Anyone remember "The Golden Shot"?

[Magpie]

I think at the end the contestants had to cut a vertical thread stretched across the target to win the jackpot. As I remember it, this used to happen more often than one might suppose. If the bulls-eye was perfectly in line with the crossbow sight, the thread would be broken.

In the episode I saw, they had a traditional type bullseys target, and the "golden girl" would point to a totally arbitrary spot in the centre circle and the contestant would have to hit it dead on, with no visual reference to it at all.

[Robert]

Hi Magpie

Are you sure that wasn't Anne Aston showing the thread as it passed through the centre of the target? It's all very vague in my mind now, but I think they started the show with people ringing in and trying to hit the apples - which had explosive charges fitted to them, so that they went pop - and that was to determine next week's contestants. Then they had this week's contestants, from whom a winner was found who then went on to try to win the jackpot at the end of the show.

[Magpie]

Hi Magpie

Are you sure that wasn't Anne Aston showing the thread as it passed through the centre of the target? It's all very vague in my mind now, but I think they started the show with people ringing in and trying to hit the apples - which had explosive charges fitted to them, so that they went pop - and that was to determine next week's contestants. Then they had this week's contestants, from whom a winner was found who then went on to try to win the jackpot at the end of the show.

The episode I saw didn't have people calling in--they were in the studio but were stuck in a little booth with a TV screen and a telephone, which was connected to the phone used by the host.

[Magpie]

But yeah, I remember when I were a lad the contestents would phone it and direct the crossbow.

[Phil Carter]

Bob Monkhouse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tooDIHN6o2o&NR=1&feature=endscreen