{"id":9451,"date":"2016-08-24T13:30:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T12:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9451"},"modified":"2016-08-24T13:33:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T12:33:32","slug":"breaking-up-the-show-discussion-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9451","title":{"rendered":"Breaking up the Show Discussion fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was loads on Monday and on Saturday we’ll have another one for Go For It<\/strong>, so in the meantime here’s something that might have got lost in the shuffle that Chris M Dickson posted about on Monday:<\/p>\n

Take a look at a 1985 US pilot for a show called Finders Keepers<\/strong>, which has nothing to do with Finders Keepers (1)<\/em> or Finders Keepers (2)<\/em> as we know them. Take your strongest stereotypes of what a mid-eighties US game show might look like, then consider a take like that on the UK Treasure Hunt<\/i>. It\u2019s deliberately zany; the prizes are notably off-beat, and there\u2019s a human sidekick pretending to be a computer character, because that\u2019s what people did in 1985. (Max Headroom might have popped up in a movie, but was still a couple of years off being a show yet.)<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a particularly cute Sale of the Century<\/i>-like mechanism in there which is by far the most interesting part of the show. The whole thing isn\u2019t horrible, but you can see why it was a pilot that didn\u2019t sell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This has definitely come up on The Bar before, although it may well have been in an older version of the site. Anyway have a look:<\/p>\n