3-2-1
Ted
Rogers and Dusty Bin (an electronically operated dustbin with a
face on the front - which cost £10,500 to build!) appeared in
this bizarre game show, along with Rogers' wrist spraining
gesture.
Regular guests included The Brian Rogers Connection (no
relation to Ted), and those hostesses known as the Gentle Secs.
Winning contestants either walked away with a Ford Fiesta (or
similar) or a new dustbin.
The game began with three
couples competing in a general knowledge round, with cash awarded
for each correct answer.
Here is a genuine excerpt from a 3-2-1
show . . .
Rogers: "This is a composer. German by
birth, English by adoption. Best known for an oratorio published
in 1741. It was called Messiah. You're bound to know his
handle".
Female contestant: "Oh God, I used to
have it at school . . . Handel's Water Music!"
Rogers:
"So who's the composer?"
Female contestant:
"Schubert?"
Rogers: (shrugs shoulders and turns
to other team) "So I can offer it to you."
Male
contestant: "Beethoven?"
The couple with the
least amount of cash at the end of the round would be eliminated
straight away - empty handed but for a ceramic facsimile of Dusty
Bin.
The two remaining couples then endured mind numbingly
C-Grade comedy and musical sketches, at the end of which the
"performer" would give Ted a clue and plug whatever they
had to plug - usually a panto or "summer season" (mental
note: Whatever happened to the "Summer
Season"?).
The couples had to decide which clue to
discard (hopefully the one which would be rewarded with a new
dustbin) and eventually the sole remaining couple would have to
accept one prize and reject another based on some insane
logic-free cryptic clues and an object from the aforementioned
crap sketches, in the hope of winning aforementioned car (or
caravan, boat etc).
3-2-1 was huge in Britain where it
featured in the Saturday night TV schedule and regularly attracted
16 million viewers.
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