Bullseye - S1/Ep03 (1981)

The first surviving edition of 'Bullseye' from 1981!
Hosted by Jim Bowen.
With Eric Bristow.
Broadcast - 12th October 1981.

[@babyshambler]

I emailed Mr Bowen shortly before his death and received a lovely reply. What a gent.

[@bastogne315]

He shouldn't have died..

[@sambee8982]

​@@bastogne315If Bullseye ever gets revived again into a new series, I might suggest that the winning team of the episode receive a Jim Bowen Memorial Trophy amongst the prizes in addition to the Bullys and the Tankards/goblets in memory of Jim Bowen the original host of the show.

[@ML-or2ot]

Proper old school good guy

[@JasmineSurrealVideos]

@@sambee8982 What a super (smashing great) idea!

[@joeritchie7286]

He was super smashing great

[@spankysmp]

Good old Jim. "That's 60, another 60 and 20. That's 160"

[@rajnirvan3336]

Memories of Sunday afternoon. Sadly back to school next day

[@stevenward9414]

Bath night….😂😂😂

[@andrewjohnston2850]

@@stevenward9414 was just thinking the same thing! you didnt mind goig for a bath when the channel was changed to BBC 1 for songs of praise

[@dvidclapperton]

Not on a Sunday afternoon back when it first started.

[@robertgoh7420]

From September 1984 onwards when the contestants ran out of time answering the questions instead of the time up buzzer Bullie bellowed in.

[@dvidclapperton]

@@robertgoh7420 But "I'll check it with bully" for the spelling question came in the 1985/6 series starting September 1985.

[@ConnorJYT]

Jim said "Marvellous" so many times. This is when: 0:48 3:21 6:31 7:08 11:11 13:10 15:56 17:06 22:17 24:28 24:42 24:56 R.I.P Jim Bowen

[@frankology]

absolute legend for finding all the times he said Marvellous

[@RobertLocksley385]

He was supposedly well known for his "great, super, smashing" line, but hardly ever said it.

[@dvidclapperton]

@@RobertLocksley385 Oh, he said that line when he was coming down the stairs a few years later.

[@nezbit8989]

Your attention to detail is Marvellous 👌

[@iraceruk]

​@@RobertLocksley385You can't have watched very many episodes of Bullseye. Jim said Super/Smashing/Great/Marvellous etc ALL the time, and there's even an episode of Bullseye on here where he 'takes the Micky' out of himself for doing so.

[@RazSux]

It all seems so complicated and stilted compared to later series!

[@garethhook9972]

You are so right

[@Tubewings]

You think they would have done better if Hazel had thrown instead of Tony?

[@sonicsabbath]

Couldn't have done any worse

[@Over_Sky]

4:10 "That's great, yes. Siddown!" 😄

[@knightmarefan]

Gets me every time I watch this 😅😂

[@matthall3077]

Happy 40th Birthday To Bullseye ITV’s Classic Game Show That Can’t Beat A Bit Of Bully!

[@ellie-maydavenport3118]

Happy 40th birthday to bullseye itv classic game show that can't beat of bullseye!!!!

[@philipoconnor4263]

Well done Hazel and Tony. A pair of plonkers.

[@CupidStatFunt]

Guess I didn't start watching as a kid til they had Tony Greene - watching Jim Bowen grab the darts was a new experience.

[@gbgameshows]

It certainly took the show a few series till it hit its stride.

[@matthall3077]

@@gbgameshows The 1st And 2nd Series Had Nick Owen (Midlands Today ATV Today)

[@sambee8982]

Looking at the early series, it did kinda look a bit dull without Tony Green, and when he was phased in; I'm not sure what series it was, but when he began checking to see what the dart had landed in on the subjects dartboard in addition to the dartboard scores and checking to see what prize the dart has landed in on the prize dartboard, that's when he became a great co-host and became more well known.

[@JasmineSurrealVideos]

Yes me too, I was too young when it started!

