980s kid…but bear in mind when your grand dad won £30 on the pools it made his week.
Stick in at school tho
Well done, you've won the prize board twice.
It's a minor miracle that nobody ever knocked Jim out when they saw the 'star prize'.
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you mustn't do that must you?@@MosesDeLaRoses
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When Jim says "2 matching pens" Hang on there was 3 in the case before. Jim stole a gold pen lol
Not only that the robot changed from an Omnibot 2000 to the presumably cheaper 5402
@@sie4431I noticed that too
Love it when Jim and Tony go into teacher mode and tell the audience essentially to shut up
Love to have tony whispering calming words in my ear.... Doing the washing up " take your time mate, settle into it"
Or when having a shag..
@@jacksonirving4594 but you get nothing for 2 in a bed :o
@@judyhopps9380 just BFH.. Bus fare home if you lose
@@jacksonirving4594 worth more than the prizes if you lived on Shetland isles. Lol
@@judyhopps9380 😉 oh aye .
Grandma Phyllis' favourite TV show. We used to schlep out from Watford to Clacton to see her on Sundays (what a ball ache pre M25 !) and get to her nursing home only to be assailed by Bullseye at ear splitting volume. If anyone spoke the volume went up ! Vale Phyllis...
That made me laugh so much 👍
I bet she still looked younger than Jim
Never seen anyone win all nine prizes before; and risk the lot; and win!
It's cos the prizes were shit, lol. They were sharing 9 crap prizes between two fellas, might as well have a go if you're even a little bit confident of hitting 101!
In 1986 a couple won all the 9 prizes then gabled then lost it all a holiday. They did take home £980 or something in the £900s ( I worked out the exact sum that's £2,550.17 s in todays money November 2023) in cash between them though.This has only happened twice in the history of Bullseye 1981 - 1995.
@@dan003At that time those prizes would’ve been well worth having. What would Bully’s special prize be today? iPhone 15?
stop talking out of your arse.@@dan003
The star prize was usually a caravan or a boat - the people that won the boat invariably lived nowhere near a body of water big enough to sail it on - the municipal swimming pool or the boating lake in the town park were too small!
The prizes on gameshows in the 70s were fairly cheap usually carriage clocks or Timex watches - the biggest cash prize rarely exceeded £1,000 and the “star prize” was usually a foreign car (the budget wouldn’t run to a British one) - over time, the budget has increased - but most of today’s gameshows tend to give away cash!
If that audience had had Twitter those guys would have experienced a hate campaign never dreamed of by two blokes who just wanted a speed boat..
I always loved the idea of blokes from a council estate in the north with a speed-boat!
It was really a caravan they were after.
@@robertreape what was wrong with the one they already had?
Nothing. It's top notch. They just weren't sold on the colour.
The look on the faces of people who win the start prize to see Garden Furniture when they both live in a tower block....
Iv always thought that 😂😂😂
@@quack437 Or two blokes, not even related (sometimes barely friends) who win a car, a caravan or a speedboat. You couldn't move in Scunthorpe in the 80s for bloody speedboats.
@@alansbinnie1446 😂😂😂😂
Two set's of pans, two washer-dryers, two portable tv's... Bet that saved all the arguing on the bus on the way home!!!
Have you enjoyed it? “No Jim, it’s been shit” ........
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They looked miserable af
Lol ! 😂
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i agree, you need to show respect.@@geoffsullivan4063
I worked on production on this very edition and i remember it so well coz i had to get into a brand new ford Fiesta and quickly drive off and replace it with a kitchen unit 💯
very good
Lol
Why?
Please don't make me call you a cullible gunt.
a Ford Fiesta towing a speedboat even?
The 'childs robot toy' had become self aware and evolved by the final picture.
Backstage the next couple were getting pumped to go for the gamble then this pair of greedy gits took the lot!
If you were nursing a smack habit and were good at throwing darts, Bullseye was the show to go on. A lot of very pawnable gear for 1989
And ironically, these goods are such low quality today that smackheads today have these items in their homes.
@@RaferJeffersonIII Double ironically is that heroin and teasmades are still trendy... In Middlesbrough
Pawnable of course, very expensive items back in 1989 where a good secondhand car was cheaper than a dishwasher or washing machine
Funny thing was that when they got home their benefits were stopped coz they were unavailable for work the day they were recording,that’s a true story coz it was me that grassed them up lol lol.
