It's a Knockout - and Here Come the Belgians!

[@algie-t2w]

Stuart Hall's laughter acts upon me like a wonderful tonic. It is pure joy. Thank you, Stuart.

[@louissmith1393]

He’s an evil nonce. He doesn’t deserve thanks.

[@PeteSalt-q6c]

😮

[@ericwilliams2317]

I ask for anyone watching this to briefly put aside what Stuart Hall had done and just watch the clip. These shows were a very big part of my childhood and I have great memories of my family & I watching these. We were all wetting ourselves laughing - it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen on t.v. It was straight up, honest fun - the kind you just don't get anymore, and you have to admit it, his laugh was very infectious.

[@montyf2165]

Well said Eric. Me and my family too.

[@theresapierce3934]

Me too, I used to laugh so hard along with my family.

[@70surrey]

I cried with laughter at this. Fantastic memories of a massive show!

[@mattwilliams5386]

I use to love watching It's a Knockout on a Friday early evening in the late 70's.

[@stc40]

Well said. Could not have put it better myself...

[@gaynorsmith4843]

Without his laugh, it would have been taken seriously. Love the slapstick. Thank you for these very happy giggles. Xx

[@kevinnorfolk1710]

I am crying with laughter.. just as we did as a family around the living room tv all those years ago..

[@robertmac9057]

This show was like the Champions League crossed with Benny Hill and Monty Python. I loved it! One particular memory was the games where an Italian woman with a megaphone would be attempting to direct a blindfolded colleague to do something, failing and losing her rag like a stereotypical Italian. 🤣

[@drdavid1963]

Watching it now, it is funny but only if you understand the total pointless chaos of it all from the 1970s. How was this even a show? I used to tune in just to hear Stuart Hall in stitches every week and he did do it every week, almost as if to say, how the hell did I get this gig?

[@johnny5805]

When you're a 7 year old kid, It's a Knockout and Jeux Sans Frontieres were your Olympics. The success of GB was taken deadly seriously.

[@stephenguppy7882]

Except that they hardly had any success. I think from memory Blackpool won the title in the early 70s but nobody else did. We played by the rules and consequently the only ones we finished ahead of were the Belgians.

[@bungabening3530]

Stuart Hall was always entertaining. This is a classic and never fails to make me laugh and his football reports on Saturday afternoons were always enjoyable. Such a shame that it's all been tarnished by his actions.

[@trespire]

God ! I remember this one, it's hallarious.

[@Pyjamarama11]

A fantastic visual representation of how the European Union operates Everyone running around in circles, trying to grab as much as they can for themselves. The little kids at the end are just a bonus for the MEPs

[@louwoods9278]

Takes me back to 8 year old me, just come home from Brownies, got chips from the chippy then it's a knockout! Happy days.

[@kamerankl]

this was a brilliant game show! I always the remember the laughing. they should bring it back, much better than half the ones on TV now

[@oddjobtriumph1635]

I absolutely loved this as a kid ....watching this on my portable Black and white Telly in my Bedroom ....my Brother and me in hysterics

[@paulthomas-hh2kv]

Love to see this come back, great memories 😂😂

[@Mysterywhiteboy78]

Loved it as a kid you got to see people from other nations doing funny things, and Stuart Hall's laugh on that distorted mic laughing, made me smile ;)

[@tidmouthshed]

Stuart Hall was brilliant with his laughter. Classic.

[@Sundae_Times]

Riiiiight - let's all praise the p-doh 🤮

[@freelyfarmexploits8854]

Had a nice sideline with boiled sweets apparently!

[@AndrewBISHOP-ii7hs]

His victims weren't laughing

[@rickogden204]

Can you imagine if it's a knockout was remade in 2019? The health and safety zealots would have heart attacks. Loved this show when I was younger

[@PlasticGirl65]

I wish they would bring it back, it was hilarious.

[@brianparsons5026]

had to film wipeout in argentina and not allowed to do it here

[@SanFran51]

@@PlasticGirl65 They did in 1999. It only lasted for two series. Because nobody watched it.

