[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

that must be hard to read questions then.

[Quincy]

if they were reading the questions off a hand held card it would be ok, and the rotation would be quite fun.

my new rotating quiz show where all the contestants have to answer questions whilst rotating on some kind of disc

[Wyatt]

Bring back Turnabout with Rob Curling

[fish heads]

Name is familiar - what is it?

Bring Back CrossWits if you ask me

[Wyatt]

I wasnt clever enough to play Crosswits.

Turnabout
On the board were a grid of 16 spheres. The idea was to manipulate the spheres in such a way as to get lines of three or four of your own colour. The spheres turned in order, from red to orange to blue (which spells ROB - the host's name, something they were very chuffed about). In later series, the confusing order was dropped into a "it changes to your own colour" rule.

In order to get a go at the board, the three contestants had to answer a word clue. In a single round, each of the words had the same three letters in common, such as BAR, where all the words have the letters BAR in them. Rob would give them a clue and if they got it correct they could play the board. In the beginning there are four grey spheres which must be taken before any others can be turned.

When they are taken, then contestants can start scoring points for themselves or - if they're not careful - other people. For every line of three spheres, that colour scores 5 points and for every line of four they scored 10. Computer would go mental with "clang!"-type sound effects after each score. This continued until the Turnabout Timer had run out (about three minutes), at which point the three letters would Turnabout and become RAB, for example. The contestants would then have another three minutes to do as much as they can. If at any point they gave a wrong answer to a word clue they lost five points.

[Quincy]

yes i remember this.

speaking of cross wits, does anyone remmeber chain letters? it was on about the same time i think

[Uglybob]

I wasnt clever enough to play Crosswits.

Turnabout
On the board were a grid of 16 spheres. The idea was to manipulate the spheres in such a way as to get lines of three or four of your own colour. The spheres turned in order, from red to orange to blue (which spells ROB - the host's name, something they were very chuffed about). In later series, the confusing order was dropped into a "it changes to your own colour" rule.

In order to get a go at the board, the three contestants had to answer a word clue. In a single round, each of the words had the same three letters in common, such as BAR, where all the words have the letters BAR in them. Rob would give them a clue and if they got it correct they could play the board. In the beginning there are four grey spheres which must be taken before any others can be turned.

When they are taken, then contestants can start scoring points for themselves or - if they're not careful - other people. For every line of three spheres, that colour scores 5 points and for every line of four they scored 10. Computer would go mental with "clang!"-type sound effects after each score. This continued until the Turnabout Timer had run out (about three minutes), at which point the three letters would Turnabout and become RAB, for example. The contestants would then have another three minutes to do as much as they can. If at any point they gave a wrong answer to a word clue they lost five points.

u missed the lovely water feature to the set

[Wyatt]

Just for you.

The classy pond in the studio was real, and they employed someone to stand at one end of the studio and move a piece of wood back and forwards to make the ripples in the pond. This kept having to be re-shot as he kept moving it too fast and making the water lap over the edge of the pond onto the studio floor

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Tom O'Connor is much under-used.

[DemonHorse]

odd thing is i've just seen after all the talk of Columbo switching channels, that Quincy was on ITV.

[Quincy]

ITV2 a lot of the time

[Uglybob]

chain chain chain chain letters

last host of chain letters - dave spikey

[Quincy]

door, change the d to a p to make poor, change the r to an l to make pool etc thats chain letters right?

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

dave spikey is poor on panel shows as shown by that dire friday thing.

[Uglybob]

i dont know, i never watched it, take it thats the thing with mr channel 4

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

yeah it was on this week. was very strained.

[Uglybob]

canned laughter a go go i take it

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

yeah or the audience got free drinks.

[Sidders]

Or free weed. Or they just flooded the studio with laughing gas.

[Sidders]

Watched Columbo this afternoon, a classic with Leonard Nimoy in it.