Survival of the Fittest (1)

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Host

Maureen Staffer

John Taylor

Broadcast

HTV for ITV, 1983-8

Synopsis

Action adventure sporting challenge show that used to go out on Saturday afternoons. Eight people took part in a week-long series of events in Snowdonia.

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Trivia

It was sponsored by Britvic 55.

This series won a Gold medal at the 1983 New York International Film and Television Festival. It later became ITV's entry at the International Festival of Television Sports in Yugoslavia, where it won 3rd prize.

The show once found itself in a minor crisis when two film cameras used during the 1985 series were stolen from an HTV Wales car in Cardiff, with the film still in the magazine.

An International Survival of the Fittest series came out of it in 1988.

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