The Crystal Maze
The Crystal Maze was a game Series, shown on Channel 4 February 1990 and produced by Chatsworth Television and Also 10 August 1995. There was one series per year, with the initial four string presented by Richard O'Brien and the two from Ed Tudor-Pole. Each show was just only one hour .
The show was originally meant to be a British movie of the French programme Fort Boyard, invented by Jacques Antoine. Nevertheless, the unavailability of this French series's collection led producer Malcolm Heyworth to re invent the show, using zones being a means to hold the show visually fresh.
The show is set in"The Crystal Maze", which comprises four different"zones" set in many periods of space and time. A group of six contestants take part in a series of challenges in order to win"time crystals". Each crystal gives the team five moments of time indoors"The Crystal Dome", the centrepiece of this maze at which the contestants take part in their final challenge.
The maze has been the size of two football pitches and cost # 250,000 to build. At its height the show was the most watched regularly bringing between 4 and 6 million viewers. Back in 2006 and again in 2010, the show was voted"greatest UK game show of them all" by subscribers of UKGameshows.com. This website refers to the programme as"a highly-ambitious, high-risk show that paid off handsomely."