#Family fortunes theme tune series#

From the 1988 series the prize was stabilised at Р’Р€3,000. In the 1987 series, it would start at Р’Р€1,000, and if not won rise by Р’Р€1,000 per week to a maximum of Р’Р€3,000. Once won it would always revert back to Р’Р€1,000 for the next edition. From the second series ( 1981), the prize would start at Р’Р€1,000 then rise by Р’Р€500 weekly if it was not won, to a limit of Р’Р€2,500 (Р’Р€3,000 from 1982, which it could stay at for more than one week if it still wasn't won).

The top cash prize in 'Big Money' in the first series ( 1980) was Р’Р€1,000. If all five top answers were found without the 200+ points the star prize would not be won. From 1994 onwards a bonus star prize was available if all five top answers were found, but this could only be won if the contestants reached 200+ points and won the top cash prize. at least 200 people had agreed with all ten answers combined) they would win the top cash prize. If they got 200 points or more from the ten answers (i.e. The first contestant would give his/her answers to the five questions within 15 seconds then the second contestant (who had been out of earshot of the first) would give his or her answers within 20 seconds (the extra time was available for the contestant to give another answer if he/she duplicated an answer given by the previous contestant). This involved two contestants (out of the five in the family team) answering five questions that fitted with those given by the '100 people surveyed', with the questions asked within a narrow time limit. The family who passes 200 hundred points first would go on to play 'Big Money' (known in other versions as 'Fast Money') for the jackpot. Gameplay would be the same as the first rounds, but the money won would be double the precise equivalent of how many people had given the answers (Р’Р€1 = Р’Р€2, Р’Р€2 = Р’Р€4 etc.), and there would be fewer possible answers. If this answer was among those given by the '100 people surveyed', the other family would 'steal' the money if not, the family who had given the three incorrect answers would win the money anyway.Р”Р‡ollowing three rounds prior to the commercial break, 'Double Money' is played. If they came up with three strikes, the other family would have the chance to come up with one answer that might be among the missing answers. Every time someone did not give an answer that was on the board, the family would receive a 'strike', accompanied by a large 'X' on the board with the infamous 'uh-uhh' sound. If a family managed to come up with all the answers given by the '100 people surveyed' (most commonly six in the early part of the show, reduced in number after the commercial break), they would win the pounds equivalent of the total number of people who had given the answers. For each question, a different member of each family would come forward to give the first answer, and the family of the contestant who pressed the buzzer quickest would have the right to guess first, and the Family whose member gave the highest answer would have the options to 'play' try and find and all the answers or 'pass' giving the other family the opportunity to find the answers (they would usually play). 'we asked 100 people to name something associated with the country Wales' or 'we asked 100 people to name something you'd associate with the Royal Family'). Two family teams, each with five members, would guess what '100 people surveyed' had said in response to a question (e.g. The revived version for 2006 is hosted by Vernon Kay. Dennis left in 2002, then it was moved out of peak time and became a daily daytime show, hosted by Andy Collins, but it only had a short run in this format before being axed. After being rested for the whole of 1986 (during which time Bygraves offered to finance its production himself) it returned with Les Dennis in 1987, and had a consistently successful run for the next fifteen years. It was hosted by the popular Bob Monkhouse (1980РІР‚вЂњ1983) and then from 1983 to 1985 by Max Bygraves, who received some criticism for his hosting of the show.