When the 45 seconds are up the host will go through the first player's answers, writing in any points scored in the box to the right of each answer. Any top answer is indicated by two arrows written in the box to the right of the answer. In the closing moments of one end-of-series episode from the late 1990s, Les and the winning family were waving at the camera when Mr. Babbage repeatedly sounded the wrong answer noise whilst flashing the words 'Les Dennis Tonight…'. An understandably confused Les looked round (whilst continuing to wave!) only for Michael Aspel to emerge from the side of the set to explain that the full, uncut sentence was 'Les Dennis, tonight This Is Your Life'. Under the sound of the applause, Les could be just about heard to say 'I'd better not open that, had I?' to which Aspel laughed, 'That's the empty one!' You're giving away trade secrets, man! Veteran light entertainment producer William G. Stewart (now best known as the host of Fifteen-to-One) wasn't happy that "only" 10,000 families applied for his series.

Early Dale Winton obituaries claimed that he had hosted, although we have no evidence of this being the case. When playing a big points round as a single player, that player is given two different sets of five questions. Scoring seven top answers (from the ten questions) acts as the equivalent of two players scoring the five top answers. The single player is given 45 seconds on both sets of five questions. Hamming it up!Carlton in association with Pearson Television for ITV, 25 September 1999 to 30 December 2004 (130 episodes in 4 series + 14 unaired) The team with the lowest total score after the first five rounds will select two of their members to play the first big points round. The same questions are then given to the second player, who has 60 seconds to give their answers. The host presses the '60 second' button, again after the first question has been read out. These answers are written on the other side of the board. If any answer is repeated, the host will say "try again" and the player must give an alternative answer. When the 60 seconds are up, the host will go through the second player's answers in the same way. It's always an excellent service with brilliant products at a very competitive price - will use again!

Based on the long running TV show which began in 1980 and ran until 2002 with a revival in 2006, Family Fortunes is a sensationally addictive game. Entertaining and fun, it provides the most popular answers from a list of humorous questions. a b "Weekly Top 30 Programmes". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board . Retrieved 27 December 2014. If the opposing team then guessed an answer not yet found they won the money (a pound for every person that replied to that answer). If not, any found money went to the first team. If the answer given was not the top answer, the other player has the opportunity to try and give an answer worth more points. If both players fail to give an answer that scores any points, the first player has another go, then the second player and so on. Should both players fail to give a scoring answer after three attempts, a different player from each team takes the position by the buzzers and are given the next question by the host. Play or Pass:Family Fortunes is a British television game show based on the American game show Family Feud. The programme ran on ITV from 6 January 1980 to 30 December 2002. A celebrity version, All Star Family Fortunes, followed from 2006 to 2015. In 2020, the original version of the show returned after 18 years with Gino D'Acampo as host. [3] Central in association with Talbot Television and Goodson-Todman Productions for ITV, 31 December 1982 to 25 June 1999 (329 episodes in 15 series) In an interview some years after he'd finished hosting the show, Les Dennis said that he used to fear for his life when a family won the Big Money game, because they'd be going so wild with delight that they'd almost strangle him when trying to hug him - and the fact that he was often doing his final piece to camera at the time can't have helped much. One would imagine that one of Les's former fellow-gameshow hosts, the late Leslie Crowther, would have sympathised, because some of the latter's contestants on The Price is Right tended to do the same. Oh, and during one of the shows, Les revealed that people used to react to seeing him in the street by calling out, "Uh-uhh!" - very similar to the late Richard Whiteley having the Countdown catch-tune, "Da da da da, da-da-da-da, BOOM!" shouted at him in public places.