Talk:Crackerjack! (TV programme)

Start year

Crackerjack actually started in 1955, not 1957.

Australian movie

Any info on the Australian movie, starring Mick Malloy? - Ta bu shi da yu 08:32, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

'Take a Chance'

I have moved the following detailed description of one game here. It is too detailed for the overall article and makes it imbalanced. Leaving a brief description in the article. Lumos3 17:11, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

In 1982 in a bid to try and boost flagging ratings Crackerjack introduced gunge into it's games and launched a new game called 'Take a Chance' in which the celebrity guests could score extra points for the contestant they teamed up with in the game `Take a Letter', earlier in the show the contestants picked a colour which would be their 'Joker' for the rest of the show, these were Orange,Yellow or Green and in Take a Chance there were on each side of the studio 3 booths (2 booths in 1983 & 1984) with the `joker` colours and the celebrity guest would enter the booth of the colour of the contestant's joker while Stu Francis entered one of the other booths to win points for the other contestant, when they were seated in the booths Stu would say 'Right for the viewers watching at home or in the audience here are the points to be won or the penalties to pay' at which point doors above the booths opened to reveal the point values of the correct answer and also the name of the gunge that is in the tanks above their heads which was disgusting names ie 'Rancid Butter' or 'Burned Beans' then the child or hostess would ask Stu and the celebrity guest a question which was normally easy and whoever gave the correct answer stayed clean and scored the points for the child they played for while the other would have the contents of the tank dropped over them from above, if both Stu and the celebrity guest failed to give a correct answer then they both would get gunged which happened a few times but on some occasions if Stu got both questions correct and avoided getting gunged one of the celebrity guests would hold Stu in the booth while they released the gunge all over him.

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Search problems

Typing "crackerjack" into the poor quality piece of work that is the wikiality search "function" delivers this page directly. That MUST be changed. This poor quality article is in NO WAY the most notable use to the term "crackerjack". The search engine should deliver the disambiguation page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.151.226.164 (talk) 16:55, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Introduction section

This section currently states, "When Eamonn Andrews presented Crackerjack! the show was on a Thursday not a Friday. It moved to a Friday when Leslie Crowther took over presenting the show." I don't think this is correct. I watched the show when Andrews was the presenter but had outgrown it by the time Crowther took over. The show was definitely broadcast on Fridays when I watched. Unfortunately I can't find any sources to support either my memory or what the article currently says. Perhaps someone with access to the Alan Stafford book about the show can give the correct answer. --Prh47bridge (talk) 21:06, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

The catch phrase which I'm sure all of us of a certain age will remember is "It's Friday. It's five-to-five... and it's Crackerjack!" Also, the much desired prize was not just a pencil, it was a "Crackerjack! Pencil and Pen." I don't think this article really grasps just how much the guided anarchy of Crackerjack meant to many young people. There was also the occasion when the now-disgraced Rolf Harris sang 'Two Little Boys' - the audience spontaneously joined in and reduced him to tears. I can't forgive him for tainting that memory :-( 79.75.151.81 (talk) 16:04, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

Circus excerpts regularly shown on old crackerjack

Please settle a friends disagreement about whether for a period ( maybe one series, maybe more) there was a circus excerpt series, a relationship between the show and a circus. 86.187.234.8 (talk) 15:11, 2 December 2021 (UTC)