USA – Florida
USA – Florida |
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Episode 4.1
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| Contestants | Betty Russell, secretary, her husband David, physics teacher, and their sons Brian (17) and Neil (13); all from Scotland 1 |
| Hint to the Treasure | Snap! |
| Start Position | Cypress Gardens |
| Clue 1 | Could it be Piccadilly, north-west of Tom Sawyer’s friend’s island? Get on the first two syllables of a sort of quadrilateral, Annie, and you too can Be A Star. 2 |
| Solved by | Betty and David |
| Leads to | Circus World – on trapeze at the ‘Be A Star’ circus |
| Clue 2 | Make a beeline for the world of Jonah and Jaws. See where Captain Ahab’s adversary meets flippery new friends, and get in touch with Starbuck. 3 |
| Solved by | Brian and Neil |
| Leads to | Sea World – with the trainer of Starbuck the dolphin |
| Clue 3 | Go up Reedy Creek; by the railroad depot meet a lad who outwitted a pirate; check what Piglet gave Eeyore for his birthday, pick Manchester United’s colour and pop the question! 4 |
| Solved by | David and Neil |
| Leads to | Disney World – in red Mickey Mouse balloon in Reedy Creek |
| Clue 4 | Depart on a douser for the world of Charles Perrault and a rendezvous with the star of Steamboat Willie. 5 |
| Solved by | Betty and Brian |
| Leads to | Disney World – with Mickey Mouse at Cinderella’s Castle, Magic Kingdom |
| Re-position to | The Epcot Centre |
| Clue 5 | South of a geodesic dome, go Varney-style past hints of Montezuma and St Mark. Stop short of the torii to challenge a colonial doll. 6 |
| Solved by | The whole family |
| Leads to | Disney World – with ‘colonial dolls’ near the Gateway of Japan, Epcot |
| Result | The contestants ran out of time on the final clue. |
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| ● | This was a special Christmas episode to mark the start of the new series. |
| ● | As usual, the cameraman was Graham Berry and the video engineer was Frank Meyburgh, but the helicopter was flown by Frank Wynn (instead of Keith Thompson). |
| 1 | Instead of the usual two contestants, a father, mother and their two sons played. Different family members solved different clues. |
| 2 | Circus World, north-west of Finn’s Island (Huckleberry Finn was Tom Sawyer’s friend) and the trapeze (trap-ez-i-um is a type of quadrilateral) at the Be A Star Circus. A terrified Annie has to swing on a trapeze before finding the clue on the safety rope. |
| 3 | Using the Beeline Express (a type of golf buggy driven by a mime artist/clown) Annie goes to Sea World. At the whale and dolphin stadium, she shake hands with Starbuck the dolphin. Starbuck’s trainer has the clue up the left-hand sleeve of his wet suit. |
| 4 | Annie travels up Reedy Creek in Walt Disney World by the railroad depot. She finds Peter Pan’s Magic Kingdom, then pops all of the red (Manchester United’s colour) balloons. One of them contains the clue. |
| 5 | Annie travels on a fire engine to Cinderella’s Castle. She meets Mickey Mouse (star of the cartoon ‘Steamboat Willie’) outside the castle, and he has the clue inside his waistcoat. |
| 6 | Annie rides on an old London bus (Reg Varney from ‘On the Buses’), and passes the areas designed to represent Mexico and St Mark’s Square in Venice, stopping short of the Japanese Shinto Temple Gate. The American Adventure is before this temple, and the treasure is a crocodile (snap) held by two men in 18th century colonial costume. |
Information © David Hodges, 2003, with corrections by Martin Underwood, 2011
Page design © Martin Underwood, 2011
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