Dealing with Daniels

Contents

Host

Paul Daniels

Broadcast

BBC Radio 2, 21 May 1985-4 April 1989 (28? programmes)

Synopsis

Oh-ho! Enjoyable trivia quiz played with three celebrities, a revamped version of Fair Deal from the 1970s.

Daniels had a full pack of 52 question cards, on each there being a general knowledge question. Players asked for a card and attempted to answer the question thereon. However, it was also a game of memory because if they already asked for a card that had already been used, Paul would sound a very large hooter and the player would automatically lose the point value of that question and have to go again. Sometimes the player could lose shedloads of points in one turn towards the end of the game, asking for a number of previously used cards.

The suits had to be nominated in strict order - Spades, Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds. Because there were three panellists and four suits, they soon got muddled up as to which cards had gone. Or, to put it another way, it stopped the panellists relying on remembering just one suit.

Most cards were worth their usual value - 2-9 points for the number cards, court cards worth 10 and Aces attracting 15 points.

Catchphrases

"It's still there"

Inventor

Ian Messiter

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