The Crystal Maze was a British game show, produced by Chatsworth Television and shown on Channel 4 February 1990 and Also 10 August 1995. There is just one series each year, with the initial four string presented by Richard O'Brien and the final two by Ed Tudor-Pole. Each show was just one hour .
The series was intended to be described as a remake of the programme Fort Boyard. The unavailability of the group of the French show led producer Malcolm Heyworth to reinvent the series, with zones as a means.
The series is put in"The Crystal Maze", which includes four separate"zones" put in many phases of space and time. A group of six contestants get involved in a series of challenges to be able to win"time crystals". Each crystal gives the team five minutes of time indoors"The Crystal Dome", the centrepiece of the compilation at which the contestants get involved in their own final challenge.
The maze was the size of two football pitches and cost # 250,000 to develop. At its height that the series was probably the most watched on Channel 4, regularly bringing between 6 and 4 million viewers. In 2006 and in 2010, the series was voted"greatest UK game series of them all" by subscribers of UKGameshows.com. This website explains the programme as"a highly-ambitious, high ranking series that paid off handsomely."
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The Crystal Maze was a British game show, produced by Chatsworth Television and shown on Channel 4 February 1990 and Also 10 August 1995. There is just one series each year, with the initial four string presented by Richard O'Brien and the final two by Ed Tudor-Pole. Each show was just one hour .
The series was intended to be described as a remake of the programme Fort Boyard. The unavailability of the group of the French show led producer Malcolm Heyworth to reinvent the series, with zones as a means.
The series is put in"The Crystal Maze", which includes four separate"zones" put in many phases of space and time. A group of six contestants get involved in a series of challenges to be able to win"time crystals". Each crystal gives the team five minutes of time indoors"The Crystal Dome", the centrepiece of the compilation at which the contestants get involved in their own final challenge.
The maze was the size of two football pitches and cost # 250,000 to develop. At its height that the series was probably the most watched on Channel 4, regularly bringing between 6 and 4 million viewers. In 2006 and in 2010, the series was voted"greatest UK game series of them all" by subscribers of UKGameshows.com. This website explains the programme as"a highly-ambitious, high ranking series that paid off handsomely."
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