Get Your Own Back
| Get Your Own Back | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Children's Game show |
| Created by | Brian Marshall |
| Presented by |
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| Starring | Lisa Brockwell |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 14 |
| No. of episodes | 190 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 15 minutes (1991–93) 25 minutes (1994–2004) |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC1 |
| Picture format |
4:3 (SDTV) (1991–9) 16:9 (SDTV) (2000–4) |
| Original release | 26 September 1991 – 1 January 2004 |
Get Your Own Back was a British children's game show, which ran from 26 September 1991 to 1 January 2004. It has been presented throughout by Dave Benson Phillips with the addition of Lisa Brockwell as a co-host from 2001 to the programme's end in 2004.
The show consisted of two teams (the first series had three), each comprising one child contestant and a parent/relative/older sibling/teacher/celebrity 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. Occasionally some 'crimes' were memorable, such as one boy's uncle who wound up the boy's whole family by pranking them into thinking they won the lottery, but they hadn't.
Dave and the audience always showed bias against the grown-up by booing the oppressed as much as possible. The games were always designed to make things difficult or unpleasant for the grown-ups. They often had them dressed in embarrassing costumes.
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.
This is the only series with 3 teams (red, blue and green), and it was also the only series with a green team. The adults played as chumps whilst children played as challengers. In round 1, called "Brain Box", the adults played a game where they scored points by answering questions from a topic the kid chose using a carnival game, e.g. shooting gallery, test your strength. To get bonus points for each question answered, the grown up did a chore they always got the kid to do (e.g. washing up) and take the item the chore was practised on through an obstacle course called "the mangle" with the kid spraying them with gunge. The item must have got through in one piece or no points were awarded. The winning grown up left, with the losers advanced to round 2, called "Chumps Challenge", where the remaining adults played another game (either a video game, an obstacle race with the kid, or a karaoke performance). The loser of this round (scores did not carry over from the Brain Box round) went to the gunk dunk. In the gunk dunk, it had a Ghost Train/Horror theme, and the adult and child sat over a cauldron-like tank. The grown up would get the child dunked if they answered five correct answers in under 45 seconds without using answers beginning with a particular letter (which all questions had obvious answers to). Failure (or eventually otherwise, despite Dave's assurance that winning would spare them) resulted in the grown up being Gunged.
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