What's it All About? (2)

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== Co-hosts ==
== Co-hosts ==
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Dinah May (former Miss Great Britain)
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Michael Moloney and Dana (permanent captains, 1975)
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Michael Flanders
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Dana
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== Broadcast ==
== Broadcast ==
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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
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Quiz based on religion, with two teams of 3 opposing each other. Two people were from a religious seminary and the third was a celebrity belonging to a similar religion.
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Quiz based on religion, with two teams of 3 opposing each other. Two people were from a religious seminary and the third was a celebrity belonging to a similar religion (except for the last series, when Peter Moloney and Dana were the permanent captains).
Questions often had a visual bent - for example, some artefacts were used to identify the reasons for a Sikh's dagger, a Jewish prayer shawl and the significance of the Brahma praying wheel. Other questions included film of various religious ceremonies from all over the world, and a team of schoolchildren who mimed a parable from the Bible.
Questions often had a visual bent - for example, some artefacts were used to identify the reasons for a Sikh's dagger, a Jewish prayer shawl and the significance of the Brahma praying wheel. Other questions included film of various religious ceremonies from all over the world, and a team of schoolchildren who mimed a parable from the Bible.
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== Trivia ==
== Trivia ==
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The presenter was the disabled half of the Flanders and Swann duo. He was confined to a wheelchair due to an attack of polio in 1943. This probably makes him the first and (until [[Crisis Control]] came along thirty-odd years later) only game show host in a wheelchair.
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Joan Bakewell was taken ill partway through the 1974 series, so the last part of that series was presented by Michael Flanders, half of the Flanders and Swann duo (which half is left as an exercise for the reader). He was confined to a wheelchair due to an attack of polio in 1943, which probably makes him the first and (until [[Crisis Control]] came along thirty-odd years later) only game show host in a wheelchair.
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Flanders was taken ill half way through the series, and his place was taken by Dana, the Irish Eurovision Song winner.
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== Inventor ==
== Inventor ==
[[Cecil Korer]]
[[Cecil Korer]]
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[[Category:Themed Quiz]]
[[Category:Themed Quiz]]
[[Category:Religion]]
[[Category:Religion]]

Revision as of 08:58, 5 September 2020

Contents

Host

Brian Redhead (1972)

Joan Bakewell (1973-5)

Michael Flanders (stand-in, 1974)

Co-hosts

Michael Moloney and Dana (permanent captains, 1975)

Broadcast

BBC2, 24 December 1972 to 27 April 1975 (Special + 23 episodes in 2 series)

Synopsis

Quiz based on religion, with two teams of 3 opposing each other. Two people were from a religious seminary and the third was a celebrity belonging to a similar religion (except for the last series, when Peter Moloney and Dana were the permanent captains).

Questions often had a visual bent - for example, some artefacts were used to identify the reasons for a Sikh's dagger, a Jewish prayer shawl and the significance of the Brahma praying wheel. Other questions included film of various religious ceremonies from all over the world, and a team of schoolchildren who mimed a parable from the Bible.

Trivia

Joan Bakewell was taken ill partway through the 1974 series, so the last part of that series was presented by Michael Flanders, half of the Flanders and Swann duo (which half is left as an exercise for the reader). He was confined to a wheelchair due to an attack of polio in 1943, which probably makes him the first and (until Crisis Control came along thirty-odd years later) only game show host in a wheelchair.

Inventor

Cecil Korer

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