#GREEN PATH CRYSTAL DASH PUZZLE SERIES#
Lesley Judd, who was a contestant in the first series returned in series two onwards as The Mole.
His cry of “Doogy rev!” when contestants got things right was a catchphrase for the show, and talking backwards was a big playground fad for a good while. He could only communicate by talking backwards and could only understand contestants when they did the same. Then there was Rongad (who played Bill Homewood).
In the first series Darong was played by actress Moira Stuart, who, of course, later became a BBC newsreader (being a transmorphic alien probably explains why she never seemed to age). Gandor would referee many of the games, as well as give the contestant helpful little prods in the right direction when flummoxed celebs were eating into valuable filming time. You may remember he used an ear trumpet to help him see, and wore glasses to help him hear. There was Gandor the Butler, who played Chris Leaver in the show (the dragons were credited as playing humans in the end scroll). In a nutshell The Adventure Game was devised by a computer-gaming D&D player who liked to listen to HitchHiker’s… Patrick Dowling is, ladies and gentlemen, a fifth Dan geek. Dowling decided to write it himself, combining all the elements described.
#GREEN PATH CRYSTAL DASH PUZZLE TV#
Unfortunately, although liking the idea, Adams had just agreed to write the TV version of Hitchhiker’s for the BBC and was unable to do it. So much so that he even approached Adams with the basic idea for The Adventure Game in the hope that he would write it. Dowling had heard Hitchhiker’s and was amazed by it. Another big influence was The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio show, created by Douglas Adams. At the time Dowling was also a Dungeons & Dragons player, and this obviously had a bearing on the show. This was to be a huge influence to the dynamics (and seemingly the name) of The Adventure Game. There is a chest > Open the chest > The chest is empty! > the computer game players progressed through different areas by solving tasks and deciphering clues. In 1977, Dowling had been impressed by a computer game called Adventure, which was one of the first text adventure games for main frame computers (you know the sort: > You’re in a room. The birth of The Adventure Game was the result of a mix of popular cultural elements that were prominent during the late 70s and early 80s.
This was the man who brought us classic teatime telly such as Vision On, Take Hart and Why Don’t You?ĭowling needed an educational programme for kids to replace Vision On, a show which he had been working on for the previous ten years. The series was devised by Patrick Dowling, a 25-year veteran of the BBC who had worked his way up to Senior Producer in the children’s TV department. This meant that the whole family would sit down and enjoy watching a mix of kids’ TV presenters, weather presenters and world Rubik’s Cube champions stumble their way through a series of puzzles, tasks and catastrophes in order to win the coveted crystal and the means to get back home. It was one of those rare TV phenomena that not only attracted a healthy audience of kids but also won a huge adult following. The Adventure Game began life in May 1980 and ran for a mere 22 episodes until the lights went down on Arg for the final time in February 1986.
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