Trivia

The grid subjects featured on this edition are:

Main Grids: Weapons; Movies featuring Tom Cruise.

Auction Grids: Phonetic alphabet; Sailing terms.

Final Grid: Characters from Wacky Races.

Bob seems to make a conscious effort not to reveal answers during a round on Tom Cruise, something unusual for his hosting style from series six onwards.

Here he asks the board to reveal if Tom appeared in each movie rather than declaring it, only doing so with Top Gun (1986), noting: "Anyone who knows movies know that Top Gun starred Tom Cruise. Let's go. Let's not mess about."

The final grid - characters from Wacky Races (1968) - features a Wipeout answer of "Charley Charlton". This would almost certainly seem to be a character from Byker Grove (1989), but as this isn't specified, this isn't included under Movie Connections.

The first Auction Grid - the phonetic alphabet - had first appeared as an Auction Grid in Episode #4.12 (1996).

However, only two of the same answers appeared on both grids: "Zulu" and "Sierra". (The suspicion that the questions on the Bob Monkhouse era of the series were slightly "dumbed down" compared to the Paul Daniels run can be witnessed by this version of the grid containing the purported letter of the alphabet represented by the word, followed by an equals sign, e.g. "Zulu" being displayed on this edition as "Z = Zulu".)