The Blockbuster Game: A Movie Party Game for the Whole Family

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Or, worse yet, if you are the one who is responsible for giving the clues, and you draw "The Great Escape," but you've never seen the movie, you're really stuck. Ulster: Mondays to Fridays at 3:20 pm until August 1993, then switching to Saturday lunchtime until completed 15 January 1994. Reappeared daily at 5:25am over Christmas period from 18 December 1993 [40] finally completing the series on 7 January 1994.

Australia – The Australian version of Blockbusters, hosted by Michael Pope, was broadcast on the Seven Network from 1991 to 1993. Blockbusters did share its time slot with other game shows such as Ask No Questions, Connections, and Winner Takes All. Yes, we are those annoying people who quote the movies we’ve seen too many times while we watch them. A wide variety of cards means that you won't find yourself repeating questions all that often, either. It was then changed from September 1985 on Mondays to Wednesdays and Fridays to Saturdays at 5:15 pm.Even when there are those differences in movie knowledge, I felt like there were enough possibilities for people to step in, guess a movie correctly, and feel like they were still having a good time. Thanks to some downright weird questions, it kick-starts fun conversations (would you rather have toes for fingers or fingers for toes? The show was delayed by all ITV regions until January 1990 as no slots were available to air the show. The object was to horizontally connect the left and right sides of the board within 60 seconds (or before blocking off all possible horizontal connections). Whoever runs out of time hands the advantage to the other team, which takes control of the next round: Triple Charades Jeopardy.

With teammates screaming answers and arguing over whether someone's flick earned a point or not, it'll give you memories to spare and plenty to laugh about.Your team-mates can mime out clues for you to guess which adds a whole new level of fun and laughter to the game! On the example card pictured above ‘Movies with dogs’, you would answer with films like 101 Dalmatians and Turner and Hooch. Blockbusters was one of the first British game shows to run in a 'straddling' format, which allowed for games to last a different length of time, meaning that episodes would often begin and end mid-game, and matches often crossed over into two episodes. This version was broadcast in 1997 and presented by Michael Aspel; the show stayed with the same format.

If nobody answered it correctly, the host asked another question whose answer began with that same letter. After drawing a card with questions covering everything from the 'best' sauce to the most useful app on your phone, you've got to scribble down what you think most players will say. There aren't any complicated rules to get your head around, it's easy to understand, and there's no waiting for your go. The original theme in C major was an upbeat pop track incorporating piano, strings, drum machine, and various other 1980s synthesized sounds reminiscent of the day – the four-note opening motif of Beethoven's 5th Symphony is mixed into the theme at the precise moment the composer's head appears on a flipping hexagon in the 1983 opening sequence (this sequence was replaced in 1987, see below).The original theme music was written by Ed Welch, who also updated the music for the second Sky series in 2001. Much like other versions of Werewolf, it starts with the group being given secret roles and 'going to sleep'. Blockbuster shot to the top of my favourite Big Potato party games and there is certainly lots of fun to be had in the 30 minutes of gameplay. It was remembered that I'd done TV programmes of much the same sort, such as Junior Criss Cross Quiz which I compered in the 1960s and which was also a question and answer show. In the first Sky One series this was changed back up to five matches and reduced to three again on BBC Two.