Topic: A Question of Sport

[rob1966]

Yeah, QoS was still good when McCoist/Parrott were captains, then it tried too hard copying They Think It's All Over/A League Of Their Own, when QoS was never that type of show.

The shows heyday was Beaumont/Hughes era but i'm a bit too young to remember that era, but Beaumont/Botham era was great, QoS was one of those quizzes you could take part in at home, what happened next round, was the highlight of the show, when the teams used to come up with creative ways of answering what happened, it turned to shit after McCoist/Parrott era.

The charm of the show was seeing sports stars in a different environment, out of their comfort zone.

The whole Emlyn/Princess Anne thing was very funny, cracking telly - 19mill people watched it when she was on

[Ray K]

It started to go seriously downhill when they had Tufnell and Dawson doing charades for their other teammates to guess answers. It's a sports quiz, not Give us a Clue.

They had the same format for years because it worked:  Picture Board, Home or Away, Action Round, What Happened Next, Mystery Guest, Picture Board part 2, 1 Minute Round.  Bingo bango, job's a good 'un.

Was never a fan of Bill Beaumont as a kid, but him and Botham were good captains as was Emlyn.  It was still watchable with John Parrott and McCoist with Sue Barker, but after that very much diminishing returns.

[Fitzy.]

My favourite programme when Emlyn Hughes was on. As a kid I adored it and took it very seriously.

Hardly watched it since the late-90s but I can see why it’s lost its relevance. Shame but only for nostalgic reasons.

[Statto Red]

It started to go seriously downhill when they had Tufnell and Dawson doing charades for their other teammates to guess answers. It's a sports quiz, not Give us a Clue.

They had the same format for years because it worked:  Picture Board, Home or Away, Action Round, What Happened Next, Mystery Guest, Picture Board part 2, 1 Minute Round. Bingo bango, job's a good 'un.

Was never a fan of Bill Beaumont as a kid, but him and Botham were good captains as was Emlyn.  It was still watchable with John Parrott and McCoist with Sue Barker, but after that very much diminishing returns.

That's when QoS was at it's best, they need to get back to that format, what happened next, was a great round when the teams would come up with something creative as to what they think happened [even if they didn't know what happened, they'd sometimes get it right], they then changed the format & gave 3 options, which destroyed the humour of that round.

[Crosby Nick]

In the internet/viral age I don’t think What Happened Next could be as good as it used to be when something obscure used to crop up. Chances are we’d have all seen anything a bit wacky now anyway.

I didn’t mind the Tuffers and Dawson bantz. Dawson might be a bit of a knob (he’s an Everton fan) but quite liked Tuffers cheeky chappy schtick.

Agree though Emlyn and Beaumont was the golden age.