Talk:Crackerjack

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Crackerjack actually started in 1955, not 1957.

[edit] Australian movie

Any info on the Australian movie, starring Mick Malloy? - Ta bu shi da yu 08:32, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 'Take a Chance'

I have moved the following detailed description of one game here. It is too detailed for the overall article and makes it imbalanced. Leaving a brief description in the article. Lumos3 17:11, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

In 1982 in a bid to try and boost flagging ratings Crackerjack introduced gunge into it's games and launched a new game called 'Take a Chance' in which the celebrity guests could score extra points for the contestant they teamed up with in the game `Take a Letter', earlier in the show the contestants picked a colour which would be their 'Joker' for the rest of the show, these were Orange,Yellow or Green and in Take a Chance there were on each side of the studio 3 booths (2 booths in 1983 & 1984) with the `joker` colours and the celebrity guest would enter the booth of the colour of the contestant's joker while Stu Francis entered one of the other booths to win points for the other contestant, when they were seated in the booths Stu would say 'Right for the viewers watching at home or in the audience here are the points to be won or the penalties to pay' at which point doors above the booths opened to reveal the point values of the correct answer and also the name of the gunge that is in the tanks above their heads which was disgusting names ie 'Rancid Butter' or 'Burned Beans' then the child or hostess would ask Stu and the celebrity guest a question which was normally easy and whoever gave the correct answer stayed clean and scored the points for the child they played for while the other would have the contents of the tank dropped over them from above, if both Stu and the celebrity guest failed to give a correct answer then they both would get gunged which happened a few times but on some occasions if Stu got both questions correct and avoided getting gunged one of the celebrity guests would hold Stu in the booth while they released the gunge all over him.
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