Find the Link is a game show format which had versions produced in the U.K. and in Australia. It involved a celebrity panel trying to determine the link between contestants. It was quite common at the time for British formats to have versions done for Australian television, with other examples including Picture Page and Café Continental.
British version
editFind the Link was a British television programme which aired from 1954 to 1956. Hosts included Peter Martyn (1954–1955), Leslie Mitchell (1955), and Kenneth Home (1955–1956). It aired on the BBC.
Australian version
editFind the Link was an Australian television series. It aired from 1957 to 1958 on ABC, and was hosted by Bruce Beeby. Produced and broadcast live in Sydney, the half-hour series also aired in Melbourne via kinescope recordings (also known as telerecordings).[1]
Episode status
editAn episode of the Australian version is held by National Archives of Australia.[2]
No episodes survive of the U.K. version.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Tuesday Television". The Age. Melbourne. 12 September 1957. p. 10. Retrieved 27 April 2013 – via Google News.
- ^ "Find The Link". National Archives of Australia. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- ^ "Missing or incomplete episodes for Find The Link". Lost UK TV Shows Search Engine. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
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