The Generation Game

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  • Premiered: Oct 1971
  • Episodes: 413
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • BBC One
  • Saturday at 20
  • Comedy Game show

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Season 21
21x1
Episode 1
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 04, 1999
This week's contestants make a splash in a paddling pool aerobic routine and cause havoc serving a meal using robotic arms. Guests include England rugby star Kyran Bracken and actress Bonnie Langford.
21x2
Episode 2
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 11, 1999
This evening's winning couples end the show performing numbers from the hit musical Oh! What a Night-with Kid Creole taking them through their paces.
21x3
Episode 3
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Air date
Sep 18, 1999
There is a French theme to this week's entertainment, as contestants try to emulate Jean Pierre Blanchard 's portrait of Marilyn Monroe , and the Doris Dances troupe from Paris's Moulin .. show full overview
21x4
Episode 4
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 25, 1999
More couples take on light-hearted challenges in the family game show. Presented by Jim Davidson with Melanie Stace, and guests Wayne Sleep, Anna Ryder Richardson, Oliver Skeete and Stephen Lewis.
21x5
Episode 5
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Air date
Oct 02, 1999
Family couples take on challenges including cossack-dancing and making candyfloss. Joining Jim Davidson and Melanie Stace are guests including pop band Cartoons.
21x6
Episode 6
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Air date
Oct 09, 1999
More family couples attempt to master challenges which include dog obedience training, floral hat making and Apache dancing. Joining Jim Davidson and Melanie Stace on this week's show is comedian Freddie Davies.
21x7
Episode 7
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Air date
Oct 16, 1999
Family couples from Yorkshire, Norfolk, Kent and the West Midlands attempt to master more unusual challenges, while the star guests joining Jim Davidson and Melanie Stace are sports agent Eric Hall and comic Joe Pasquale.
21x8
Episode 8
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Air date
Oct 23, 1999
Family couples try to master bizarre challenges including Morris dancing and modelling lard while yodelling. Also the City Ballet of London perform the Neapolitan tarantella dance.
21x9
Episode 9
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Air date
Oct 30, 1999
There's a Halloween theme to this week's show as family couples get to grips with spooky challenges. Guests include Lionel Blair and Anthea Turner.
21x10
Episode 10
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Air date
Nov 06, 1999
Rhythmic gymnastics and preparing breakfast are two of the tasks awaiting this week's couples on the family game show.
21x11
Episode 11
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Air date
Nov 13, 1999
Synchronised swimming, cocktail-shaking, salsa dancing and sausage-making are among the tasks awaiting this week's couples on Jim Davidson 's family game show.
21x12
Episode 12
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Air date
Nov 20, 1999
Barn-dancing, tent-erecting and miming songs are among the tasks awaiting this week's couples on the family game show. Guests include Brian Blessed , his Mount Everest climbing partner Alan Hinkes , actor Ian Lavender and singer Charlotte Church.
21x13
Episode 13
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Air date
Nov 27, 1999
Family couples attempt unusual challenges, and Jim Davidson performs a duet with his son Cameron.
21x14
Episode 14 (Christmas Special)
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Air date
Dec 25, 1999
A festive edition of the light-hearted game show, including a challenge to complete the Royal Marines' arctic assault course and a cavalcade of guests including Rick Wakeman, Lawrence Dallaglio, Kathy Staff, Stephen Lewis and John Virgo.
21x15
Episode 15 (New Year Special)
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 01, 2000
Family couples attempt unusual challenges, including sword dancing with the Edinburgh Tattoo Ceilidh Dancers, a balloon ballet led by Jim Davidson and Barbara Windsor, assembling a Millennium Dome cake and performing a Wild West stunt routine.
21x16
Episode 16
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Air date
Jan 08, 2000
Family couples attempt unusual challenges, including canine capers with Crufts champion Mary Ray and her dancing dogs, a farming implement guessing game and a Las Vegas-style feather finale.
21x17
Episode 17
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Air date
Jan 15, 2000
Another four family couples attempt unusual challenges, including cocktail mixing and creating a canopy for a four-poster bed with Anna Ryder-Richardson, plus a finale of traditional Greek dancing.
21x18
Episode 18
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 2000
Among the challenges facing tonight's family couples are emergency first aid with the Caister lifeboat crew, African ensemble dancing, and arranging a hanging basket under the supervision of Charlie Dimmock.
21x19
Episode 19
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Air date
Jan 29, 2000
Kick-boxing aerobics, mud beauty treatments and a Danish pastry challenge face tonight's family couples as they fight for a place in the Broadway finale.
21x20 Season finale
Episode 20
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 05, 2000
More family couples attempt unusual challenges, including candlemaking, marzipan modelling, balloon bursting and calypso dancing.

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