2) a radio quiz program from the 80s, which aired on Sundays, in Tennessee at least. just after church, i believe. it featured the kind of creative point-awarding later popularized by "whose line is it anyway"one was awarded 0, 1 mark, or 2 marks for answers often requiring some subtle spin; i remember it being like the quiz equivalent of a cryptic crossword. my favorite part came at the end when the contestants each told a shaggy dog story, the climax of which had to be a phrase that the host had set back at the beginning of the showso inbetween questions and answers they had to be thinking about and adding to and polishing this set-up to some horrible pun. as i remember it this story could make up for a show's worth of missed questions, depending on its unexpected plot, or just great timing by the teller. i could be remembering all this wrong.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 28 July 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 28 July 2003 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)
The show was, if I recall, just called the Norman Gunston show? I know he did some rehash more recently too... help me out, fellow antipodeans, I'm old enough to remember but too old to remember.
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 28 July 2003 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 28 July 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 28 July 2003 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 28 July 2003 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― Just me, Monday, 28 July 2003 07:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 28 July 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)
I remember Frank Muir's What-A-Mess books with fondness. Am I wrong?
― Tom (Groke), Monday, 28 July 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 28 July 2003 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 28 July 2003 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 1 August 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)