Bob Holness has died

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

...and I'm strangely gutted.

Then again Blockbusters was my childhood and younger teenage years.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

[Gazz]

[Lineker]

Ed Miliband is gutted.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Felt the need to watch an episode....

Couldn't find the episodes that the lad I knew (he went to my school and we got the same bus so talked a bit despite him being 4 or 5 years older than me) was on. He played white and got through all the three Gold-runs.

[Colly]

Bob Holness fact (that may be shot down on further research), he was the first James Bond, playing him on radio before Connery on film.

[Katsuya]

I'm pretty gutted about this. As I said on Twitter, Blockbusters is one of the shows that I used to watch religiously as a kid, I credit it, Countdown and Fifteen to One for making me relatively smart when it comes to general knowledge and the like.

[Pettengill_Mark]

This is gutting news, used to love a bit of blockbusters when i got home from school. In memory, here's a famous face appearing on blockbusters...

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Fifteen to One was a very smart quiz show. Add to that Going For Gold and I'm pretty much the same.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Ahhh lovely Konnie.

[Pettengill_Mark]

Couldn't agree more. The tea time quiz show is a British staple and Bob Holness was the king!

[R.W.]

Bob Holness fact (that may be shot down on further research), he was the first James Bond, playing him on radio before Connery on film.

Not quite - though it has more substance than the "Bob Holness played Sax on Baker Street" story.

Holness was the 2nd person to portray Bond, doing Moonraker on the Radio in 1956. However Barry Nelson portrayed Bond in a TV version of Casino Royale in 1954.

Though Holness was the first Brit to play Bond.

[jrhodes]

Can I have a RIP please Bob?

[Liam]

Gutting. Loved a bit of Blockbusters, and Call My Bluff. RIP

[NobBe Nobbs]

Were they doing the Macarena in that first clip Hammy posted? Was that a thing?

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

It was an iconic show for students so as it went on it the audience (who were usually the classmates of the contestants) came up with a little seated Macarena dance to add to their experience I guess. Also because like all the best shows beloved by students, it was a little bit "naff" (for want of a better word) which, teamed with a truly brilliant host just made the show even greater.

[Dan]

Holy shit, I was watching Blockbusters for the first time in years on Challenge the other day.

[Dan]

Holy shit, I was watching Blockbusters for the first time in years on Challenge the other day.