Hello again, 70s TV aficionados! If you’ve just taken My 70s TV Childhood Quiz #43, it’s time to see how you fared!
If you haven’t taken the quiz yet, I highly recommend you pop over to our previous blog post or listen to the Quiz #43 on the My 70’s TV Childhood podcast before you peek at these answers.
Spoilers ahead!
Ready to mark your answers? Let’s see those scores!
Round One – Most Watched?
I asked you to tell me which TV show was highest rated in each year of the first half of the 1970s.
1️⃣ What was the highest rated TV show in the UK in 1970? Answer: Miss World 1970
2️⃣ And in 1971? Answer: The Benny Hill Show
3️⃣ What about 1972? Answer: The Eurovision Song Contest
4️⃣ Or 1973? Answer: The Eurovision Song Contest
5️⃣ And finally, what was the highest rated UK TV show in 1974? Answer: This Is Your Life (featuring Lord Mountbatten)
Round Two – Marathon/Fil Rouge
This round featured questions related to things we have featured in previous episodes of the My 70’s TV Childhood podcast.
1️⃣ In February this year we said goodbye to Brian Murphy, AKA George Roper. What was the name of the spinoff from Man About the House which featured George and his wife? Answer: George and Mildred
2️⃣ The New Avengers featured in July 2023. What fashion trend was the “Purdey” inspired by Joanna Lumley? Answer: It was a hairstyle as displayed by Joanna Lumley’s character of the same name.
3️⃣ April 2021 saw us looking back at the 1977 Silver Jubilee. What gift did I and all my schoolmates (and many of you I’m sure) get to mark the occasion? Answer: A Jubilee Crown coin
4️⃣ We looked back at “Crackerjack!” [Crackerjack!] in July 2024. Who used to tap out a tune on Peter Glaze’s stomach singing “Hey Fatty Tum Tum!”? Answer: Don Maclean (not the writer and singer of American Pie!)
5️⃣ In August 2022 we looked at US detective shows, including Serpico based on the original movie of the same name starring Al Pacino. Who played the lead in the TV show? Answer: David Birney
Round Three – Name That Tune (Debut 1973)
Our wheel of fate selected 1973! Here are the answers to the theme tunes played in the podcast.
1️⃣ Theme Tune 1 Answer: Kung Fu
2️⃣ Theme Tune 2 Answer: Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em
3️⃣ Theme Tune 3 Answer: Robert’s Robots
4️⃣ Theme Tune 4 Answer: Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
5️⃣ Theme Tune 5 Answer: The Kids from 47A
Round Four – TV Times
Anything 70s TV trivia wise went in this final round!
1️⃣ In January 1972 Bob Monkhouse was replaced as host of “The Golden Shot” having been accused of taking payments for product placement. Who replaced him in the next show? Answer: Norman Vaughan
2️⃣ “Abigail’s Party” was shown as a Play for Today in November 1977. Who wrote the play? Answer: Mike Leigh
3️⃣ “The World at War” was a marvellous series documenting the progress of the Second World War narrated by Laurence Olivier. Which ITV company made the series? Answer: Thames Television
4️⃣ Who hosted the chat show “Shut That Door!” shown on ITV between 1972 and 1977? Answer: Larry Grayson
5️⃣ What was the name of Basil Fawlty’s wife in Fawlty Towers? Answer: Sybil
Bonus Question & Answer
Question: ❓ Who became the BBC’s first female weather presenter in January 1974? Answer: Barbara Edwards
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Oliver
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