Blockbusters - The ITV Quiz Game - Featuring Bob Holness

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Getting a question correct also allowed you to choose the next letter. As you can see from the diagram, the single player had a shorter route than the pair of blue players.

Once everyone does their team performance rounds and collected their cards, if no one has won the game, rounds are repeated. A new member from each team is selected to compete in the head-to-head challenge which then leads into a team round. This continues until the game is over.Fremantle (UK) Productions and BBC North for BBC2, 31 March to 28 August 1997 (60 episodes in 1 series) Saudi Arabia – The Saudi Arabian version is called ABC Program/Competitions Letters, hosted by Ibrahim al-Qasim, Majid Cub, Ghanem Al Saleh, and Ghalib Full. The network for this version in particular aired on First Channel Saudi Arabia from 1987 until 1994. Then it was revived again three years later from 1997 until 1998. Twenty years later, a version hosted by Salman Al-Otaibi aired in 2017.

All regions expect TSW broadcast the show from 2 September 1988 to 10 February 1989. Mondays to Fridays at 5:15 pm and Saturdays at 5:05 pm. However, Anglia and Scottish aired some episodes on Sundays instead of Saturdays.

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Channel Television: Same as TSW's schedule until January 1986, it was then switched to TVS's schedules. This meant that approximately 16–20 episodes were skipped as TVS were further ahead.