Jim Bowen RIP

Bulls Eye Jim ? thought he was dead Years back

Still on Challenge every day

Remember him from The Comedians, before Bullseye!

look at what you could have won. rip jim.

RIP Jim, legend of 80's tv.

all about the 2 in a bed

Did an after dinner gig at my local rugby club, mainly about the outakes/ mishaps/ thicko's on bullseye. Came across as a bit racist tbh and of course tried to top up his appearance money by flogging signed copies of his book. That lasted all of a minute when he realised nobody was interested.

how lovely and gratifying  to die in the knowledge that he had offended cooperman and his rugby pals and filled them with bad opinions of himself

just saw this now, bullseye was a massive part of my childhood, RIP jim

All "The Comedians " now dead ? All the good ones anyway.

Harmless fun from a bygone era. I can't see people talking in 30/40 years time about some of the current crop of so called comedians and characters off the TV. RIP Jim.

you have to be racist to be a good comedian

Gave me a few chuckles

RIP Jim.

Was watching him on Bullseye only last night.

A massive shock to hear the news, as he appeared in fine fettle.

I guess it is recorded up north somewhere as all the audience and competitors appeared to be in some sort of hairstyle and fashion time warp.

All three teams turned down the chance of winning the start prize - first time it had happened in 7 series said Jim.

The third team had only won £200 but still didn't go for it.

Mind you it was a dinner table, sideboard and dinner service, so they probably made the right decision.

I watched it also amazing scenes though wasn't the first time that had happened

BonnieDday

Sometimes you wish some of todays 'comedians' were dead.

We live in hope that a speedboat awaits the Kindly Gent.

I'm not saying Jim was a good comedian because he wasn't but today's comedy is tragically bad and far too PC.
I used to go to comedy gigs with my brothers and have turned down all offers the last couple of years.

JIM had a serial Killer on the Programme

Really who?

Just looked it up

john William Cooper (born 3 September 1944) is a serial killer from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales. On ...

Bullseye was always good for a laugh thanks to Jim. RIP.

the speedboat would have come in handy for him

Came across as a bit racist tbh

So everybody walked out?

If you didn't then you're the same.

Sat there laughing until the tears came, then said he was racist - lol.

Jim turns up at the pearly gates and to his surpise, right in front of him, it's Stephen H. Made whole and healthy again.
He's over the moon. They go to the bar in heaven and start celebrating. A night in heaven is 10 years so it was quite a night.
About 41,000 bottles of Chateaux Barnabus.
They wake up to Jesus knocking on the door and are horrified to find .. things happened in their drunken stupour.
Jim cries "I'm so sorry, nothing like this never happened on Earth, I don't know what happened .. what will be our punishment?"

Jesus smiles and says "You Jim should know, of ALL people. You're fine. You get nothing for two in a bed."

Seriously though this is good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N84zsnkv6_Q

Maybe don't watch if you are eplileptic :)

A wonderful presenter of Bullseye
RIP

Great video Just Checking only on Bullseye

Mar 14, 2018 -- 11:08PM, Just Checking wrote:

Seriously though this is good:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N84zsnkv6_QMaybe don't watch if you are eplileptic :)

this was nice viewing

Many years ago he was appearing at my local pub and me and my pals were chatting to him but kept calling him other gameshow hosts names Brucie, Tarby, Bob etc he took it all in good spirits.
Thanks FOR THE MEMORIES
rip Roy.

RIP Jim

cooperman 14 Mar 18 14:00   



Did an after dinner gig at my local rugby club, mainly about the outakes/ mishaps/ thicko's on bullseye. Came across as a bit racist tbh and of course tried to top up his appearance money by flogging signed copies of his book. That lasted all of a minute when he realised nobody was interested

Certainly was referred to a guest on his radio show as a ''nig nog'' that's all you need to know about someone..

I actually appeared on one of the Bullseye shows (for my sins).
Condolences to his family, but I have to say he didn't make much of an impression on me or the other contestants
that day.
We won a car, just for info.

Talbot Horizon?

ford fiesta.   nap.

  come on john ... we are all in suspenders here !!

Peugeot 205

If anybody is remotely interested, I had a phone call from the producer of Bullseye about 2 weeks after the show was recorded, and he offered cash instead of the car, which at the time was £5,600. Of course I accepted the offer.
In those days, which was 2001, the maximum prize value any tv quiz/show could award was £10,000, hence the other prizes were of such little value, which meant that IF contestants won all the 'Bully' prizes, PLUS the star prize, it wouldn't exceed the limit. It would also include a possible
larger sum of cash winnings in the other rounds. We won just 280 in cash, and a few other prizes as well.

Cheers johnizere interesting posts

2001?

super, smashing, lovely, grave.

Ken Dodd, Steven Hawkin and now Jim Bowen..............a bit ironic that he was the treble rip

Yes Denzil ... 2001.

It only ran to 1995 to my knowledge until they brought back the Dave Spikey one

Production

From Series 1 to 9, the show was recorded at ATV/Central House in Broad Street, Birmingham. In Series 10, it moved to Central's purpose-built studios at Lenton Lane in Nottingham, where it remained until its first demise in 1995. The Challenge revival was recorded at the Yorkshire Television studios in Leeds, and the Gameshow Marathon one-offs were produced at the London Studios.
Transmissions
Series
Series     Start date     End date     Episodes
1     28 September 1981[7]     21 December 1981[8]     15[8]
2     10 October 1982     23 January 1983     16
3     27 November 1983[9]     3 June 1984[10]     26[10]
4     2 September 1984[11]     21 April 1985[12]     29[12]
5     1 September 1985[13]     16 March 1986[14]     26[14]
6     31 August 1986[15]     8 March 1987     27
7     13 September 1987[16]     13 March 1988[17]     26[17]
8     18 September 1988[18]     30 April 1989[19]     26[19]
9     29 October 1989[20]     13 May 1990[21]     26[21]
10     2 September 1990[22]     17 March 1991[23]     26[23]
11     1 September 1991[24]     8 March 1992[25]     25[25]
12     6 September 1992[26]     28 February 1993[27]     25[27]
13     26 March 1994[28]     23 July 1994[29]     18[29]
14     1 April 1995[30]     8 July 1995     13
15     17 April 2006[31]     28 July 2006[32]     30[32]
Christmas Specials
Date
26 December 1982
25 December 1983[33]
23 December 1984[34]
28 December 1986
27 December 1987[35]
25 December 1988[36]
24 December 1989[37]
23 December 1990[38]
22 December 1991[39]
27 December 1992[40]

From wiki

They stopped making the Peugeot 205 in 1998 I think you've lost some years somewhere johnizere

1990... jeez I'm losing the plot!
Recorded at Lenton Lane studios. Our 'pro' dart player was Alan Warriner, and the other show they recorded that day (they did 2 shows a day) had Jocky Wilson.

The episode where Warriner was a contestant has just been on tonight

poor jim had dementia