Richard Whiteley RIP

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A) PGUK, sorry about the loss.

B) While on the topic of UK game shows.. Blockbusters and gold runs. What are they? (it appers gold runs are what you win, yes?)

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Blockbusters was a game show popular in the early '90s. It was one contestant v. two contestants. Who ever won, faced the Gold Run (if the twosome won then only one of them took part in G.R).

To win the Gold Run the contestant had to answer a series of acronym based questions.

e.g. the contestant picks "MHT" from the choice in front of him and the host would say

"What was the full name of the first British female prime minister?"

Whoever won the show came back on the next day for a maximum of 3 appearances. If they completed the Gold Run within 90 seconds all 3 times they won a very nice prize, 2 times a less good prize and so on.