[@martinagnew32]

​@@sambee8982it was series 9 where tony was at the category board and series 4 where tony stood at prize board series 4 84/85 series 9 89/90

[@Golds174]

Great memories of my childhood, when gameshows were genuinally entertaining. Loved Jim and his enthusiasm RIP.

[@stewartmcrae8007]

you can't beat a bit of bully

[@tobyk8125]

You having a laugh? This is dreadful TV

[@stewartmcrae8007]

@@tobyk8125 a lot better than the crap that they show now

[@dvidclapperton]

Jim Bowen looked as though he was in his 60's there.

[@bonk352]

He was only in his early to mid forties

[@dvidclapperton]

@@bonk352 Indeed. It's just that he always looked as though he was much older than that.

[@roblancs]

Someone once said “Jim Bowen will never live to be as old as he looks”

[@Solar_Power]

@@roblancs Bernard Manning used to say that

[@JasmineSurrealVideos]

Yes weird that, Im in my 40s now and he could just about pass as my uncle or dad lol.

[@mistofoles]

LMAO ! You'd be lucky to get £30 for the entire "Bully's Prize Board" at Cash Generator today !

[@stewartmcrae8007]

😂😂😂😂 cash generator that's a blast from the past I think the last time I was in one of them Stephen Hendry was still World Champion

[@JasmineSurrealVideos]

Fascinating to see how it changed, definitely the patter and Tony helped it along later, think Jim got more confident as it progressed. I only remember the late 80s and 90s ones because of my age, what gets me is how the dickens do they split the star prize, like cut the car in two lol, or take turns driving it! I guess they must sell it and split the profit.

[@jamie9630]

Bullseye was really a super, smashing, great game show! Something for the whole family to watch for 30 minutes. Always remember this on a Sunday afternoon. 🙂🎯 They dont make game shows like these anymore 😥

[@joolzshah3056]

Alan Leyshon - the “non darts player” who hit 100 - was my Uncle. Although he was the one answering the questions, he played darts regularly at his local in Port Talbot. Hence the surprise to everyone (but not him) that he set his colleague up to get one from three darts to win the special prize. Passed away a few years ago. Towards the end of his funeral, as the coffin was going through the curtains, they played the Bullseye theme to put a smile on everyone’s faces! True story.

[@antster1983]

Contestants representing HTV Cymru Wales, Yorkshire Television and Grampian Television. (Mentioning the ITV region was a practice that only started in series 2)

[@Michael-gf7mh]

Don’t get presenters like Jim any more… would of made a great pub landlord! Gentlemen

[@sambee8982]

It'd be a funny coincidence if he did run a pub! lol😂

[@kyokusanagi616]

Jim: whereabouts are you from? Barnsley? Contestant: Barnsley. Jim: Be new to you then carpet and electric? Absolute legend 😂

[@dvidclapperton]

Jim Bowen saying to the audience "Make them nice and welcome" before each of the 3 couples came into the studio when introducung them

[@AllenJeremy]

My mother knew the daughter of one of the contestants from Port Talbot.

[@boomboxbadboy1]

fascinating

[@AM-bf1hx]

Worst story ever.

[@yoric6939]

@@AM-bf1hx why

[@michaeljones5681]

Small world eh

[@philipoconnor4263]

Jim had more to be excited about. The prizes were shit, the jokes were pathetic, the entertainment was only exceeded in banality by the moronic contestants. But the salary for Barrow Boy Jim actually increased.

[@tinylunchbox1300]

The younger one of the Port Talbot pair was a very mournful looking fella lol

[@jeffthevideoguy23]

This is in need of a comeback!

[@r4h4al]

It was too of it's time, it doesn't work now.

[@JasmineSurrealVideos]

Think they did do a newer version with Dave Spikey but nah didnt have the Bowen magic, dont think anyone could do it justice, and it would be all slick and flashy now.

[@r4h4al]

@@JasmineSurrealVideos I agree & Iove Dave Spikey.

[@matthall3077]

19th October 1981 is The Correct Episode!

[@JamesandRibble]

He's only just missed it. Marvelous.

