The Generation Game (United Kingdom)
The Generation Game (United Kingdom)

The Generation Game (United Kingdom)

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The Generation Game was a British game show produced by the BBC in which four teams of two competed to win prizes. The programme was first broadcast in 1971 under the title Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game and ran until 1982, and again from 1990 until 2002. The show was based on the Dutch TV show Een van de acht, "One of the Eight", the format devised in 1969 by Theo Uittenbogaard for VARA Television. Mrs. Mies Bouwman - a popular Dutch talk show host and presenter of the show - came up with the idea of the conveyor belt. She had seen it on a German programme and wanted to incorporate it into the show. Another antecedent for the gameshow was 'Sunday Night at the London Palladium' on ATV, which had a game called Beat the Clock, taken from an American gameshow. It featured married couples playing silly games within a certain time to win prize money. This was hosted by Bruce Forsyth from 1958, and he took the idea with him when he went over to the BBC. During the 1970s, gameshows became more popular and started to replace expensive variety shows. Creating new studio shows was cheaper than hiring a theatre and paying for long rehearsals and a large orchestra, and could secure a similar number of viewers. With less money for their own productions, a gameshow seemed the obvious idea for ITV. As a result many variety performers were recruited for gameshows. The BBC, suffering poor ratings, decided to make its own gameshow. Bill Cotton, the BBC's Head of Light Entertainment, believed that Bruce Forsyth was best for the job. For years, The Generation Game was one of the strong shows in the BBC's Saturday night line-up, and became the number one gameshow on British television during the 1970s, regularly gaining over 21 million viewers. However, things were about to change. LWT, desperate to end the BBC's long-running ratings success on a Saturday night, offered Forsyth a chance to change channel to host The Big Night.

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October 1971 - September 1972
16 episodes
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September 1972 - September 1973
17 episodes
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September 1973 - September 1974
23 episodes
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September 1974 - September 1975
22 episodes
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September 1975 - September 1976
16 episodes
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September 1976 - September 1977
18 episodes
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September 1977 - May 1978
18 episodes
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September 1978 - April 1979
16 episodes
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September 1979 - April 1980
18 episodes
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August 1980 - April 1981
19 episodes
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September 1981 - January 1982
18 episodes
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September 1990 - December 1990
14 episodes
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September 1991 - September 1993
17 episodes
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September 1992 - September 1993
16 episodes
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September 1993 - September 1994
16 episodes
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September 1994 - December 1994
16 episodes
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October 1995 - February 1996
17 episodes
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August 1996 - December 1996
16 episodes
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October 1997 - March 1998
22 episodes
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September 1998 - January 1999
20 episodes
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September 1999 - July 2000
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October 2000 - May 2001
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March 2001 - April 2002
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