Bullseye (UK Game Show) - Charity Interlude

Charity Interlude

Immediately at the start of part 2, a professional darts player or other celebrity threw nine darts, with the score converted to money for the charity of the final contestant's choice. A score over 301 was doubled. At the end of the series, (Series 5 onward) the darts player who got the highest score in the series received a 'Bronze Bully' trophy. In the earlier years of the show (up to and including series 4) celebrity players were given a 60 head-start; between then and series 14, the charity segment was exclusive to professional dart players. Celebrity players invariably performed poorly. Such stars would usually offer to 'add some of their own money' to increase the prize fund from, say, 20 pounds, to 80 pounds or so. Officially the highest score is 380, jointly held by John Lowe, Eric Bristow, Bob Anderson, Kevin Painter and Mike Gregory. This discounts a 1984 episode where Alan Evans achieved a score of 401 (180, 180, 41), which was accepted in the episode itself but later not counted for an unknown reason. (One of the darts hitting the treble 20 fell out, the actual score achieved was therefore 60 less). .

Two known outtakes occurred in the Charity interlude: one with Bobby George, where he failed to hear Jim Bowen addressing him (with Bowen quipping to the camera, "He's pissin' deaf!"), and another with Ray Farrell, where Bowen referred to him as being "on the game" (while he obviously meant that Farrell was on the show, it also sounded as if Bowen was labelling Farrell as a male prostitute).