Crazy Cottage
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Crazy Cottage was a children's game show created by Paul Zenon, broadcast on ITV from 1996 to 1999. It was first presented by Rick Adams, followed by Jez Edwards with a puppet cuckoo called Vera. The gimmick of the show was that most things had to be performed backwards.
The show started with the presenter saying "goodbye", then starting the games at Round 5. One of the rounds involved a series of actions that had to be performed in a certain order, so that when it was played back in reverse, it matched what they were asked to do. Another round was a kitchen set up on a slope, but appeared to the viewers as a normal room. Another game was you stood in the shower (which was a gunge tank) and was answered questions if you got it wrong you were gunged. At the end of the game the video was played in reverse so it looked like the gunge was flying off them and they were clean
At the end of the programme, the winning team (who had the fewest points) won a prize, such as a trip to Alton Towers. The losing team (with the most points) would win a backwards invention, for example, a black lightbulb.
[edit] Vera the cuckoo
vera the cuckoo was the cuckoo on crazy cottage
[edit] External links
- UKGameshows.com: Crazy Cottage
- [http://www.mrporter.co.uk/misters/whatframe.htm (contains crazy cottage theme tune)
- http://www.mimicsproductions.com/PuppetDetails.asp?ID=105
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