Dotto

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<div class="image"><IMG src="/atoz/programmes/d/dotto/dotto1.jpg" alt="dotto1.jpg" width="300" height="225">''Original host, Robert Gladwell.''</div>
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'''Picture 1''' - Original host, Robert Gladwell.</div>
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<div class="image">[[Image:Dotto host and contestants.jpg]]''Two more contestants ae introduced.</div>
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<div class="image">[[Image:Dotto game.jpg|400px]]''A round in progress.''</div>
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'''Picture 2''' - This pair wrestle live alligators in their spare time. No, that ''was'' a lie.</div>
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<div class="image">[[Image:Dotto game.jpg|400px]]'''Picture 3''' - A round in progress.</div>
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Revision as of 18:23, 20 December 2008

Contents

Host

Robert Gladwell (original host)

Jimmy Handley

Shaw Taylor

Broadcast

ATV for ITV, 13 September 1958 to 23 June 1960

Synopsis

A quiz programme based on dot-to-dot pictures containing 50 dots. Two contestants raced to guess the famous face to win the round, winning a fiver for each dot not used.

Trivia

The first contestant was introduced as "Jacqueline Evans, actress, dress-designer, horsewoman and racing motorist, who was married to a top Mexican bullfighter." Gladwell could only say "Well, that sounds like a very colourful career". Quite.

Gladwell welcomes Dotto's very first contestant

The lines were drawn in by a team of technicians who joined up the dots by hand.

Dotto was Shaw Taylor's first big hit on TV. In 1958, it was watched by 4.9 million homes, and was the most popular programme that year.

Pictures

Original host, Robert Gladwell.
Image:Dotto host and contestants.jpgTwo more contestants ae introduced.
A round in progress.

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