Box Clever

Box Clever was a television game show from the United Kingdom which was presented, by Emlyn Hughes. The programme was part of the new new daytime service, by BBC Television, and was broadcast on Friday afternoons, at 3.25pm. The programme lasted for just one series. The programme lasted for just one series, which aired from October 1986 to May 1987.[1]

For the appliance chain, see boxclever.

Box Clever
GenreGame show
Presented byEmlyn Hughes
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Release
Original networkBBC One
Original release31 October 1986 (1986-10-31) –
8 May 1987 (1987-05-08)

Format

Two families, consisting of three family members, played any strategic board game, with the moves dependent on correct answers, to one wide variety of questions, put by Dr. Sue Kingsman, of Trinity College, Oxford. The winners, of the board game, go on to play one computer game, for prizes.[2] The prize consisted of record and book tokens, and the winning family then took on a new family, until they were beaten.

The series was won by The Chiappino Family, from Southampton, and as there was never any second series commissioned, are the reigning champions, since May 1987. Mark, the youngest Chiappino, is now a regular on BBC One's Claimed and Shamed. [3]

References
  1. "Box Clever". tvcream.co.uk. 6 May 2009. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  2. "BBC One London (31 October 1986)". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 31 October 1986. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  3. "The first edition of Box Clever, which includes the full description, of the format of the quiz". youtube.com. 2 November 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2020.


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