[Neil Jones]

Yes - that episode posted earlier shows that with nearly half the episode being the contestant introduction, and even the strange intro not from the episode recording itself but Barrymore introducing it telling us to watch for the special contestants, then a hard cut to them being introduced.

need to be careful if its based on Challenge airings, as it may have been edited from what originally went out on ITV back in the day (the posted example is from the time when Challenge for some reason chopped out all the original break bumpers).

And then - for our perspective - the even further the oddity that "restored" the 'Rich' name was down to a switch in production companies. Thames who had created the 'Lucky' name didn't want to hand it over to LWT. So LWT had to use something and given the increase in jackpots used the "original" format name.

Also thinking on. Yet another example of a US format taking hold over here than in its home country.

At this time Blockbusters was the other major format we adopted and ran away with, and while they've had two stabs at that in the US without much success, we keep reviving it every decade or so.