1988
Win a whole bunch of things you've already got.
Yeah they both already had a dishwasher each at home. Their wives. 🤓
True
A lot of it looked like the stuff they already won from the prize board too
All those star prizes were just prototypes of what they had already won.
Yeh but that means pretty much same prize to each of the guys
Ps-bear in mind if you won a bunch of stuff today what folk 40 years ago will be saying and laughing at you lol
Always found it hilarious when they won a kitchen between them. I’ll take the dishwasher mate you have the fridge and we will split the tumble dryer where you have it one week I’ll have it the next.
They can get money instead of the prizes which most opted for.
I think the worst one I saw was two old fellas getting a £1000 voucher for designer clothing! Never seen such disappointment on two men's faces...
I need tony green as the voice on my sat nav could you imagine that
WE ARE NOW TURNING LEFT
TAKE YOUR TIME NO RUSH LOL
Would be good to have Tony. I have a woman’s voice and if I wanted to be told what to do I would take the wife out with me.
Rewatching these again on Challenge each weekday evening (and Sunday mornings). You often see the non dart player get a good score, and the dart player absolutely blow it. Even though some of these episodes are close to 40 years ago, it still leaves you feeling sick. More often than not too, it's a 'Holiday of a lifetime' type prize, just to rub salt into the wounds! (though my favorite gamble win was the two guys who won a Vauxhall Nova and then told Jim that neither of them could drive!) The nostalgia value of the old pros like Cliff Lazarenko, Bobby George, Maureen Flowers, Bristow and Lowe etc is good fun. Plus the prize board is like a sociological study in and of itself. You can see how certain things like Microwaves, stereos, TVs and computers became more and more common. Plus it's always a thrill when you see a prize that you actually had in the old days. My dad had the Chinon 35mm camera that's been a prize a few times. The big old Ferguson TV my nan and grandad had, my Commodore 64 and even the Nicam stereo Goodmans VHS (with flip down front control panel) my dad had. I also saw the identical JVC video camera that Marty McFly had in Back to the Future!
Enjoyable post but did anyone have a Fizzy Drinks Machine immortalized by one episode where Jim proclaimed "You've won the fizzy drinks machine!!" closely followed by the NON Darts player landing in the same bed "You've LOST the fizzy drinks machine!!" 😀
Yeah i remember seeing that a few times. The dart player had been brilliant all night and then throws 26.
We've had a right good day Jim, just getting away from centre for a few hours is a blessing...
Peter Kay!
And all those prizes are now in landfill... Still, it's a nice day out for them!
To be fair, i still have that exact Hotpoint washing machine 😂.
My nan & grandad brought it in the 80s, gave it to my mum & dad in the 90s and they gave it to me when i got my own place about 10 years ago. My mum & dad have gone through 3 washing machines since. So in this case "they don't make them like they used to!"
@@adamholmes91 That's a relief 'cos I bought a Hotpoint last week as I couldn't justify the extra spend on a Bosch.
@@nelsonhibbert5267 Unfortunately they aren't very good anymore, 2 of the ones my parents had to replace within the past 10 years were Hotpoint. Although i don't think bosch are any better either now. Sadly things aren't built to last anymore.
@@adamholmes91 Ahh bugger. They do a 10 year parts guarantee though (no idea if that's a good sign or not) and it'll likely only get light use so if I can get 5 years out of it I'll be happy. But it's great that Bullseye is inspiring conversations about domestic appliances long after it's inception.
I'm kind of shocked they had an actual Sony Walkman as a prize and not some knock off Saisho personal stereo from Dixons.
That's this show mate, quality prizes only.
I really wanted that Walkman as a kid
Not need to be shocked kid….and that Walkman boxed now sells for £250
@@huna1950 Haven't been called a kid since the 1980's and my shock comes the fact the prizes were not usually from brands like Sony.
Usually any kind of stereo or hi-fi would be some cheapo off brand like Saisho.
I was nervous watching this gamble what must be over 40 years later 😮
He nearly messed that up! Was gambling thinking 10 or 15 but three tens would have been a disaster. Had he gone between 11/14 he wouldn’t have had that problem. Even three 11s would have done the trick. Squeaky bum time at the end there 😂
I was thinking that as well. I know I would have gone for the 11 and 14, I'd probably have missed though.
