The grid subjects featured on this edition are:
Main Grids: Animals with names that appear to be a combination of two separate creatures; Films with numbers in the title.
Auction Grids: Characters and things encountered by Alice; Slang terms for the police; Stops on the London Underground.
Final Grid: Jackie Collins novels.
Main Grids: Animals with names that appear to be a combination of two separate creatures; Films with numbers in the title.
Auction Grids: Characters and things encountered by Alice; Slang terms for the police; Stops on the London Underground.
Final Grid: Jackie Collins novels.
Bob heavily gives away an answer on an Auction Grid around slang terms for policemen.
Explaining that a "Bobby" was named after Robert Peel, this then immediately causes the contestant to move to "Peeler" as their next answer, Bob noting: "Peeler, since we mentioned Robert Peel. Sort of gave you a nice clue there, but..."
Explaining that a "Bobby" was named after Robert Peel, this then immediately causes the contestant to move to "Peeler" as their next answer, Bob noting: "Peeler, since we mentioned Robert Peel. Sort of gave you a nice clue there, but..."
When "Wolf Spider" is chosen on a grid about animals with names composed of two creatures, Bob mentions that spiders had been done on the show before, but Wolf Spider didn't come up.
A grid on spiders featured in Episode #5.54 (1998), with Bob being correct that Wolf Spiders wasn't one of the available answers.
A grid on spiders featured in Episode #5.54 (1998), with Bob being correct that Wolf Spiders wasn't one of the available answers.
All of the Bob Monkhouse Wipeout episodes were recorded without a studio audience, and the sound of one (laughter, applause, etc.) dubbed on in post-production.
Bob's attempts at maintaining the illusion of an "audience" is stretched to breaking point in this edition, where he discusses one of the answers, beginning with a: "Ladies and gentlemen, can you guess.... I'll ask Suzanne."
Later he discusses one of the films on a movie grid, looking out into the "audience" and asking "anyone ever see it?" (It's notable that his voice rises to a higher pitch during this moment, as if unconsciously giving away the deception.)
Bob's attempts at maintaining the illusion of an "audience" is stretched to breaking point in this edition, where he discusses one of the answers, beginning with a: "Ladies and gentlemen, can you guess.... I'll ask Suzanne."
Later he discusses one of the films on a movie grid, looking out into the "audience" and asking "anyone ever see it?" (It's notable that his voice rises to a higher pitch during this moment, as if unconsciously giving away the deception.)
Bob changes his usual "Wipes me out!" sign-off catchphrase on this edition. Quoting from Rita Rudner, he finishes with "She just wipes me out!"
