Staffordshire
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Episode 6.9
14 April 1988
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| Contestants |
Joan Simpson, school office worker, and friend Sandra
Craig, farmer’s wife; both from County Antrim |
| Hint to the Treasure |
Every dog has its day or two |
| Clue 1 |
A dictionary-doctor’s birthplace reveals a lordly cameraman.
Find his home, and focus on the pedagogy in the stables. |
| Leads to |
Shugborough Hall –
on slate in ‘Victorian Schoolroom’ |
| Clue 2 |
Blithely go to a monkish place where a South American
cape sets the pace, and cross-examine the stag party. |
| Leads to |
Abbots Bromley –
on antlers of participant in Horn Dance |
| Clue 3 |
Dig among the Doveside Romans for Mr Bamford’s earthy
dancers – and get high on a trip to a bucketful. |
| Leads to |
JCB factory, Rocester –
with one of the JCBs in ‘display team’ |
| Clue 4 |
Hit the north-west trail for the Apache State and you’ll
rapidly be going round in circles. Watch out for falls! |
| Leads to |
Alton Towers –
on Grand Canyon Rapids ride 1 |
| Clue 5 |
Upstream, near an echo of Lucky Jim and the Water Babies,
Jeremy Fisher may potter. See what Badger’s drawing, and find another potter’s
craft. |
| Leads to |
Froghall Wharf
– pair of Staffordshire china dogs |
| Result |
The contestants ran out of time on the final clue |
| Notes |
| 1 |
Recording of this episode had to be paused after Frankie’s video recorder
became drenched with water on the Grand Canyon Rapids ride and stopped working. One of the helicopters was
dispatched to RAF Stafford to collect a replacement recorder before filming could resume. Fortunately the
tape that had been recorded up to that point could be salvaged from the soaked video recorder, and hadn’t
welded itself to the spinning video head which would probably have ripped and mangled the tape. |
Information © David Hodges, 2003, with corrections by Martin Underwood, 2010
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2014
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