Autoshite benefits of a 4-week old daughter who won't sleep

[Owain71]

...I get to rock her in my arms whilst watching the telly around 01:00 - 02:00.

 

Last night (i.e. very early this morning) I caught the final 5 mins of an early (1981) episode of Bullseye with Jim Bowen rocking some serious sideburns

 

No Tony Green in those early days (in fact, Bully's Prize Board looked like it had been made on Blue Peter), so Jim's "doing the math" as the arrows hit the board in the "101-or-more-with-6-darts" segment... the designated dart player throws a pair of 20s, has just 15 to go, Jim puts him off by pissing around, so he throws a 1... and they miss out on a white Morris Ital!

 

Then I change channel to find Blythe Duff driving a Montego in an early '90s ep of Taggart!

 

They said being a Dad would be rewarding!

 

Anyways... what other cars do you remember being prizes on Bullseye?

 

[mercrocker]

Sadly I can only remember a bloke  winning a shed (proper wooden shed, not autoshite!).  Look lovely in your garden, says Jim.  "I live in a flat...." says the deflated winner.  I am sure Jim came back with "super, smashing, great....!" but I could be wrong.....

[Shep Shepherd]

I recall base model Fiestas, Metros and Novas being popular star prizes in the mid-1980s, along with the odd Mini. In the early 1990s, several Protons were offered, some of which were MPi models

[Micrashed]

Its repeated ad-nauseum on Challenge or one of those other cheap telly channels.

 

Quite often its a Vauxhall Nova or a MiniMetro. Play your cards right has much better cars such as the Rover 220

[HMC]

"And bully's special priiiize" Mainly recall base fiestas, metros, with the odd holiday or a speedboat thrown in.

 

For fans of 90s Rover Group products I seem to recall Celebrity Squares had a range of R8s and minis but it was such a bland show its probably not being repeated.

[quicksilver]

Challenge is GR14 for old quiz shows with ridiculous prizes. They've been showing episodes of Family Fortunes from the mid-90s with Les Dennis giving away the star prize of a brand new 'luxury' Daewoo Espero

[fordperv]

saw a re run of family fortunes and the prize was a red nova flair,

i want that to happen now you could just imagine it "autoshite fortunes" where 2 teams battle it out to win a rotten pogweasel nova needing restoration

[twosmoke300]

I remember a blue mk2 fester that was exactly the same as my brothers first car. Called Rupert incidentally. It was passed around the rugby club as each player passed their test and kept it for a year.

[junkyarddog]

"And bully's special priiiize" Mainly recall base fiestas, metros, with the odd holiday or a speedboat thrown in.

 

Plus the odd shite caravan

[Shep Shepherd]

Plus the odd shite caravan

 

I recall seeing the occasional fitted kitchen and living room furniture set, too

[Rover414]

One of Brucies shows had prizes such as Rover R8s of at least 3 door, tomcat and estate varieties.

[CortinaDave]

I saw an episode of Bruce's Price is Right the other day and the prize was a Daewoo Nexia. To win you had to guess the total value of all the items in the prize (of which the Daewoo was one)

 

He guessed way too low and got nothing - I'm amazed the next bit made it past the cutting room floor

 

Brucie "aw, hard luck - You were way under. I mean the car alone is worth more..."

 

Contestant "But its a cheap Daewoo"

 

Brucie "Oh who cares what kind of car it is - its a CAR"

 

 

I also saw an old Bullseye a couple of weeks ago - the prize? A yellow Chevette!

[brickwall]

I was watching Doctor in Distress the other day and it was full of excitable stuff

[Pete-M]

A lad I went to school with was on Family Fortunes around 1990. His family won a Proton.

 

They kept it for less than a week, sold it, and bought a three year old Sierra Sapphire with the money. They still had the Sierra about three years ago but it was on its last legs.

[John F]

Talbot Samba episode, with bonus non-dart player 2-dart finish:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04lUaRWFCI

 

 

Morris Ital episode:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRfS-6egGuQ

 

 

2-door beige Nova 'loon:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu4tGItfAkA

[Hendry]

I've seen episodes of Family Fortunes and Bruce's Price is Right where the prizes have been Suzuki Vitaras, Kia Sportages, Kia Mentors, Daewoo Nubiras etc and I think back to watching them as a child with my grandparents when they were first shown and thinking at the time they were shite and wishing the prizes were Fords or Vauxhalls.

