Devon
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Episode 4.7
6 February 1986
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| Contestants |
Antony Davis, graphic designer, and Jonathan Street, fashion shop owner;
both from Leicester |
| Hint to the Treasure |
In the toy shop tradition |
| Clue 1 |
First, the numbers game: 155° magnetic 3.5 miles from
breakwater light and 50° 17' 05" N 4° 6' 35" W. A visit to the home of the
gods is the reward. |
| Leads to |
HMS Olympus –
Keith lands helicopter on deck of surfaced submarine at sea, and the captain has the clue |
| Clue 2 |
Where Spencer Tracy had an adventure and Matheson Lang
played a game, the villain is all clued up for a fight to the finish. |
| Leads to |
Plymouth Hoe –
with one of the actors in a mock fight
at the British Film Year Roadshow |
| Clue 3 |
Search a transpontine county boundary for a sailor’s Egyptian
temple – shades of a desert sea and the western Nile – and anchors aweigh! |
| Leads to |
Cargreen –
on the anchor of a red and white motor launch |
| Clue 4 |
Bedford’s Klondike waterfront has memories of arsenic
and old lace. Ask the harbourmaster’s wife. |
| Leads to |
Morwellham Quay Living Museum –
on drawers of ‘harbourmaster’s wife’ |
| Clue 5 |
Home, monastery-style to the captain who singed the King
of Spain’s beard and a memento that takes some beating. |
| Leads to |
Buckland Abbey – toy drum on Drake’s drum |
| Result |
The contestants won the treasure |
Information © David Hodges, 2003, with corrections by Martin Underwood, 2010
Page design © Martin Underwood,
2014
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