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  • Hey, is it just me, or do the Catchphrases in series 1 have better music?

  • this isn't the welsh series

  • @XenoGlossoFila welsh is gay sheep shaggers

  • Is it just me, or does Andrew look a bit like Nick Clegg?

  • @cupcakefairy87 its just u, go suck nick cleggs cock!

  • Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!!

  • I expect this has already been mentioned, but this episode has been spoofed into a video called 'Freudian Catchphrase'. It's only 45 seconds long and there's a couple of laughs to be had.

  • (comment continued) I know for a fact, now, this episode definitely aired at night (though, as I keep saying, not as part of the *watershed*) on Saturday October the 24th 1992 (and was the last *TVS* episode; all *new* Catchphrase episodes after *this* one were the new *Carlton* series episodes; the *first* was the 'Mabel VS Len' episode aired at night, though not as part of the *watershed*, on Friday September the 30th 1994).

  • If Tina's big day is before October the 24th, she was forty when this episode aired. Andrew (if his big day is before October the 24th) was thirty-two when he was on this episode.

    No *wonder* did Tina beat him if he accidentally buzzed *before* the bell when it came to the 'Flashback' catchphrase (she still, though, didn't win the *super* catchphrase).

  • @FridaLaReina Well, like I said, you have to become a *member*, then post nine times or more on the *forums* (like *introduce* yourself) You don't even have to *pay* to watch episodes!

  • @FridaLaReina You'll like to know, there's a way you can see *every single episode* of *every single TV show* *ever*; there's a website called 'Let Me Watch This'. If there are any shows you want to see that aren't *already* there, you can *ask* for them to be uploaded (though you have to become a *member* *first* and post on the forums nine times or more, like *introduce* yourself)

  • I remember two other episodes from this series but only by a few details

    In the first one the opening catchphrases were Door Mouse, Bring on The Dancing Girls and Pop Goes The Weasel, also the last bonus catchphrase was Road To Nowhere

    In the second one the winning contestant only got one right in the super catchphrase and two of the ones he got wrong were Calling Card and Chocolate Chip Cookie

    Just wondering does anyone else know these two episodes?

  • roy walker was a legend

  • Congratulations! You've won a brand new chair leg!

  • XD I'm addicted to this, just because i think it's fun to guess.

  • Its close but it's not close enough, 235pounds ladies and gentlemen, we are adding 50 pounds to the bonus bank ladies and gentlemen, look at Mr chips what's he doing,

    say what you see, if you see it say it.

    Ready money round, my god didn't this guy shout right into peoples ear and stand there with a strange expression on his face.

  • Its close but it's not close enough, 235pounds ladies and gentlemen, we are adding 50 pounds to the bonus bank ladies and gentlemen, look at Mr chips what's he doing,

    say what you see, if you see it say it.

    Ready money round, my god didn't this guy shout right into peoples ear and stand there with a strange expression on his face.

  • And here are our guests: Tuna and Andrew!

  • that's a great answer, but you're not rrriiiiiiggggghhhhhhhhhttttttt­ttt

  • How can it be a good answer if it's the wrong one?

  • roy walker you're pissed out of your skull

  • I hate the way/ love the way he says "YOUR RIGHT".. :S :D

  • Hi all. I have just found this video of me and Andrew ...... oh the embarrassment lol. Just to clear a few points up for you all; 1) there were four shows filmed in one day, 2) this episode was filmed in the late summer of 1991 but aired much later due to the changing of hands of TVS/Carlton 3) yes Roy Walker really was a nice guy and 4) just like everyone else, I used to sit at home shouting at the telly because I couldn't believe that the contestants didn't seem to know the answer.

  • Watching those titles and hearing that music, it just seems impossible that it was 17 years ago!

  • tina reminds me of Charlotte Church in her younger operatic days lol ...

  • @yoyozippy I think that's a compliment so thx

  • I used to love this programme so much! The presenters after Roy Walker were rubbish so I didn't watch those as much

  • I like how those giant screens had screensavers when they're not being used!

