In some episodes the contestants choose to have nicknames or shortened versions of their real names on their display podium. This is the case here with Denise Felton and Julie Treadwell, who are listed as "Dee" and "Jules" respectively.
The grid subjects featured on this edition are:
Main Grids: London statues; Music bands or artists named after food.
Auction Grids: Country letter codes on cars; Skiing terms; Film characters played by Frank Sinatra.
Final Grid: UK Top 40 hits for Oasis.
Main Grids: London statues; Music bands or artists named after food.
Auction Grids: Country letter codes on cars; Skiing terms; Film characters played by Frank Sinatra.
Final Grid: UK Top 40 hits for Oasis.
As with all of the Bob Monkhouse episodes of Wipeout, this edition was recorded without an audience, and the sound of one dubbed on afterwards.
This produces three curios in this edition. One is the addition of a loud "Ahhhhhhhhhhh" from the "crowd" after contestant Julie Treadwell recites one of her own poems. Another is when Bob introduces the "Auction Round", and remarks ironically about the name of the round, with a mocking "how we chuckle!", before shaking his head. The remark was clearly intended for a joke, but there's no post-dubbed audience reaction added to it, with it instead playing out to silence.
Lastly, there's Bob saying to the audience of contestant Julie Treadwell "Isn't she nice?", followed by a "round of applause". Julie has a slightly confused expression on her face as Bob appears to say "That's for you" (almost drowned out by the "audience") and smiles awkwardly, as the reality of her situation is that she would have been standing there in silence.
This produces three curios in this edition. One is the addition of a loud "Ahhhhhhhhhhh" from the "crowd" after contestant Julie Treadwell recites one of her own poems. Another is when Bob introduces the "Auction Round", and remarks ironically about the name of the round, with a mocking "how we chuckle!", before shaking his head. The remark was clearly intended for a joke, but there's no post-dubbed audience reaction added to it, with it instead playing out to silence.
Lastly, there's Bob saying to the audience of contestant Julie Treadwell "Isn't she nice?", followed by a "round of applause". Julie has a slightly confused expression on her face as Bob appears to say "That's for you" (almost drowned out by the "audience") and smiles awkwardly, as the reality of her situation is that she would have been standing there in silence.
This edition saw the series moved forward to a breakfasttime slot, with it and the following thirteen episodes broadcast in a 9:45am schedule position.
It returned to its usual lunchtime slot with Celebrity Special (1999).
It returned to its usual lunchtime slot with Celebrity Special (1999).
The third Auction Grid - film characters played by Frank Sinatra - was brought back as a very similar subject for a main grid in Episode #6.69 (1999).
While on the later grid the answers were the name of the movies, rather than the characters played by Sinatra, seven of those movies were the same on both grids: Anchors Aweigh, Guys and Dolls, Ocean's Eleven, Pal Joey, The Tender Trap, Von Ryan's Express and Young At Heart.
While on the later grid the answers were the name of the movies, rather than the characters played by Sinatra, seven of those movies were the same on both grids: Anchors Aweigh, Guys and Dolls, Ocean's Eleven, Pal Joey, The Tender Trap, Von Ryan's Express and Young At Heart.
