Memorable non-celebrity gameshow contestants

George White

ANy gameshow guests/contestants that stuck in the mind, real people who just seemed to be very memorable, be that for any reason possible?
On Winning Streak, an Irish gameshow, there was an auld lad who looked a bit like Glenn Ford, from somewhere in the south countryside, who dedicated his hopeful win to practically every deceased person in the village. He went on for about five minutes, dedicating.
Then, there was this ginger-haired rural bumpkin in tweed, looked a bit like Brendan Gleeson if stuck in the mud for a week, whose "family and friends in the audience" (every guest/contestants has their family members who consist of the audience, usually with huge celebratory banners with the likes of "Go on, PJ!" on them) included a grey bloke in tweed with a gigantic fedora with a peacock feather sticking out of it on top of his head.
Watching Challenge TV you get them. Mark Gatiss once said on twitter, that is something actually poignant about watching repeats of gameshows. You get on something like 3-2-1, a young idle couple in their twenties, and you wonder are they still married, divorced, widowed, etc?

Hande hoche!

This guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtSYXxoc0Zw

CastorTroy

This guy as the first Millionaire on the American Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Does it in style and cockiness.

quickbeam

For Godsake, don't ask Go Harvey Go that question!!

Pointless fans will know what I mean

Gamayun

If you watch enough quiz shows you will see a number of repeat contestants.

They're memorable to me because they appear so often, I think: "I know her/him! From where? Aha, the short lived Are You An Egghead show, of course!"

There was a frizzy haired guy called Jamie who popped up on University Challenge, and then on Pointless and Only Connect with his partner Michael who had previously appeared on Countdown!

Fifteen to one had a new run recently on C4, the final was on yesterday. I only caught a few episodes but there was a lot of familiar faces from other TV quiz shows. There was a pink-haired woman named Rachael whom I recognised from University Challenge and Mastermind. Another few had appeared on Cleverdicks previously and I recognised a few from Only Connect also.

The Eggheads and Chasers have appeared in loads of shows as contestants too.

Ruu

Ah not really a gameshow but there was a competition on the late late with pat kenny. jimmy carr and michael gambon were guests and carr was ripping the piss. phone call to the winner of the Austrian family holiday was hilarious!

was looking for the many Blockbusters stupid answers, here we go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eYKxROcCJw

ShagNastii

Michael Barrymore was King of making the guests stars of the show. Although mainly gameshows, the highlight of any Barrymore show was the banter he would have with the people quizzing. He gaged everyone perfectly. If he had two old ones on he would milk their old person ways. If there was a bit of a geezer he'd rip the piss out of him. All done in good form and he constantly never shyed away from making a joke of himself either.

Crappy how his whole story turned out. Man was made to presenting gameshows.

George White

Yes, but I mean one-off contestants not your CJs, Chris, Kevin's.
Judith Keppell is the only non-quiz nut member of Eggheads. All the others have history, but she only did Millionaire, and her ex-husband was the producer, and she won on the night of the last One Foot in the Grave. Fix?

lertsnim

This will stick in my memory forever. What an answer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvRwRuHwyTU

Skid X

This is going way back ... but the second contestant in this vintage Family Fortunes clip is a legend

he story - as given by his family in the documentary Our Survey Said - goes that he overheard 'chicken' as the answer to the third question, and he got it into his head that if 'chicken' had worked, then surely 'turkey' must be one of the answers as well! Give him his due, though: "turkey" and "chicken" actually were two good answers to the same question - the only problem was that he failed to spot which question it was, or more to the point, wasn't. (blurb © http://www.ukgameshows.com)

The full episode is worth a look, it's a comedy of errors.

quickbeam

lertsnim wrote: »

This will stick in my memory forever. What an answer

I saw this when it first aired and I've watched it at least a dozen times on Youtube since. Always worth another look. Pure classic and still makes me laugh.

Welsh Megaman

I'll never forget a guy called Stephen from Bristol who appeared on the re-boot of 'Blockbusters'.

Wonder what he's up to now :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdNP53mu4jg