  • @MrBacktothenineties This episode wasn't shown in 1993; it was shown in 1992. There was NO Catchphrase in 1993. This was even the last episode of the TVS version.

  • Say what I see? A really creepy presenter and a needlessly revolving set.

  • RRRRRRRIIIIIIGGGGGGGHHHHHHHTTT­TTT!!!!!!!!!

  • Could someone please put an archive up with every catchphrase episode ever?? :D

  • @obtyropil Yes; I personally sort of wish that but I can't say what episode I like the MOST since users HATED it when I posted that comment on these videos billions of times.

  • @obtyropil Why did you recently close your account? I did say that's a really good comment you posted but, anyway, I can't really see anyone putting an archive up with every single Catchphrase episode ever made, for one thing since there's a lot of old shows people could be wanting an archive put up with every single episode ever made.

  • @obtyropil You've closed your *second* account FridaLaReina. I would *say* something to that but what boffinme80 nearly did would happen (and it wouldn't even be boffinme80 who'd really get my account suspended *this* time)

  • Agreed,Roy was a great host and they dont make game shows like this anymore.Funny,enjoyable and doesnt take itself seriously.

  • RIP WTC 2:36

  • the age of sexual innocence :p

  • Hooray there was no terrible jokes from roy at the start of this episode

  • Nooo! That is not a complete episode... was enjoying that very much. The final answer was definitely 'a clean bill of health' though

  • I met Roy Walker in a Little Chef and discussed Ulster Politics with him. He's a staunch ulster Unionist and a very funny bloke.

  • we seem to be going back not forward with technology, in 1993 i could fly on a Concorde , now i cant :(

  • That dude looked way too happy to be there xD

  • Is it me or can we not hear the bell??

  • How is that ''the final straw''? A circle is all one line, so has no end!

    P.S. I realise I'm probably taking this too seriously LOL

  • @dolphineclipse It wasn't pointing to the rim of the cup; it was pointing to the blue straw on the right.

  • @AlphaOmegaAWH Exactly - the straw was on the right, not at the end - you could keep moving the cup round to a different angle and then a different straw would be the ''final'' one, so I don't see how they can call that the ''final'' straw. I know it's just meant to be a fun game, but I felt it wasn't accurate. =)

  • Eh, makes sense. I suppose they could have had someone pulling out all the straws and leaving just one and keep the same catch phrase...

  • im 17 now but when i was much younger i used to watch this show with my nan, i used to love then i gained a VERY bad fear of my.chips after watching an episode with him where the catchphrase was "dont lose your head" or something along those lines, it was very bad i would have nightmares etc and not want to be in a room on my own i grew out of it i guess, but even now i still get shivers down my spine watching it its weird lol

  • What episodes have you recently seen on Challenge?

    I mean, who were the entrants and who won (and what colour was each entrant's podium)?

  • those guys are way fast at getting the answers

    i only got peking duck before them

  • lol baby hot

  • "It's good, but it's not right" :D

  • @Brythonn if it's not right then it's not good damn it

  • Today is the seventeenth anniversary of this episode where it was additionally held on a Saturday seventeen years ago.

  • FANTASITC

  • The only ones I got quicker than them was hard as nails and duty calls :')

  • WHATS HAPPENED TO THE SOUND

  • You really have to love those Amiga graphics.

    If this comes back, it needs the same technology to make the catchphrases. None of this Photoshop CGI crap.

  • @c3section Definatly. I really wish it would come back, used to love it.

  • @c3section

    The US Catch Phrase had even more primitive graphics. I compared the graphics of the catchphrases, and it seems like the UK was decades more high-tech in the mid-80s.

  • @c3section Granted, Adobe Flash is easier to use, but those old Amiga graphics really shine.

  • haha! yerwan tina says looking after my kid is the best job ive ever had...then he goes have u had a lot of jobs? she says ya..then he says whats the best one you've had!!!! whata dope!!

