Monday 18th March 2024: Many thanks to Gary Houghton
for granting permission to use his photos of Procida (JSF
1966 Heat 9).
Sunday 17th March 2024: Official game titles added
to IAK 1977
Heat 7 (Crawley).
Tuesday 5th March 2024: Sticking to the IAK Australia
theme on which I ended yesterday's update, today I've added full results
and games titles to
IAK Australia 2011.
Monday 4th March 2024: Today we round off Marko's
researches with the full results for
Bellezze
al Bagno 1993. I'm also grateful to David Laich Ruiz for
supplying results and information about Heat 5 of
Grand Prix 1995. Terrific work from both Mark and David.
Finally, I've also added new information and results to
IAK
Australia 1985 with thanks to Geoff Wilson for making this
possible.
Sunday 3rd March 2024: Full results and audience
figures now added to
Bellezze al Bagno 1991,
Bellezze al Bagno 1992 and
Bellezze sulla Neve 1991 thanks to the diligent research of Marko
Vostan.
Tuesday 27th February 2024: Something added to a
rarely updated section today -
Knockout TV. We've found a
regional ITV
programme from 1995 which included a ten-minute feature
about JSF (see NWA).
Friday 23rd February 2024: Between us, Neil and I
have done a little tweaking to
IAK 1967, particularly with reference
to the Brighton heat.
Thursday 22nd February 2024: Eagle-eyed visitors may
have noticed that several venue photos have been added over the last few
days. These are all from sources which we or friends of JSFnetGB hold the
copyright. If you can help by supplying photographs of venues or events -
and these photographs were taken by you yourself - please send them in and
we've do our best to add them to the site. Thank you.
Also today, a peek at an off-air recording of the
IAK 1981
Dartmouth heat has led me to add a new Additional Information note
concerning the BBC continuity announcement that led into it.
Sunday 18th February 2024: Further fabulous updates
from Neil today, this time to
IAK 1975.
Friday 16th February 2024: The second stop on our
programme of 1975 updates is
CUP FINAL 1975 - thanks to Neil for
all the hard work.
Thursday 8th February 2024: Our 1975 updates begin
today with a celebrity-packed update - yes, Neil Storer has tried to make
sense of the first of those anarchic spin-offs featuring teams drawn from
the worlds of television, film, sport and entertainment -
Celebrity IAK
1975!
Friday 26th January 2024: A series of small but
important updates to
IAK 1973 today, courtesy of Neil.
Sunday 21st January 2024: Thanks are due to Neil
today as he has sent a further update regarding
IAK 1971
Heat 2 at Barrow-in-Furness, which now includes a Games in Detail section.
Not bad for a programme that no longer exists!
Sunday 14th January 2024: Happy New Year to all
visitors and contributors to JSFnetGB. Sadly, 2023 ended in the worst
possible fashion when we learned that Matt Dale had passed away
unexpectedly on Christmas Day. Matt's name might not be familiar to
visitors but Matt worked behind the scenes for more than a decade,
arranging our webspace and acting as technical support - in addition to
being a great friend. His death has been a shock to the system, not least
because he was only in his forties, and such a lovely chap. Rest in peace,
pal. You'll be missed.
Our first update of 2024 concerns a
1971 It's A Knockout,
namely the second heat, held at Barrow-in-Furness. Although the BBC
recording no longer survives, 8mm behind the scenes footage was filmed at
the event and is now available on YouTube. This has permitted Neil Storer
to glean some fresh information about the programme. A couple of new items
from this programme have also been added to
Collectables
1971.
Saturday 23rd December 2023: It's always nice to be
able to add a new page about a previously unknown Knockout-style
programme, and that's what I'm able to do today:
ANYTHING
GOES 1983. This documents the unscreened pilot for the
Anything Goes series of 1984 and 1985. We learned of this programme
only when we found recordings of it in an archive that JSFnetGB is
currently digitising for the owner. Lovely stuff!
