Winning Streak would say "Here are 5 locations in Ireland. Pick one" And you'd say something like The Giant's Causeway and a little robot would fly there and go "Jaysus look at that, you've got £25,000" That was it. That was the game and we were all enamored by it. Seeing people get like £8K on Jeapordy. What are ye doing? Winning Streak is literally "pick a number between 1 and 5, oh wow look at that, they all have at least €10K in them"
I never realised how ridiculous the premise of winning streak was until now but them my father was on in 2000 and won £10,000 punts and we were "disappointed" because it was the LEAST you could win for doing fuck all! 🙈 my aunt went on a few years later and won £12,000!
The games were rigged on the show. It depended where you were from before the game started. If you were from Meath you'd walk away with 50k, if you were from Cavan, 10k was all you were getting. And every week, the drum was fully of entrants from either Dublin, Cork or Galway because there was always someone from Cork on it every week.
@@rocon86 I agree I always thought that drum was rigged and there there was ALWAYS at least ONE person from Dublin on every week, but I don't know why!
You should see the new games they have on the English Channels - there's one where you drop a coin in and hope it knocks the next fecker down. That used to be called 2p waterfalls (or coiney coiney push push in Oz) when I was a kid.
Winning Streak was peak. Irish kino. Saturday nights staying with me Granddad watching Winning Streak eating a cheap Aldi pizza. Miss those days sometimes.
To be fair Winning Streak never pretended to be anything other than a game of chance. I think that was the beauty of it to be honest. It was quite a leveller too as all you needed to enter and get on was to buy a scratch card, get the 3 stars....get picked out and you're on. It allowed for getting some interesting characters on the show who otherwise wouldn't have ever been able to do well on a quiz show or other game shows. It was also a good thing for seeing families and communities getting behind one of their own. They don't show it anymore. Presumably it's racist or something.
My mam went on that when I was about 8, she won 14k and a weekend in a Scottish castle... I was gutted. All my mates saw the show of course and slagged me for years cos my mam won so little.
To anyone that's not familiar with Winning Streak: There would be 5 people on the show and the MINIMUM you could go away with was €10,000. The top prize, in addition to getting around €60,000 in the rest of the game, was €500,000, and the odd time it would be €1,000,000. Insane amounts of money. Nearly everyone would go away with a brand new car worth at least €30,000 as well. On top of that there was a segment that highlighted a charity that the national lottery was giving money to
Years ago I saw an episode of Blankity Blank (I think) from the 70's or maybe 80's. The questions started out at a penny and got up to like a £10 of the sterling type. Inflation etc. but people were still leaving with probably the money it took to get to the studio if they didn't live outside London.
This is such a true as account of our tv.On countdown when you're the big winner you used to get dictionaries aswell,bare in mind that to win the game you have to know a lot of words.😂So why the dictionary that would be more useful at the beginning of the game.
It's not just the English gameshows that are stingey. Take a look at horseracing on English TV - generally, peanuts. Irish horses wouldn't jump a mars bar for those low sums.😮
I lived in Las Vegas for a few years. Talk about ruining your perception of money. You start seeing everything as a high score in a video game, but it's Vegas, so your high score is always a negative. 😂😭😂
Oh boy,I would absolutely love to hear you reviewing an Irish quiz show called quick silver,it was presented by a gentleman called bunny carr ,if I remember right it started off with 2p questions and it would up to as much as a pound or maybe five pounds I can't remember properly,but by today's standards it was absolutely hilarious.😂😂 Just to add this was the 70s into possibly the early 90s
Omg! SAME!! I used to dream of the day I’d get to sit in the audience with a big sign ‘GO DAD!! SPIN THAT WHEEL!!’ And we’d all drive home in a brand new Ford Escort!😅
It was real it was just not real because it was the celtic tiger. It was real at the time though you could have bought a house and then when the crash came lost it all.
I think the reason the cash prizes and other winnings where so high was because the scratch cards and the whole show was ran through the Irish National Lottery. Which is not what they do in the UK. It seems the TV stations in the UK are responsible for issuing the winnings. And the BBC are publicly funded with the UK tv licence fee and the BBC can't advertise either, Hence why I think shows like pointless and eggheads do 1k a day rolling jackpots Winning streak was only filmed by RTE and RTE never had to pay nothing.
The BBC does have some Lottery funded ones with bigger prizes, but they never seem that popular compared to the likes of Eggheads. The most beloved gameshows seem to be the ones on in an afternoon with old folk tuning in religiously Monday to Friday, and they're funded by the BBC so can't appear too extravagant with the public money.
I sent in lots of 3star lottery tickets but never was picked nor any of my family was picked.I did win money in my local town on a raffle.I also won small amounts on lotto tv draw that was twice a week.
