In 1961, Holness became the host of UK game show Take a Letter, was relief host of Thames Television's magazine programme Today in 1968, and from 1983 until 1994 presented the British version of Blockbusters, for which he is best known.

If both were one correct answer away, all lit hexagons on the board would flash, indicating that the situation was effectively " Blockbusters either way ", and the next player to give a correct answer would win the game.

In the first Sky One series in 1994 it was a Blockbusters Encyclopedia and T-shirt.

In the second Sky One series it was a Blockbusters Dictionary and a CD ROM.

It was announced on 10 November 2011 that game show channel Challenge would revive the show in 2012, under the name " All New Blockbusters ", with adult contestants rather than students.

The series was put on hold for a few weeks and resumed transmission on 9 July 2012, starting with a celebrity special featuring Konnie Huq ( who had previously been on Blockbusters ) amongst others.

He was best known for television game shows, having hosted multiple series ( including Place the Face, the original The Price Is Right, the syndicated The $ 25, 000 Pyramid, and Blockbusters ) and served as a panelist on I've Got a Secret and To Tell the Truth.

It was reputed that he had hoped to recover and return to the show, but in the event that wouldn't happen, he had specifically requested that Tom Kennedy succeed him, as Cullen was at the time already hosting Blockbusters.

* Series two of Blockbusters was not broadcast, but around 50 editions of the 1984 / 5 series were shown on TSW, during summer holiday mornings: 1 July-24 August 1985.

* In the 1980s there was a game show called Blockbusters in both the US and the UK.

Gambit returned on October 27, 1980 as one of two replacements for the short-lived The David Letterman Show ( the other was Goodson-Todman's Blockbusters ).

Child's Play was hosted by game show veteran Bill Cullen ( who had just finished hosting NBC's Blockbusters ).

William " Bill " Rafferty ( June 17, 1944 – August 11, 2012 ) was a comedian and impressionist who hosted the game shows Every Second Counts ( 1984, syndicated ), Card Sharks ( 1986 – 87, syndication ), and Blockbusters ( 1987, NBC ).

During his brief game show hosting stints, Rafferty developed several catchphrases, including " dual implication ", meaning that either contestant can win the game or match with the next correct answer on Blockbusters and " the land of parting gifts " which was used on both Blockbusters and Card Sharks, meaning that the person who lost the game wins whatever prizes mentioned by the announcer in the closing plug.

Original programming included the comedy-drama Auf Wiedersehen, Pet ( more recently revived by the BBC ) and the game shows The Price is Right, Bullseye and Blockbusters.

The company holds the rights to the Goodson-Todman Productions library, which includes Beat the Clock, Blockbusters, Body Language, Branded, Call My Bluff, Card Sharks, Child's Play, Choose Up Sides, Concentration, Double Dare, Family Feud, Get the Message, He Said, She Said, It's News to Me, I've Got a Secret, Jefferson Drum, Make the Connection, Match Game, Mindreaders, Missing Links, Now You See It, Number Please, Password, Philip Marlowe, Play Your Hunch, Say When!

Blockbusters is a British television game show based upon the American game show of the same name in which contestants answer trivia questions to complete a path across or down a game board of hexagons.

* Blockbusters ( American and British versions )

All players received a Concise Oxford " Blockbusters " Dictionary and Sweatshirt in the original ITV series.

4 series of Champion Blockbusters were made from 1987 – 1990, in which winners of the fifth gold-run returned to battle against other five gold-run winners.

The series also featured contestant Claire Scott who made her third appearance on Blockbusters.

* Blockbusters ( 1983 ) TV series ... Host ( unknown episodes, 2000 )

A few abstract games are played on a hex grid, such as the six games of the GIPF series as well as Hex and the television game show based on it, Blockbusters.

These are shows, comedy, thrillers, series and international films and cartoons, but no Blockbusters.

* Blockbusters ( 1980 – 1982, 1987 )

Hex had an incarnation as the question board from the television game show Blockbusters.

Similarly Tyne Tees had to lose over 100 episodes of Blockbusters and two episodes of Prisoner: Cell Block H. Other programmes were also affected.

From 1 January 1993, Yorkshire and Tyne Tees broadcast all regional programmes simultaneously, affecting programming that had been shown at different paces in different regions ( such as Blockbusters and the Australian soap operas The Young Doctors and Prisoner: Cell Block H ).

Now, in a similar fashion as on Blockbusters, the contestant had to make their way from the left-hand side of the board to the right ( in a horizontal line ), making adjoining moves and passing on a square meant that they would be blocked and would have to find an alternative path.

This led to a successful spin off of Super Blockbusters, Junior Blockbusters board game and Gold Run.

* Blockbusters ( UK game show )

Maconie also is credited with starting the urban legend that Bob Holness, UK host of the game show Blockbusters, played the sax solo on Gerry Rafferty's hit single " Baker Street ".

* Blockbusters ( 1983 – 1993 )

Blockbusters ( with the then-host of the syndicated Card Sharks, Bill Rafferty ) and then Alex Trebek's Classic Concentration followed as competition for Card Sharks.

Holness appeared on one episode of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway in 2004, when he presented the last round of Ant and Dec's Blockbusters, with Ant as a contestant.

Olson even filled in for Bob Hilton on Blockbusters and his final non-Price assignment, Body Language, both of which were also Goodson-Todman productions.

The title sequence used in 2000 – 2001 featured people throwing and catching the letters that spell " Blockbusters " using the Ed Welch theme again.

), Movie Blockbusters ( pp. 230 – 241 ).

Mayo currently hosts a revival of the classic quiz show Blockbusters, which began airing on Challenge on the 14th of May 2012.

These shows included Eye Guess in the 1960s, Three on a Match and the nighttime version of The $ 25, 000 Pyramid in the 1970s, and Chain Reaction, Blockbusters, Child's Play, Hot Potato, and The Joker's Wild in the 1980s ( the last one after Jack Barry died ).

Blockbusters got larger as the war progressed from the original 4, 000 lb version, up to 12, 000 lb ( 1, 800 to 5, 400 kg ).