Northumberland
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Episode 5.11
23 April 1987
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| Contestants |
Julie Dabell, soft furnishing company owner, and her husband
Simon, theme park manager; both from the Isle of Wight |
| Hint to the Treasure |
A bird’s eye view |
| Clue 1 |
Home for Hotspur, with a lantern-lit hearth up in the donjon
beyond the Grey Mare’s Tail. |
| Leads to |
Warkworth Castle –
in the hearth in the Great Hall |
| Clue 2 |
Where the tenants said merci to Percy, there’s a fair chance
Annie’s in the market for a punishing time – awaiting her sentence! |
| Leads to |
Alnwick –
in the stocks in a ‘medieval fair’ in the market square |
| Clue 3 |
Go Wee Willie Winkie-like to the site of de Vesci’s motte, and
study, pianissimo, the Venetian view of the situation. |
| Leads to |
Alnwick Castle –
behind Canaletto’s painting of the castle in the Music Room |
| Clue 4 |
East of the teatime Earl’s home, and after discovering the
Show Boat man, test the waves for a message from the crew. |
| Leads to |
North Sea, off Rumbling Kern –
Annie jumps out of her helicopter and is rescued by an RAF Sea King air-sea rescue helicopter where a crew member has the clue 1 |
| Clue 5 |
Gaunt remains ahead, fishy preparations below. Where’s the
Spirit of Adventure? Hang on, your wires are crossed! |
| Leads to |
Craster –
a toy seagull on a rope-crossing in the ‘Spirit of Adventure’ outward-bound centre 2 |
| Result |
The contestants ran out of time on the final clue |
| Notes |
| 1 |
When Annie returns to the helicopter at the end of the Alnwick Castle clue, Keith hands her a life jacket
and makes her put it on. When she reaches Rumbling Kern, a rock on the coast, she sees a yellow Sea King air-sea rescue
helicopter. Keith descends to within a few feet of sea and Annie jumps in, after handing the runner pack to Frankie who
describes what happens. Once the helicopter has rescued Annie and winched her up, she puts on a new runner pack and is able
to communicate with the studio again. |
| 2 |
The Sea King helicopter takes Annie to Craster, with Graham filming her from the Skyrunner helicopter.
She was going to be winched down to a zipwire which crossed an inlet in the cliffs at Hole o’ the Dike just south of
Craster, but ran out of time. |
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