The Pyramid Game | |
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Genre | Game show |
Created by | Bob Stewart |
Presented by | Steve Jones (ITV) Donny Osmond (Challenge) |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 3 (LWT) 2 (TVS) 1 (Challenge) |
No. of episodes | 46 (LWT) 80 (TVS) 30 (Challenge) |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes (inc. adverts) |
Production companies | LWT in association with Bob Stewart Productions and Philip Hindin (1981–84) TVS in association with Talbot Television (1989–90) Sony Pictures Television International (2007) |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 5 September 1981 18 August 1984 | –
Release | 9 January 1989 6 April 1990 | –
Network | Challenge |
Release | 7 May 15 June 2007 | –
Related | |
Pyramid (US version) | |
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The (£1,000) Pyramid Game is a United Kingdom game show based on the American format of the same name that was originally shown on ITV from 1981 to 1984 then 1989 to 1990 hosted by Steve Jones, then revived by Challenge in 2007 hosted by Donny Osmond (who had also hosted the American version).
The show first appeared in 1978 as a segment of Bruce Forsyth's Big Night, then was a segment on The Steve Jones Games Show in 1979, before becoming a series in its own right in 1981.