Referenced in Melbourne House's 1984 text adventure game "Hampstead", where the player started in their home with an episode of the series showing on TV.
Was a fixture of the ITV schedules in the immediate aftermath of the industrial dispute which saw the channel's almost total shutdown from August to October 1979, as it was one of the few series the network had which were stockpiled for quick and easy transmission.
Each episode had a different theme each week, such as Wild West. The series is most often remembered for its gloriously bonkers obscure cryptic clues always given to the contestant couple with a "related" physical object, such as... Sample Clue: "The Arches Might Provide A Clue, Not Strolling But He's Going Too", accompanied by some sheet music. Eventually, the couple would select to reject a clue, or accept, leading to Ted's often baffling explanation: Sample explanation for above clue: "Well the first three letters of arches might have been clue enough, but we also said not strolling but he's going too. Well if you take away HES from arches, all you have left is ARC. If you rearrange that with the sheet music, you're left with 'Music Maestro Please'. So what do think that means? Maestro! The British Leyland Maestro! You've won the car!". Hundreds of other clues across the entire run are equally baffling.
Its been claimed that part of the reason for the series ending was the rising costs of building extravagant themed bespoke sets for a one-off 1 hour of tv, never to be used again. Additionally, its likely they'd almost entirely run out of usable one-off episode concept themes, apart from the loss of revenue from a ratings drop-off over 9 years of prime-time saturday night scheduling.
John Sunderland was the artist who designed the original opening title animation, and also the characterisation of Dusty Bin, in 1978.
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