Take Your Pick - Yes / No Interlude
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- A clip from Take Your Pick from 1955.
Quiz inquisitor Michael Miles put contestants through a series of minor obstacles, including a sixty-second spot where the player had to answer questions without the use of words 'yes' or 'no'. Alec Dane would immediately gong out the contestant if they uttered one of the fateful words
No. Bob Danvers-Walker was the announcer describing the prizes. The man with the gong in the yes/no interlude was Alec Dane....
Glenn Johnson Watched this every week and Michael Miles lived in my home town,along with Arthur English.Pure nostalgia.
Before Take your Pick started on ITV television it was a radio show on Radio Luxembourg. I went to some of the Take your Pick radio recordings.
Such a simple little game, but SO entertaining !
"I'll open the box Michael" 😂😂😂 I loved that show!
Here he is, your quiz inquisitor, Michael Miles.
And for viewers at home, this is the key to box thirteen.
What shall he do everybody? Take the money or open the box?
You've turned down 22 pounds 10 shillings so let's go and open box number four and see what you've won.
You've taken 18 pounds so let's open box number seven and see what you would have won.
And tonight's booby prize is a stale chunk of cheese for a mousetrap.
As you can see I remember the programme only too well !
bah eck lad thas gorra good memry , siythee downt rovers fer a pint o too .
Whey couldn't they buy Michael Miles ?
He kept opening the box !
5 bob for all that effort, hardly worth walking out on stage for. Still...respects that there is another person who remembers Take your Pick on Friday evenings (I think) at 8pm. Followed by a programme starring Lorne Green. Don't know what it was called but he had a small boat. Happy days.
Or an old sock ! HA !
Memories... wow I remember this so well
I am an English language teacher, and I am going to use this on my students.
Take the money! Open the box!
very good....the contestants don't get a chance to get settled in before MM is testing them......they go on determined not to say yes or no, but it is very hard when you're having to think what you say all the time
Take your Pick ran from 1955 - 1968 and Out of an original total of 494 episodes, 488 episodes are missing.
That's a shame because my dad won the star prize in an episode from around 1958-ish, when I was born. He was in the RAF and they hired a helicopter to fly him to play darts in a pub in Brussels. I'd have loved to have seen the episode which featured the helicopter hovering over my mum and dad's house in Tottenham, North London. Happy times.
michael was superb at trapping them on the yes no interlude. far better than des o'connor many years after this.
blimey, where did you get this? i was 6 when this was broadcast and i get my free bus pass next year. remember it well. thanks for posting.
I remember my parents watching this when I was a little kid. Apparently, I could not say Michael Miles, & always called him Michael Michaels
I've only heard of this because it was parodied in a Monty Python sketch.
Brilliant TV. He gave the winners a ten bob (50p) note out of his pocket!
Cracking! Brings back so many memories of watching scratchy B&W TV in the early sixties..... now.... what the hell was the name of the bloke with the gong? I got a fiver coming if I get it... I'll give you half!
Alec Dane I believe was the bloke with the gong. Feel free to keep the fiver!
With Alec on the gong ...
simply the best i used to love the show des dident do a bad job but the oridgnal awsome
nick cox hull
Watched it every week as a boy in England, Michael Miles with Alec and his gong. 50 pounds in the treasure chest, booby prize, tonight’s star prize
A man was asked if he knew Michael Miles had died? He said no. Bong!
Best TV show ever.
Used to film this in Studio 1 at Wembley. Studio 1,2,3 & 4 have been demolished. At least Studio 5 at Wembley is still there.
The show may have been studio-bound at one time, but I'm pretty sure it went "on the road" as well, filming in a different location each week. I distinctly recall an article about it in TV Times, illustrated with a photo of the boxes and other stage properties being loaded into a pantechnicon for the journey.
love it..
are there any full episodes of take your pick
You are quite right of course...somehow I had no recollection of the name Alec Dane, he must have one of those instantly forgettable names.
The treasure chest containing £50.... OOooooooo!
Alec Dane was also Michael Miles's manager/agent.
So how did negotiations go?