This is so accurate!! I didn't even realise its because of winning streak that I got so used to people winning boat loads of money for nothing that when i see something like The Chase now, I always think its mad they get so little 😂
My daughter won a car but they gave her money, she got nearly 60000. She wasn’t the biggest winner on the night! We had great fun going up together in a minibus and celebrating on the way home! €10000 would have been disappointing! 😂
Since it was run by the National Lottery the games had to be based on chance rather than skill. But the contestants earned their money anyway during the interrogation section at the start of the show where they asked you what you did for a living and which you preferred: GAA or custard creams
I know what you are saying . How about deal or no deal. Used to be on the telly 📺 in the local pub next to me.. the day the Galway girl 👧 won the big prize 250000 £ . The bar had to be quiet during the afternoon as serious as it gets having a pint and peanuts 🥜...
No future tv quiz in Ireland would function at UK rates of prize money ( UK=hundreds rather than thousands) You are right, In Ireland you wouldn't turn up for less than 10k min.
I'm telling you winning Streak was an absolute dream as a child , free money just for turning up to the thing if your name came up lucky after collecting a few wheels on the loto , But it's weird how they could throw away money at people , I know lotto helps and that's a bit off a catch too how can they give away millions , not on sales alone hardly And Ireland in dept to the world somehow and some other bolloxing and meanwhile big tech companies not paying taxes 😢 Interesting if a country was run by someone and not on auto pilot with the government using the people bank card 😅
I love it on shows like The Chaser or Pointless when the host says "What would you do with the money if you won?". How anyone doesn't say "Er.. buy 1/8th of a car I guess Jeremey". I mean why even ask, the payouts on these shows are nonsense.
Never understood why an Independent broadcaster didn't do this in the UK. Sure, it's audience appeal would only last a year or two but it would be a ratings winner early on if someone could win million or more on the spin of a wheel
Irish sweep stakes it's foundation and founded ideology of founding fathers . Prior to that at the turn of the century this was not in the business private sector hands but uniquely unspecified with the industrial Giant monopoly holders if previous 2 centuries. How times change.
Irish game shows are the television equivalent of how Americans imagine what healthcare much be like everywhere else. You win a triple bypass! For free! And you didn't have to do anything for it! (Except pay taxes, which are extremely uncomplicated compared to the US)
Pointless out of all of them has to be run by some of the stingiest fuckers about: “We’ll only put £250 in the pot any time someone gives an answer no one else would possibly think of, and you can only win it after giving an answer no one else would possibly think of.”
Garron ,Winning Streak with my Mum ,you couldn’t speak as you’d of heard it all the way in Gortin! Full volume cheering everyone on and crying at elderly peoples telling stories,ie first time in Dublin and getting fussed over .
The winning prize for Come Dine With Me was £1000 and the things that you had to go through on that show, embarrassing yourself to millions of viewers. Just crazy looking at Winning Streak in comparison
Yes, two of your guest diners, whom you didn't know, would go snooping around your house on their own, going through your underwear drawer and everything, taking things out and showing them to the TV camera. For someone to go through all that, and having strangers criticising the dinners you cook for them on TV. Cringe.😱
Somebody, please give Garron his own show!!! He's comedy gold!!!
He’s amazing!
@@VarionJimmy he’s delicious
Winning Streak would say "Here are 5 locations in Ireland. Pick one"
And you'd say something like The Giant's Causeway and a little robot would fly there and go "Jaysus look at that, you've got £25,000"
That was it. That was the game and we were all enamored by it. Seeing people get like £8K on Jeapordy. What are ye doing?
Winning Streak is literally "pick a number between 1 and 5, oh wow look at that, they all have at least €10K in them"
Awh, I forgot all about that lil fella 🥰
I never realised how ridiculous the premise of winning streak was until now but them my father was on in 2000 and won £10,000 punts and we were "disappointed" because it was the LEAST you could win for doing fuck all! 🙈 my aunt went on a few years later and won £12,000!
Wow. I remember my granny won 100 punt in the bingo and brought it home and we threw it up in the air like millionaires.
@@Padraigp😂😂😂
Watching this on a Monday morning what a way to start the week.
The games were rigged on the show. It depended where you were from before the game started. If you were from Meath you'd walk away with 50k, if you were from Cavan, 10k was all you were getting. And every week, the drum was fully of entrants from either Dublin, Cork or Galway because there was always someone from Cork on it every week.
@@rocon86 I agree I always thought that drum was rigged and there there was ALWAYS at least ONE person from Dublin on every week, but I don't know why!
Winning streak described perfectly 😂
Garron, you are a veritable FONT of WISDOM!! BLESS YA for being in all our lives!!!❤
LEGEND! Thanks Garron for bringing me back to the good old days.❤
So true about "The Chase". All that work for bugger all.
