Talk:It's a Knockout

FA Cup

Need to add the FA Cup It's a Knockout competitions. These were usually filmed several days before and then shown in the pre-match warm-up on BBC1.

Liverpool v Arsenal 1971 - Liverpool won (scant consolation for losing the next day)

Untidy section organisation

The organisation of this article is a bit untidy. It's not clear what the information on the individual episodes (e.g. "UK heats") refers to; It's a Knockout or to Jeux sans Frontiers. Fourohfour 20:37, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

I've reorganised the article, and moved these lists to their own article, linking prominently so that people who want them can still find them. Fourohfour 21:13, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

(Does following comment refer to above?) Fourohfour 21:18, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Why on earth was this link removed ? http://www.jsfnet.co.uk/index.htm Did you actually check this website at all ? It is the most comprehensive website I've ever come across on the whole subject of the UK It's a Knockout. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pgb62uk (talk • contribs). Fourohfour 21:18, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree that the link is valid. It does seem to have been a casualty of a poor edit and an over-zealous cleanup. I'll pop it back in. Spenny 14:04, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Well, the person who added the link either messed up or was intentionally trying to get more attention for the link; (a) They included it twice and (b) They overwrote a link to a legitimate article. (See here).

I probably should have left one of them in (and I thought I had), but primarily it wasn't my mistake. Fourohfour 21:23, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

No probs, I think that is what I was seeking to say (bad edit to put in, looked like accidentally got mixed in with a wiki link) and accidentally dropping both links. Cheers Spenny 22:00, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

German version

There was a German equivalent called Spiel (or Spiele) Ohne Grenzen (literally "game (or games) without borders") and there's an entry in the German Wikipedia for Spiel ohne Grenzen but I fear my German is too rusty to attempt a decent translation for the In Other Countries section here. Anybody else care to try? AncientBrit (talk) 17:42, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Arthurvasey (talk) 23:06, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

It was on all over Europe - its title in most languages translated as something like "Games Without Frontiers/Borders" - only the Brits called it "It's A Knock Out" (sic).

In fact, the international heats had it in different languages - I believe that the French-speaking nations called it "Jeux Sans Frontieres", which became the standard name for the international series as a whole. I believe the Dutch called it "Spel Zonder Grenzen" forgive my lousy Dutch - had a few Dutch staff at boarding school.

Each country had its own set of heats, with the winner going to represent their nation in somewhere like France or Germany.

Rather than it displaying UK or GB or whatever, it would be the town - the teams had D for Germany (Deutschland), B for Belgium, GB for Great Britain, F for France, CH for Switzerland - like the car reg plates when you go abroad - the scoreboard had the towns, rather than the country.

The contestants came from all walks of life - bank workers, civil servants, you name it.

add information

in some countries like argentine there is programmes of tv where have been re-transmitted with others locutors .please add more information and sorry for my english.El que siembra (talk) 00:15, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

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