They did an all nude game show, and now you're paying attention for either the right or wrong reasons. The theme was nudism, nothing unusual for Channel 5 at the time. Now, why the Chegwin comments? In 2000, Channel 5 did an evening of themed programming, nothing unusual there. Underwood after everyone promised to stop tweeting him everyĬhristmas to tell him that his TCM episode is on After a few years on CBBC, he moved to do the same role hosting continuity on CITV in 2002 and became the host of Jungle Run in 2003 until the show ended in 2006.
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However, his first TV appearance that I know of (feel free to correct me in the comments) was as a contestant on the first Christmas special of The Crystal Maze in 1990. He won his role on CBBC on Saturday night show ‘Whatever You Want’ hosted by Gaby Roslin where the gimmick was you could win whatever you wanted. He was replaced on JR by Michael Underwood, another host known for appearing on CBBC. Jarvis soon returned to the BBC where he is still a face on their CBeebies channel to this day doing programming for preschool viewers. It was a few years later he made the move away from the BBC to host Jungle Run for CITV in 2001. He later hosted Saturday morning show Fully Booked alongside former Blue Peter presenter Tim Vincent and Gail Porter. Jarvis had been an established kid’s presenter on the BBC since the early 90’s having hosted CBBC in the same era as Zoe Ball and Josie D’Arby and he was also the man behind the character of The Anorak.
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The prizes could consist of video cameras, mp3 players, portable DVD players, up to grand prizes of mountain bikes or adventure weekends.Īs mentioned it was first hosted by Dominic Wood, then Chris Jarvis. Anyone who didn’t get out doesn’t get a prize. When the time limit was dwindling they’d grab all the statues they’d unlocked and run back up the stairs to make their escape before the door, in this case, the stone belly of the Jungle King statue, closed. Each progressive room would also contain a statue of a monkey made of stone, then bronze, then silver and finally the giant gold statue. The endgame was a journey inside the Temple of the Jungle King, where they’d head down some stairs into a room and complete a puzzle to unlock the next room with a puzzle in it, that puzzle would unlock the next room and so on and so forth.
Whilst the contestants played the games, they faced minor inconveniences in the form of antagonistic monkeys Sid and Elvis, who would throw things at the team, or when time limits were reached would raise the MacGuffins out of reach to bring the games to a relatively natural-looking end. As time went on, certain places were done away with and replaced with similarly themed zones areas. There was an abandoned camp with a crashed helicopter, a waterfall where wet games could take place, a tomb where one player would have to traverse obstacles within whilst their teammates helped from outside by holding aids such as beams or ropes. The games were played in different themed areas of the rather large jungle set. 'Megamonkey', it just sounds right doesn't it? in Each episode there would be one instance where, in place of a banana/silver statue, there’d be a golden banana/ruby statue which was worth 50 bananas/20 seconds instead of the regular 10. The more MacGuffins they collected from these games, the more time they would have inside the Temple of the Jungle King to try and win prizes. Here he is as more may remember him, throwing custard at childrenįor Wood's series, it was bananas that were collected, later it was silver monkey statues.
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Jungle Run invited a team of three kids to play a few games in a series of themed areas to collect as many MacGuffins as they can to have as much time as possible in the final game where they could win something. Starting 20 years ago this week (see, there is some planning goes into these posts, it's honestly not a complete coincidence brought to my attention on Twitter) in 1999 and initially hosted by Dominic Wood. In what could easily be classified as the Jacques Antoine genre (play some games to dictate how easy the end game will be), CITV dipped their toe with ‘Jungle Run’.
Consider this a customary nut allergy warning. Warning: The following contains mentions of Keith Chegwin in a state of undress towards the end.