[@rhook88]

Pure white UK series. Not a Muslim or immigrant in sight. Good old days.

[@allnightmike8374]

Didn’t matter what part of the country the contestants were from Jim knew the place well. 😂😂😂

[@TheKnobCalledTone.]

I'm disappointed that the star prize wasn't a speedboat.

[@thedigitalemotion]

Admit it, you just scrolled to see the crap prizes. 😊

[@thingstodoinguernseychanne4950]

This show will be made again soon Now the rest of the old ones are coming back.

[@alexmckee4683]

Won't be the same. The original is a great show.

[@mistofoles]

"Jim, is it true you and your staff make these questions up as you go along ?" "How dare you ! You're fired !"

[@alfredtheamazing]

I love Jim telling the contestants the even more rubbish prizes they get for hitting the black (or green here) segments in Bully's Prize Board like half an onion and a lemon peel! He should have done that more often in later series instead of just saying "That's black"

[@goodheavens1]

He got Tony Green to do it after S1 so he couldn’t say it

[@johnhastings7841]

In Jim's autobiography, he said that the "rubbish prizes" were dropped after S1 because there was nothing funny about losing a colour TV.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

I'm still looking for Dean Weller our old section manager at Waitrose, Ealing in the late 90s early 00s. He was still there when I left in 2004. He told me he was on Bullseye once but KZbin didn't exist then so I could never find any footage. Should of asked him for more details.

[@martipowell2878]

Should of asked I think U MEAN Should HAVE asked

[@taffymackem2596]

@@martipowell2878 'I think u mean' I think you mean 'I think you mean'

[@martipowell2878]

@@taffymackem2596 PHONETIC - The language of the Internet IS phonetic

[@taffymackem2596]

@@martipowell2878 Bull 5hit, the language of Marti Powell is Bull 5hit

[@bastogne315]

If he was a manager he was a lying cnut!

[@stingray4real]

RIP Tony Green the voice of Bullseye

[@markdixon2594]

Have you got Bullseye 1982 Christmas Special Christmas Special 1983 Christmas Special 1986 and Christmas Special 1989 please

[@mdpclark]

super smashing great

[@jameshaywood878]

yes the early episodes were a bit of a mess

[@antster1983]

Your announcer is future TV-am presenter Nick Owen.

[@matthall3077]

And Current Midlands Today Presenter

[@martinthursby6760]

You would NRVER get away with opening titles like that anymore....poke your eye out 😂

[@RaferJeffersonIII]

Yep, if a middle class women feels upset it’s immediately banned

[@TheDarkVampire666]

They didn't then it got a lot of complaints its the reason they changed them in series 2

[@r4h4al]

Why?

[@Thebigdog_1984]

The thing that annoyed me most about that first series was Jim messing around with the darts after every throw, surely that must of put the darts players off of their stride having to wait while he messed about.

[@johnmc3862]

Jims bedside manner is impeccible!

[@roblancs]

How on earth this got a dozen more series commissioned is amazing… “It were shit but it were good, never known a game show like it” 😂😂😂

[@lucillebluth2616]

Peter Kay!

[@aliennotion2876]

Peter Kay brought me here.

[@Duncan1974]

Great smashing super

[@limeyosu2000]

I think this was before used the saying “nothin for two in a bed in this game.”

[@mattiedoa4070]

I’m trying to find an episode my dad was on his name was James Ibinson

[@SophieCrane-o7v]

According to Eric Bristow in the 1st Series of Bullseye, ATV had the Dartboard 8 inches Too High for the dart Players to Hit the Board Correctly.

[@sweetpea3795]

My son is severely disabled and this is his absolute favourite show. I have searched everywhere to find find a dvd or video of it but just can't. Can anyone help?

[@michaeljones5681]

All I could suggest is take a look in your local charity shops. May even be worth leaving a name and phone number and seeing if they'll get in touch if they see one

[@glenl8395]

I can download these to a usb drive if that’s any help.Please let me know.