  • I lived in Germany for 6 years as a child when I my dad served in the US Army and I got to watch this a lot when I was growing up on our satellite dish. This and rugby were what I remember most about British TV. I hope to see the Queen's Land one day.

  • I remember as a kid being transfixed by the flame like graphic you see for the first time at 0.34, sad I know but that's what I'm like :-D

  • it is beautiful...

  • Good old Roy Walker.

  • Roy was the best at doing the show. When the show got revamped, they seemed to get rid of Mr Chips, I loved seeing him! Also when Nick Weir and Mark Curry both did the show, I thought Nick was a bit better than Mark but the show was better with the original host. Bring back the show and Roy!

  • I loved the show, but I think its a little sad all this over-analysis of dates, production companies etc.

    Like everything else its a show which inevitably changes with time. When it runs its course it runs its course. If they relaunched it now it might do well, but you cant live in the past, it would never be the same.

  • BRING BACK CATCHPHRASE! with Roy Walker as host. Can we not launch a facebook/twitter/myspace protest to get the show back?

  • I really wish I could see the very old series of Catchphrase. Challenge used to have it in the past.

  • Will you PLEASE stop posting the same comment over and over again!

    Yes we all know you prefer the Carlton version!!!

  • Yeah! What if some of us had enough of watching the Carlton version? And want to watch the TVS version?

  • so you actually go so far as to think that challenge showing the TVS version would be a BAD thing????

    if so then may i suggest you keep such a foolish thought to yourself?

  • I slightly remember watching this when I was very young.

    Hey, you see any resemblance to this and Warioware? Hehe.

  • Do you have any episode sorta 94-96?

  • i'm guessing u have not seen all the TVS episodes, so how can u say that none of them are good compared to the 1994 series?

    i think u're employing prejudice here

  • I saw MOST of the TVS episodes; the 1994 series was more SOPHISTICATED to answer your question. The TVS episodes were CHEAPER to make and the 1994 series had more of the special effects.

    People who made TV shows when the TVS episodes of Catchphrase were made didn't have the technology to make TV shows as sophisticated back then.

    TV producers had more money when they changed the set in 1994.

  • that still doesn't necessarily mean that the 1994 series was better than ALL the TVS episodes...

    and look at all the shows since that have cost loads to make and used cutting edge technology, but have completely bombed - the colour of money is a prime example

  • Bring Catchphrase back!

  • I KNOW, RIGHT?

  • bring it back! come on roy

  • I used to watch this all the time. Been watching it since I was 4. Pity roy walker hasn't really done much else since.

    This was the best show on a perfect saturday night. Mr Chips and the animation styles in this show were amazing back in the old days. Bring it back

  • Thanks so much for sharing this with us!

  • CATCHPHRASE WAS THE BEST! I watched it for 13 years from the ages of 5 to 18! Bring it back.

  • haha how hilarious the 1st woman whose shown and says she has a daughter rebecca who is 2 well i would have been 2 in 1993 and my name is rebecca lol:P

    but thats not my mum lol

  • yeah bexeyboo that is so hilarious, rly can't stop laughin here

  • i was sad when the show ended

  • Me too.

  • Is this episode aired on Saturday 24 October 1992?

  • Most likely.

  • Room for improvement. I never would have guessed that one.

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  • It's no wonder it took Tina and Andrew ages to guess it (even though Andrew did).

    I bet Trevor is better at guessing bonus catchphrases in an episode in the 1994 series which was MUCH better than THIS series.

  • We all have our own opinions, yes. You like that series better and I like this one better. I do have respect, however, for the 1994 series, since that is the series done in some ITV games website I've been on, where Catchphrase as an online game is revived in the 1994 series.

  • i have lost count of how many times u have said that the 1994-9 carlton version is better than the TVS version...

    DON'T u think once or twice is enough instead of infinity times???

  • I wish this show would get another chance here in the states. This is a great game.

  • Fellow American oldzac87, I'm with you all the way! I love this game as much as you do and if my wish of hosting a game show came true, I'd bring it back.

