Blockbusters

I really miss this show. As you will read from some of my other reviews, I enjoy a good, well put-together quiz show. I reckon this was one of the best. I really liked the format. Not only were the contestants battling against each other in terms of actually answering questions, but they had to 'block' each other on a honeycomb game board, in a manner not unlike Chinese Chequers. The game board would be filled with a selection of letters, within hexagons and the players would make a choice of a letter from which to answer a question - hence given rise to the hackneyed phrase "I'll have a P please Bob". As time brought the program nearer to ...  Read the complete review

Blockbusters was a successful gameshow running from 1983 until the mid 1990s, which pitted sixth form pupils from schools across the country against each other in a quiz, ending in the Gold Run to get prizes, often for the school as well as the pupils themselves. The show was hosted by Bob Holness, and was derived from the US version of the game. The game had two teams, which pitted one pupil against two. This may seem unfair until you look at the board. The board was a beehive shape, with 20 hexagons arranged in a 4x5 format. Each hexagon had a letter or letters in it, and the answer to the question started with the letter(s). The team with two in it had to ...  Read the complete review

Blockbusters was an incredibly popular show on ITV for most of the 80's. The contestants in the show had to answer general knowledge trivia. Game Format Three contestants play in one game. Strange, well one player takes on two players. There is a board with 20 hexagons on it, each with a letter. One of the players nominates a letter; the host asks a question, if the person answering the question gets it wrong than the question goes to the other team. The single player could do a vertical of 4 correct answers to connect the board from top to bottom vertically. The two person team had to go across the board with minimum of 5 ...  Read the complete review

This show has now been recreated with Lisa Tarbuck as the host apparently and is shown on Sky 1 but I have yet to see it instead my memories are of my school days when Bob Holness was the host and contestants got the chance to say "I would like a P Bob" much to the sniggers of all involved. This was q quiz show aimed at teenagers and sought to assess whether two brains were better than one. It was a straight quiz between a team of two and on the other team there was only one person, the idea was for the team of two to move horizntally across a grid while the singe player had to move vertically. The winner was the team to get to the other ...  Read the complete review

I remember rushing home from school every day to watch this as a kid and I can equally remember how disappointed I was when they announced that it was to disappear from our screens way back when. I loved the show, beautifully simplistic and a lot of fun as well. Well, it made a return recently, but sadly not with the superb Bob Holness as the quizmaster, but instead Lisa Tarbuck. :o( Ok, well the game first, for those who mananged to miss Blockbusters the first time around... A team of two contestants is pitted against a single contestant in a simplistic quiz stlye game. They are presented with a board of letters which represent the beginning letter ...  Read the complete review