“A lot of skulduggery at the great television game shows” – A look at news

‘There was sometimes something rustled. That was better for the program and therefore better for the Avro ‘, Fred says Oster , more than 10 years, presenter of Avro WiekentKwis . “The best thing people had to win. Of course, we had a little bit manually. You had difficult and easy questions, the difficult and the easy bottom were sitting on top, so you could always send a little ‘. Oster says in Other Times also that he ever had a question for said candidates: “There was a couple that I thought” subject to compulsory per se win “and when do I have For once said something. “

Dash for

Employees of other broadcasters confirm that sympathetic candidates had an advantage. With the favor of great candidates touched you, according to Cees den Daas, former program director of Tros ‘slippery slope’, but additional charges could be: “It happened at a program that people got a certain price, and I behind wings and stood against the presenter said, there can in my view still be additional charges, because it is a likeable candidate. That happened to speak during the shooting. Certain myself. I was producer entertainment.

Maurice Koopman was in the 80s director TV in the Vara , at the time the programs of William noise were broadcast. He outlines how the candidates with the most “heat value” had an edge. “So if someone was a little too unsympathetic, yes that came before, then you still had to die as soon as possible. Not exactly in the first round, but then surely at some point. “

Candidates were helped

Around the VARA-game shows Willen Noise is already longer story that some candidates could be helped. One of the components in the final game was the dreaded curved spiral, where the candidate had to move a metal ring from one side to the other. Hit the ring spiral, then a buzzer sounded and was the candidate off. Hans Peters, producer and writer for the Vara programs Willem Ruis, knows those stories. “I know the stories, but I do not know myself. But if the current is taken off, you can of course all directions collide. Other times has delayed play archive image of the spiral game in the Stars Show. Then it is clear to see that the ring at one of the candidates touches the spiral. The candidate keeps a moment, but the buzzer does not sound.

attract viewers

the family game shows In the period that no commercial television was massively watched entertainment on the Saturday night. Broadcasters used the shows to attract viewers, to make them a member, but also to guide them in their affairs programs. With the tone and topics of headings as Behind the News, TROS Aktua or AVRO Televizier broadcasters showed how they differed. Servants and they each have their own part of the Dutch society.

The family game shows were in the course of time more and more exuberant. Wash Wiekentkwis still behaved and civil, the Showbiz Quiz intended as a parody of Hollywood, in the 1-2-3-show producer Joop van den Ende took every show with a new decor, and VARA pulled at last even with a complete Circus tent throughout the country, to bring the show to the people in the province.