Game shows originated from radio programs and one of the earliest television game shows was the BBC's Spelling Bee in 1938. In the 1950s, shows began offering cash prizes like Take Your Pick, the first to do so. Game show fever peaked in the UK in the late 1950s with multiple shows airing each night. By the 1960s, Take Your Pick and Double Your Money dominated the audience figures until their cancellation, and few other shows were able to gain popularity until the end of the decade when the BBC had a hit with Jeux Sans Frontiéres.

1. History of game shows.
Game shows descended from similar programs on the radio. The very first game show on
television was called Spelling Bee on 31st May 1938. transmitted live from the BBC studio at
Alexandra Palace.
Another one of the early game shows was “What’s my line?” it ran on the BBC since 1951, it
was another simple panel game it ran in many different versions and on two different
canals through the mid 90’s. The programme was the first US import of a Goodson and
Todman show.
With commercials came the advent of prize funds. ITV company came up with the grate
television show “take your pick” which was the first game show to have a money prize to
the winner.
In the mid late 50’s, Britain went quiz mad, reflecting the similar fevers in to the USA. Game
show fever went to it’s highest at autumn of 1958, when the ITV network put out game
shows at prime time six night a week, from Sunday to Friday they released: Dotto, Keep It
in the Family, Twenty-One, Spot the Tune, Double Your Monet and Take Your Pick.
A further illustration of the strike culture is provided by an all-out strike at the BBC on 22nd
December 1978. with no BBC to watch, everyone turned over to Sale of the century, giving
it 21.2 million viewers, the highest ever rating for an ITV game show.
Beyond Gen Game and Sale of the century, the other shows of the 70s were very much a
mixed bag. The betting game Winner Takes All started in 1976, and the futuristic The
Krypton Factor in 1977.The 1979 saw the light hearted celeb fast Gives Us a Clue while
possibly the darkest show jet, Mastermind, went from strength to strength.

2. 1930’s
Spelling Bee was broadcast on 31st May 1938,
transmitted live from the BBC studios at
Alexandra Palace. Hosted by Freddie
Grisewood, the panel of guests were asked to
spell a series of words. And that was it. The
host was bedecked in schoolmaster garb as a
way of adding kudos to what was otherwise a
light-hearted quiz - a technique that countless
other shows would use throughout the century.
It was not until the late 80s that children were
treated as young people rather than school
kids.

3. 1950’s
With commercials came the advent of prize funds.
Associated Rediffusion, one of the ITV franchise
companies, hit the big time with Take Your Pick, the first
show to offer money prizes. Companion show Double
Your Money offered a top prize of £1000. Thereafter, the
money ramped up quickly - one contestant won over
£2,000 in 1956 and another won over £5,000 in 1957. It
would not be until 1993 that it was possible to give away
unlimited prizes - until then, the top limit was around
£6,000 per show.

4. Other game shows in the 1950’s are Dotto, Keep It in
the Family, Twenty-One, Spot the Tune, Double Your
Money and Take Your Pick, Criss Cross Quiz, Dotto, the
The 64,000 Dollar Question, Concentration and
Twenty-One.

5. 1960’s
With Take Your Pick and Double Your Money
maintaining their remarkable headlock on the
audience figures until their unfortunate demise, very
few other shows were able to get a look-in. The
introduction of a second BBC channel in 1964 did little
to alter the outlook, since it had been created to
provide alternative higher-brow programming than
mere quiz shows, and for several years Call My Bluff
was the channel's only game show of any note. It

6. wasn't until near the end of the decade that the
BBC finally came up with a hit game show in the
somewhat low-brow form of Jeux Sans Frontiéres.
Meanwhile back on ITV, the unashamedly
highbrow University Challenge was perhaps the
most surprising hit of the decade.

7. A famous catsh phrase is “what is you’re name and where do you come from” this meanes the start of a game
show and when people usually introduce them selves.
Another one is “Come on down” this shows the start of a game show when the competers come in and introduce
them selves.
The last one is “deal or no deal” is a phrase that simbolyses that the bank in money based game shows are in fear
of loosing and make a offer of a certaint amount of money of how close the person is to getting the prize money.
The presenter that I am going to discuss is called Noel Edmonds. He is famous for being a game show presenter
where people have a chance to win a lot of money and his moist famous quote is “ deal or no deal”. During the
show he wears a suit which shows when he is working in the show he is serious and wants to look good on the
show. When the show starts he is standing by a desk where the phone of the bank is on and he introduces him self
and the person that is compeeting and the rules of the show. During the show he is usually supportive but he also
monologs the show while the person is thinking and he is not trying to cheat and he is being fair to bouth of them.
The role he plays is the person runing the show and also the person who is trying to make a deal with the
contender and the bank.