Blockbusters (UK Game Show) - Other Countries (outside The UK and The USA)

Other Countries (outside The UK and The USA)

• Australia – The Australian version of Blockbusters was broadcast on the Seven Network, where players from two schools competed over the course of a week (five episodes), in a rolling format — where games could be started in the middle of an episode, and stopped and continued on the next episode. The school team earning the most points (based on questions answered from the main game, except tie-breaks) won a major prize for their school, such as an encyclopedia. The show was hosted by Michael Pope. It ran in Australia from 1990 to 1993. Two students from each school played in each match, like the 1987 NBC edition, the shorter path alternated between the teams in the first two games, and a 4x4 tie-break gameboard was used in the event of the first two games in a match being split between the two teams. Five points were earned towards the school team's weekly total for each question correctly answered, with no points scored during tie-breaks (nor for Gold Runs). The Gold Run questions had two-word answers, as opposed to varying numbers of words, with a successful run resulting in a small prize for that player and his team-mate. As there was no consolation prize for each question in a failed Gold Run, the game would be terminated early if the board became completely blocked from black spaces.
• Germany – A German version called SuperGrips(Super Grips). aired from 1988 to 1995, first on the BR network, then on the Dritten Network for the rest of the run. Frank Laufenberg was the show's original host; he was later replaced by Ingo Dubinski.
• Italy – Italian version was broadcast called Doppio Slalom(Double/Dual Slalom)aired on TV5 from 1985 to 1990, hosted by Corrado Tedeschi then Paolo Bonolis in 1990 only.
• Israel – Hebrew and Arabic language versions have been made for Israel.
• Sweden – SVT in Sweden had their own version very similar to the UK one. 2 mot 1(2 to 1) was a weekly afternoon programme forming part of SVT's youth output. The programme was produced in Malmö and hosted by Stellan Sundahl until he died from a heart attack in 1999.
• Turkey - The Turkish version called Haydi Bastir (Let's Print) aired on Show TV from 1992-1993.
• United Arab Emirates – BlockBusters (the UK edition) was such a sensation with the entire English speaking expatriate community in Dubai, U.A.E, that the city nearly came to a shut-down during its evenings broadcast on Channel 33. Although, there was no separate local TV version, the local paper, Gulf News, began to run a yearly Blockbuster quiz competition often hosted by Bob Holness himself, between 1988 and 1994. The Gulf News Blockbusters show was telecast on Dubai TV too and was broadcast as a month long event, with the heats during Ramadan and the finals after Eid. After a 14-year long hiatus, the contest was revived in 2008 as part of the newspaper's 30th anniversary celebrations. It was also held in 2009 where the team "Anonymoys +3" whose members included Rahul Menon and Aayush Rajasekaran of The Indian High School, Dubai stood first place. This marked the second year that a team from the Indian High School defeated one from long-time rivals Modern High School to claim the first place.

Other foreign versions of Blockbusters have also aired in: France, Holland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore.