Winner Takes All (game Show)
Winner Takes All was a popular game show that was produced by Yorkshire Television and ran for 13 years on the ITV network from 1975 until 1988 but returned in 1997 on the cable and satellite channel Challenge.
The original host of Winner Takes All was comedian Jimmy Tarbuck, who hosted the show from 1975 until 1986. For series 13 and 14, Geoffrey Wheeler replaced Jimmy Tarbuck as the host and the show went into a 5-day a week daytime show (twice a week for the 1987 series). Geoffrey also devised the format for Winner Takes All and was the voiceover reading the questions in the Jimmy Tarbuck era. The Challenge version (Series 15) was hosted by Bobby Davro with Calendar news journalist Gaynor Barnes as the voiceover reading the questions and was produced by Yorkshire Television for Challenge.
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