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- University Challenge was introduced in 1962 when Granada Television launched their new intellectual quiz show onto our screens. Perhaps contributing to its success, the show was traditional, compared to other embelished game show formats of the time.
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University Challenge is a British television quiz programme which first aired in 1962. University Challenge aired for 913 episodes on ITV from 21 September 1962 to 31 December 1987, presented by quizmaster Bamber Gascoigne. The BBC revived the programme on 21 September 1994, the programme's 32nd anniversary, with Jeremy Paxman as the quizmaster.
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University Challenge was introduced in 1962 when Granada Television launched their new intellectual quiz show onto our screens. Perhaps contributing to its success, the show was traditional, compared to other embelished game show formats of the time. Originally hosted by Bamber Gascoigne from 1962–1987, the show found new fame in 1994 when ...
Sep 5, 2022 · When it began in 1962 – the year before Philip Larkin invented sex – students were used to being patronised, in spite of how much they looked like innocent 40-year-olds in footage from the earlier episodes. By the end of the decade, they were stereotyped as long-haired dropouts.
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University Challenge was conceptualised from Granada Television, an ITV franchise, whose officials believed a British adaptation of American quiz show College Bowl could prove viable. With its first episode having aired on 21st September 1962, the format has seldom changed. Two teams, both consisting of four students representing a single universit...
According to Kaleidoscope, all BBC episodes of University Challenge have been preserved, in addition to every episode of the original ITV show from 1981 onwards. In total, 992 ITV episodes were produced; thanks to Granada Television's archiving policy, which saw the near-full preservation of shows like Coronation Street, over half the episodes rema...
Class of 2014. View episodes. Following students through the gruelling University Challenge audition process.
Jun 23, 2016 · After half a century in which universities were financed directly by government, and students were supported by maintenance grants from the state, the introduction of tuition fees in 1998 ...
Apr 6, 2017 · First aired in 1962, University Challenge was then capable of drawing audiences of 11 million a week. Twenty-five years later, it was axed by ITV in 1987, when viewing figures fell to 1 million following relegation to an off-peak slot.
