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!!! Clockwise !!!
9 years ago
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I have been waiting for this to show up on Youtube for years and years... and tonight it did. This is Clockwise... not only an episode of the show that nobody seems to remember, but the exact episode that caused my lifetime fascination!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3rmOEgD5Hg
Skip to 9 minutes through to see the exact moment where I was messed up for life! The game is a little less unbelievably messy than I remember, but the memory tends to be generous to stuff like this (apart from the gunge game on Motormouth which was exactly as intimidating as I remembered). Just the idea of being 'trapped', watching your partner try to avoid making mistakes, fascinated me... as did the mechanism visible on the gunge machinery, which looks like a rotating valve that's being activated electronically. I've got to see if I can build one of these ;)
This is the stuff that would later go on to inspire Industrial Zone... and if you take a look at the final game, answering questions under increasing "distraction", you'll see exactly where the Dragon Den scenes came from as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3rmOEgD5Hg
Skip to 9 minutes through to see the exact moment where I was messed up for life! The game is a little less unbelievably messy than I remember, but the memory tends to be generous to stuff like this (apart from the gunge game on Motormouth which was exactly as intimidating as I remembered). Just the idea of being 'trapped', watching your partner try to avoid making mistakes, fascinated me... as did the mechanism visible on the gunge machinery, which looks like a rotating valve that's being activated electronically. I've got to see if I can build one of these ;)
This is the stuff that would later go on to inspire Industrial Zone... and if you take a look at the final game, answering questions under increasing "distraction", you'll see exactly where the Dragon Den scenes came from as well.
D.F.
D.F.
...Well, it looked like gunge at the time.
It always felt odd to me when kids seem to have their own script and have a ton of media training, rather than just being contestants hoping to win prizes.
That finale segment is one of the most surreal things I've seen in a game show!
I was interested to see the Time Tunnel finale as well because from my memories, I thought they would just be put in a chamber and have the whole "tunnel" done with computer graphics - but it really was a ride through a tube with slime devices installed in it. What a time to have grown up :)
I was one of those who was more inspired by the likes of Get Your Own Back which was delightful for so many reasons. I remember some other shows but unfortunately the names have long since escaped me.
Also for the record, I'd never read your Dragon Den stories before seeing you mention them in this journal. Now that I went out to investigate, I can only say that they were utterly delightful. Genuinely glad I was pointed in their direction.
The machines are neat though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhRnHBoSje4
The game starts at about 9 minutes and 30 seconds.
Like your game, the contestants don't have any control over whether they get slimed or not. However, they didn't have a partner to save them - they are the ones sliming them! No fancy machinery either. Wild and Crazy Kids had a small budget and no studio, so they're equipment had to be cheap and portable.
Britain really had an obsession with this stuff that I didn't realize was unique until much later in life - I'm so fascinated by the way that people built machinery just to cover people in slime really well.
(I've been trying to recall what show had the Time Tunnel end game for /years/ now. So very much cheers for this.)
D.F.