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Alright, it’s Schlag den Star<\/strong> this Saturday (join us in the Discord), and Password<\/strong> finally begins next Saturday on the 31st – we’ll have a Show Discussion post up, and you can read a recording report<\/a> from all the way from June 2023 in the meantime if you want).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However recently on Youtube I came across not one, not two, but THREE episodes of 1980s… how would you describe it? Pro-celebrity motoring vehicle challenge show Driving Force<\/strong>, an annual event hosted by Mike Smith assisted by Stirling Moss and Murray Walker. I vaguely remember it for it’s trials segments, where you try and get an old car up up a hill course between flags but by and large lots of the events are quite inventive and fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first one was from 1984 and features a gamut of 1984 celebrities competing – Rowan Atkinson! Anneka Rice! Nigel Mansell! Murray Walker not being very good but having a great time! And they do things like tank racing, digging and filling a ditch, rallying, artic truck reversing and of course the thrilling finale: tyre changing. It’s all rather jolly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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