I remember how the series 'straddled' the period where ITV had dropped the network-wide pre-programme idents, but Yorkshire Television was one of the companies which opposed this, and resisted the policy by continuing to 'offer' its own ident on its own shows for much of 1988. Here in Northern Ireland, Ulster Television did follow the policy - but sometimes they would leak-out, and moreso if UTV was locally rescheduling a regional programme wirh a pre-prigramme ident they weren't expecting.
YTV continued to include their frontcap until the August 1989 rebrand - and they also made a point of showing the frontcaps from other companies if they were present on the tapes. Granada also kept including their still caption at the start of programmes like Coronation Street, so this was always seen in the YTV area. A few slipped through in all regions I expect - the STV one popped up on Tyne Tees before an episode of the Now You See It quiz. It must have been a bit of logistical nightmare really - frontcaps were present on repeats or programmes produced around the time of the policy change, and on Granada, YTV and probably other companies new stuff too - so the various control rooms around the network had to know the duration of these captions to know when to cut to the programmes.. and to ignore or mentally adjust the VT clock countdowns which would of course be counting down to the frontcap, not the start of the titles.
@@CaptainSiCodidn’t TVS use theirs until they lost their franchise. Also remember a Meridian Presents frontcap for presenting TVS programmes from before they got killed off by the ITC
Am making my way through your fantastic shows. I love the format of Winner Takes All. I think the format worked best with Tarby hosting but I think it could be very successful again if relaunched on a major TV channel with a good presenter. Thankyou so much
Thank you Doctor for your expert diagnosis. Anyhow Brian did the quiz show rounds as seen on his channel here th-cam.com/channels/Eu0T-qDOHyRhQBn0Y2zVUw.html
Actually the show was quite generous compared to other daytime quiz shows in the uk at the time. Heck some modern BBC quiz shows give away less a program on average than this show did (coughthelinkcough).
623058top And in comparison to other UK daytime quiz shows pre-Deal or No Deal, it really was quite generous. A lot of winners won between £500 and £1,000 a show with the ability to come back and win more, whereas most other daytime shows like Lucky Ladders and Going for Gold gave out prizes worth less than £100 daily and gave a holiday (valued at only a grand or two at best) to the series champ.
I remember how the series 'straddled' the period where ITV had dropped the network-wide pre-programme idents, but Yorkshire Television was one of the companies which opposed this, and resisted the policy by continuing to 'offer' its own ident on its own shows for much of 1988.
Here in Northern Ireland, Ulster Television did follow the policy - but sometimes they would leak-out, and moreso if UTV was locally rescheduling a regional programme wirh a pre-prigramme ident they weren't expecting.
YTV continued to include their frontcap until the August 1989 rebrand - and they also made a point of showing the frontcaps from other companies if they were present on the tapes. Granada also kept including their still caption at the start of programmes like Coronation Street, so this was always seen in the YTV area. A few slipped through in all regions I expect - the STV one popped up on Tyne Tees before an episode of the Now You See It quiz. It must have been a bit of logistical nightmare really - frontcaps were present on repeats or programmes produced around the time of the policy change, and on Granada, YTV and probably other companies new stuff too - so the various control rooms around the network had to know the duration of these captions to know when to cut to the programmes.. and to ignore or mentally adjust the VT clock countdowns which would of course be counting down to the frontcap, not the start of the titles.
@@CaptainSiCodidn’t TVS use theirs until they lost their franchise. Also remember a Meridian Presents frontcap for presenting TVS programmes from before they got killed off by the ITC
please please please - give us more Winner takes all
Am making my way through your fantastic shows. I love the format of Winner Takes All. I think the format worked best with Tarby hosting but I think it could be very successful again if relaunched on a major TV channel with a good presenter. Thankyou so much
RIP Geoffrey Wheeler
If only the credit said "Presented, devised and executive produced by Geoffrey Wheeler".
I can't believe we lost GW.
@johnboycooper4914
And sadly, that gap too0thed, scouse wank stain, JT is still among us.
9 August 1976
No, for god's sake
The guy on the left has asbergers.
Thank you Doctor for your expert diagnosis.
Anyhow Brian did the quiz show rounds as seen on his channel here
th-cam.com/channels/Eu0T-qDOHyRhQBn0Y2zVUw.html
Were bobby davro winner takes all
Bobby Davro hosted the version shown on Challenge.
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The prizes are awfuly low aren't they ...
+SimsMoyal Maybe, but Keynotes was even cheaper!
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cant understand what would motivate them to win
Actually the show was quite generous compared to other daytime quiz shows in the uk at the time. Heck some modern BBC quiz shows give away less a program on average than this show did (coughthelinkcough).
This also was due to IBA guidelines at the time about how much money television comopanies can give away on game shows
Winner Takes Sod All as Peter Kay called it
This Series was poor because its Daytime. Cheap filler at 5.15pm, unlike all the series before hand.
623058top And in comparison to other UK daytime quiz shows pre-Deal or No Deal, it really was quite generous. A lot of winners won between £500 and £1,000 a show with the ability to come back and win more, whereas most other daytime shows like Lucky Ladders and Going for Gold gave out prizes worth less than £100 daily and gave a holiday (valued at only a grand or two at best) to the series champ.