Monkey Business (1)
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Host
Co-hosts
Team captains: Jeremy Cherfas and Floella Benjamin
Broadcast
BBC1, 6 March to 14 April 1985 (8 episodes)
Synopsis
Primetime midweek quiz with celebrities in a jungle-inspired set. We dimly recall Floella Benjamin being on it as a regular team captain, Jeremy Cherfas was the captain of the opposing team and, it being a mid-80s panel game, Liza Goddard was almost certainly involved too - possibly as a guest panellist. There was some business about blocky computer-graphic monkeys appearing on the scoreboards, hence the title. Or possibly vice versa.
Otherwise, the quiz was wildlife-based - but why was Floella Benjamin, who was not famed for being a naturalist, up against Jeremy Cherfas, who was? Bizarre! Anyway, the show generally came across as fairly tacky, especially when the computer-graphic monkeys were used to help the teams increase their scores - the panellists had to hit a button and hope that at least one monkey would appear on the board, fruit-machine-style! However, one good feature of the programme was that both teams had to complete an animal-based limerick by the end of every show - these were often very funny!