'We'd like to pay Mr. Miles £500 per episode.'
'You did say £1000 didn't you'
'No'
Bong!!
I've checked this website, but, unfortunately, only schools, colleges and other educational institutions are allowed to register. The explanation for this is that the content is licensed from third-party providers: rights owners to you and me. Disappointing. I used to watch this programme regularly. It always ended with a little monologue by Michael Miles who when then close the show with the words 'this is your quiz inquisitor, Michael Miles saying "god night, good luck and cheerio to you all.'
Roger .. You may be correct after all but I going to research further. I`m sure I saw an ancient TV Times recently with Bob D-W billed as `On the gong` but I may be mistaken. I can`t recall Alec Dane being mentioned but after nearly 50 years I may have forgotten !! The man on the gong in the you tube footage certainly doesn`t look like the photo of Bob D-W on wikipedia. Ahh well.
Happy days. S
The man on the gong is named Alec Dane; it is definitely NOT Bob Danvers-Walker. BDV was the voice over announcer.
bob danvers walker was helpimg with michael miles
was the voice of pathe news
Before that 'Bob Danvers Walker' was a presenter and news reader on the pre-war commercial radio station "Radio Normandie" (sometimes spelt 'Normandy').
his name was Bob Danvers Walker
can you notice his accent coming thru? he said 'a wee bit'; that's very Kiwi. He then picked up some Aussie intonations before arriving in the UK
Like how felt he had to explain her husband was not in Borstal. For those of you unaware Borstal is was a prison in England. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borstal
WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE GONG HITTER WHEN YES OR NO WAS SAID
We all know that Take Your Pick was both the first game show on ITV and the first game show to offer cash prizes. But I'm just curious if anyone knows, what was the first BBC game show to offer cash prizes? And also, what was the first BBC game show to offer real (non-cash) prizes (as opposed to just trophies)?
To answer the question posed as to what BBC show offered the first cash prizes, I don't know for certain, but would suggest "Have A Go" on BBC radio which offered money prizes, all be it very small amounts, to contestants even before the start of ITV commencing broadcasting. As for BBC tv the first programme I remember contestants being offered half decent prizes was "The Generation Game" Before that children could win small toys and books etc on "Crackerjack" Perhaps someone can post a definitive answer.
This is how to be game show host . charming funny and courteous . and since then we have had a succession of hosts who couldn't lick Miles's boots apart from Forsyth and Davidson .
To correct Roger Simmonds (Sorry Roger !) Bob Danvers-Walker didn`t announce the prizes as far as I know. Whoever did do this will be mentioned in the TV Times listings of the day. Bob D-W was actually billed as being `On the gong!` in the said magazine. What an accolade !!
BONG! Its you who has it wrong I’m afraid Steve - Bob D-W was indeed the voice and Alec Dane was on the gong
@WhirlgigTV oh there is. just not on high def or on my iphone!
@kaferere They had another Organist as well.. "Robin Richmond"
I think the organist was normally Harold Smart.
there is no sound.
much better than the recent version made in the 1990's.
I'm so confused.
Wonder what the prizes were?
There'd be a "star prize" - a car, or a caravan, or something of that order.
Then six more ordinary prizes, whose general level can be deduced from the ever-present "Take Your Pick Treasure Chest" containing anything from 50 to 100 pounds cash (if not won, it accumulated by 10 pounds each week). There'd be fancy furniture, or maybe a fridge or washing machine (still semi-luxury items in the 1950s).
Finally there were the three "booby prizes", half a loaf being one I can remember (some poor lady actually won that).
The Box 13 prize was usually something pretty special, but announced beforehand in a cryptic manner that didn't reveal exactly what it was (eg "a breath of fresh air" for an overseas holiday).
Anyone failing to get the three questions right got a ten-bob consolation prize.
@Whirligig Watch it. There isnt
Man with the gong was Bob Danvers-Walker.
No 'Bob Danvers Walker' was the voice telling the audience and viewers about the prizes. The man with the Gong was 'Alec Dane'.
BONG!
Alec WHO?.....
The idiocy of RP...
think you must be deaf