{"id":14981,"date":"2025-02-07T09:26:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T09:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14981"},"modified":"2025-02-07T09:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T09:29:31","slug":"some-friday-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14981","title":{"rendered":"Some Friday Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t see this a few days ago, Wink Martindale&#8217;s Youtube channel posted a full episode of the 1991 HTV West local adaptation of <strong>Press Your Luck<\/strong>, something lots of people have been itching to see for a while (what&#8217;s left? A 1984 edition of <strong>Jeopardy<\/strong> with Derek Hobson is probably the current Holy Grail).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 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\/mA8r7ARirpM?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;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>So lots of things to remark on here, let&#8217;s do a list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Enjoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rickturk.com\/\">Rick Turk&#8217;s reinterpretation of the theme tune<\/a>, very much in the Australian mould of &#8220;basically the same but just different enough to not have to pay for the licence for it&#8221; Aussie composers are wont to do. Very Grundy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two HUNDRED Pounds!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paul Coia shouting &#8220;Whaaaaammm-mmmyyyy!&#8221; every few seconds.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The quiz rounds go on a bit. How much of that is to fill the extra minutes a UK half-hour show is, how much to satisfy the IBA &#8220;game of skill&#8221; regulation of the time I don&#8217;t know. The second half definitely doesn&#8217;t need that many questions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In lieu of a spinning stage, those turning desk displays are quite fun.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No Whammy animations. in fact they seemed to have redesigned it a little bit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The board calibrated so a choice space could be between a Whammy and some points, or some points and a different amount of points so not really a choice at all.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It looks like those Whammy pop-ups are on some flimsy pieces of card.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are so many spins in play it&#8217;s little wonder the show ends the way it does, really.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UKGameshows suggests <a href=\"http:\/\/ukgameshows.com\/ukgs\/Press_Your_Luck\">this got not one but TWO series<\/a>, a second one in 1992, so I wonder if they made any improvements to it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you didn&#8217;t see this a few days ago, Wink Martindale&#8217;s Youtube channel posted a full episode of the 1991 HTV West local adaptation of Press Your Luck, something lots of people have been itching to see for a while (what&#8217;s left? 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