Friday 22nd December 2023: A Christmas treat from
Neil and myself! Neil has made a special update to
XMAS 1974,
which rounds off that year of updates at JSFnetGB. As a bonus, I've added
and amended the page about
XMAS 1982 (Quartet/Trio) after an
illuminating conversation with the splendid Geoffrey Wilson, former
It's A Knockout producer. We hope to be able to further update this
page soon. Finally, as a Christmas gift for all visitors, we're
reinstating our PDFs, now relaunched as
Ephemera (comprising Souvenir
Programmes and other digitised paper collectibles), which can be found in the left
column under 'Fil Rouge'. Includes newly added Souvenir Programme for IAK
1975 Heat 2 from Swansea! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from
JSFnetGB!
Thursday 21st December 2023:
JSF 1974 Heat 7 and the International
Final have now been updated
to incorporate Neil's new information, completing the current updates to
that page. We've also been able to add full team details for
IAK 1975
Heat 2 (Caerleon / Caerphilly / Swansea), with the Swansea team names also
added to JSF 1975
Heat 2 / International Final.
Thursday 7th December 2023:
JSF 1974 Heats 5 and 6 have now been updated
to incorporate Neil's new information.
Wednesday 6th December 2023:
JSF 1974 Heat 4 has now been updated
courtesy of Neil's fabulous research.
Monday 27th November 2023: Apologies for the lack
of updates and the unexpected move for the site which was sadly
unavoidable. As some regular visitors know, I received a copyright
licensing demand for an image used on this website. After some
investigation, I decided that I would have to pay for this retrospective
licence, even though the company concerned conveniently overlooked the
non-profit making nature of JSFnetGB and ended up benefitting from a naive
misuse of a single image to the tune of £440. I am grateful to the
regulars who chipped in and helped ensure that JSFnetGB could continue at
a new address (a fresh start was vital to ensure that a similar claim did
not follow). The site is now pretty much image-free, which of course is a
huge shame. The alternative though was for the site to be taken down
entirely - as was the solution arrived at for three of my other sites. All
the time, effort and love that I and others have put into this and those
sites and it's all ruined by corporate moneygrabbers who could have
instead simply issued a 'cease and desist' notice which I would have
speedily acted upon. Enough said.
The first major update at JSFnetGB since the move is to
update IAK 1974,
SOG
1974 and
JSF 1974, all of which have
benefitted from Neil Storer's fabulous researches. For the moment, the JSF
updates are limited to Heats 1-3, though more will follow very soon.
Thursday 28th September 2023: Better late than
never, Grand
Prix 2023 has finally been updated, several weeks late, to
include details of the second Semi-Final and the Final, which were
screened on Spanish television on and 28th August and 4th September
respectively. The lateness of this update should not reflect on the
sterling efforts of David Laich Ruiz, who delivered the information for
adding to JSFnetGB exceptionally promptly. The fault is entirely mine. The
news is good regarding Grand Prix, which pleasingly has already
been greenlit for a summer 2024 return.
Wednesday 27th September 2023: Knockout TV has been
updated for the first time since 2018 today, to add information about
It's A Royal
Knockout: The Untold Story, which was broadcast on
Channel 5 last weekend and is available to view on My5.
Tuesday 12th September 2023: Due to personal
circumstances, the coverage of the
2023 series
of Grand Prix del Verano has fallen behind schedule, for
which I apologise, particularly to David Laich Ruiz, who has diligently
provided the information the day after each of the semi-finals and final
transmissions. The first semi-final has been processed today and the other
information should be added shortly.
Wednesday 16th August 2023: Monday's fourth heat of
the
2023 series
of Grand Prix del Verano has been added today, with copious
thanks to David Laich Ruiz. David has also supplied some further general
information about the series and this has been added to the
Series Guide 2023
introduction.
Monday 14th August 2023: Several days later than
intended, and through no fault of David Laich Ruiz who delivered the
information last Tuesday, our coverage of the
2023 series
of Grand Prix del Verano continues today with details of the
third heat. I've also added a
1968 Jeux Sans Frontières press item.
Thursday 3rd August 2023: The second part of our
update regarding the Dunbar team has been added tonight, comprising an
Associated Events note, a Comment on Game 1 - 'The Spanish Bull' - and
four photographs - please see JSF 1969 Heat 4 at Martigny. Our thanks to
Dunbar History
once again.
