You Should be So Lucky!

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Host

Colin Bennet as "Vince Purity"

Broadcast

Children's BBC, 19 February 1986 to 11 February 1987 (12 episodes in two series)

Synopsis

Ok, so brace yourself for this one. A man kidnaps a load of schoolkids and for his amusement makes them play a giant game of snakes and ladders. Bonus moves were awarded for the team partners completing a game or variety-style task correctly, measured via a clapometer.

All the kids were of the 1980s uppity stage school variety, and as such being captured by a horrid old man is probably about right for them.

About halfway through, Vince would utter the phrase "break a leg!" and whichever team hit their buzzer first would get to do their big dance routine, and at the end the kids would do individual turns, with the winner getting a bit longer for theirs. Even now, we give an involuntary shudder at the dread words "I'm going to do a monologue".

Catchphrases

"Break a leg!"

"Bran barrel! Bran barrel!"

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