We were watching some episodes of The Adventure Game the other day. They were great.

The Adventure Game is, of course, the show where three minor celebrities travelled to the Planet Arg in their spaceship, solved some puzzles and then more often than not get evaporated trying to go back to their ship.

The brainchild of Ian Oliver and Patrick Dowling, puzzles involved simple scientific problems, maze solving skills, abstract logic and communication.

Sure, there are plenty of programmes on television that let people show off what they know, but how many shows on television require people to actually apply what they know? Do you know? We can't think of any currently. There is no Crystal Maze. There is no Now Get Out of That. There isn't anything. There's a gap waiting to be filled here, BBC!

And it was always a pretty modern show - what producer wouldn't give his right arm for an entertainment show where stupid celebrities are made to look increasingly silly when their progress is blocked by a seemingly innocuous puzzle?

So we have entertaining, educational and modern, what else could it tap into that would turn it into a winner? Of course! Telefantasy is very much in at the moment thanks to Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the forthcoming reversioning of Robin of Sherwood and its ilk. You'll note that none of these shows take an "ironic" slant on the genre (as doubtless Channel 4 would do these days), they are modern and slick versions of existing (ugh) franchises. Why couldn't you do the same thing with The Adventure Game? It already had a rather sardonic edge, you probably wouldn't have to change the actual tone of the show at all.

You want to compete with current reality offerings? The Adventure Game had contestants regularly voting off resident mole Lesley Judd as much as 25 years ago.

There are, of course a few things you would need to change, or at the very least update. Assuming you would have to fit the show into a thirty minute slot, some of the slower and more ponderous tasks would need to be changed - the password maze is a fine idea in principle, why not make it virtual reality now?

It would, of course, be an absolute must to keep the Vortex game at the end of each episode. You would probably have to make it look and sound a bit scarier for the modern audience, but we were always quite taken with the rather cold and mechanical sound of the original.

A modern take on The Adventure Game is just dying to be made. It would have an audience of people who fondly remembered the original and an audience who want some thought in their light entertainment. These people do exist. If you're not going to bring back The Krypton Factor Wayne Garvie, why the hell not bring this back instead?