You should see the new games they have on the English Channels - there's one where you drop a coin in and hope it knocks the next fecker down. That used to be called 2p waterfalls (or coiney coiney push push in Oz) when I was a kid.
Winning Streak was peak. Irish kino. Saturday nights staying with me Granddad watching Winning Streak eating a cheap Aldi pizza. Miss those days sometimes.
To be fair Winning Streak never pretended to be anything other than a game of chance. I think that was the beauty of it to be honest. It was quite a leveller too as all you needed to enter and get on was to buy a scratch card, get the 3 stars....get picked out and you're on. It allowed for getting some interesting characters on the show who otherwise wouldn't have ever been able to do well on a quiz show or other game shows. It was also a good thing for seeing families and communities getting behind one of their own.
They don't show it anymore. Presumably it's racist or something.
Im learning more about irish culture with him than all what I learnt in my 16 years ir Ireland 😂
My mam went on that when I was about 8, she won 14k and a weekend in a Scottish castle... I was gutted. All my mates saw the show of course and slagged me for years cos my mam won so little.
To anyone that's not familiar with Winning Streak: There would be 5 people on the show and the MINIMUM you could go away with was €10,000. The top prize, in addition to getting around €60,000 in the rest of the game, was €500,000, and the odd time it would be €1,000,000. Insane amounts of money. Nearly everyone would go away with a brand new car worth at least €30,000 as well. On top of that there was a segment that highlighted a charity that the national lottery was giving money to
Years ago I saw an episode of Blankity Blank (I think) from the 70's or maybe 80's. The questions started out at a penny and got up to like a £10 of the sterling type. Inflation etc. but people were still leaving with probably the money it took to get to the studio if they didn't live outside London.
Absolute legend Garron. Keep it up.
To prove how bad game show winnings are in the UK, i watch old episodes of Bullseye from the 80s and still think Bullys prize board is exceptional.
well the UK also came up with a show called who wants to be a millionaire and you can win £1,000,000 so there's that lol
This is such a true as account of our tv.On countdown when you're the big winner you used to get dictionaries aswell,bare in mind that to win the game you have to know a lot of words.😂So why the dictionary that would be more useful at the beginning of the game.
It's not just the English gameshows that are stingey. Take a look at horseracing on English TV - generally, peanuts. Irish horses wouldn't jump a mars bar for those low sums.😮
I lived in Las Vegas for a few years. Talk about ruining your perception of money. You start seeing everything as a high score in a video game, but it's Vegas, so your high score is always a negative. 😂😭😂
"Your brain's on fire, from all the thinking":) Sir, you ARE delicious.
Oh boy,I would absolutely love to hear you reviewing an Irish quiz show called quick silver,it was presented by a gentleman called bunny carr ,if I remember right it started off with 2p questions and it would up to as much as a pound or maybe five pounds I can't remember properly,but by today's standards it was absolutely hilarious.😂😂
Just to add this was the 70s into possibly the early 90s
People still say Stop The Lights!
You missed out on Quicksilver .... Bunny Carr ... classic tv some people won up to ten pounds even ..
Stop the lights! A phrase never too far from my lips.
Some of the answers on that show were inspirational.
It wasn’t real what!!!! It was my dream for my parents to get on winning streak
Omg! SAME!! I used to dream of the day I’d get to sit in the audience with a big sign ‘GO DAD!! SPIN THAT WHEEL!!’ And we’d all drive home in a brand new Ford Escort!😅
It was real it was just not real because it was the celtic tiger. It was real at the time though you could have bought a house and then when the crash came lost it all.
I think the reason the cash prizes and other winnings where so high was because the scratch cards and the whole show was ran through the Irish National Lottery. Which is not what they do in the UK. It seems the TV stations in the UK are responsible for issuing the winnings. And the BBC are publicly funded with the UK tv licence fee
and the BBC can't advertise either, Hence why I think shows like pointless and eggheads do 1k a day rolling jackpots
Winning streak was only filmed by RTE and RTE never had to pay nothing.
The BBC does have some Lottery funded ones with bigger prizes, but they never seem that popular compared to the likes of Eggheads.
The most beloved gameshows seem to be the ones on in an afternoon with old folk tuning in religiously Monday to Friday, and they're funded by the BBC so can't appear too extravagant with the public money.
Those shows are about bragging rights more than the money. Though it is nice to have your drive to london covered by the prize.
I completely forgot that this existed 😂
I sent in lots of 3star lottery tickets but never was picked nor any of my family was picked.I did win money in my local town on a raffle.I also won small amounts on lotto tv draw that was twice a week.
