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  • Spaghetti junction game show

    • New faces presenter

  • 49 contestants, one for each ball that was used in the National Lottery draw, took part after qualifying to play by having matching numbers.
  • The new faces
  • The audience decided who won here, as a gigantic lightboard known as Spaghetti Junction lit up to a varying degree as the audience pushed.
  • New Faces is a British television talent show that aired in the 1970s and 1980s.

    • The new faces...

    New Faces

    Host

    Leslie Crowther (regional pilot)

    Derek Hobson (network pilot and 1973-78)

    Marti Caine (1986-88)

    Co-hosts

    Regular judges included: Ted Ray, Arthur Askey, Mickie Most, Clifford Davis, Tony Hatch (1973-78); Nina Myskow, Bonnie Langford (1986-88)

    Broadcast

    ATV (regional), 31 May 1973 (pilot)

    ATV for ITV, 7 July 1973 to 2 April 1978 (pilot + 164 episodes in 6 series)

    as New Faces of... Central for ITV, 19 September 1986 to 3 December 1988 (39 episodes in 3 series)

    Synopsis

    Popular talent show, but unlike the amateur Opportunity Knocks, this one was for smalltime professional acts who already had their Equity cards.

    It came in two incarnations.

    The first, hosted by That's My Dog's Derek Hobson saw a variety of turns being judged by a panel of talent spotters, usually a combination of celebrities and Tony Hatch, who is generally reckoned to have been the original plain-speaking "nasty judge" - nowadays every show has one, but he was arguably the first.

    (Though not the only one on this show: Mickie Most was also noted for his harsh comment

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