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Surprise, Surprise was a British TV show hosted by Cilla Black, produced by London Weekend Television. It ran from 1984 to 2001. The production team overlapped with that of the earlier Game for a Laugh and the subsequent Blind Date. There were also similarities to Jim'll Fix It. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ...
Cilla Black (born 27 May 1942) is an English singer and television personality. ...
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Bob Carolgees (born May 12, 1948 in Birmingham, UK) is a comedy entertainer who used to appear on the childrens TV series Tiswas and later its adult version O.T.T. Carolgees has worked alongside Cilla Black in Surprise, Surprise, and he has entertained the armed forces. ...
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Cilla Black (born 27 May 1942) is an English singer and television personality. ...
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Game For A Laugh was a popular British TV light entertainment show between 1981 and 1985, made by London Weekend Television. ...
Blind Date was a British dating game show. ...
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The show was originally a vehicle for Cilla to proun around, play a trick and fool members of the public and also phone people up to speak to. There were also many variety acts that appeared on the show. Often Bob Carolgees was involved the butt of jokes. Many special guests appeared, occasionally appearing live, (examples including Neil Diamond). The show was shown on ITV1 on Sunday evenings, until its change to Friday for the final two series. A variety show is a show with a variety of acts, often including music and comedy skits, especially on television. ...
Bob Carolgees (born May 12, 1948 in Birmingham, UK) is a comedy entertainer who used to appear on the childrens TV series Tiswas and later its adult version O.T.T. Carolgees has worked alongside Cilla Black in Surprise, Surprise, and he has entertained the armed forces. ...
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ITV1 is the name, in England, Wales and the Scottish borders, for a terrestrial, free-to-air television channel, broadcast in the United Kingdom by the ITV network. ...
Surprise, Surprise involved surprising members of the public with long-held wishes and reuniting them with long-lost loved ones. The concept of the first series had been to film 'surprising' and often odd items of the type previously seen in Game for a Laugh - the format was not successful. However, the final item in the final show of the first series featured a successful 'surprise' reunion and executive producer Alan Boyd changed the format slightly, so all items in subsequent series involved 'surprises' rather than just being 'surprising'.
Christopher Biggins was the original co-host, a role later occupied by Bob Carolgees. In some series, Gordon Burns presented the "SearchLine" segment, which advertised information of missing people. Christopher Biggins (born 16 December 1948 in Oldham, Lancashire) is a British actor well recognised on British television. ...
Bob Carolgees (born May 12, 1948 in Birmingham, UK) is a comedy entertainer who used to appear on the childrens TV series Tiswas and later its adult version O.T.T. Carolgees has worked alongside Cilla Black in Surprise, Surprise, and he has entertained the armed forces. ...
Gordon Burns (born 10 June 1942 in Belfast) is a British journalist and television presenter who shot to fame as host of ITVs popular game show The Krypton Factor, presenting it from 1977 for eighteen years. ...
Theme songs
Cilla introduced and closed each show by singing a theme song. The theme song for the first five series, written by Kate Robbins and often imitated by Cilla impersonators, began "The more the world is changing, the more it stays the same..." Kate Robbins is a Liverpudlian actress and impressionist. ...
A new song for the series was written for the sixth series in 1990: "Reaching out, holding hands, reliving memories... Life is full, full of surprises...And the nicest surprise in my life is you!"
Executive producer Alan Boyd had previously revived singer Cilla Black's career at the BBC and this was, in effect, a second Cilla revival masterminded by Boyd. He was also responsible for casting Cilla in LWT's Blind Date. For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ...
Blind Date was a British dating game show. ...
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