Box Clever
| Box Clever | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Game show |
| Created by | Cecil Miller Patricia Owtram Robert Richardson |
| Presented by | Emlyn Hughes |
| Starring | Dr. Sue Kingsman |
| Theme music composer | Robert Lockhart |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC One |
| Release | 31 October 1986 – 8 May 1987 |
Box Clever is a British game show that aired from 31 October 1986[1] to 8 May 1987[2] and was hosted by Emlyn Hughes.
Format
[edit]Two families consisting of three members played a strategic board game with the moves dependent on correct answers to a wide variety of questions put by Dr. Sue Kingsman of Trinity College, Oxford. The winners then went on to play a computer game for prizes. The prize consisted of record and book tokens, and the winning family then took on new opponents until they were beaten.
Winner
[edit]The programme only aired for a single series, which was won by the Chiappino family from Southampton.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "BOX CLEVER". Getty Images. Retrieved 23 December 2025.
- ↑ "BOX CLEVER". Getty Images. Retrieved 23 December 2025.
- ↑ "The first edition of Box Clever, which includes the full description, of the format of the quiz". youtube.com. 2 November 2020. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2020.