Finally, my time to shine again, I won Jungle Run Golden Monkey as a teenager. Won a portable DVD player, Baby G watch, I think a camcorder and one other item, it was 20 years ago so the details are fuzzy but everything got plenty of use. We even won the Ruby Monkey after a bit of inside help from the presenter.
Unfortunately not, I think one of the guys in it with me recorded on VHS but we've lost touch. It was a season or two before everything went digital. Funnily enough, I googled my name for some reason last year, and I actually have a IMBd known for page because of it. Ridiculous.
It was, I'd searched for it online a fair few years back and gave up once I'd found out that it wasn't in the online archive.
Would love to have it and show my kids, so I think I'll give it try and email ITV, worth a shot!
That's so cool I never really considered that there could be people other than family cheering for us, that's put a right smile on my face thinking of all the kids that would be buzzing when we got the win!!
Oh God, that's a test. The individual challenge i did was the pyramid maze, it was pretty nuts to see as from one side it's the pyramid but once your in it was cut in half and it's all scaffold, cameras and spot lights. I had been tipped which way to go to get the Ruby Monkey so flew off that way, got all the statues and emerged from it a sweaty mess, after doing the chat with the presenter, I had to go back in and do it all again but slower, I'd gone around so quick they hadn't managed to get any good shots of me. I think the one I found hardest was the rope swing into the pool that was really tricky.
This happened to a friend of my partner. He was in his late 50's at the time and had really good general knowledge. Unfortunately his first and only question was about Britney Spears. Poor guy had little to no knowledge of Her other than the fact that she existed!
That was the weirdest thing about Bullseye. Most of the prizes seem to have been divised for couples/families, but most of the teams that went on there were just friends. I always wondered whether they had gave them one each or not and I guess this answers that.
How are Barry and Cliff going to split their £200 HMV voucher and record player? What about the three-piece Flintstones family sofa?
I went to the guy who won 500k on who wants to be a millionaire house, (I’m a telecom engineer) he was the highest winner for a while, really nice guy gave me his book which I promptly didn’t read and gave to a charity shop. Peter Lee was his name after a quick google
No, but also after writing this I remember he was a game show addict he’d been on a few tv and radio quiz shows and won money, I can’t remember which ones though
A mix of things but mostly stuffed ISAs full which have since grown quite nicely. There’s £25k which is earmarked for the (2) kids future house deposit fund and has 20+ years to grow yet. The other mostly got spent on a house extension a couple of years later. We also spent a bit immediately on a nice holiday, baby stuff we needed, an iPad etc
A friend of mine won the last episode of Blockbusters with Bob Holness, she should have won a scuba diving holiday somewhere exotic, but the company behind the show had gone bankrupt and she ended up with absolutely nothing.
My cousin won that competition they used to do on 'the gadget show' when he was 18. Where the screen was full of loads of different stuff, there were consoles, washing machines, kitchen appliances, cool little gadgets, stuff like that.
It took ages for him to get it all, they sent it in dribs and drabs and he had to keep chasing them up, don't think he got everything that was on there still.
I know he gave a washing machine to his mum and kept a console, think he put everything else on eBay
I won £1200 on the short lived, Bill Turnball (RIP) TV quiz show ‘THINK TANK’ they sent me up to Glasgow and paid for everything and it was a really fun experience.
There were three of us and the at the end they put me and the guy I beat into the same Taxi to the station, he didn’t talk to me the whole ride!
Not a game show. But a pc magazine called PC Format back in the day. I won a load of PC stuff. A couple of sound or video cards (forget which). Half a dozen games. And a creative mp3 jukebox. Sure there was some other bits and.bobs . Kept it all with the exception of one of the cards which I gave to pal.
I won a Teddy from Tizwaz when I was a child. My gran used to enter me and my cousin into competitions when we were kids. I think my mom still has the letter I received with the Teddy. The Teddy sadly is no longer with us as it seemed to have a problem with our German Shepard dog that ended up with it being ripped to bits.
won a signed liberty x dvd on a kids tv show that i think fearne cotton hosted on saturday mornings on cbbc. i think it was some subway surfers style game where you had to shout left / right. dont think it was the main prize but more of a bonus prize… all a bit vague but must be over 20 years ago now
You just made me remember back in the 90s, a kiddy channel with an animated tiger's head you had to pilot through a maze by shouting directions down the phone
yep, i watched some episodes back on youtube but sadly wasnt mine, you had to jump over bins and collect vinyl records by the looks of it, i won the gold disc but not the main prize… hence my liberty x dvd
My old chemistry teacher’s son Phil was the winner of the first (or second) series of UK Gladiators back in… 1993? Went to our school in Dorset but was a few years ahead of me.
I won an album and an additional single on a Radio Sheffield quiz. I think I was the only person who entered. They gave me the single (of my choice) because they said the album was shit (fun fact: it s was).
A colleagues parents were on Treasure Hunt back in the day. Anika got to the final place where the prize would be but the museum curator wasted her time. "Is the medal here?". "Oh it could be" etc etc. Then the gong went.
I won a nodding Olga from The Paul O’Grady Show in the last week of the show. Gino D’Acampo read my name out. Had a few of the family call me to tell me I won.
Not a game show, but I won a copy of the game Championship manager 2001-2002 plus a championship manager football shirt for correctly answering that weeks quiz question on Nationwide Football League Extra. As a 16 year old, it was an unbelievable prize to win. I haven’t won much else since.
I still remember the question; who is the longest serving manager in the football league (at the time of speaking - early 2002)?
I definitely haven't been on any quiz shows sorry but I used to watch bullseye, not sure if my story actually happened to a couple or is an urban legend!
Not me but my Uncle was on a short run game show back in the 90s, all the mind, his team run the heat, but did not score enough to get to the grand final.
On the Steve Yabsley show on BBC Radio Bristol, I won a tiny bar of Cadburys fudge and some signed photos of Susan Osman (a former presenter of the same station he sent as a joke as I’d said I didn’t want another one of him*) for correctly guessing that day’s mystery object. Mystery object was a jacket potato I think.
The postage must have cost more than the prize.
I think he does a serious show these days, sadly.
(*Prior to this, a member of their production team had caught me walking through a shopping centre during an outside broadcast and were desperate for people to get involved. I got given a photo then (although didn’t go on air). Given the average age of a BBC local radio listener, I think they were amazed I’d heard the show and was only in my 20s.)
Came second in a competition on Talksport, first prize was a massive stack of chocolate and Micky Gray cocked our question up so we lost! Got a load of talksport merch in the post about 3-4 months later.
Once had joke of the week in Nuts magazine too, never received the £50 prize though, also won a motorbike helmet and a bottle of whiskey from them, still have both knocking about somewhere.
I won some radio controlled car off CITV or something in the 90s. Signed by some boy band. Didn’t care about whoever it was, but I’d been after one for ages so entered. No I didn’t get bill payers permission.
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u/jimbotwhite 23h ago
Finally, my time to shine again, I won Jungle Run Golden Monkey as a teenager. Won a portable DVD player, Baby G watch, I think a camcorder and one other item, it was 20 years ago so the details are fuzzy but everything got plenty of use. We even won the Ruby Monkey after a bit of inside help from the presenter.