{"id":7825,"date":"2013-12-27T12:16:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T12:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7825"},"modified":"2013-12-27T12:37:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T12:37:24","slug":"challenge-first-ever-eps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7825","title":{"rendered":"Challenge First Ever Eps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Bit Between Christmas and New Year! I’m preparing to hand my notice in after winning lifechanging amounts of money (about \u00a3500) tipping Mrs Brown’s Boys<\/em> to top the Xmas Day overnights, as could have you (and indeed some of you did!) if you heard me banging on about the price on Twitter. Don’t forget the inaugural Bother’s Bar Monthly Poker Open is Sunday January 5th, costing $5.50 to play (but a single re-buy and add-on is available), you can buy in now, all the details can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n

For now, Challenge’s First Ever Eps weekend approaches. It’s a bit liberal with the term “first ever” in some cases I think, but here’s the line-up, with particularly interesting (i.e. ones Challenge haven’t shown for ages anyway) emboldened:<\/p>\n

Saturday 28th:<\/p>\n

1400: Dale’s Supermarket Sweep – I might be wrong about this, Guardian’s TV listings suggest it’s the more recent version although I don’t doubt it could be the original. (Edit: It’s the original. Naughty Guardian.)
\n1430: Takeshi’s Castle
\n1500: 1 vs 100 – lottery references removed, natch.
\n1550: Going for Gold
\n1620: Bob’s Full House
\n1700: Whittle<\/strong> – We love a bit of Whittle<\/em>!
\n1730: Fun House
\n1800: Ninja Warrior – Stuart Hall voiced this originally. Will it have been revoiced?
\n1900: Treasure Hunt<\/strong>\u00a0– Set in Bali and very much a curio, closer to the original French show than the show most people would associate with Treasure Hunt<\/em>. What’s really interesting is that it’s been given a seventy-five minute slot, so fingers crossed unedited.
\n2015: Celebrity Squares<\/strong> – Bob’s Big Box Game, this is from the 1993-6 reboot.
\n2045: Strike It Lucky<\/strong> – can’t say I remember Challenge showing the very earliest series for a while, although I might be wrong.
\nThere is also First ever eps of Challenge’s wrestling coverage.<\/p>\n

Sunday 29th<\/p>\n

1400: The Crystal Maze<\/strong> – Yeah I know TCM is on Challenge all the time anyway. But it is brilliant. I’m convinced they’re editing out a game so it can fit the current ad break structures though.
\n1500: Take Your Pick<\/strong> – From 1992 rather than 1955 I expect.
\n1530: Deal or No Deal<\/strong> – Back in 2005. Simpler times.
\n1615: Wipeout<\/strong> – This was a great show with Paul Daniels, but certainly last time Challenge showed it is had been edited rather to fit in a three minute ad break, so not much contestant chat.
\n1645:\u00a0321<\/strong> – From 1978! I had a mild addiction to 321<\/em> when Challenge used to repeat them in the small hours years ago, and I actually think the really old ones have a massive amount of charm to them.
\n1800: Stars in Their Eyes<\/strong> – I don’t remember this only being half an hour when it started, but that’s what it says here. Leslie Crowther hosts – I can’t believe Challenge haven’t considered Crowther’s\u00a0Price is Right<\/strong>, it is genuinely brilliant and would fit in with their current output really well.
\n1830: Total Wipeout
\n1930: Knightmare
\n2000: Bullseye – from 1981 when it had weird rules.
\n2030: Blankety Blank<\/strong> – The crowning glory of the whole weekend for me, the very first episode fronted by Terry Wogan from 1979. It’s been given a 45 minute slot too, so let’s hope the only edits are for ad breaks.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t so long ago Challenge refused to put anything on that didn’t look modern so I really hope the archive stuff is working out for them.<\/p>\n

The Poll of 2013<\/strong> will commence the following Sunday, so get your thinking caps on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Bit Between Christmas and New Year! I’m preparing to hand my notice in after winning lifechanging amounts of money (about \u00a3500) tipping Mrs Brown’s Boys to top the Xmas Day overnights, as could have you (and indeed some of you did!) if you heard me banging on about the price on Twitter. Don’t forget\u2026 Read More »<\/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-7825","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-22d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825","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=7825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}