@@alansbinnie1446 🤣
Win TV and washer, gamble to win a TV and washer haha
That star prize had two of the prizes they had already won.
So basically the star prize is what they already won when they scored all the red
...plus a dish washing machine and refrigerator
I thought that too.
From what I remember they also get the prizeboard prizes as well
@@madabbafan Yes they did. If you lost Bully's Prize Gamble, until 1991 you kept the money won earlier. After 1991, when BFH was introduced, the money was staked as well as the prizes so if you took the gamble and lost then you went home with nothing.
The women at 3:47 “Oh dear me”
The boys gave the prizes away I believe to charity....Good lads they were...guy in the pink shirt Glenn Billam was a tremendous local cricketer, and played football for Worksop Town when they were Northern Premier, for those of us old enough to remember it .
I might have seen him play. I used to watch South Liverpool in those days and Worksop were one of the teams in the league, which, as you say, was the Northern Premier.
Lol, people are quick to forget that back In the early 80s these sort of prices were actually pretty decent for the working class! Hence the gamble reaction a lot of people couldn’t believe they would risk it!
I had black and white tele till 85
You’re spot on. It’s too easy to judge the prizes against the standards of 2022.
I think they were expecting the holiday, car or caravan (heck they probably would’ve been happy with the speedboat!)
@violet They were allowed to choose the cash value of the star prize. Most of the stuff was no good unless the pair were family. Can hardly share a kitchen or a three piece suite😂
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Bullseye, Dustybin and the adventure game. Childhood family viewing.
"Let's take a look at what you could've won"
Will always be my favourite gameshow line. 😂😂😂
As they,hastily,change the dishwasher for a speedboat or car" LOL
Perfect brings back many happy memories, like was so good then. I actually had one of those midi hi fi's
State of the art lol !!!!
Did it have a "Graphic Equaliser" to equalize your graphics? :)
Sunday afternoon at my nans with manderin oranges and condensed milk.
That midi hi-hi with CD looks good!
Five band graphic equaliser.
Exactly the same model of hi-fi i first owned! It was a Phillips.
Philips... I got one on my first dixons store card
It was a Philips CD hifi. I had the very same model and it was decent, but not a particularly expensive unit.
@@stevecheatley1634 £250-£300 i recall.
Nice TV for the day. Considering lots had to rent back in those days.
Lol the star prize was worse than what they had already won!
would have been the car if they had lost
Now that's bleeding funny 😂 👍
not remotely.@@davidcole2899
That’s exactly what I was thinking….they have 2 prizes ready to go a car if they lose and a pile of crap every household already has if you win!!!
actually they are all wonderful prizes as you already know.@@stevebee5840
Probably the first couple ever to win two washing machines in two prizes.
This was the 80’s this stuff wasn’t in every house back then 🤷🏻♂️
Those casserole pans where the carrots used to be boiled to nothingness
When I was a kid it was always one of my favourite shows I would have loved to go on as the dart player.
"You have to decide if you want to gamble all these prizes for Bulleys Star prize" that's what was said...one prize, not a combination of prizes. If they had lost I bet the car would have been shown as the prize.
We had that washing machine back in the day. And we still have a couple of the Saucepans.
Anytime someone wins a prize, you get the feeling Jim and the other guys thinking "oooh ya bas.... thats cost us, lol.
Brilliant program ,bring it back !
everyones dead though, even Bully
@@meisterlymanu5214I heard that Bully went to the Steakhouse after the show ended 😂
you heard wrong cos it didn't happen.@@BigRLH
@@sallyjoanit's a joke
oh right, hilarious, not!@@BigRLH
Classic example of greed. It didn't occur to either of them to give the other contestants a chance to go for the Star prize. They obviously hadn't won enough in their minds.
"Designer kitchenware"
From Argos.
They might have won all that but they didn't get a Blankety blank cheque book and pen.
Sunday afternoons from my childhood
Notice the "child's robot toy" looked very different when it was with all the other prizes at 2.45. Bloody rob dogs. I bet Jim swiped the first one for his grandkids !
