Pop The Question

1 9 8 5 – 1 9 8 6 (UK)
30 minute episodes

Created and produced by Jeremy Beadle (with a friend named Phil Swern), Pop The Question was a music nostalgia quiz produced by TVS and hosted by Lee Peck with Chris Tarrant and David Hamilton as resident team captains, presiding over teams of celebrities.

Celebrity guests included Suzi Quatro, Freddie Garrity, Dave Dee, Hazel O’Connor, Lyn Paul, Alvin Stardust, Madeline Bell, Neil Innes, Dave Lee Travis, Anne Nightingale, Graham Gouldman, Keith Chegwin, Bobby Davro, Duggie Brown, Anneka Rice, Barbara Dickson, Peter Stringfellow, Gemma Craven, Ken Bruce and Bob Carolgees.

Debuting on 12 April 1985, the Tuesday evening Channel 4 show was essentially a pop music version of the card game ‘Concentration’, where players were given cards and tried to match them into pairs while answering questions on pop music from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Host
Lee Peck
Team captains
Chris Tarrant
David Hamilton