Full House

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Not to be confused with the 1980s American sitcom of the same name (or the 1970s British arts series from BBC2), this Thames Television production was a kids’ quiz show created and hosted by Peter Wheeler, who had already hosted Criss Cross Quiz (and Junior Criss Cross Quiz) and Call My Bluff.

The show mixed trivial knowledge with visual gameplay, and the ultimate goal of the quiz was to “build” a house.

Correct answers allowed contestants to win individual segments of a model house – walls, door, windows, roof and chimney – that lit up section-by-section on the studio set

The first contestant to completely illuminate and complete their structure won a “Full House”.

Peter Wheeler died on 18 May 2010.

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Peter Wheeler