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Hello and welcome back. If you have not taken the quiz yet, head over to the questions blog first and have a go before reading on. For everyone else, let’s see how you got on with Quiz 78.
Round 1: One Season Wonders
Question 1: First shown on UK TV in 1978, this US sci-fi show starred Gregory Harrison, Heather Menzies and Randy Powell in a world where getting to a certain age had potentially deadly consequences.
Answer: Logan’s Run
Question 2: This show starred Ray Birdes and Phil Daniels as teenagers looking for a job, and it ran for one series in 1974 on ITV.
Answer: Four Idle Hands
Question 3: Peter Cook’s chat show was cancelled by the BBC after just three episodes in 1971. What was it called?
Answer: Where Do I Sit?
Question 4: This 1974 TV show was a sci-fi adventure based on a film. Both the film and the TV show starred Roddy McDowall.
Answer: Planet of the Apes
Question 5: Also starring Roddy McDowall, this short-lived sci-fi series was shown in 1977. He played a character called Dr Jonathan Willaway. What was the show called?
Answer: A Fantastic Journey
Round 2: Marathon/Fil Rouge
Question 1: In December 2025, we featured the US children’s show Big John, Little John. What had Big John done to trigger his transformation into a little boy?
Answer: He had inadvertently drunk from the mythical Fountain of Youth.
Question 2: Which year was Oliver’s first proper football World Cup, and where were the finals played?
Answer: 1978, in Argentina.
Question 3: Which pop music show did Roy North present on ITV?
Answer: Get It Together
Question 4: What was the name of the ongoing drama in Little Big Time involving a grandfather clock visiting a strange world full of machines?
Answer: Oliver in the Overworld
Question 5: Who played Mr Rumbold in Are You Being Served?
Answer: Nicholas Smith
Round 3: Name That Tune (1978)
Theme Tune One:
Answer: Return of the Saint
Theme Tune Two:
Answer: Come Back Lucy
Theme Tune Three:
Answer: Blake’s 7
Theme Tune Four:
Answer: Disraeli, Portrait of a Romantic
Theme Tune Five:
Answer: Spearhead
Round 4: TV Times
Question 1: In The Liver Birds, who played Lucian, Carol’s rabbit-loving brother?
Answer: Michael Angelis
Question 2: What was the character’s full name played by Richard O’Sullivan in Man About the House and Robin’s Nest?
Answer: Robin Tripp
Question 3: What would you have reached if you had dialled 01 811 8055 in the late 1970s?
Answer: Multicoloured Swap Shop
Question 4: What was the name of the shadowy government organisation that employed Cowley, Bodie and Doyle in The Professionals?
Answer: CI5
Question 5: Which ITV regional company made World in Action?
Answer: Granada
This Week’s Bonus: In the cartoon show Battle of the Planets, UK audiences got quite a few scenes where a robot called 7 Zark 7 gave narrative updates of the plot and told the odd joke. These scenes were not included in the Japanese original. Why were they added to the US and UK version?
Answer: To follow in the next quiz!
So how did you get on? Whether you are celebrating a full house or wondering how you managed to miss that one about Multicoloured Swap Shop, thank you so much for playing along. Do tell your friends, leave a review wherever you get your podcasts, and I will see you in a fortnight for Quiz 79.
Take care,
Oliver
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