Get Set Go

The very first programme featured on Curious British Telly was Sebastian the Incredible Drawing Dog, which had a young Michael Barrymore at the heart and centre of it. It aired a few months before the first series of Strike it Lucky turned Barrymore into a household name, but Strike it Lucky wasn't his first game show. Two years before, in 1984, Barrymore had presented Get Set Go on BBC1.

02/11/1987 - Let's Pretend: Fred Midas

I've scribbled, more than once, about the cataclysmic jolt that Let's Pretend gave my infant imagination, and this is precisely why I refuse to let those memories slink quietly into the distant past. Tragically, surviving specimens of the series - which galloped past the 200-episode post - are depressingly scarce.

Naturally, this angers me. But it also fuels a fire deep within my belly to shine the spotlight on those episodes which emerge from the analogue past and onto YouTube's digital memory extension. One such artifact - Fred Midas - has been lurking online for several years, and somehow I've failed to dissect it. That travesty ends today.