This is so accurate!! I didn't even realise its because of winning streak that I got so used to people winning boat loads of money for nothing that when i see something like The Chase now, I always think its mad they get so little 😂
My daughter won a car but they gave her money, she got nearly 60000. She wasn’t the biggest winner on the night! We had great fun going up together in a minibus and celebrating on the way home! €10000 would have been disappointing! 😂
I seem to remember that the Irish version of Who Wants to be Millionaire was a lot harder going than the original UK version.
Because we’re not a bit thick like the Brits.
love your top
Garran my mother got 2 spin de wheel and won 261,800 Irish pounds bk in 2001. Lucky sow lol!
I agree Garron should have his own show. He's a national treasure. Garron, why are you not acting in movies?? What are you waiting for?
Since it was run by the National Lottery the games had to be based on chance rather than skill. But the contestants earned their money anyway during the interrogation section at the start of the show where they asked you what you did for a living and which you preferred: GAA or custard creams
I know what you are saying . How about deal or no deal. Used to be on the telly 📺 in the local pub next to me.. the day the Galway girl 👧 won the big prize 250000 £ . The bar had to be quiet during the afternoon as serious as it gets having a pint and peanuts 🥜...
Hah, awesome 🤣🤣🤣
No future tv quiz in Ireland would function at UK rates of prize money ( UK=hundreds rather than thousands) You are right, In Ireland you wouldn't turn up for less than 10k min.
I'm telling you winning Streak was an absolute dream as a child ,
free money just for turning up to the thing if your name came up lucky after collecting a few wheels on the loto ,
But it's weird how they could throw away money at people , I know lotto helps and that's a bit off a catch too how can they give away millions , not on sales alone hardly
And Ireland in dept to the world somehow and some other bolloxing and meanwhile big tech companies not paying taxes 😢
Interesting if a country was run by someone and not on auto pilot with the government using the people bank card 😅
Didn’t Moss win big on Countdown?
Yeah but then he went to the dark side with street Countdown.
Word.
I want that 💰 and would do anything for it but then I’m American so there ‘ya go
I love it on shows like The Chaser or Pointless when the host says "What would you do with the money if you won?". How anyone doesn't say "Er.. buy 1/8th of a car I guess Jeremey". I mean why even ask, the payouts on these shows are nonsense.
Never understood why an Independent broadcaster didn't do this in the UK.
Sure, it's audience appeal would only last a year or two but it would be a ratings winner early on if someone could win million or more on the spin of a wheel
It wasn’t the most money that got a contestant to spin the big wheel at the end. They had to get the 3 rainbow wheels
top silver with bunny carr from the 80s where you could win 1p , 2p, 5p, 10p ,and 50p answering questions , now that was a game show
The weakest link was low winnings too for a bollocking from Anne Robinson
Irish sweep stakes it's foundation and founded ideology of founding fathers . Prior to that at the turn of the century this was not in the business private sector hands but uniquely unspecified with the industrial Giant monopoly holders if previous 2 centuries. How times change.
I won $10,000. with a scratch off lottery ticket I got in a Christmas card. Nice card. 😊😊
Irish game shows are the television equivalent of how Americans imagine what healthcare much be like everywhere else. You win a triple bypass! For free! And you didn't have to do anything for it! (Except pay taxes, which are extremely uncomplicated compared to the US)
Yeah, we're cheap on UK shows, lol.
😂😂😂❤100%
Pointless out of all of them has to be run by some of the stingiest fuckers about:
“We’ll only put £250 in the pot any time someone gives an answer no one else would possibly think of, and you can only win it after giving an answer no one else would possibly think of.”
Bbc have some rule about prize money I think??
That’s 1000 American dollars I’d take it lol
Garron ,Winning Streak with my Mum ,you couldn’t speak as you’d of heard it all the way in Gortin! Full volume cheering everyone on and crying at elderly peoples telling stories,ie first time in Dublin and getting fussed over .
😭😂😭😂
The winning prize for Come Dine With Me was £1000 and the things that you had to go through on that show, embarrassing yourself to millions of viewers.
Just crazy looking at Winning Streak in comparison
Yes, two of your guest diners, whom you didn't know, would go snooping around your house on their own, going through your underwear drawer and everything, taking things out and showing them to the TV camera. For someone to go through all that, and having strangers criticising the dinners you cook for them on TV. Cringe.😱
I like money
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Bring back winning streak
Delicious indeed. And a little gassy. KUTGW.
Whhhhhhatttttttttttttttt I must have been in Comaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa what I won a Car
The Celtic Tiger felt fake even at the time, from the distance of the US. But I wished for it to be true for this country and your people:(
My granny must have sent in dozens of 3 star scratch cards and never got picked 😢
As shown by the riots in Britain, the Brit's hate anyone whose not someone with a title. That's why the Elites love anyone called Islamic 😂😂😂
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