First viewed : 7 January 1987
This was ITV's belated attempt to match BBC One's long-running A Question of Sport. The teams of sporting celebrities had to navigate their way around a Trivial Pursuits-style board answering questions relating to their own sport or others, depending where they landed. Like its rival Sporting Triangles started with two teams of three under resident captains Jimmy Greaves and Tessa Sanderson. It switched to three teams of two when Emlyn Hughes was poached from AQOS . Andy Gray began his TV career here as an alternative captain, the shows featuring three out of the four in random combinations. Nick Owen was quizmaster for the first two seasons then was replaced by Andy Craig until the show was axed in 1990.
I checked out the first episode with its strong line up of guests ( Bryan Robson, Dennis Taylor, Seb Coe and Lloyd Honeyghan ) but didn't watch much of it after that. That's not because I thought it was atrocious but I'm not a general sports fan and didn't have the appetite for two sports quiz programmes a week.
I do remember this, mainly for the many barbed comments in my family towards Hughes (knowledge of the rivalry between Barrow and those of us further up the Cumbrian coast may help!)... in my faded memory, there's an episode with Ian St John featuring as a guest, presumably in a move to replicate the chemistry between him and Greaves.
ReplyDeleteSomehow, to a nine year old, it didn't seem as fun as Question of Sport.