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Pentagon

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Host

Cefin Campbell

Co-host

Announcer: Margaret Pritchard

Broadcast

HTV Cymru for S4C, 5 July to 4 October 1989 (12 episodes in 1 series)

Synopsis

Strategic general knowledge quiz - five contestants try to light up their colour across the Pentagon, while overtaking their opponents along the way.

Winner gets a week's holiday in Europe - if they get around the Pentagon in two minutes - and returns the following week.

Inventor

Edwin J Payne

Theme music

Graham Smart

Trivia

The top holiday prize, as per Margaret Pritchard's voiceover, was worth £500 - comfortably within IBA limits of the time. Even well into the 90s, S4C shows didn't usually offer prizes beyond £1,000 (cash or value) long after restrictions had been relaxed.

Videos


The very first episode