{"id":13967,"date":"2022-02-27T11:49:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T11:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13967"},"modified":"2022-02-27T11:49:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T11:49:05","slug":"its-our-favourite-old-krypton-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13967","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s our favourite: Old Krypton Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robfrancis\/status\/1497652156538802177\">were alerted on Twitter yesterday<\/a> evening that the entirety of the 1978 series of <strong>The Krypton Factor<\/strong> had been uploaded to Youtube. And that is, frankly, pretty exciting. A few series one eps from 1977 were already up there and it&#8217;s always fun to see a format progress. Thank God they dropped the personality round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However we explored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC4QVG4zcV8NummJzutMBSww\">Anton&#8217;s Youtube Channel<\/a> and there&#8217;s some absolute Krypton Factor gold on there. Here&#8217;s an ep from 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"665\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ejQoGRUjJQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=32&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I love this so much. The bombastic nonsensical title shots, also featuring <strong>Apprentice<\/strong>-style contestant introduction shots. GORDON BURNS HAS A MOVING DESK. Gordon Burns being able to deliver pieces to camera whilst the desk is still moving. Pre-assault course chat. The intelligence test having a <strong>Taskmaster<\/strong>-esque secret solution. Everyone looking about twenty-years older than their age suggests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This might well be the peak of the show before its big 1986 revamp, there&#8217;s quite a lot of fun (read: largely unnecessary) stuff here which didn&#8217;t continue on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were alerted on Twitter yesterday evening that the entirety of the 1978 series of The Krypton Factor had been uploaded to Youtube. And that is, frankly, pretty exciting. A few series one eps from 1977 were already up there and it&#8217;s always fun to see a format progress. Thank God they dropped the personality\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13967\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3Dh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}