Tuesday 1st August 2023: Our coverage of the new,
2023 series
of Grand Prix del Verano continues today with information
about the second heat which was transmitted in Spain last night. Thanks to
David Laich Ruiz for the details!
Friday 28th July 2023: Neil Storer has very kindly
supplied several promotional items for our
Collectables section.
Specifically, they are: a
promotional beermat from Radevormwald 1970,
the same
for Lingen an der Ems 1971,
another for
Leck 1971, an
Italian car sticker from Lincoln 1978,
entrance
tickets for It's A Knockout 1979 at Castletown, a
commemorative
competitors' plaque from Xmas 1984 at Blackpool, and a
Gödöllő team
shirt from Loèche-les-Bains 1993. I've also found a nice
photo of British presenter David Vine which I've added to
IAK 1971
Heat 5 - and as it depicts him announcing the final score, I have been
able to add a Scoreboard for this event (something of a rarity for
programmes that have been wiped!). Also, thanks to
Dunbar History, I've been able to add a
poster for the
Dunbar 1969 event, plus information
including new Media Attention and Additional Information notes, and three
new photographs pertaining to the Dunbar programme to
IAK 1969 Heat 4.
Wednesday 26th July 2023: Thanks to the generosity
of Roger Bancroft, I have been able to add team member, games information
and a cheerleader photo to
IAK 1976 Heat 4 from Cleckheaton. And finally, it has been
possible to produce a PDF of Roger's souvenir programme from the
Cleckheaton event, and this has been added to the Series Guide page linked
to above and also to the
Downloads page.
Tuesday 25th July 2023: I'm pleased to be able to
announce that there's a new series of Grand Prix del Verano
underway in Spain - it premiered to great ratings last night. I am
indebted to David Laich Ruiz who has provided details about the
transmission. This has permitted me to write an introduction page for
Series Guide 2023
and to start the page for
Grand Prix 2023. Also today, David
has written a feature about the series as whole, which has been added to
Other
Flavours.
Thursday 27th April 2023: Marathon running scores
now added to all pre-1974 It's A Knockout pages for heats for which
this information is available.
Monday 24th April 2023: Marathon / Fil Rouge
running scores added to
IAK 1972,
JSF 1972,
IAK 1973
and JSF 1973.
Thanks to Neil for these updates.
Saturday 15th April 2023: Four new scoreboards and
three
new results added to
IAK Australia 1986.
Friday 14th April 2023: Following on from
yesterday's updates, I've added running scores and team members of
IAK
Australia 1985 Round 1 Show 12 (Semi-Final) and Round 2
Show 16. Information gleaned from this heat
- and a general revision in the way to present rounds and heats in this
particular competition - has caused some major reshuffling of the
Team
Database - Australia.
Thursday 13th April 2023: Thanks to David Alain
Laich Ruiz for letting me know that four, previously unavailable episodes
of the Australian It's A Knockout have been added to YouTube (click
here to watch them on Macarthur Shearers team member Terry Gainey's
channel). I've now watched these episodes and as a result,
IAK
Australia 1985 has been updated with results, running
scores, team members and referee information. I've also updated the
Team
Database - Australia page to take account of this new
information.
Saturday 18th February 2023: The work on updating
pages to include Jeu Divisée and Fil Rouge tables continues. Check out
NEIGE 1968,
SOG 1969,
IAK 1971
(now includes an additional photo for Heat 1, Colwyn Bay team member David
Mitchell)
and
JSF 1971. Thanks
to Neil Storer for these updates.
Monday 13th February 2023: Back to the early years
of Jeux Sans Frontières to add some additional tables to show the
running scores in Jeu Divisée and Fil Rouge games. Check out
JSF 1968,
JSF 1969
and JSF 1970
to see how this change improves our reporting. Thanks
to Neil Storer for these updates.
Wednesday 8th February 2023:
A Belated Happy
New Year to all visitors and contributors to JSFnetGB!
As is traditional at JSFnetGB, a New Year tidy up, albeit a
much delayed one. As I explained last year, my health has been a concern
of late and JSFnetGB has had to take a back seat. I will drop by to add to
the site when I am able to and apologise for the lack of updates in recent
months. That's not
to say that there's not plenty of reason to visit the site regularly as
there is a wealth of content here to delve into, built up over 20 years!
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