 

Best one I watched were a pair of episodes of play your cards right where the prizes were a mk1 petrol blue Mondeo and a mk5b Eacort cabriolet.

[Timewaster]

Interestiing* fact: bullseye was the only show to have two different closing tunes depending if the star prize was won or not, one much more upbeat for a winner, a more somber version for BFH.

[Timewaster]

Oh, and congrats btw. My 3rd is now 7 weeks old. I feel your pain

[Jim Bergerac]

I remember that towards the end of 'The Price is Right' they were giving away kit cars (I remember distinctly a Cobra replica).

[brickwall]

There were rules from the regulator about the value of prizes and the 1981 Broadcasting Act. Slowly they got more valuable and then the rules were dropped all together. Back in the 80s top prize was usually a low spec Metro or equivalent. Some folk were lucky to get £150 plus some bus fare.

[brickwall]

oh and who the fuck wants a rowing machine?.

[Doctormop]

I went to a works evening do several years ago and Jim Bowen was the after dinner speaker, expectations were not high but he was actually quite funny.

He recounted an early episode of Bullseye where the first pair went out with 20 quid, the second pair won £340 and the winning pair won £480 and 7 of the 9 prize board prizes, they decided not to gamble, the 2nd pair had a massive argument, decided not to go for it and took the money so the first pair came back, gambled the twenty quid, non dart player (to go first) threw 2 treble twenties, the star prize (Vauxhall Nova) was unveiled and the dart player screamed "FUCK ME WE WON" the sound crew couldn't bleep it out or delete it so the programme, that cost £840 prize money, 7 prizes and a car was never broadcast.

[Split_Pin]

My wee boy was born in April and I used to have him in my arms for a couple of hours every evening to make sure he was in a deep sleep before putting him in his Moses basket. Every time I'd watch 2 hours of Cops on CBS reality plus 1. It was ace! Even around 2010 when these episodes were filmed, a fair few of the felons had some early 80s chod.

 

I remember watching a programme with my wife in our honeymoon around November 2011 about this 1980s Bullseye contestant who was also a serial killer. He had a proper 'Barry Grant' look about him and I recall that he looked mega sinister.

[Doctormop]

Yeah I seem to remember that, the guy was from Wales and was a scuba diving teacher or something like that, he killed a husband and wife who were hiking along the coast for the few quid they had on them and their wedding rings, he killed someone else years later and his son was a key prosecution witness if I remember rightly.

[Micrashed]

I went to a works evening do several years ago and Jim Bowen was the after dinner speaker, expectations were not high but he was actually quite funny.

He recounted an early episode of Bullseye where the first pair went out with 20 quid, the second pair won £340 and the winning pair won £480 and 7 of the 9 prize board prizes, they decided not to gamble, the 2nd pair had a massive argument, decided not to go for it and took the money so the first pair came back, gambled the twenty quid, non dart player (to go first) threw 2 treble twenties, the star prize (Vauxhall Nova) was unveiled and the dart player screamed "FUCK ME WE WON" the sound crew couldn't bleep it out or delete it so the programme, that cost £840 prize money, 7 prizes and a car was never broadcast.

He told something similar at an after dinner talk at the footy club in Blackpool a few years ago. I always thought it was so much bollocks as it wasnt broadcast live so why wouldnt they bleep it or cut it?

[Doctormop]

You'd think there would be a way of editing it wouldn't you, even if they had to do the unveiling again or something equally technical,

was still a good night though.

[CortinaDave]

I work on radio - sometimes it happens - you get a really good caller and record it to play out on air "as live" - sometimes the punter swears and if there's ambient noise in the background etc it's really hard to cut the swear word out without it being a really obvious edit so you ditch it.

 

Telly is harder still to edit. If the camera was on the guy as he swore just at the point of the reveal then it's a bastard to chop out as the sound has to match what's on screen. They'd have had to bleep it AND put some kind of graphic over the guys mouth which would look really stupid.

 

If they tried to film it again, the punters already know they've won so when you do the reveal for the second time they would look really wooden and staged and you lose the natural reaction .

[UmBongo]

Not sure if this Bowen gem was a myth but here it is...

 

Jim: So what do you for a living?

 

Contestant: I'm unemployed, Jim.

 

Jim: Super, smashing, great.

 

Contestant: Bastard!

[sierraman]

I used to love those record player/video/tv units they used to give away, with the Formica all over.

[gary_davidson]

what about a bit of beadles about

 

van pushed in water, owner swears once or twice with a load of chod in the background

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joLiy5MtlVY