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".
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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.

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