[@StuartPhillips-z4d]

It’s on challenge every day! Channel 48

[@SamYelland-m3j]

I liked bullseye even if Jim Bowen always made mistakes

[@andrewjohnstone963]

Never raised the prize money in 15 years And miserable with charity money they should have doubled whatever the score Very parochial very stereotyped But funny to watch it was like a parody of a game show Also quite a number of thickos and mostly rubbish darts player's 😂 hysterical amateurish But really funny A £10 question 😂 Tony the tramps trousers were always too long Don't be too destroyed by not answering a question 😂 ridiculous

[@patd4u2]

Jim, putting his hands on the darts between throws, really threw off the rhythm of some of the dart players

[@PatrickquintonOwens]

Bowen was born august 20th (leo chinease mont of the monkey) in 1937 year of the (ox or caprocorn) hard working noones fool with a flair for naturally being the center of attention and good company! Was he awre his career would so intrinsically be linked to Bulleye! Yes eggs where all it seemed firmly in one basket! But what a basket it was! The jewel in the crown of british sunday night entertainment for years the only two shows who could get near it throughout the week were surprise surprize and blind date both hosted by Cilla Black! If only any television executive has had the nouse to pair both Black and Bowen together in another show the world as we know it may have been very different!

[@YBFHH3]

This Is The First Surviving Episode From Series 1 Episode 3 Because Episode 1 and Episode 2 Never Shown, So Which It A Clip

[@lynnemacfadzean4855]

had not realised how bad the program was in the early days!!

[@dvidclapperton]

How come this is the first episode of the series that they show on Challenge as this is episode 3. I never saw Maureen Flowers throwing for Charity in the ATV series but Jim Bowen recapped what she did the year before when she waa about to throw for charity in the first Central series. So few episodea of the ATV series on Challenge compared with all the later Central series Not all episodes of the first Central series have been shown on Challenge by the looks of it either. Will we ever see the missing ATV and early Central epidodes on Challenge?

[@andrewfraser8094]

It was produced by ATV in the first series and central from 1982-1995.

[@morrisuddin3634]

22:32 "that there is half an onion and a lmon peel" there will never be a comedion like Jim Bowen to reappear on British Televion! LMFAO!🤦‍♂

[@robertgoh7420]

From 1984-1985 food became potluck and from 1985 onwards potluck became faces.

[@fay-amieaspen6046]

I'd take the workbench and tools the champagne 🥂 and the pen & pencil sets. You can keep the rest.

[@philipoconnor4263]

Brain box, a slight over statement.

[@mandysmith5275]

Still love a bit off bully. Love Jim too.❤

[@robertgoh7420]

The spelling question has always been there since 1981.

[@2Steppa2]

13:06 Jim got the score wrong. Must be nerves 🙂

[@sambee8982]

Thank god for Tony Green in the later series; it gave the show more charm with his commentating on what the dart has landed in. No wonder why because poor Jim kept getting the scores wrong! lol😂

[@robertgoh7420]

Also from 1982 onwards Tony Green was the scorer.

[@davidtownson1476]

The titles got "edited" for Series 2 to hide the nipples after complaints!

[@chillired5389]

I can well imagine that happening!!😄

[@YBFHH3]

This Is The First Surviving Edition From Episode 3

[@Victoria-dk3nv]

Lovely, smashing, great ❤😂

[@randommanyey]

The first surviving episode, episodes 1 and 2 were missing because Jim and the crew DESPIED the episodes, so they were never broadcast on TV and never made it into the archives

[@martinthursby6760]

Ah ha....so that's why E3 is the first one

[@natalyafisher2571]

And because everybody hated them! They were so awful! There's also an episode from May 1989 that you'll never ever see in re-runs, because one contestant was convicted for armed robbery and burglary, and after forensic advances, two double murders and a rape - he is now serving a whole life term in prison (i.e. life without parole).

