The Money Programme [SEP] original network
The Money Programme
The Money Programme is a finance and business affairs television programme on BBC Two which ran between April 1966 and November 2010.
It was first broadcast on 5 April 1966 and presented by "commentators" (financial journalists) William Davis, Erskine B. Childers and Joe Roeber. At this time David Attenborough was the controller of BBC2. The programme has a memorable theme tune, a version of the main title theme from "The Carpetbaggers" film by Lalo Schifrin (which appeared on an album by jazz organist
ITV network - having effectively replaced "Now You See It" as STV's prime time game show offering for the ITV network. It mostly follows the same general format from the original version of the programme from the United States, with a few minor differences.
Gameplay.
Unlike the American version, where the numbers on the wheel correspond to the amount of money won by each contestant, the British version instead referred to these amounts as 'points' – they had no cash value, their only purpose was to