Malta
Episode 2.10
8 March 1984
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Malta |
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Episode 2.10 |
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| Contestants | John Humpston and work colleague Brian Taylor, local authority architects from Matlock. |
| Description of the Treasure | A silver Maltese Cross brooch |
| Start Position | Valletta – dockyard creek |
| Clue 1 | Get to the point with a corposant link, look behind Abercrombie’s Curtain for relics of war, and see what Faith can do for you. 1 |
| Leads to | Valletta – on Gloster Gladiator aircraft in war museum |
| Clue 2 | Under a hemispherical cover – the largest you can find – seek out the alien visitor that dropped in. 2, 3 |
| Leads to | Mosta dome – on WW2 bomb in sacristy |
| Clue 3 | At a Roman capital, via a Greek gate, to a Norman House with an Adam alcove that is behind the times. 4 |
| Leads to | Mdina – under painting in Alcove Room in Norman House |
| Clue 4 | Initially an HQ for early man: subsequently – beside a mushroom altar – take advice from a fat lady. 5, 6 |
| Leads to | Hagar Qim Temple – in small statue of a ‘fat lady’ in mushroom altar |
| Clue 5 | Go luzzu style to spelean splendours in the shade of Peter’s flag. Ask for Filfla and jump to it! |
| Leads to | Blue Grotto cave 7 |
| Result | The contestants ran out of time on the final clue |
| Notes | |
| ● | As usual, the cameraman was Graham Berry, but the video engineer was Serge Beaupere (instead of Frank Meyburgh) and the local helicopter was flown by Captain Joe Smith (instead of Keith Thompson). |
| 1 | Faith, Hope and Charity were three Gloster Gladiator aircraft. |
| 2 | There were serious communications difficulties on the way to Mosta. Kenneth commented, “I’m afraid she could be talking more or less Chinese”. |
| 3 | The helicopter lands on the outskirts of Mosta, and Annie and the crew get a lift to the dome on the back of a pickup truck. The bomb (‘alien visitor’) fell through the dome but failed to explode. |
| 4 | Annie enters the walled city of Mdina, the ancient capital of Malta, via the Greek Gate and runs through the maze of narrow streets to the Norman House. |
| 5 | Just outside Mdina, locals try to direct Annie to a nearby mushroom factory when she asks for directions. |
| 6 | On the way to Hagar Qim, the Maltese Jetranger makes a spectacular low-level dash just above the sea alongside dramatic cliffs. |
| 7 | Had she had time, Annie would have ridden around the coast in a ‘luzzu’ (a Maltese fishing boat) to the Blue Grotto caves, where she would have found a Maltese Cross brooch on a rock. |
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