Robot Wars with Craig

Scrapheap Challenge with Rob

Edit: Just realised these two presenters were in Red Dwarf

I miss Numberwang

I always loved big break growing up, though turns out Jim Davidson is a twat and John virgo sadly died recently, so different hosts maybe.

Dale Winton and supermarket sweep ofc

If panel shows count:

Original buzzcocks with Mark Lamar, Phil Jupitus and Sean Hughes/Bill bailey. Then the Simon Amstel years were fantastic too.

They probably need to bring Knightmare back.

ukgameshows.com - Knightmare

Even better, do a modern reboot for grown-ups presented by Greg Davies and Alex Horne.

Sean Lock

Weekly - Crystal maze, Legendary Daily - Blockbusters - education after the cartoons
and then of course the sat night stuff - strike it lucky, wheel of fortune, blind date....if that counts.

There was this crappier robot wars knockoff I remember some of. It wasn't the one with Ziggo and the name of the show was as bland as English cuisine. One "contestant" was a really shitty robot stylized to look like Elvis. What i can remember is that Elvis bot barely worked and seemed to be there only to be set on fire by a different more capable robot.

E: it was Robot Wars. The one with Ziggo.

Save or Shaft?

It already got rebooted but I would like Bullseye with the original prizes. People going home happy with £90, microwave, and a speed boat

Knightmare

THE MOLE!

(Apparently there was a Netflix reboot?)

Anyway, it's traitors but:

• No stupid drama, no affected "yourself", no pretending that the show is the best thing since you discovered masturbation
• One traitor (aka the mole)
• Who stays is determined by a quiz where you have to answer questions like "which team was the mole on in X challenge"
• The mole is trying to sabotage every single challenge - so the team has actual good info to go on. Traitors is basically all gut feeling.
• The mole always aces the quiz, so you don't need obvious producer manipulation to keep the game going
• Most significantly for the experience, the audience DOES NOT KNOW who the mole is! You have to work it out too! There are a number of extra clues that attentive viewers can pick up.

For all these reasons and more, traitors makes me unreasonable angry.

It's funny how a lot of the best ones were children's shows. In the same vein:

Incredible Games (if you're anything like me, you may remember it as "the one with the lift" or "the one with the giant bowl of soup" but you may not be able to remember its name)
Terror Towers
Finders Keepers
and of course:
Fun House

And for the grown-ups, the most undeserved flop of a show ever: The Murder Game

If you want to go down the rabbit hole of old British game shows, there's a TV channel called Challenge. It's on Freeview and Sky etc.

I went through a phase of watching that channel a bit too much. Things like Family Fortunes, old episodes of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and some shows presented by Bruce Forsyth.

Sometimes I still think of X-Fire

Legends of the Hidden Temple was the coolest gameshow I saw when I was a kid. It was kind of like a mix of history trivia and American Gladiators physical challenges.

The winning team got a chance to go on a timed run through an Eliminator-like obstacle course that was themed like an abandoned Mayan Temple where'd they'd have to solve puzzles and navigate the various physical challenges to win a big prize.

That show was fire AF. They should really bring it back.

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