I noticed that aswell , the cheapskates
I noticed too! WTF happened?! hahaha
Jim B. prob swiped it… def. gives off the air of someone that didn’t like others getting more than him. So the star prize was a cooker, fridge and a microwave. They already won a washing machine.
Fun fact: Jim didn't have grandkids at the time of filming, he was only 36
@@MosesDeLaRoses36 yet looked 66!
That's what you called made of Sheffield steel 👊🥳
Haha you can actually hear some old biddie going "ohh dear"
‘Mum can I have a robot like that?’ said no child ever.
🤣🤣🤣
You’ve done it! You’ve exchanged a whole pile of crap for a slightly different whole pile of crap!
They haven't tho. They've won a pile of crap ON TOP of the pile of crap they won already
Nope they won money because if you read up on the show you could opt for cash instead of the prize.
Best game show ever 👍
Best ones were when they won the special prize and their faces would be lit up until they dragged a beige Metro out and you could see their faces drop in the realisation of what they just actually won .
I actually owned a beige metro once! It was godawful!
@@allisonday893 my dad owned a broken beige metro .
Did anyone notice no remote controls with the telly's . imagine that these days eh!! Lol
That was the last bullseye they clean them out the show shut down & went "bankrupt"..🤣🤣🤣
Tony Green was the real star of the show with his amazing screen presence and amusing anecdotes
yeah right
After Big Break with Jim Davidson and John Virgo started, they tried to get Jim Bowen and Tony Green to ham it up in the same way at the start of each episode of Bullseye.
The cameraman was never very happy having to move away from triple 20
Very few hit that anyway.
The "star" prize should have been a mini skip to throw all the crap you've won into.
So the big prize was actually some stuff from the prize board spread out a bit... (same washer, 14" TV and designer kettle & toaster etc). Did you notice that the robot was a cheap little one after they had won it and instead of three gold pens Jim said they won two? They must have wished for a speedboat. Still ace though.
Somebody recently bought the late Jim Bowens car,a super smashing great looking burgundy Bentley....Jim had good taste in cars 🚗
That’s the silver plated gold pens !! Lmfao 😂😂😂
And Bullys special prize... a Tesco delivery van!
2 washing machines and 2 shitty tvs I’m estatic now all in a landfill near Sheffield 😂
Convinced they had two star prizes at the back, anyone too greedy, or clever got shafted.😅😅😅
Star prize Ken Barlows hi fi lol
I always wanted a little colour telly.
By the time he hit 70 the £4500 star prize was back undercover in the storeroom.
£4500 in 1989 could have got you a house in Middlesbrough
@@MosesDeLaRosesit'll get you a house in Burnley now!
@@klawlor3659 On a serious note, some of the cash prizes on Bullseye weren't to be sniffed at. Can't remember what year it was from but I saw one pair win £840. For arguments sake, if that was 1989, that:d be two and a half grand in todays money. Factor in that stuff in general was cheaper back then and I reckon that would be enough for both parties to go on a decent foreign holiday
@@MosesDeLaRoses Can't disagree with that pal. First wages I was on back in the mid 90s (and this was considered "decent") was around £117 a week after tax and NI. Pint of beer was around £1.20, cigs were around £2.40 for 20. So anything over £150, up north in the 80s, would have been decent cash!
@@klawlor3659 I was born in 89, and I started smoking around 04/05. I can remember paying well under a fiver for twenty Lambert and Butler back then. A bit later around 2006 I could get in to the indie disco in Derby on a Wednesday for a pound, and I could get a pint of cider (I know I know, the folly of youth) for £1.50. Even on the more expensive nights, £2.50 was the going rate for a pint. My late grandmother would give me £30 for a night out, and there was always enough left for a kebab. 2006 think on, not exactly the dim and distant past.
Above all, it's food that gets me. Certain items just make my brain explode. Literally the whole point of Heinz macaroni cheese in a tin is it's dirty comfort food, and affordable. Stick a bit of crispy bacon through it, and there's your dinner. Now Sainsbury's feel it's reasonable to charge you two quid for it
They should remake this show for 2024.
