Mesmerized
(And for YouTube viewers, see if you can spot a serial contestant in the studio audience. (Clue: who do you think would turn up to a hypnosis-based quiz show?)) |
(Whoops beaten to it - I've combined the two entries) |
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== Broadcast == | == Broadcast == | ||
| - | Yorkshire TV, | + | Yorkshire TV, early 1990s (non-broadcast pilot) |
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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
| - | + | This is either an "interesting before-its-time idea" or "a strange one" depending on your point of view. | |
| - | + | Basically, it's one of those wacky hypnosis shows where people are made to act strangely, only in this one they've then been thrust into a quiz show. The contestants answer the questions wrongly, think they're naked, speak in strange ways, act like children and so on. | |
| - | [http://www.youtube.com/ | + | At the end of the show, one contestant wins a brand new car. The twist was, of course, that it's really a cardboard box which they're convinced is a car. |
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| + | Why an old stager like Tom O'Connor was involved is a bit of a mystery, but the concept is quite a funny one that might be worth revisiting. | ||
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| + | == Clips == | ||
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| + | Watch clips from the show on YouTube. | ||
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| + | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0E56-4orqw Mesmerized - Part 1] | ||
| + | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMi9IeUIqy8 Mesmerized - Part 2] | ||
| + | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJSvkRB7xnA Mesmerized - Part 5] | ||
| + | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsvo3--1CoA Mesmerized - Part 7] | ||
| + | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG2vxFbg_6c Mesmerized - Part 8] | ||
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| + | (The other clips do not appear to be online) | ||
[[Category:Yorkshire TV Productions]] | [[Category:Yorkshire TV Productions]] | ||
Revision as of 12:23, 23 January 2007
Synopsis
This is either an "interesting before-its-time idea" or "a strange one" depending on your point of view.
Basically, it's one of those wacky hypnosis shows where people are made to act strangely, only in this one they've then been thrust into a quiz show. The contestants answer the questions wrongly, think they're naked, speak in strange ways, act like children and so on.
At the end of the show, one contestant wins a brand new car. The twist was, of course, that it's really a cardboard box which they're convinced is a car.
Why an old stager like Tom O'Connor was involved is a bit of a mystery, but the concept is quite a funny one that might be worth revisiting.
Clips
Watch clips from the show on YouTube.
Mesmerized - Part 1 Mesmerized - Part 2 Mesmerized - Part 5 Mesmerized - Part 7 Mesmerized - Part 8
(The other clips do not appear to be online)
