Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

Talking Telephone Numbers (1994)

Talking Telephone Numbers poster
Genre
game show
Country
United Kingdom
Length
4 seasons, 59 episodes
Rating
7.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This game show features variety acts to create random numbers. Viewers could win money if the generated numbers matched the last digits of their phone number.

lightheartedupbeatsimplenostalgicfast-pacedfuninteractive

What happens

Talking Telephone Numbers was a British game show that aired on ITV from 28 February 1994 to 29 December 1997 and was hosted by Phillip Schofield and initially Emma Forbes, who was later replaced by Claudia Winkleman. The show's format featured variety acts which were used to generate numbers. Viewers had the chance to win up to £25,000 if the five random numbers generated during the program matched the last five digits of their telephone number in any order. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?