Winner Takes All - Ep13 (1988)

[@BelfastGav]

I remember how the series 'straddled' the period where ITV had dropped the network-wide pre-programme idents, but Yorkshire Television was one of the companies which opposed this, and resisted the policy by continuing to 'offer' its own ident on its own shows for much of 1988. Here in Northern Ireland, Ulster Television did follow the policy - but sometimes they would leak-out, and moreso if UTV was locally rescheduling a regional programme wirh a pre-prigramme ident they weren't expecting.

[@CaptainSiCo]

YTV continued to include their frontcap until the August 1989 rebrand - and they also made a point of showing the frontcaps from other companies if they were present on the tapes. Granada also kept including their still caption at the start of programmes like Coronation Street, so this was always seen in the YTV area. A few slipped through in all regions I expect - the STV one popped up on Tyne Tees before an episode of the Now You See It quiz. It must have been a bit of logistical nightmare really - frontcaps were present on repeats or programmes produced around the time of the policy change, and on Granada, YTV and probably other companies new stuff too - so the various control rooms around the network had to know the duration of these captions to know when to cut to the programmes.. and to ignore or mentally adjust the VT clock countdowns which would of course be counting down to the frontcap, not the start of the titles.

[@misterdocuk]

@@CaptainSiCodidn’t TVS use theirs until they lost their franchise. Also remember a Meridian Presents frontcap for presenting TVS programmes from before they got killed off by the ITC

[@danielwoodhouse8720]

please please please - give us more Winner takes all

[@micaella1010]

Am making my way through your fantastic shows. I love the format of Winner Takes All. I think the format worked best with Tarby hosting but I think it could be very successful again if relaunched on a major TV channel with a good presenter. Thankyou so much

[@SteveMullington]

RIP Geoffrey Wheeler

[@johncooper3712]

If only the credit said "Presented, devised and executive produced by Geoffrey Wheeler".

[@PeterPete]

whoever applied to be on quiz shows in the 80's needed their heads testing!! they didn't give away much!!!

[@johnboycooper4914]

I can't believe we lost GW.

[@hyena131]

@johnboycooper4914 And sadly, that gap too0thed, scouse wank stain, JT is still among us.

[@IestynDavies-cx8je]

I remember this programme a potential problem gamblers nightmare....listen to wheelers intro...people think that if it's 2/1 the question must be easy..like the answer will! And if it's 10/1 it must be a hard question/ hard answer. The message he's giving, whether dear old Geoffrey knew it not( that depends on whether dear old Geoff used any of his hard earned B.B.C wages for a flutter? If a horse or a dog or a human competing in a sports event is 2/1 he'll probably win! If any of those three are 10/1 they'll probably struggle to cross the line. But here's the 'crux'..gambling isn't and never will be based on Schooling or General Knowledge. Having said all that dear old cuddly Geoffrey Wheeler being a well educated gentleman, probably had the sense to keep his money in his trousers..unlike many of the his viewers that lost their minds, relations, spouses, property's and lives.

[@sophiee.h]

9 August 1976

[@solojinglesradio1]

No, for god's sake

[@Dim4323]

Were bobby davro winner takes all

[@AllenJeremy]

Bobby Davro hosted the version shown on Challenge.

[@garymacmillan6401]

The guy on the left has asbergers.

[@gilesfarmer5953]

Thank you Doctor for your expert diagnosis. Anyhow Brian did the quiz show rounds as seen on his channel here kzbin.info/door/Eu0T-qDOHyRhQBn0Y2zVUw

[@rossigarrido4152]

Let

[@Gallowaywind]

This Series was poor because its Daytime. Cheap filler at 5.15pm, unlike all the series before hand.

[@bencalebrod]

623058top And in comparison to other UK daytime quiz shows pre-Deal or No Deal, it really was quite generous. A lot of winners won between £500 and £1,000 a show with the ability to come back and win more, whereas most other daytime shows like Lucky Ladders and Going for Gold gave out prizes worth less than £100 daily and gave a holiday (valued at only a grand or two at best) to the series champ.

[@SimsMoyal]

The prizes are awfuly low aren't they ...

[@SamHodkin23]

+SimsMoyal Maybe, but Keynotes was even cheaper!

[@SimsMoyal]

***** cant understand what would motivate them to win

[@bencalebrod]

Actually the show was quite generous compared to other daytime quiz shows in the uk at the time. Heck some modern BBC quiz shows give away less a program on average than this show did (coughthelinkcough).

[@christopherwilliams2093]

This also was due to IBA guidelines at the time about how much money television comopanies can give away on game shows

[@betaman7988]

Winner Takes Sod All as Peter Kay called it