Try for Ten

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==Co-hosts==
==Co-hosts==
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Patricia Turnbull (hostess, Border 1968-?)
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Hostesses (''incomplete''): Carol Dilworth (Anglia, 1968), Patricia Turnbull (Border,1968-?), Roz Early (Anglia, 1969)
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Carol Dilworth (hostess, Hamilton era)
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Announcer: Dick Graham
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Organist: Peter Fenn
== Broadcast ==
== Broadcast ==
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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
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General knowledge quiz.
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Contestants try to give ten consecutive correct True or False answers to a series of statements. A contestant is eliminated if they give three wrong answers in a row, or a total of ten wrong answers.
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If the game ends early, they win £1 per answer for their best run of correct responses. If they reach their target of ten, they win a rolling jackpot that increases by £25 per failure.
== Inventor ==
== Inventor ==
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Based on a Welsh format called ''Taro Deg''.
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Based on a Welsh format called ''Taro Deg'' by [[Roy Ward Dickson]].
== Trivia ==
== Trivia ==

Revision as of 14:06, 13 July 2009

Contents

Host

Alan Taylor - TWW

David Hamilton - Anglia

Derek Batey - Border

Jack McLaughlin - Grampian

Co-hosts

Hostesses (incomplete): Carol Dilworth (Anglia, 1968), Patricia Turnbull (Border,1968-?), Roz Early (Anglia, 1969)

Announcer: Dick Graham

Organist: Peter Fenn

Broadcast

Taro Deg: TWW and Teledu Cymru, January 1962 to c. October 1963

Try for Ten: TWW and Teledu Cymru, October 1962 to c. September 1963

Grampian, 1968-9

Anglia, 1967-9

Border, 1968-9, 1972-84 (networked from 1974)

Synopsis

Contestants try to give ten consecutive correct True or False answers to a series of statements. A contestant is eliminated if they give three wrong answers in a row, or a total of ten wrong answers.

If the game ends early, they win £1 per answer for their best run of correct responses. If they reach their target of ten, they win a rolling jackpot that increases by £25 per failure.

Inventor

Based on a Welsh format called Taro Deg by Roy Ward Dickson.

Trivia

A children's version was also made in the Grampian region

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