Crossing the entertainmental divide...

[DanaC]

It's based on a much older show. Can't recall what that was, in the 70's. Sundae any ideas?

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Sundae, that show is like a British version of MXC. I laughed.

Originally Posted by DanaC

It's based on a much older show. Can't recall what that was, in the 70's. Sundae any ideas?

It ran from 1966.
It wasn't quite as mad as Takeshi's Castle, but I have no doubt they got the idea from Jeux Sans Frontieres (the Europe-wide version of It's A Knockout that our teams were aiming to compete in). The translation is Games Without Frontiers btw. Yes, like the Peter Gabriel song. Listen to it again knowing this.

Apparently the American version was Almost Anything Goes. Thanks Wiki.

We had something silmilar to MXC, although it was still given it's original name. Ours was voiced by Red Dwarf's Craig Charles. Most people I know found it annoying thanks to the commentary, the action replays, the sound effects, the obvious cuts meaning you didn't know who won and would rather have watched the original with a real translation. Ah, island nations - inscrutable