Get Your Own Back
GenreChildren's game show
Created byBrian Marshall
Presented by
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series14
No. of episodes190
Production
Running time15 minutes (1991–93)
25 minutes (1994–2004)
Original release
NetworkBBC1
Release26 September 1991 (1991-09-26) –
1 January 2004 (2004-01-01)

Get Your Own Back was a British children's television game show created by Brian Marshall. Each episode staged a contest between teams of children – attempting to score as many points as possible – and their respective adults – attempting to make tasks as difficult as possible for their child contestants – playing a variety of games. The winning child earns a right to get revenge on the adult by ejecting them into a tank of gunge; adult contestants in the show are somewhat embarrassing, for a variety of reasons, to their child counterparts.

Airing on BBC One's children's television block, it ran from 26 September 1991 to 1 January 2004, and was hosted by Dave Benson Phillips. Lisa Brockwell also presented the final three series of the show alongside Phillips, and Peter Simon served the role of voice over in 1995.

Format

The show consisted of two teams (the first series had three), each comprising one child contestant and a parent/relative/older sibling/teacher/celebrity (aged 16 to around 70) who in the child's eyes had committed some sort of crime that they wanted to seek revenge for. These 'crimes' were usually trivial, such as singing badly or asking the child to tidy their room. Dave and the audience always showed bias against the adults by booing them as much as possible, and from series 7 till series 10 the adult would come in inside a cage

Main Game

Throughout the show, the teams must compete in several games, with the adults trying to hinder their child to score while wearing inflatable or otherwise comical costumes. A list of games include:

  • Poke 'em Off 2001 - 2002: - Both team members stand on a stool, the child wearing a knight armor with a spear and the adult a dragon costume covered in balloons. The object of the game is for the child to pop as many balloons as possible with the spear, with the one on the tail being worth more than the ones on the body.
  • Royal Flush: 2000 - 2003 - On an inflatable castle, the parents are on top, sitting on thrones and having gunge ready. On the signal, the child must bring six nuggets down into a tub. Managing to collect all six nuggets within the allotted time or with no time limit will result in the adult being gunged, in addition to their throne deflating.
  • Surf's up: 1998
  • Good Vibrations 2001 - 2003
  • Toast Terror 1997 - 2001
  • Squeal on the Wheel 1997 - 2003
  • Energize 2000 - 2002
  • Throwing A Wobbly 2001 - 2002
  • Gunge Lab 2003
  • Feed The Bird 2002 - 2003: Same rules as Feeding Frenzy except the adult is dressed as a bird and the child has to feed it worms and insects.
  • Shower Power: 2001 - 2003
  • Hooper Scooper 2000
  • Chocks Away 2001 - 2002
  • Load the Toad 1998 - 2000
  • D'you Think 'e saw us? 2001 - 2003: The children have to climb up a Stegosaurus to collect some eggs that are being guarded by the adults that are dressed as cavemen.
  • Mangle Tangle 2002
  • Bees Knees 1999 - 2000
  • Snow Business 1999 - 2000
  • Humbug Hullabaloo
  • Chicken and Egg 1997 - 1999
  • Motor Mania 1997: Both the child and the adult have remote control vehicles, and the aim is to get to the finish line while the adult tries to intercept the child at a crossroads near the finish line.
  • Penalty Shoot-out: 1998: Same rules as Motor Mania except the goal is to kick a football into the goal while the adult plays as a goalie.
  • Great Balls of Fire: 1998 - 2003: Named after the song by Jerry Lee Lewis, the children have to collect yellow and blue rocks while the adults try to throw them back into the volcano.
  • Bag the Swag: 2001 - 2002: The child has to collect items like jewels and gold and place them in a safe while the adult dressed as a robber tries to steal them.
  • Rob the Spider
  • Tour de Farce 2002: The child has to assemble a bike while going across a conveyor belt that is being moved by the adult while cycling.
  • Polar Explorers 2002 - 2003:
  • Bounce Back: 1997 - 2003
  • Knight Fever
  • Wall Ball 1995 - 1998
  • Petal Power
  • Moving Targets
  • Lunar Loonies
  • Mouse Alert
  • Going Bananas
  • Barmy Broomstick 2003
  • Can you Kick it? 2001 - 2003
  • Cherry Pickers 2001 - 2003
  • Spider Collider 2001 - 2003
  • Give the Dog a Bone 1998 - 1999
  • Tidy Up 1996 - 1999
  • Chuck a Duck 1999 - 2000
  • Weird Washing
  • Creepy Crawlers
  • Beat the Keeper
  • Batty Bikes
  • Barmy Breakfast
  • Rock the Boat 2002-2003
  • Shrimp on the Barbie 2001 - 2003
  • Slam Dunk
  • Slam Dunk 2000
  • Dodgy Diner: 2003
  • Feeding Frenzy: 1997 - 2000: The adult is dressed as a giant baby and the child has to feed it food from a bowl, while the adult runs from the child to make it harder for the child to feed it.
  • Bouncing Blockade:
  • Dog Fight:
  • Bump 'n' Burst:
  • Bubble Breaker:
  • Over The Top:
  • Trolley Dash:
  • Parrot Perch:
  • Video Nasty: 1991: Sometimes played as the 2nd round in the first series, the team have to score as many points as they can on a video game like console. After 30 seconds The adult's score is subtracted from the childs score which will give them a final score total.

Final Round: The Gunk Dunk

Throughout every series the final round was called the "Gunk Dunk", where the losing adult was always thrown into a pool of colourful, messy gunge. A later series introduced a 'forfeit' whereby the losing child had to place their favourite toy in an incinerator; although the toy was not actually destroyed, the concept was later dropped.

Series 1

Both the parent and the child sit above a pool of gunge. The parent has to answer five question correctly within 45 seconds, but they are not allowed to give answers beginning with a specific letter. Failing to do this will result in them getting dropped into the pool, but if they do succeed, their child will get dropped in instead.

Transmissions

SeriesStart dateEnd dateEpisodes
126 September 1991[1]19 December 1991[2]13
224 September 1992[3]17 December 1992[4]13
330 September 1993[5]23 December 1993[6]13
430 September 1994[7]23 December 1994[8]13
527 September 1995[9]20 December 1995[10]13
611 September 1996[11]18 December 1996[12]15
710 September 1997[13]17 December 1997[14]15
87 January 1998[15]1 April 1998[16]13
916 September 1998[17]23 December 1998[18]15
109 April 1999[19]10 September 1999[20]13
115 April 2000[21]28 June 2000[22]13
1229 June 2001[23]21 September 2001[24]13
139 April 2002[25]9 July 2002[26]13
1415 October 2003[27]1 January 2004[28]15

References

  1. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 26 September 1991". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 19 December 1991". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 24 September 1992". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 17 December 1992". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 30 September 1993". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  6. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 23 December 1993". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  7. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 30 September 1994". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  8. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 23 December 1994". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  9. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 27 September 1995". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  10. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 20 December 1995". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  11. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 11 September 1996". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  12. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 18 December 1996". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  13. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 10 September 1997". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  14. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 17 December 1997". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  15. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 7 January 1998". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  16. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 1 April 1998". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  17. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 16 September 1998". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  18. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 23 December 1998". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  19. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 9 April 1999". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  20. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 10 September 1999". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  21. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 5 April 2000". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  22. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 28 June 2000". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  23. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC Two England - 29 June 2001". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  24. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 21 September 2001". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  25. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 9 April 2002". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  26. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 9 July 2002". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  27. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 15 October 2003". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  28. ↑ "Get Your Own Back - BBC One London - 1 January 2004". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
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