[@PlasticGirl65]

@@SanFran51 Shame

[@70surrey]

Back when you were allowed to have fun.

[@vanessaharris8030]

Omg we so need to bring this back for christmas day special .perfect family entertainment Obs new presenters maybe graham Norton and tom Allen. ❤❤

[@ericwilliams2317]

I agree about a Christmas special, it would be great telly - but sadly I cannot stand either of the two presenters you mentioned.

[@AndrewBISHOP-ii7hs]

I would have thought the most appropriate people to succeed Stuart Hall would be Huw Edwards and Phillip Schofield

[@vanessaharris8030]

​@@AndrewBISHOP-ii7hslet's break away from the dodgy people you mention , I genuinely believe we should bring this back.

[@gaynorsmith4843]

We played out in the farmyard. Then Mum would shout out ‘it’s a Knockout’! Whatever mischievous things we might have been up to, they were second, for sure xx

[@deanmason2022]

When I’m down I put this on cheers me up loved it’s a knockout

[@Sundae_Times]

The children he r----d didn't love it so much.

[@howardmorris3165]

This show did more for European unity than anything since.

[@stc40]

Bang on !!! The competitors were far more efficient and likeable than the current clowns we have to put up with now in Strasbourg !!!

[@SimonMiles-m8l]

His laugh was mental.. What a star

[@jdee8267]

Whoever invented that game was a genius

[@davidcole9971]

Come on Duggy! Very funny clip

[@jokepy4230]

I was among a group who met Stuart Hall when my home town went to Switzerland for IAK. We all thought he was a good bloke.

[@raysmith7251]

GB was rear-of-the-year weren't She!?!? XX

[@davidcole2078]

If Dougie watches this please be aware you make people like me weep with laughter, thanks mate!

[@algie-t2w]

I love the way that Dougie 'decks' the German.

[@pionelpessi707]

A shame that this show has been forever tainted by the wrong un that presented it.

[@trainmaniacstudios8216]

BLOODY HELL! Is Stuart having a heart attack when doing this? LMAO!!!!! XD

[@Sundae_Times]

His victims probably wish he did have one.

[@allosaurusfragilis7782]

My dad used to get angry at the british contestants! They usually failed miserably lol

[@carlh429]

I can’t remember if we ever won at Jeux Sans Frontiers...likewise my Dad would get pissed off at how bad GB would be doing while I was in bits on the floor laughing at the commentary 😆

[@richie6921]

They should have this back on now

[@hazelisaacs2201]

So many happy memories! Winter’s evening, chippy tea with all the family then settling down by the one-bar electric fire with my Rubiks cube & gonks for an evening of colour-contrasted wholesome family entertainment; Frank Bough reading out the sports news on Grandstand, then Jim’ll Fix it followed by Rolf On Saturday, all topped off with this gem. If we were lucky, Mam had a box of Rowntree’s Weekend and I’d look up in wonder through the pink patch on my NHS specs hoping for the lime cream. Looking back now, it’s probably all just a matter of time before we see Sooty, Sweep & Bungle off of Rainbow on our screens with a scrolling >BREAKING NEWS< banner, stroboscopically illuminated by paparazzi’s camera flashes as they’re ushered into the back of a police van with a blanket over their heads 😢

[@michaelpearson5070]

Are you complaining that Hall, Harris and Savile were punished? It is heartwarming you had such a nice time in your blissful ignorance. F the victims, I guess.

[@karenroberts6487]

No health and safety a wheezy laugh a game that in today's standards wouldn't be allowed the pure joy of a belly laugh.. Oh and no bloody people pouting and selfie takin either!!

[@qetoun]

Try getting this passed the Health and Safety man now!

[@stevenaranyi1701]

classic laugh every time I c it

[@theenglishalpinist5031]

Damn - gotto love those girls in the short pants - bet Stuart did!

