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victim prior to the gunging. Series 3 introduced the 'Car Wash', where the individual was carried along a lengthier tank getting covered in foam then going through a set of brushes designed to soak the victim, then having the gunge descend from above before being spun out of the contraption. In series 4 and 5, it was developed into the 'Trip Around The Great House', where the victim was placed on a miniature railway that took them on a journey around the set, finishing up in the giant fireplace, where gunge was finally released onto the victim. From series 6, there were changes to the format, and gunge was used less frequently; there was also a rubbish truck with a seat that would release different rotten foods and then as the chair carried on, gunge was released on them. Series 7 did not include any type of gunge due to a refurbishment in the house. For series 8, a member of the audience would be gunged by a tank lowered from the studio rafters, or their chair would be lowered into the
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audience is strapped horizontally to a wheel (normally someone committing an embarrassing thing). The wheel stops spinning and points to one of eight section and phones. The person on the other end of that phone has to get a question correct. If they get it wrong, the wheel is re-spun. However, if they get it correct then they are given a further three current affairs questions. Each correct answer is worth twenty seconds for B-list celeb to go crazy in the
Basement.
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which was pegged to a generally random country, all valued within £1,000, sometimes more or sometimes less. Noel would ask the caller three questions based on that week's news. Each correct answer gave the celebrity 20 seconds in the box (up to a total of 60 seconds) accompanied by music and the audience counting down from ten to one.
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rearrange a code on the screen to win a prize and get out again. If they ran out of time, they were covered in gunge. If they solved the puzzle, they had an opportunity to gamble their prize. By pulling a handle, they could either double their money, have random objects dropped on them, or be covered in gunge.
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Natrosol, coloured with various food dyes. The gunge tank got progressively more sophisticated. From series 1 a standard tank was used, with an ornate look to it. Series 2 introduced foam (often coloured) which would rise up from the bottom and cover the
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Basement is pitch black and the caller, with infra-red camera at their disposal, tries to guide the person through the basement collecting bags of money along the way. Each one was worth £100, with golden ones worth £500. At the end of the time the lights came on, so there was
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One of the main features on series 5, in which two neighbours would run round to each other's house and, in one minute, grab as many belongings as they wanted. Then, following a series of alternate questions, one neighbour would win everything, including their own stuff back. However the feature was
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A camera was hidden in the home of a member of the public and
Edmonds would talk to them through their television. Some would be shocked, other bemused, others would simply try to run away. Whatever the reaction, they would subsequently end up doing some embarrassing performance in their living room
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After several changes, the show began to decline in popularity. Its theme tune was changed in 1996, and set redesigns followed. The episode due to be broadcast on 3 January 1998 had to be cancelled after a disagreement between
Edmonds and the BBC. The budget had been cut by 10%, with the money saved
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A regular feature for series 4 and 5, where a phone box modified to contain a gunge tank and a TV screen was placed somewhere in
Britain. The code to get into the phone box was broadcast live on air, and the first viewer to reach the phone box got to play a game. Once inside, they had 45 seconds to
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My Little Friend was a pre-recorded feature used from series 6 to 8. This involved small school children being faced with puppets that start talking to them (one voiced by Noel and another by Barry
Killerby). In series 7, it was aliens; in the final series, Phibber the Frog and Waffle the Squirrel
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There was also an incident when one of the callers had the same name, but it turned out it was not the person who had called in: the real call-in contestant had their Grab a Grand game at the start of the next episode, as this one featured the grab a grand around the grand house track. Towards the
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Then, in the first episode of Series Five, the box was blown up live during the show and the segment was revamped with the entire studio audience now playing grabbing notes that were being blown around by two large industrial fans as the celebrity would run into to collect, rather than having the
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The first part of the game would be a qualifying question or clue this would be supplied by the professor (Portrayed by Brian
Blessed). The professor is given a probe camera and sticks it into random objects (ie a loofah). The second part features a Wheel of Fortune being spun. A person from the
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Parents watch pre-recorded clips of their children being interviewed by
Edmonds, and try to guess the children's answers. In series 5, it was replaced with Wait Till We All Get Home, but was then axed for series 6 and not replaced. It did however make a one-off return in the final episode. This
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Saturday evenings for eight series. The show, once described by a senior corporation executive as "the most important show on the BBC", was cancelled in February 1999 due to declining ratings, although two further compilation specials were shown in March 2000.
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A celebrity panel game from the second half of series 7, in which celebrities had to spot the imposter from three members of the public with apparently bizarre occupations. If they failed, they got gunged. If they guessed correctly, the three members of the public were gunged instead.
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369:. This marked the first time since 2000 that the show has been broadcast on the BBC. In July 2024, it was announced that the show would get another repeat on BBC Four, on 3 August, showing the nineteenth episode of the third series (originally broadcast on 5 March 1994).
886:, a viewer at home would attempt to score goals by directing a machine to fire a huge football. The commands were 'left', 'right' and 'shoot'. Each goal was worth £400, a maximum of £2,000 could be won if five goals were scored. The music used for this game was based on
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The Big Pork Pie was a regular feature from series 3 where a member of the audience with an embarrassing secret was seated in a big pork pie, made to wear a lie detector and questioned by Noel. Noel himself was subjected to this on one episode, with
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A game from towards the end of series 8. Noel would link up with three regional news programmes, who would each bring an improbable-sounding news story from their region. The contestants would have to guess whether the stories were true or false.
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It's an overworked expression when people say 'it's the end of an era', but for BBC Television for the entertainment department, for me, and possibly you, it really is the end of an era. I hope your memory will be very kind to us after 169 ...
708:, and others) would climb into a perspex box containing a fan and a large quantity of banknotes selected by the call-in contestant. The celebrity had to grab as many of the notes as possible as they were blown around by the fan.
