Happy Families (1993 TV series)
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| Happy Families | |
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| File:Happy Families 1993.jpg | |
| Genre | Game show |
| Presented by | Sarah Greene Andrew O'Connor |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Mentorn |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC1 |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Original release | 18 September – 11 December 1993[1] |
| External links | |
| [{{#property:P856}} Website] | |
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Happy Families is a British television game show which ran from 18 September to 11 December 1993 on BBC1[2][3]. It was co-presented by Andrew O'Connor and Sarah Greene. Each episode would also feature a celebrity guest who would keep the scores of each episode.
Format[edit]
The show consisted of two family teams, each comprising of 11 members taking part in a series of various arena-style games in a bid to rescue their respective grannies, each of whom are placed away in cage and held aloft on a crane. With each game won their grandmother would be raised by one "notch". The first team to reach 15 notches in the Final Battle would win the episode. The two teams with the fastest times would compete against each other in the Grand Final at the end of the series.
Events[edit]
- The Podmobile - A rollercoaster style game where each player sits in a hand-bike powered "pod" and have to race back and forth across a sky track picking up each team member's pod and accompanying team member in turn. Once all ten players were picked up the team would then power the "train" down the sky track to the bottom of the course, where the winner would be the team to reach the bottom first.
- Remote Control - A dodgem car style game where and adult on the team would sit in an electronic car while giving directions to a child team member, who was blindfolded, via a headset. The idea was for the adult to guide the child to drive the car around an arena and bump into switches that corresponded to the team's colour.
- Sticky Mountain - A relay race where each team has three members scale a velcro covered mountain. The winner would be the first to reach to top and wave the flag of their team.
- Terrorball - A game played four times per episode (twice for two members of each family), with a family member strapped inside a spinning cage and having to answer questions about their own family and household.
- Dog Assault Course - A dog show style obstacle course game for the family dogs, one for each team.
- Slingshot - Family members slide down a zip line with a bucket in order to catch balls slingshotted up to them by their team mates below.
- Wingwalker - A roller style game with one family pushing a roller vehicle along as fast as possible, while the other family has members balancing on a large seesaw suspended on top of the vehicle. The objective was to pop a number of suspended balloons.
- The Final Battle - The final race for each team to get to the requisite 15 notches to release their grannies, the objective for both teams was to fill up a machine with gunge and then fire it at targets across at the team on the opposite side. Every time they hit a target, they would earn another notch. The better a team did in the preceding rounds, the less they would have to score in order to win. The two teams winning the quickest time would go through to the Grand Final.
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