Some of These Days
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Panel game looking at events "on this day in history". | Panel game looking at events "on this day in history". | ||
| - | + | It's the format we might expect - rounds about television, music, and the news, plus questions about people for whom this was a special day in previous years. The show ended with a quickfire buzzer round. | |
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| + | Questions were mostly about the recent past, the past 30 years or so. Nominally, questions assigned to the panelists - they worked in two pairs - with bonus marks handed out quite liberally. | ||
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| + | An entertaining and fast-paced show, where the aim was to entertain and reminisce through the form of quiz. | ||
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| + | ==Inventor== | ||
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| + | David Hamilton | ||
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| + | ==Web links== | ||
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| + | A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOyZd8sE6LM sample episode] from 18 February 1985. | ||
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Current revision as of 13:19, 19 December 2020
Contents |
Host
David Hamilton (1985-6)
Cliff Michelmore (1987-91)
Co-hosts
Scorer: Kate Abercrombie (later series)
Broadcast
BBC Radio 2, 4 February 1985 to 6 August 1991
Synopsis
Panel game looking at events "on this day in history".
It's the format we might expect - rounds about television, music, and the news, plus questions about people for whom this was a special day in previous years. The show ended with a quickfire buzzer round.
Questions were mostly about the recent past, the past 30 years or so. Nominally, questions assigned to the panelists - they worked in two pairs - with bonus marks handed out quite liberally.
An entertaining and fast-paced show, where the aim was to entertain and reminisce through the form of quiz.
Inventor
David Hamilton
Web links
A sample episode from 18 February 1985.
