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Student Freshers Have A Knockout Time

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The Hartlepool Mail reports that 1000 local first year students at East Durham College took part in a massive It’s A Knockout event recently.

The students competed against each other in a range of team challenges including massive air-filled courses, inflatable demolition balls, nets, a bungee run and paintballing, as well as seven-a-side football, pancake throwing, penalty shoot-out and crossbar challenge. Sounds like great Team Building Fun!

Army recruitment teams from Catterick, Newcastle and the Rifles, Durham, helped to run the event and also supplied a number of pieces of apparatus.

Charity Event, £10,000 for Children’s Hospice!

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A wet and wacky It’s a Knockout charity event held Sunday Sept 26 in Shrewsbury was a raving success according to the Shropshire Star. The 11 teams taking part have hopefully raised in excess of £10,000 for the local Hope House Children’s Hospice.

It was the first of it’s kind in the area and attended by 100′s of supporters, the local Mayor and the football team’s mascots ‘Lenny the Lion’ and ‘Teddy’. The organisers have said the event’s success has suggested this should be an annual charity fund raiser… fingers crossed the ‘It’s A Knockout’ fun bug is forever catching on. Long live Its A Knockout !

> Read more on the Shropshire Star Web Site.

‘It’s a Royal Knockout’ is Back !!

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According to the ‘News Biscuit” – the BBC are considering a restage of the infamous ‘It’s a Royal Knockout’ as a fundraiser for the Duchess of York?

Here’ an extract but read it in full here >

Buckingham Palace has today announced plans to reprise the one-off ‘It’s a Royal Knockout’ tournament with all proceeds going to their favourite charity case, the Duchess of York.

‘If you are lucky enough to be born into privilege,’ said Prince Edward, the brains behind the original 1987 fundraiser, ‘then I think it’s beholden on you to try and give something back. Mummy really wants to give Fergie back, so fingers crossed we can raise enough to get her back on her feet and out of our hair for good.’

The evening’s entertainment will kick-off with a twist on the traditional greasy-pole challenge. Journalists from The Sun, The Mirror, The Mail and The Express will dress up as Arab sheikhs and attempt to gain access to Prince Andrew by running through a treacherous oil slick while attached to bungee ropes and delivering £500,000 in a briefcase to the Duchess of York…. more here >


It’s a Royal Knockout was a British slapstick television gameshow that aired in 1987, based on the original It’s a Knockout (the British version of Jeux Sans Frontieres) but including members of the British Royal Family.

The programme featured Princess Anne, Prince Edward and the Duke and Duchess of York as team captains, each representing a chosen charity and dressed in novelty costumes, and was hosted by Stuart Hall. BBC Radio 1 was there with Mike Smith doing the Breakfast Show and Steve Wright was there with The Radio 1 Roadshow.

Calling It’s A Knockout Fans…

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Teams needed for a Knockout Time

Published Stamford Mercury: Sun Dec 05 07:00:00 GMT 2010

FANCY having a laugh with your mates by playing It’s a Knockout- style games while raising money for good causes?

That’s exactly what you and your friends could be doing if you take part in the Rotary Club of Stamford St Martin’s fundraising event next summer, which will be based on the popular game show from the ’70s and ’80s. It will take place on Sunday, May 22 2011, at Stamford Rugby Club on Hambleton Road.

Fun Fun Fun all the Way !

Although the activities for the day are still to be finalised, they could include a human washing machine where people are flung round a massive spongy replica. Others may include hurling wet sponges at each other using a specially designed bungee device or trying to knock your opponents over with a huge soft wrecking ball. There is also a football shoot out with the chance to score extra points if the ball passes through the “bonus holes” and the chance to help a giant chicken collect as many eggs as it can while dodging straw bales.

Charity Knockout Event

Each team needs to raise at least £400, which is only £40 each for a team of 10. Participants must be at least 16. Registration requires a deposit of £150 and can be done by visiting www.iako.co.uk. Spectators are also catered for with a bar, barbecue and entertainment, which is yet to be finalised.

Charity Event with Knockout Results!

