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I Love 1987
TV

Michael Barrymore


Strike It Lucky

Although it first hit the screen in 1986, Michael Barrymore certainly struck it lucky this in year with this game show featuring three lines of flashing TVs and gushing contestants who were most definitely "real people".

At one stage in 1987 it was the 5th most popular TV show and remained in the TV top twenty for almost half the year.

Barrymore would trade conspiratorial winks, faintly racy stories and cries of "Awright" with the motley collection of toothless grannies and emotionally unstable housewives tempted weekly onto the programme by the lure of a few quid and a stylish rotisserie.


1987 TV: Strike It Lucky | Going Live | Moonlighting






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