Somerset
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Episode 7.11
27 April 1989
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| Contestants |
Angela Stabler, housewife, and her husband Noel, employee
of Department of Health and Social Security; both from York |
| Hint to the Treasure |
A teatime fancy |
| Clue 1 |
Take a fleeting look at a place for kites and super sound,
tie in with the old Stringbag, and identify its Sunday newspaper.
1 |
| Leads to |
Fleet Air Arm Museum,
Yeovilton – with observer of Swordfish biplane |
| Clue 2 |
Ham give fillip to Phelips here. See how the babysitter got
plastered beyond the screen, and note the visiting hautboy.
2 |
| Leads to |
Montacute House –
with oboe-player in orchestra |
| Clue 3 |
In a house entrusted to Mr Tate’s partner, find Stuart’s £7,000
knight. |
| Leads to |
Barrington Court –
with ‘knight’ in suit of armour |
| Clue 4 |
Where a capital drink of pears makes cider, roll out the barrel
– and there’s the trap! |
| Leads to |
Dowlish Wake –
Annabel takes part in cider barrel rolling race and finds the clue on a trap |
| Clue 5 |
Summer sport and a doubting saint will reveal Millie on the
trunk road. 3 |
| Leads to |
Cricket St Thomas –
with ‘Millie’ the elephant |
| Result |
The contestants won the treasure with just 1 second to spare.
4 |
| Notes |
| 1 |
Just before the first clue is read out, a Swordfish biplane
flies overhead. On the way to the Fleet Air Arm Museum one of the plane’s occupants
flashes a Morse code message that translates as “follow me”! After landing at
Yeovilton, Annabel has to go to the plane’s observer who has the clue. |
| 2 |
‘Hautboy’ is an archaic spelling of ‘oboe’. |
| 3 |
Cricket St Thomas was used as the setting for the BBC TV series
‘To the Manor Born’. |
| 4 |
This was the closest win in the history of Treasure Hunt. |
Information © David Hodges, 2003, with corrections by Martin Underwood, 2010
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2014
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