[@jacobFN_baa]

That’s my great uncle

[@ShadowTVNetwork]

It’s such a shame Stuart Hall was found out to have sexually assaulted women. I used to enjoy watching him do It’s a Knockout

[@sirsamfay99]

Sadly almost all of Jeux Sans Frontieres from 1974 has been destroyed. This extract was part of a compilation Stuart Hall made in 1975. Only 1 complete competition survives ,the 6th heat.

[@Sundae_Times]

And here comes the p-doh 🤮

[@jaydutch1743]

Slapstick but really funny in parts, and really cute girls bums in bikinis, oops LOL

[@timfullman67]

I defy anyone who watches and hears this could not laugh! its contagious! as with all sorts that was wrong about some of the 80s craziness there isn't much more right thees days who knows? who turns out to be the messed up of the past the nows will turn out once there are found out! hypocrites! but i defo dont condone neither should the judges who condemn some of them are no better. two wrongs dont make aright! but hey at-least the games and programmes were way more fun and entertaining!

[@ThinLynottFan]

TimDFullman It's hard to laugh at it when you remember what Stuart Hall did to those kids.

[@MikkelMane]

I’m sure you’d laugh if he had abused a member of your family ?

[@amazeroth]

2:15 sounds like the scary girl from the Ring.

[@Simple1Jack]

Close your eyes, imagine Stuart Hall in the prison showers, he drops the soap and... 2:15

[@ThinLynottFan]

Tugg Speedman Beautiful.

[@skyscanner8676]

........ here CUMS the Belgian..........

[@dave1secondago]

its a cockout

[@mindyourlanguage77]

If you need chearing up step this way

[@CAVALIERKNIGHT33]

I wonder did he ever think of letting the contestants milk a COW ! ! !

[@rar321blue]

I loved knockout esp jsf..still angry with Hall for what he did..the show will of course never be repeated because of him..but the show was fabulous..such a shame he was such a %%$#@*£€ dreadful what he did.

[@TherymasterWidnes]

No wonder us English are skull-fucked! This is class!

[@elbows66]

Lol

[@JamesFFC]

@Phil Marlow

[@badmattam]

Et tu Stuart Hall....not Stuart Hall!!.. geez! what with Gary Glitter,Jimmy Savile,maybe Freddie Starr and Dave Lee Travis my sweet,care free 70's childhood is tarnished beyond resurrection. Not a patch,of course, of the victims (or alleged victims) of some of these men who've endured a lifetime of pain.

[@lostjohnny9000]

Don't forget Rolf Harris

[@lengthmuldoon]

Look at the women contestants in bikinis it was a different world back then and even worse before. Messing around with kids isn't funny but wouldn't mind betting the ladies from those times complaining now were well up for a bit of celeb back then. What I don't understand is none of the sex drugs and rock and roll fraternity being involved they ploughed anything that moved back in the day.

[@ericwilliams2317]

In fairness, they were getting water thrown all over them - hence the bikini's. Jeez, could you imagine doing that now? All that safety equipment they'd be wearing, the endless paperwork from the "Health & Safety Executive", Anti -slip mats, not to mention the counseling needed from seeing people falling over (Oh, the trauma!) They would have had to attend courses on how to lift terribly heavy buckets of water and there would be an army of ambulance chasing lawyers waiting in the wings in case of accidents. Need I go on? Kids of today, you don't know what you missed.

[@darwindoeseliza]

First Jimmy Savile, now Stuart Hall. It's always the eccentrics, isn't it?

[@Ashworth6]

ITS ALL FALLEN APART!!!

[@davidtunnicliff5442]

He laughs the same as ellen degeneres........they both laugh the same.........could do a mash up.....

[@hiphopapotamus85]

More like the girl is scared of Stuart Hall messing with her ring.

[@a121509]

How the mighty are fallen.

[@jamesmitchell8922]

Now you can see it without Stuart Hall

[@adrinathegreat3095]

it's a Nonce out

[@ThePyrogenica]

There was always something wrong about this show: scantily clad teenage girls, water, come on everyone