Bullseye

I confess that I used to like Bullseye and Jim Bowen. Jim was assisted by professional scorer, Tony Green. I used to laugh when Jim would say to the contestants, " Now listen very carefully to Tony". We would then wait for some pearl of wisdom from Tony but he would merely say. " Take your time"! The big test was whether or not the winning team would go for the star prize by attempting to get 101 in 6 darts with the ' Non dart player' throwing first. Most Non dart players ignored the obvious tactic of aiming the the middle of the left side of the board. You are bound to score at least 30 and with a bit of luck may hit the odd treble. At one time the team would risk everything to go for the star prize but after a few years they were allowed to keep the money they had won. Halfway through a professional darts player was invited to play for charity and score 301 with 9 darts and any score over 301 was doubled. The charity money was safe as Jim would say.

For years Jim Bowen hosted Bullseye, a gameshow where contestants would put their general knowledge and skills with the arrows to the test, generally to win a speedboat.

I love watching this show on Challenge TV, it's superior to pretty much every game show on the box now.

Who doesn't look seeing those prizes, imagine offering someone a toaster or a BBQ set these days?

Made back in a time when life was just better, Bullseye was a terrific gameshow, quite often amusing, always entertaining.

Jim Bowen was outstanding as the host, what a talented, charismatic man, loved Tony Green also, I loved watching the pair bantering with eachother.

It always used to make me chuckle, how many of these guys actually had space to accommodate a speedboat.

Please don't bring it back, you can only imagine what they'd do to it. There wouldn't be a pint in sight.

9/10.

Nothing in this game for 2 in the bed. You can win a speedboat or a sewing machine or for Bully's special prize - a speedboat for the land locked masses of northern Uk.

A tankard if you are lucky, filled with some arrows, pathetically useless. I could do better. In a show that is wetter than whatever the bbc, channel 4 or itv can do today in a bland world of the TV never ending series. That hits us with endless sequels.

There is no end to the sequels that appear on our screens, upsetting the scenes with adverts from our dreams, that haunt and distress, taking our minds off the mess that the world has become.

The superb Jim Bowen and Tony Green presented this show, a combination of darts and general knowledge. I had always loved playing darts in the local pub and that is what attracted me to this show initially.

There were three pairs of contestants on each show. One would answer questions, the other would throw darts. The finale would involve the final pair aiming to win a host of goodies such as TV sets and that important star prize. Also on the show each week was a professional darts player who would thrown darts for charity.

The show was superb to be honest. I should have tried to get on the show myself but I never got round to it. The consolation prize was a model mascot of Bully (boy, I wish I could get my hands on one of those) and the contestants generally had a good time.

The only complaint I have against the show was the fact that if the final pair lost their finale, Jim Bowen would still show them the prize that they would have won. Talk about rubbing salt in the wound-whose idea was that?

All in all, a super show. There have been frequent rumours of Bullseye returning to terrestrial TV on Channel 5. That needs to happen sooner rather than later.

I always usually watched Bullseye when ITV screened it on Sunday tea times. It is certainly better than some of the rubbish that's on now.

Hosted by Jim Bowen, three teams, one a darts player and the other one who answered the questions competed and the one with the lowest score went out at round one. The same thing happened at round two and then we had the adverts. Part two of Bullseye started with a professional darts player coming on and throwing for charity and then the final team went on to the prize board. At the end of that round, what prizes they had won were either gambled for the final round and the star prize or took with them. If they opted to take the prizes with them, the second losing team would come on with the option of gambling the money they had won. If they lost the final round, they would loose everything, but if they won, they would win the star prize in addition to what was won earlier. Tony Green did the scoring and commentary. Every team taken away with them a set of darts each and bendy Bulleys, whatever happened.

Some of the star prizes in Bullseye were rather unusual. These included speedboats, caravans and motorbikes. More normal prizes included cars and holidays.

Jim Bowen became famous with some of his sayings on Bullseye: "Great, smashing, super" and "Keep out of the black and in the red, nothing in this game for two in a bed" being a couple of them.

I now watch old episodes of Bullseye regularly on Challenge, happy memories.