Mad for It
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Mad for It | |
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Genre | Game show |
Presented by | Mike McClean (1998-99) Danielle Nicholls (2000) Nigel Mitchell (2000) |
Opening theme | "Harmonica Man" by Bravado |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 39 |
Production | |
Production location | Carlton Studios[1] |
Running time | 25 minutes |
Production company | Carlton Television |
Distributor | ITV Studios |
Release | |
Original network | ITV |
Picture format | 4:3 |
Original release | 2 September 1998 31 March 2000 | –
Mad for It was a British game show for children which was produced by Carlton Television broadcast on ITV from 2 September 1998 to 31 March 2000. Series 1 was hosted by former Nickelodeon presenters Mike McClean and . Series 2 was hosted by Mike McClean, Danielle Nicholls, and Nigel Mitchell. There was also a regular character called Pie Boy, played by Alex Verrey, who would go around hitting random people in the studio with flans in a manner like The Phantom Flan Flinger from Tiswas.
Games in the show[]
Games included were.
- Stars Up Their Noses: Contestants are given 30 seconds to show their talent. The name of the game is derived from impersonation talent show Stars in Their Eyes. This competition was won at the end of the second series, by the then fifteen-year-old Katie Melua.
- Box Clever: Contestants answer questions and pick a prize from a box if correct.
- That's My Pet: Contestants need to guess which is their pet amongst several similar looking animals.
Much beloved of children's television, a frequent feature of Mad For It was "gunge", a green slimy goo which was regularly poured onto losing contestants and occasionally on the hosts themselves. Those who lost the games were sent to a "Dungeon of Gunge" – an enclosure directly beneath a large nose, which expelled gunge onto the hapless prisoners. In the last episode, the tables were turned and the pie boy ended up getting shoved in the dungeon.
The most notable contestant on "Mad For It" was Katie Melua, who appeared on the show when she was fifteen. She won the "Stars Up Their Noses" game after singing "Without You" by Badfinger. If she had lost the challenge, she would have been gunged.
Transmissions[]
Series | Start date | End date | Episodes |
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1 | 2 September 1998 | 10 March 1999 | 26 |
2 | 7 January 2000 | 31 March 2000 | 13 |
References[]
- ^ "Ex-ITV Regional Studios". TV Studio History. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
External links[]
- Mad for It at IMDb
- Mad for It at the British Film Institute
- Mad for It at UKGameshows.com
- 1998 British television series debuts
- 2000 British television series endings
- 1990s British children's television series
- 2000s British children's television series
- 1990s British game shows
- 2000s British game shows
- British children's game shows
- Carlton Television
- English-language television shows
- ITV children's television shows
- ITV game shows
- Television series by ITV Studios
- Television series featuring gunge