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Unique also revealed this week that BBC Worldwide had agreed a format deal with RTL 4 in the Netherlands for Endemol to produce a second series of Noel's House Party which is broadcast under the title Monte
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I am delighted this decision has been made. I feel as though a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. History will prove that House Party was one of the most successful entertainment shows of all
623:, the first victim who managed to spot the hidden camera, which had been placed in the back of a car, which meant the prank backfired. This feature originated in The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow.
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A phone-in competition where a viewer chose from three currencies (aiming to select the greatest value of money: £1,000 in the first two episodes), and a celebrity (usually a sports star like
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was voted the best Saturday night TV show of all time. In August 2022, an episode of the show, the tenth episode of the first series (originally broadcast on 1 February 1992), was repeated on
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the walls falling down, allowing audience members to help, the door jammed, cheating, the machine broken, being flipped for Number Cruncher and inside a woman's house when NTV happened.
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end of series 5, variations were introduced: 'Grab a Granny', 'Grab a Grand Piano', and 'Grab a Grand National' etc. The money was quickly counted on stage using a
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celebrities or unpopular members of the public after a phone vote was carried out during the show. Gunging usually took place in the final minutes of the show.
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attractions and was due to include a replica of the Great House from the series. The park closed in 1998 following dwindling attendance figures.
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complete segment was pre-recorded some months before each series of the show began, and originated in The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow.
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nothing stopping the celebrity grabbing an extra bag or two on the way out. Named after
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2327:"Noel's House Party Gotcha Special - BBC One London - 13 March 1999"
2257:"The Best of Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 7 September 1996"
960:. It closed 13 weeks after opening. A two-year investigation by the
2313:"The Best of Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 11 October 1997"
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1619:"Noel's House Party voted best Saturday night telly show ever"
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sale"—as Noel's long-lost 'twin', Berasent Edmonds (a play on
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2159:"Noel's Garden Party - BBC One London - 4 September 1993"
1777:"1993 Television Light Entertainment Programme or Series"
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2201:"The Gotcha Hall of Fame - BBC One London - 17 May 1995"
1913:"Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 23 November 1991"
2187:"The Gotcha Hall of Fame - BBC One London - 3 May 1995"
2117:"Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 17 October 1998"
2089:"Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 18 October 1997"
2061:"Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 19 October 1996"
2033:"Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 21 October 1995"
2005:"Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 22 October 1994"
1977:"Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 23 October 1993"
1949:"Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 24 October 1992"
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spoke to the children and sometimes scared them away.
2299:"Gotcha Hall of Fame - BBC One London - 24 July 1997"
2285:"Gotcha Hall of Fame - BBC One London - 17 July 1997"
2131:"Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 20 March 1999"
2103:"Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 21 March 1998"
2075:"Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 29 March 1997"
2047:"Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 30 March 1996"
2019:"Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 25 March 1995"
1991:"Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 26 March 1994"
1963:"Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 13 March 1993"
1935:"Noel's House Party - BBC One London - 28 March 1992"
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never really happened—until Mr Blobby appears in the
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1801:Discipline and Liberty: Television and Governance
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826:For series 6 only, similar to Grab a Grand.
1601:"BBC Lowers the Boom on Noel's House Party"
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740:or garden. Celebrity victims included
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1864:"Edmonds to testify in Blobby fiasco"
1757:Morgan, Kathleen (26 February 1999).
1562:in New Zealand throughout the 1990s.
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535:for best light entertainment series.
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1861:Gledhill, Dan (3 September 2000).
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2375:"Game On; The Broader Picture"
2315:. BBC Genome. 11 October 1997.
2119:. BBC Genome. 17 October 1998.
2091:. BBC Genome. 18 October 1997.
2063:. BBC Genome. 19 October 1996.
2035:. BBC Genome. 21 October 1995.
2007:. BBC Genome. 22 October 1994.
1979:. BBC Genome. 23 October 1993.
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2343:. BBC Genome. 19 March 2000.
2329:. BBC Genome. 13 March 1999.
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2133:. BBC Genome. 20 March 1999.
2105:. BBC Genome. 21 March 1998.
2077:. BBC Genome. 29 March 1997.
2049:. BBC Genome. 30 March 1996.
2021:. BBC Genome. 25 March 1995.
1993:. BBC Genome. 26 March 1994.
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1937:. BBC Genome. 28 March 1992.
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2287:. BBC Genome. 17 July 1997.
1736:"Noel Edmonds to leave BBC"
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468:Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
419:I Saw Her Standing There
1271:The Gotcha Hall of Fame
1261:The Gotcha Hall of Fame
1251:The Gotcha Hall of Fame
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2437:Noel's House Party
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1826:"Series 5 – 1995-1996"
1798:Gareth Palmer (2003).
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1763:Scottish Daily Record
1447:Greven På Hittegodset
1170:BBC Television Centre
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935:Further information:
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513:Get Your Act Together
507:He partly blamed the
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256:BBC Television Centre
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1558:in Australia and on
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133:Theme music composer
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1607:. 26 February 1999.
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1321:Gotcha Hall of Fame
1311:Gotcha Hall of Fame
1231:Noel's Garden Party
836:a political scandal
805:Beat Your Neighbour
609:Queens Park Rangers
397:. It gave birth to
343:light entertainment
273:45–65 minutes
252:Production location
205:169 (+ 15 specials)
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1715:"Lola Simone rock"
1625:. 30 October 2010.
990:Pleasurewood Hills
822:Cash for Questions
760:Carried over from
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439:digital switchover
378:Noel's House Party
363:Noel's House Party
335:Noel's House Party
215:Executive producer
59:Malcolm Williamson
25:Noel's House Party
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