British Comedy Guide

Families At War

  • TV comedy
  • BBC One
  • 1998 - 1999
  • 9 episodes (1 series)

Comedy game show from Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, pitting families with bizarre skills against each other. Also features Alice Beer.

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Key details

Genre
Comedy
Broadcast
1998 - 1999
Channel
BBC One
Episodes
9 (1 pilot + 1 series)
Stars
Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer and Alice Beer
Writers
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer
Director
John L Spencer
Producers
Lisa Clark, Alan Marke and Jon Plowman
Company

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer present a game show featuring a series of unique and downright bizarre challenges carried out by two opposing family teams. The action is overseen by Watchdog's Alice Beer.

The families face off in three rounds in which they demonstrate various skills. After each round, the 12 members of the jury vote on which family has won. After those three rounds, the family with the most votes plays the final game, The Cubiscus, in which their team captain - either Vic or Bob - is dressed like a spider and strapped to a harness, where their family controls their movement and they collect the prizes perched on the podiums inside the cube.

If, during the rounds, the team captain of the opposing team wears a challenge garment, then they can give that family member an extra challenge to do. The challenge garment can only be worn once by each team captain in each episode.

Additional details

Production
Studio
Picture
Colour
Soundtrack
Music by Pete Baikie.

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Saturday 29th August 1998 at 8:15pm on BBC One

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