  • I salute you and I strike up the band in your honor! That's my famous figure of speech, of course.

  • idak72, do you or anyone you know have a full episode of Catchphrase here in the United States? I've been dying to see our version that unfortunately had only a 13-week run, while it ran almost forever in the UK.

  • Oops. Sorry. I found episodes of the US show. thewhammy813, or whatever the number is, posted episodes.

  • 16 years from 1986 - 2002, although the show had a complete makeover in 2000 which killed it off 2 years later!!!

  • I want those outlaw producers arrested and the show back on the air, both in the UK and my country, the USA! It is a rotten crime to makeover the set like that just because the new millenium started in 2000! If I were the Karate Kat (he was my favorite in cartoons), I'd kick their butts right now!

  • We need to bring things like this back on TV. It would be alot better than those stupid reality shows we have today

  • WELL the tapes are missing, although may be with ITV. these tapes now belong to Disney

    THE GITS!

  • All three versions are with ITV Yorkshire in Leeds, although the TVS versions are legally the property of Disney or Fox (the TVS archive is splintered with a number of different owners)

    The Roy Walker/Carlton and Crap catchphrase/Carlton versions are at ITV Yorkshire and are legally the property of Granada Media Group (ITVplc)

  • does anyone av a link to the 1994 intro? (not the family one) its a bit different to this.

  • It's in my favourites.

  • I have the 1994-1997 one in my favourites and the (slightly) different 1997-1999 titles in "My videos"

  • good quality video but the sound is very poor.  :(

  • Probably because when it was at TVS. They used ageing studio equipment and recorded it on 1" analogue Panasonic tape. When it was moved to Carlton, they used digital mikes and cameras, slightly modified sets and used D3 digital casettes.

  • I would love a copy of this and the Family edition on DVD.

  • So would I, frankly.

  • I always loved this show and still do!

  • BloopyQ, I salute you!

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  • The one with Trevor I saw is avaliable in a trading site. As soon as the guy opens again, I'll get it.

    But if you want good players, look at Sean from the snake charmer epsiode

  • Who was this guy? Was he a YouTube user?

    Are you saying he's going to upload it on YouTube?! (Inevitably; I do want the WHOLE episode, where it'll be a three parter)

  • Oh, I noticed a few guys mentioned this great contestant named Trevor. He's not a user or anything. But I noticed a trader named Ryan Rinkerman has it.

  • Is there a way of him uploading the episode here? If so, I can wait; Rome wasn't built in a day and he has a life.

  • Ryan Rinkerman isn't a member here.

  • Then how can I get it?

  • oh, here we go with trevor and catherine for the millionth time...

    and for heaven's sake, tina is NOT stupid - hopeless guesses occurred all the time on catchphrase, and contestants who came up with them weren't necessarily stupid, unless of course they kept doing it

  • Aaah brilliant! This program is part of fond memories of my childhood - Saturdays with Dad's Army and Catchphrase and Blind Date, but Catchphrase was always my fave. Great that someone's uploading episodes. More please! :D

  • Hi idak72

    Cheers for uploading the TVS version of Catchphrase.

    Please may I ask what was the copyright year at the end of this episode as it got cut off towards the end.

  • I hate to be the one telling you this, but the year is 1993. Besides, that year is in the title.

  • Oops. My bad.

  • How can this be from 1993 as TVS finished in 1992 and I checked wikipedia about Catchphrase and it was made by TVS from 1986 to 1992. As Carlton took over from 1994 to 1998.

  • never trust wikipedia

  • actually carlton had thames tv. meridian bought tvs.  then disney bought the rights for the programmes that was originally on tvs. so this episode is certainly after tvs and during the talks with disney

  • Wikipedia's SOMETIMES right; just don't ALWAYS trust Wikipedia.

  • yeah, MADE until 1992. That doesn't mean transmitted does it?

