Loved this show! Back when itv daytime was decent!

@aaronjameslockwood2437

Ай бұрын

I couldn't agree more. This is the sort of ITV Daytime that I really miss alot.

I fondly remember this show, much appreciated my fine fellow.

Well thank you so very much for this I really never thought this would ever make it to KZread

Loved this as a kid. How time flies...

Wow this takes me back 👌🏾

Rip Linda barron 2022 . Lovely show

always wanted to see an andrew o connor episode excellent find neil.

Andrew o Connor ruled 90s

Chris was unlucky with 'barf'. I imagine it would have been in Webster's in 1988; I wonder when it first appeared in the UK dictionaries?

@antster1983

2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't in Chambers English Dictionary at the time, so it couldn't be accepted.

@ChrisBarrett1

2 жыл бұрын

He was proper stitched up with Zarf

@Dim4323

8 ай бұрын

Narf

Never knew this programme existed. Can't remember the last time I saw Andrew O'Connor.

@adamstamps3568

2 жыл бұрын

he also did family catch phrase on the family channel back in the early 90s

@kathp6689

2 жыл бұрын

he is now a millionaire LA producer!!!!

@prappsy3028

Жыл бұрын

He's the man behind Derren Brown's career and his many TV and live shows. He's doing pretty well for himself

Susie's giggle is adorable.

I remember this episode - Chris Tarrant trying to change ZARF into LARF. I also vaguely remember someone write a word backwards as well, but I didn't remember that it was from the same episode.

My little brother always used to mishear "Winner So Far" and kept singing it as "Avenger E. Star"!!!

Wow! Never knew they made a special of this. Excellent find. Quite effectively "played for laughs", too. This was when it occupied a peak-time slot (19.30 Thursdays).

Barf IS a real word!

Great stuff. Don't remember seeing that at the time but that episode couldn't be more Tyne Tees if it tried. Self-evidently no rehearsal whatsoever and a bit of a car crash all-told but comedy comes out of chaos. God I miss City Road in its pomp.

I always thought that Jeremy Beadle hosted for a lot longer, before Andrew O'Connor took over. Speaking of Beadle, does anyone remember another gameshow he presented around this time? I reckon it was 1988, maybe '89, a morning show on ITV, in the 9.25am slot. He'd go around a shopping mall or a market, that kind of thing, looking for willing contestants. Bit of banter along the way, then the three, four, however many people who'd agreed would play some game on a Radio 1 Roadshow style O.B. truck, or perhaps in the central area of a mall, with an audience made up of people just wandering up and watching. That's all I can really remember of it, I know I used to like it at the time though. God knows what it was called, but I can't find any trace whatsoever of its existence. Even Beadle's autobiography failed to so much as mention it in passing.

@antster1983

2 жыл бұрын

It was called _Born Lucky,_ produced by Tyne Tees, and ran for only two weeks in December 1989.

@97channel

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Nearly missed this reply, because of KZread's failure to notify me of it. I've been trying to trace that show for years.

@stephenmcconnell1000

2 жыл бұрын

I remember Born Lucky too. I knew the name but I see the other chap replied first. I can't recall the object of the game but do remember Beadle going round shopping centres as you said; I do remember him asking members of the public things like 'give me a five letter word beginning with A', etc. Although for the life of me I can't remember anything else.

@blunderbusssi9587

Жыл бұрын

I remember getting the 'Jeremy Beadle box of tricks' for Christmas when I was younger and it taught you how to do basic magic tricks as well as having props that you could use to perform stuff but when I dug it out at my parents' house and read through the book it actually showed you how to do the 'can I get some change for this note' scam albeit with 20p coins...! (I've never used it...honest...) 😋

ZARF If you really help, Change the Z to the C to Carf, change the F to the D to Card, change the D to a T to make Cart

Huge money back then. AOC was a massive influence for Barrymore too. Great stuff.

She got lucky here, passing on easy letter changes and Andrew helping her out.

Aha, alwight. Andrew O'Connor channelling Rob Newman channelling Jonathan Ross.

That's nice..

Did Andrew O'Connor have his name sung in the regular editions during his tenure?

@danwoodhouse9290

2 жыл бұрын

yes he did - there's a clip on tv ark

@kathp6689

2 жыл бұрын

??????

@jasejj

Жыл бұрын

They all did during the original (and best) run - the later series were more polished but somehow soulless.

Andrew O'Conner ..disappeared into oblivion

@kathp6689

2 жыл бұрын

HARDLY! He is a millionaire LA producer!

@peterwilliamskelhorn6675

11 ай бұрын

​@@kathp6689the "not helping her one bit" was a lie during the superchain. I heard Andrew say pass

Who was the lady beside Chris Tarrant on his left our right on the podium? Another words the last lady doing the 45 second Chain Letter round!

@antster1983

2 жыл бұрын

Lynda Baron, an actress. She's best known for playing Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in the BBC sitcoms _Open All Hours_ and its sequel _Still Open All Hours._ She also played Auntie Mabel in the childrens' series _Come Outside._

@ChrisBarrett1

2 жыл бұрын

Lynda Baron

@sg-zd8eb

10 ай бұрын

She also sang The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon for the Doctor Who story The Gunfighters in 1966.

zarf!

I recognize only one of these names-he went on to how a few more game shows

Aunty Mabel Wins

Sad day in the UK

@spaceace7299

2 жыл бұрын

sad day,why,have i missed something?

@danwoodhouse9290

2 жыл бұрын

I take it you mean Lockerbie

@nudisco300

2 жыл бұрын

Whys that?

@antster1983

2 жыл бұрын

@@danwoodhouse9290 The tragic events in Lockerbie happened the day before.

Don’t hear anything from Andrew o Connor anymore,,must still be around??

@jam-nc8ut

2 жыл бұрын

He's a very successful producer and executive producer, perhaps most notably for Peep Show and the Derren Brown TV specials.

Andrew O'Connor moved away from TV presenting and back into the world of magic. He works with Derren Brown these days for his stage shows and TV specials.