Insert your second innuendo here. Same format but with somewhat racier questions. Six out of six got you a nice holiday well, not you personally - the contestants. Anything less resulted in a prize from a collection including Mr and Mrs bathmats, toilet covers, teapots that sort of thing. The "highlight" was defiantly Julian mincing his way through the theme tune in his own inimitable style. But let us take you back to the best known Batey version.
Presumably most of the budget went on Tony Hatch's PRS residuals and shipping up the contestants all the way up to Carlisle, which can't have been cheap. The prizes weren't actually that much better on the Clary version, with a couple of hundred quid or a weekend away somewhere failing to shine in the post-Millionaire TV environment.
Derek Batey himself once took time out to email popular website TV Cream to chide them for peddling this unforgivable lie. In fact great care was taken to ensure that all age groups were represented," scolded an indignant Derek, as our lifelong dream of joining the Water Rats crumbled before our eyes.
It cannot be denied, though, that there were a lot of pensioners on the series, all of whom seemed to be celebrating a landmark matrimonial anniversary for Derek to coo over. It made him a reasonably big star - big enough to appear on Christmas , anyway - and when glamorous hostess Susan Cuff got married to regional smoothie David Davies, it was big news on Look North West , believe us.
Everyone remembers that twinkly Tony Hatch-composed theme tune. Derek even took the show on the road, and as the man himself insisted upon telling us, "The show is still very popular in cabaret and theatre format. Like "when you're having a meal at home, do you always have serviettes, sometimes have serviettes, or never have serviettes? But it's Julian Clary 's revival that tops the list here - the kind of idea that might have worked on paper but failed to gel on screen, because quiz shows never really work in inverted commas unless there's nothing at stake cf Trick or Treat , Families at War.
It's a one-joke concept anyway - Julian Clary presents Mr and Mrs! Isn't that funny! It was some years before the rest of the country got to see it on any sort of regular basis - or at all, apart from the one episode which turned up on Rediffusion London as a bank holiday special on Good Friday It made sporadic appearances elsewhere in the late sixties before storming the network on 16 October , although it rarely got properly networked at the same time.
Best remembered as an afternoon custard cream accompanier, or a regular in ITV's anything goes 5. It was here it pulled in its highest ever audience, eleven million, in August obviously By the eighties, though, it was firmly back on weekday afternoons, before the final few series got stripped across the morning schedules.
We never understood how two ITV regions both seemed to be making the same show. In the seventies both Border and HTV took turns in producing the series, each doing a few weeks at a time, and there was always a 'handover programme' when it changed to the other company. Alan Taylor was the host on the HTV programme and Dudley Savage played an electronic organ, not only playing the signature tune live but also musical questions.
Eventually, Batey won the day and it's the Border incarnation that most people recall, with its pink boudoir set, a tiny audience and the clacketty jackpot board.
It's all a bit confusing. The Clary-fronted revival went out on Friday evenings at ten o'clock, one of the first programmes to replace News at Ten, but stiffed big-time and was dropped after two episodes. The aim of the game is to see how well they know each other and match as many answers up with the groom as possible!
You can even enforce a penalty like shots, dares or booby prizes for every one they get wrong - remember, judges decision is final! It's important that the questions you choose aren't too serious, or too difficult. Make sure to also know your audience and be mindful when picking the questions or making up your own.
You don't want to embarrass the bride or make her feel uncomfortable especially if her mum or mum-in-law to be are attending. Looking for a more colourful and offbeat version of the game?
Photo by Makenna Devey Photography via Ruffled. We recommend using between 15 and 20 Mr and Mrs quiz questions in total, but don't be afraid to get creative and personalise them - the bride-to-be will love it!
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