Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game - S4, Ep 4 (Oct 1st 1993)

Today's contestants are Audrey & Gary Brook from Yorkshire, Marika & Talos Choulee from Bedfordshire, John Napman & Emli Abootso from Essex & Middlesex, and Alan & Katie Marie Whittaker from Gloucestershire. Bruce Forsyth hosts, assisted by the ever lovely Rosemary Ford, and finds himself more than preoccupied with chatting to the teams with their unusual names. "It's like the foreign version of The Generation Game," he exclaims, as he learns of one's fish & chip wedding do (along with their ever fidgeting son), while he pranks another when he learns he is an Insurance Agent. He's tickled by one girl sharing the same name as a Page 3 girl (who I'd never heard of) and tells her "We know what YOU do!" as she also tells him she is often the target of practical jokes, while her father is a walking accident disaster that has to be heard to be believed. To be honest, they are a lot more entertaining than the first half of games in this, which include marching in step with the Infiltry Military Battalion and putting handles on teapots, but it livens up with a mini Formula 1 race (voiced by Mike Osman - no, me neither) and a Guess The Weight game that features guest appearances by Olympic Rowing team Johnny & Grey Searle and Gary Herbert. The grand finale sees the final two teams perform in a spoof play of Nell Gwynne, which is great fun and Bruce gets a dig in about the Royal Family charging to visit Buckingham Palace (in order to pay for repairs to fire damaged Windsor Castle). Indeed, it gets a little saucy at times and Rosemary Ford noticeably gives a slap to one of the contestants' wandering hands at one point. The guest judge is Nicola Pagett, whose criticism of quality programme making seems strangely abrupt (almost as if they've cut it here), but whose own judging is a little questionable when it comes to deciding just who will go forth to the Conveyor Belt of prizes - or the "Memory Box" as one contestant calls it. Enjoy.