[@koa1464]

i bet SpongBob liked those episodes

[@wez4517]

It's incredible Bullseye was recommissioned after this first series because it really was terrible in the beginning! That opening round to decide who goes first is largely pointless, the quiz round is all over the place "Here's a £10 question on history to give you £50" eh??? How blind is Jim that he has to keep stopping the player to fiddle with the darts... it lands point centre in the 1 segment; "That's in 1" yeah, thanks Jim. Pitting two couples up against a pair of county players that could give Eric Bristow a game is clearly unfair. Jim can't count; "That's 20, another 20 (fiddles with the bloody thing again) and 1 (long pause, looks at monitor) that's 41" and what's with Jim pointing at the bloody dartboard every time they go to throw... as if they couldn't figure out what it is they're supposed to be aiming at!!! Absolutely hilarious but for all the wrong reasons... 🤣

[@smithers19811]

Get your grubby fingers off the darts lol

[@personabc8765]

The first dart 🎯 player to leave was atrocious, bless him 😂

[@Tobias-x8w]

i emailed jim bowen shortly his died!

[@robertgoh7420]

From 1982 onwards myths became words, art became Britain and bible became affairs.

[@reconforsales7708]

Really impressed with the prizes

[@alexmckee4683]

Yeah they were really good ones on this one.

[@RobertVTR]

Why no VT editor credit, but there is one for a film editor. What does a film editor do on a show like this at all, never mind enough to deserve a credit?

[@iestyndavies2675]

I remember watching this episode, where 'Eric' for 'once' didn't shine, and that was a 'shock' at that time Eric had the beating of all of his 'contempories' virtually before a dart was thrown!

[@dvidclapperton]

The same contestants desks for the non dart players, plus the background behind the non dart players and Jim Bowen asking the questions remained until 1986. The yellow that ATV and Central used on both Bullseye and Family Fortunes was truly horrendous.

[@Skegnessexpress]

You throw first to see who throws?

[@carolinacirovic6547]

6:08 he got the bullseye £50!

[@SanFran51]

The first two will never be aired and has been binned because it was apparently really bad. According to Jim The first episode got scrapped because the winners got pissed up. And The Second one because the car had been won. Both were riddled with expletives.

[@johnhastings7841]

According to his autobiography, Jim said that the first 2 episodes were burned at a cost of well over £20'000.

[@melgrant7404]

Rip eric bristow..

[@therainmakerinsider]

Sorry for Hazel from Barnsley, her husband is terrible at darts.

[@zacheryalderton1445]

Been on bullseye UK show for 40 years

[@BigBri7647]

It was a much more complicated game before Tony Greene!

[@GordonHeaney]

Too early a series for "iiiiiiiiin one!"

[@JoeNuttss]

I can certainly see why they re-edited that intro, to say the least lol

[@christopherhulse8385]

A Mini Metro as the star prize, quietly rusting away!

[@neildempster2827]

That should've been given to whoever lost.

[@swf4841]

Jim couldn't decide which suit to wear.

[@robjames3277]

I don't remember these early episodes with Jim going into detail on how the show works

[@Sweet.G]

Had to get tony , to say take your time

[@gilgammesh1]

A radio alarm as a prize... times change

[@jontyarnold8522]

Fucking brilliant Jim….

[@BonkNosey]

As peter kay would say how do they split a car

[@BenOHara1978]

"once they've been darted"....is this before the legendary catchphrase!?

[@gbgameshows]

Definitely! I took Jim a few series to really hit his stride! 😄

[@notreyf]

Where were the Bendy Bullies for the first couple eliminated??

[@martinagnew32]

They came in season 5 and tankards were introduced up to the end series both contestants on series 8/14 got tankards and bullys

[@BBC600]

20:52 That doesn't sound like a registered charity.

[@alexmckee4683]

"Friends of" groups are pretty common. The charity with the number 1086757 is "Friends of Hospitals (Port Talbot)", it was established in 1953 by Roy Hamer to raise funds for Port Talbot general hospital.

[@stephenguppy7882]

There was a reason why we called it BULL$H!T.

[@bullyinspace]

Lol Bowen loves it

[@paulmorphy6187]

So do they share the car or what? Or do they get one each?

[@bushmonster1702]

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[@carolinacirovic6547]

24:39 winner!