Tony Green "THAT IS Thinking about it! " NO, IT WAS NOT !!!! He had 70 so just needed 31 and assuming, as the Darts player, he could and the dart between 2 Beds next to each other then EVERY date in "11" and "14" would do iy even if it was the lowest amount each time but going 10 and 15 meant he could get 3 x 10 and be one short so he got 2 x 10 then finally went for 11 or 14 both of which got him over the line and it nearly went in the "9"....haha
They thought the star prize was a speed boat or a car lol xxx
The blokes face at the end said it all really "What's this pile of shit?" Didn't even get a coat hanger to make the tv work 😂
Looking back to when this was on. At the time the prizes was brilliant and now. Watching this
In 2021 I realised that the prizes was crap🤔
I don't know all fresh kitchen stuff not to be sniffed at ..
Take today and Pointless. Jackpot can be £1000 BETWEEN them!
A monkey each! Take you bought new clothes...day or 2 off work for filming and cost of getting to studios.
Could be worse off by winning!🙄
O RLY? I bet you make a cup of tea manually in 2021? Wouldn't be wasting time with that if you had won yourself a TEASMAID on Bullseye! 🎯🤓👍
@@gtbfilms7472 ye while
Playing with his pound shop crap bully,
@@stevebarker7552 You'd get most of your outlay back by winning a £1000 jackpot. If you didn't win it then you'd be totally out of pocket. I agree though, anything less than a £1500 jackpot between the two is maybe not worth winning.
“Where’s the freakin car? “ was a quote from the bloke in the blue trousers
Look on his face when he realises it's not a car....or a speedboat 🤣
Hell of a syrup & tash combo in the audience just before the go for the star prize 😂😂
syrup?
...of figs.@@scottchegg828
Blokes on Friday at work: “We’re going on Bullseye on Sunday and will definitely be winning the star prize so want to book the next 2 weeks for a holiday when we win the trip to Cyprus!”
Monday back at work: “Bollocks!”
I’m still to this day trying to work out what was Bully’s star prize 😳
A hi-fi
When hi-fi’s were hi-fi’s with the manual graphic equalisers!!😂😂those were the days!!
You've won a spead boat! But I live in a top floor flat, Jim!😂
"LOOK! YOU'VE DOUBLED THE AMOUNT OF SHIT YOU FIRST WON!"
"Where the hell's the Vauxhall Nova this week?".
Crikey that was some confidence to go for two 10s with those first two darts.. would have been much safer to just hit all three at 11/14!
what makes it odder is that he threw three at 10, 10 and 9 which is 29 and the non dart player threw 70, so that made it 99 out of 101, but I think they felt sorry for them and gave them the prizes.
@@GenGamesUniverse He threw a 14 on his last dart - 104.
@@jamesthompkpson190 Must admit, I had to watch it again. Sure did look like he hit a 9 when I first watched it.
@@Norton1531 i thought so too.
@@Norton1531 Yeah, it's the angle of the camera shot. Stare at it and you can tell it hit 14.
Thank God for that last dart - well done lads that was a big gamble but you did it
James Slingsby wow spoiler alert! :(
@@panigalecars3485 Ha! I refrained from reading the comments first so I'm sure you can imagine the tension in my kitchen when they went for the gamble!!!
Norton1531 oh man, I can bet it was a dye of your seat stuff? Imagine being in the crowd!
They wouldn't have made it out of that studio alive if they'd blown it
@@tonyyeboah21 it's a fair bet half of the studio audience didn't if the exits were at the top of those stairs
So funny when the star prize comes out and it's a load of left overs from previous shows LMAO
All the audience saying greedy bastards under their breath when they said gamble. Haha 🤣.
This brings back some massive memories - sat around the table at Sunday dinner with this blaring out. For a minute I almost got that chap with the tache was that wanted murder suspect who had appeared on the show once.
The Welsh boyo with the curly hair and tash,he was 1 bad article,in the end a pair of his sons shorts broke the case,ya dunno who's out there blending in with society, frightening 😮
I had exactly one of those portable stereo which started chewing up tapes in the end but it did last some time.
I watched this and remembered my pink polo shirt!
I wore this underneath my Bergerac Blouson and thought I was the Sh#######t when I stepped out of my Cavalier! 🙈👍🇬🇧
2 washing machines identical ! Must of been a sale on at curry’s
all u get is your last bus fare home😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Classic Yellow Sony walkman