    So it could have been *transmitted* on TVS' behalf by Meridian (who replaced them) or Scottish (who seemed to take on most of TVS' programming). Or maybe even bought by Action Time who then sold them onto Carlton, who took the later Roy Walker version.

  • good point but action time are an independent so carlton would of bought the shows and then let other itv stations have the recordings

  • Carlton wouldn't distribute the tapes to the other ITV regions. That's not the way it worked. If one ITV region was going to screen a programme from another ITV region, then that ITV region would connect up directly to the video recorder playing the tape in the other ITV region. And the same goes for the programmes that had varied dates and times in the different ITV regions.

  • Ah, but this episode could have had its first screening in this ITV region in 1993!!! Remember, the ITV regions were like that.

    Tyne Tees had to skip *150* episodes of Blockbusters in order to catch up with Yorkshire TV when they both merged in 1992!

  • Carlton also made the 2000-2002 version. Action time made ALL episodes of the UK catchphrase.

  • Who remembers that brief time Mark Curry presented he was worst than Nick Weir Roy Walker was the best at this I was very young when this one came out and it brings back memories upload more please.

  • I did. He sucked.

  • Yes, he did!

  • i vaiguely remember it, cant rmeember if he was worse than Nick Weir though. I dont wanna think how bad he must have been if he was worse than him.

    bring back catchphrase, bring back roy walker

  • cxx66, I salute you!

  • I think Nick Weir AND Mark Curry were both EQUALLY as bad as EACH OTHER. Stupid Phil Jupitus MADE poor Roy leave just for revamping the show for the millennium. Such a stupid excuse.

    That's even why the show was AXED since 2002, since people were complaining it was nowhere near as good without Roy Walker.

  • Couldn't have said it better myself, shermanvermin76! As Leo the Patriotic Lion, I'd strike up the band in your honor, if I had one, of course; I was greatly inspired by Sousa.

  • Maybe Yankee TV ought to learn from the British Roy Walker episodes before they brought it back!

  • When you say "Yankee," you mean America today, don't you? Some call us Yankees when refering to our civil war of 1861-65, which was used by the soldiers of the North. I'm not being critical, just checking.

  • One Italian YouTube user highly criticized me for my comments and called me a Yankee. I am alerting you of this since I am easily insulted if taken out of context.

  • Yes I do. :)

  • Okay. I am not insulted. I do agree with you in saying we should learn from Roy's shows and bring Catchphrase back. It's bad enough, some have said, we keep updating shows. Our Wheel of Fortune now offers $1 million in an attempt to draw people away from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? That's my neighbors opinion, but since he doesn't have an account, don't bother getting angry at him if you are angry at him at all.

  • After this series they changed the theme tune and identity which was better. 1994 was my favourite series espically some familiar snake.

  • Here comes the bonus!

  • You're probably thinking of the catchphrase "Snake Charmer." What a LOL catchphrase that was.

  • 1994 was MY favourite series too, featuring a contestant who makes it to the super catchphrase - Trevor. (I even prefer the Trevor VS Catherine episode to the snake charmer episode and even the 1998 episode).

    I never liked THIS 1986 series as much as 1994.

  • I like the 1994 series because it was MY period of Catchophrase. Those red/blue maze opening titles, the slightly re-designed set, the more expensive-looking blue/pink neon tube set, the more lavish but not OTT computer graphics (which, although I accept they looked good at the time, the previous ones are just too bad today and the later ones (post 2000) just went too far and lost the character of the low-processor-looking CGI animations)

  • How dare you, sir - the man's a legend!

  • roy walkers shows were legendary , nick weir's were just a mistake

  • Mark Curry's were just a mistake too.

  • Which one was worse: him or the guy who fell down the stairs and broke his leg - whatever his name was - in your opinion? IMO, it was the guy who fell down the stairs.

  • The guy who fell down the stairs was that CRETIN Nick Weir. Him AND Mark Curry were just EQUALLY as bad as each OTHER.

    What's more, Nick Weir never even bothers to give his DOB online. What's to like about him THERE?!