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Beverley Leisure Centre was the location for a very exciting It’s A Knock-Out competition on Saturday afternoon.

Knockout Girls in Beverley Knockout Games

Knockout Girls in Beverley Knockout Games

In order to raise money for MNDA (the Motor Neurone Disease Association), teams of Lifeguards, Youth Workers and ‘Sexy Rock Chicks’ from Beverley Leisure Centre pitched battle with each other, while the children that attended ensured everyone enjoyed a thorough soaking with water bombs and buckets.  The afternoon concluded with a water fight between the Youth Workers and the children – with the children winning hands down!

Hopefully, once all the money is in, £663 will have been raised. Thanks to all who contributed.

Published on HU17.net: August  2010

It’s A Knockout Raises £3000 for charity

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Published by the Gratham Journal on Mon May 17 16:43:20 BST 2010

VILLAGERS out at Ancaster have taken the lead in trying to raise thousands of pounds to help children with cancer.

It’s a Knockout 2010 will be held on Saturday, June 5 at Kesteven Rugby Football Club. This year’s event is expected to be bigger and better than last, with more teams, games and side stalls.
The event was first held last year, with Ancaster villagers enthusiastically signing up to raise funds for CLIC Sargent.

Angela Aspiotis has been leading the charge in Ancaster.

She said: “ Once again, the people of Ancaster have got behind me to support the It’s A Knockout Challenge.

“Last year we raised over £3000, and this year we would like to beat that.

We have entered three teams, Ancaster Pride Originals, Ancaster Pride Ladies Lionesses and youth team The Lost Boys. “We also have Molly’s cheerleaders aged six to nine. A day for all the family is planned, with a tombola, cake and home produce stalls and a raffle. The top raffle prize will be a Nintendo Wii with Wii Fit and Sports Resort. Children from Ancaster Primary School are also busy making flags and banners to support the villagers on the day.

Angela said: “People of all ages are helping in some way. We are all looking forward to a good, old-fashioned family, fun day out, showing true community spirit.”

Its a Knockout – Retro TV Clips

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Author: Game Show Fan

Yes That’s right if you Google ‘Its a Knockout’ there are loads of fan sites, photo galleries and video clips to behold. Not sure it it’s all legal or infringing copyright but Hey Ho they stuff is very welcome to Retro TV fans. Well the BBC never repeat it so I am so glad people have dug out their old VHS recordings, digitized them and uploaded them to Social Networking sites such as YouTube.Com. There are some corkers and I highly recommend you seek them out.

Look for thecontestants who had to wear “Giant Costumes” which were deliberately designed to either knock things over, bump into the other ones or just to fall over I’m sure! Maximum laughs all round with their gormless faces. Hilarious. I thought so and so did the great compare Stuart Hall and co. His infectious laugh just made it worse (or better maybe – not sure). Of course the “dolly bird” scorers made my teenage temperature rise and then the Joker was played to try and double the team’s score.

So get over to YouTube.com and search for ‘its a knockout bbc’. I just did and unbelievably there are over 2,780 references to Its a Knockout !!! Is that incrediable?

Ones to look out for are: “It’s A Knockout BBC TV Opening Titles Compilation” – a very good start to the search + there’s rare footage of interviews and the regional heats of this wacky TV show. Of course you’ll also find great clips of other country’s version of the show. There’s plenty of Aussy Clips too. And you’ll spot the Eurpean Finals of It’s A Knockout called Jeux Sans Frontieres which was bigger and better.

That reminds me do a search for Stuart Hall’s great catch phrase “Here comes the Belgiums”. There’s even a BBC video out and you can get this on Amazom.com. It’s a cracking video for retro game fans.

So all-in-all a feast of VERY FUNNY TV clips of Its A Knockout to keep any fan going for a while.. eh am over to YouTube again now – it always cheers me up !!

P.S. Don’t forget to search the BBC1 web site too as there’s some vintage info on there.

HAPPY VIEWING !

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We run a local Lincolnshire based business directory and are keen quiz masters for Pub Quizzes and author for local freebie papers. Trivia is our forte. We love game shows !!

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