Cilla's Surprise, Surprise! • Full Episode • Series 3 Episode 1 • 19 Jan 1986 • TV Gold

Programme 1 [19/1/86] Return of the show in which old friends are reunited, ambitions fulfilled and Cillagrams delivered. As always, Cilla Black is full of magical surprises.

[@aaronjameslockwood2437]

I've been looking all over TH-cam for the Classic Eighties editions of Surprise Surprise.
I'm glad I found it.
Thank you very much for uploading it to TH-cam, I really appreciate it bigtime

[@marcustibbs2803]

Nice jumper Gordon

[@falconboy12]

I so wish I knew about this fabulous later sooner in life, I'm from USA so I didn't until the clips of her on Instagram and I am so enjoying this show and Blind Date. I would have been a big fan if I knew of her in the 80. Thanks for posting these.

[@user-dp6cw9po5k]

I Absolutely Love Gordon's Inclusion to the Show!

[@antpoo71]

Thanku TV 🥇for the latest two episodes. Appreciated as per. Fabulousl. ♥ 😘

[@laurenealey1674]

Very good b

[@antster1983]

First edition to feature _The Krypton Factor_ host Gordon Burns as a co-presenter. And here's what he told the Granadaland oral history project about doing the show...
_"Because [The Krypton Factor] was such a huge success, I became a quiz show host, and instead of doing more politics and current affairs, shortly after The Krypton Factor started I went freelance and I wasn’t employed to do any of that. Instead, I found myself on Surprise, Surprise with Cilla Black, to do a one-off for her as a guest quiz show host, which turned into a thing called Searchline, which looked for people who hadn’t seen each other for 50 years or since the war or since at school, because the quiz they were going to do fell down overnight, so they changed it to this other thing, and they were going to have guest presenters every week, and I did the first one of the latest series of Surprise, Surprise. And at the end, Cilla said, “I’d love you to do the series.” And because I needed money, being a freelance at he time, and I was seduced - not by Cilla, I hasten to add! - by the showbiz element. Because you went down to London Weekend Television, who were an entertainment side as opposed to Granada, who were more serious and political and so on._
_"So I got flown down on the shuttle - none of your economy train nonsense! - met by a limo, whizzed into LWT, had a studio that overlooked the River Thames in all its glory, right across to the left to the Commons and over to the right, St Paul’s Cathedral - I mean, it was just phenomenal. So I got looked after. And when the show was over - Bob Carolgees was in it, people like that - we went for a meal, sometimes with Cilla, sometimes not, limo back to the hotel, overnight in the hotel, limo to the airport, flew me home, paid me a lot of money for doing very little, and I did it for five years."_
More interviews and transcripts with Gordon Burns and many others who worked for Granada Television in its glory days can be found on this brilliant website - www.granadaland.org/

[@travellingshoes5241]

We all saw Cilla's evil true form as she bullied and belittled The Impressionists.

[@KarmasAbutch]

Surprise me!