A running joke told of the relationship between Mumsy and Ralph the Butler, who we never got to see. There is a thick metal grid mesh placed as a horizontal plane perhaps a metre from the bottom of the Dome, which the contestants stand on, holding onto a handrail lining the inner surface of the Dome. Den of Geek The number of gold and silver tokens collected is counted. The actor who played Rabies, Howard Lew Lewis, did in fact appear in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) as Hal. Prizes initially consisted of adventure days out (like a day of mud-plugging), while contestants chose their gold and silver grade prizes off-set. If a player attempts an automatic lock-in game and fails to perform some specified part of the task, or performs some forbidden action (e.g. It was genuinely satisfying when they got locked in the room as punishment. The pointlessly short Crystal Dome runs. Also on this mesh are lots of gold and silver tokens (625 silver, 500 gold). Help! When it launched in 1990, The Crystal Maze was quite unlike anything the British telly-watching public had seen before - but its mammoth success resulted in a host of unremarkable imitators (and no, we don't mean the Ed Tudor-Pole episodes). The first Children's Special in 1990 was in fact the first programme to be made from the recording for series 2, so it was a chance to see what games were in store for the 1991 series. This is a children’s sitcom with an historical twist, which is not surprising as it was based on a story that happened rather a long time ago, and it became one of the most popular CBBC shows of its era, and rather deservedly so. She is the love interest and later wife of the title character, based on the character from the Robin Hood legend. The ever-popular Crystal Maze finished its live run over 20 years ago but we're still obsessed - not only did we get the "live immersive experience", but now it seems it could be coming back to our actual tellies with none other than David Tennant as the host. This was only shown once when it was on Channel 4. Strange thing, she has a thing about pincushions, and she always makes them in the shape of little people. [DM]. There were lots of memorable moments, including plenty of great songs, and many people consider the episode that was rather similar to The Crystal Maze to be among the highlights. I can't think why. The Crystal Maze was spoofed in an episode of top kids comedy Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. No doubt because of the impending fear of a terrible Crystal Dome run, teams were fairly hesitant at relinquishing their hard-won shiny things. "Try turning the cogs." Zone themes extended beyond their appearance and into the immersive experience: in a nod to modern day Siri, the Futuristic zone required conversing with a talking (and sometimes flirty) computer. All time crystals earned (typically somewhere between four and eight) are worth five seconds worth of collection time each. Also, the ending was very different - in Boyard, gold coins have to be collected whereas British audiences saw contestants leap about for gold tokens in a windy geodesic dome. The show was repeated for a long time after it ended, still being shown on the CBBC Channel as late as 2007, and around this time some of the cast members appeared in the studio to be interviewed about their experience, seemingly hoping that viewers wouldn’t realise that the show had finished over a decade earlier by this point and they now all looked much older. Channel 5 - and later Challenge - produced a British version of the game show, which had Melinda Messenger at the helm, but which attempted to emulate a little of that Crystal Maze madness, hiring Catweazle's Geoffrey Bayldon and later Tom Baker to inject a little eccentricity. At least twice, episodes were dedicated to contestants who had since died. In series 5, another game contained a knight (given the droll name Lance by the production team) played by Dennis Price. ), "Wait a minute!" The show may be gone but it is far from forgotten (how could it be?). He asked you to put together a stamp which, when impressed into some soft clay, would give "the king's seal". CBBC Memories – Maid Marian And Her Merry Men. Though with the obvious and crucial difference that, at the time of writing (summer 2010), it's still open. If the team captain is locked in, then the vice-captain takes over the captain's responsibilities. Joining them were Little Ron (a violent dwarf), Rabies (a large and very stupid peasant) and Barrington (a Rasta, despite Rastafarianism not existing yet). Another way in which Maid Marian And Her Merry Men is a little different to most children’s shows is that it has been well served by its DVD release. The best ever score is ten crystals which, to our knowledge, was scored twice - one team got 128, while the other still didn't manage to get over 100! The only real person we got to see regularly, apart from mein host, was a fortune teller, played by Sandra Caron. They could be released and play a further part in the show, but only if the team sacrificed one of the team's time crystals. | Only much more surreal. Of course, that was nothing compared to what happened to two of the bad guys that episode as the Merry Men had set up a maze specifically designed to get them, "UNDERSTAAAND?!" You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. The other Robin Hood. It was called "Forcefield". Maid Marian is a vixen and the female deuteragonist of Disney's 1973 animated feature film, Robin Hood. Golden balls. So, that's something. Maid Marian And Her Merry Men is a rare example of a children’s sitcom that was sharp and witty enough to have been shown in a later primetime and be enjoyed by older viewers, and there was eventually a repeat run on Gold. Richard O'Brien in the main hall of the Medieval zone. Prince John, technically the leader of the forces of oppression (or "Ye Baddies", as the credits had it), was usually portrayed as an unstable raving lunatic, leaving the actual scheming to his Dragon, the Sheriff of Nottingham. Richard Curtis did uncredited script editing work. In the same episode, the Sheriff also makes references to a "Mrs. Nottingham," but there's no indication anywhere else in the series that he's married or has any sort of family. Amazingly, the 2000 movie version of Dungeons and Dragons featured a maze with similar puzzles, while the protagonists attempted to win a red ruby. After series 1, the 50-point prizes were eliminated - the team either had to score over 100 or go home with nothing more than a lump of glass.