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The Very Best Of It's A Knockout - Here Come The Belgians | 
 enlarge | Actors: Arthur Ellis (ii), Stuart Hall (ii), Eddie Waring
Studio: BBC Video
Category: Video
Buy New: £34.90
New (3) Used (5) Collectible (1) from £12.99
Rating:  8 reviews
Format: Pal
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 61 Minutes
EAN: 5014503705626
ASIN: B00004WZZS
Release Date: October 2, 2000
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: This Video is in Mint Condition & Still Sealed, Running Time 61 Minutes.
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If you don't laugh at this............ February 15, 2005
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This video is fantastic. I bought it as a joke for someone. We both sat and watched it and had to turn it off after 20 minutes. I could not hardly breathe from laughing and he had a pain in his chest from being in hysterics. I have since introduced it to another of my friends and just the thought of the 12 Labours of Hercules sends us both into hysterics. The hydra in particular is one of our favourites. I can watch it over and over again and still be in stitches. The russian dolls are also fantastic viewing especially when they fall over and the spindley legs of one contestant can be seen frantically trying to regain their balance and stand upright- priceless. Is there a DVD with even more clips?
Haah Haah Haahhh.......Knockout ! October 10, 2000
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Stuart Hall introduces clips of the classic TV gameshow in 60 of the funniest minutes ever committed to video. While mention is made of It's A Knockout, this video focuses primarily on the Eurovision spectacular Jeux Sans Frontiers. The fantastic sets, the costumes, the teams are all included here - the giant ostriches, penguins, the aloof Germans, underhand Italians, plucky Brits and hopeless Belgians - nights from the annals of TV legend. No compilation would be complete of course without Stuart Hall's riotous laughter and this tape has it by the bucketload. Stuart spends around a third of the tape screaming in hysterics - I defy anyone watching not to join in with him. In the week that Jeux Sans Frontiers is finally consigned to Euro-history, this video is a timely reminder of just how funny Friday night TV used to be. Buy it.
(Stuart) Hall of Fame! August 9, 2003
The Galloping Major (UK)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
If you remember 'It's a Knockout' with the warm glow that I do, then this video is a must. Although it only stretches to 61 minutes, it bursts with bonhomie and is delightfully 'linked' by the irrepressible Stuart Hall - early successor to David Vine as chief presenter - who obviously looks back on those times with great affection. It mainly focusses on the international Jeux sans Frontiers heats, and features glimpses of bright blazered referees together with our own beloved Eddie Waring and Arthur Ellis. Have you forgotten the Fil Rouge, and the show that single handedly kept the European Foam Industry in full production for more than a decade? Odd to think that a show that pulled in enormous audiences for years and acually engendered links between towns all over Europe was thrown out thoughtlessly by the BBC. My kids loved it and wanted to see more...ah well, 61 minutes is better than nothing! Delightful!
Funniest Video Ever February 17, 2003
Dave (Musselburgh, Scotland)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
There's not much I can add to the previous review except to say that I can't recall ever seeing a video that had me on the floor helpless the way this one did. I'd forgotten just how brilliantly imaginative the costumes and games were - the Frankenstein monsters, the giant gorillas, and of course the penguins, a clip that should be prescribed by doctors everywhere for their manic depressive patients. Anyone watching this scene with a straight face while listening to presenter Stuart Hall totally incoherent with laughter is truly a lost cause. Stuart is the true star of the show with his unfeigned, childish delight at the mayhem taking place. A contestant just has to appear dressed as a giant ostrich with a ridiculous, fixed expression and he's on his back laughing.All in all a reminder of a more innocent time when ordinary people queued up to willingly humiliate themselves in front of Europe-wide TV audiences. It really didn't matter who won. If you only buy one tape this year then make it this one.
Cult TV Classic October 26, 2004
Mark Napier (Stafford, Staffs United Kingdom)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
With the greatest of respect to Keith Chegwin and Frank Bruno who tried to reincarnate "Knockout" in the 90's it is impossible to emulate Stuart Hall,Eddie Waring and Arthur Ellis.I particularly looked forward to coming home from school,quickly doing my homework,having my tea and then a bath before settling down to the battle of European competition against the Germans,Belgians,French and so on.Many thanks to the aforementioned icons of British TV for leaving me with lasting memories I can now relive on this video.
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