Drumond Park Family Fortunes Board Game

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This player will be given 45 seconds to answer these five questions. The host presses the '45 second' button on the unit after reading out the first question.(The respective LED will flash then speed up for the last 5 seconds followed by the 'Time up' sound).

In the 2020 revival, the top answers were not revealed until after the second contestant gave their answers and their point values were shown, an element that was previously seen in the All-Stars version of the show. The team that was leading after the first five rounds now selects two of its players to play their big points round with a new set of five questions. The points scored are then added to their score. Winning: The American version of the show was entitled 'Family Feud', but Bob Monkhouse didn't want the British version to be called that, on the grounds that it sounded too aggressive.Elstree – ATV & BBC". TV Studio History. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021 . Retrieved 25 July 2020. Les Dennis): "If that answer's there, I'll give you the money meself" (On a few rare occasions, when the answers were particularly daft, Les would take it one step further and say "If it's up there, I'll give you the car meself!") Family Fortunes is a British television game show based on the American game show Family Feud. The programme ran on ITV from 6 January 1980 to 30 December 2002. A celebrity version, All Star Family Fortunes, followed from 2006 to 2015. In 2020, the original version of the show returned after 18 years with Gino D'Acampo as host. [3] Rejoin your family - no conferring - but the (whichever) family, think of some answers in case you get a chance to steal..."

TV Brain tells us that many of the Bob Monkhouse episodes have been wiped from the archives with 28 of them surviving. These are the episodes that survived: In the closing moments of one end-of-series episode from the late 1990s, Les and the winning family were waving at the camera when Mr. Babbage repeatedly sounded the wrong answer noise whilst flashing the words 'Les Dennis Tonight…'. An understandably confused Les looked round (whilst continuing to wave!) only for Michael Aspel to emerge from the side of the set to explain that the full, uncut sentence was 'Les Dennis, tonight This Is Your Life'. Under the sound of the applause, Les could be just about heard to say 'I'd better not open that, had I?' to which Aspel laughed, 'That's the empty one!' You're giving away trade secrets, man!The game involves two families providing answers to 'everyday questions' that were surveyed by 100 members of the British public before the show (e.g., 'Name something usually done in the dark.') to win cash prizes (and sometimes mystery prizes for giving a correct answer). The top answers to the surveys are displayed on a large electronic board, christened by Bob Monkhouse as "Mr. Babbage".

The computer which runs the electronic board is called Mr. Babbage named after Charles Babbage, the inventor of the first programmable computer. When playing a big points round as a single player, that player is given two different sets of five questions. Scoring seven top answers (from the ten questions) acts as the equivalent of two players scoring the five top answers. The single player is given 45 seconds on both sets of five questions. Hamming it up! However, we do wonder rather whether they perhaps ought to have waited to produce the series; one lesson which definitely should have been learnt from Andy Collins' version is that you need a full audience to squeal in case of ridiculous answers. An audience of 50 in an auditorium of 350 is just too quiet, and canned laughter was clearly applied a little too liberally (as evidenced by Gino ignoring one round of applause, since he clearly didn't hear it). Central in association with Talbot Television and Goodson-Todman Productions for ITV, 31 December 1982 to 25 June 1999 (329 episodes in 15 series)Bob Monkhouse on the other hand saved over 80 episodes in his private collection of video cassettes he recorded off-air.