The Adventure Game

TV Series
1980–1986

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Two celebrities and a member of the public take a trip to the planet Arg - sometimes willingly, sometimes not - and attempt to work their way through a series of puzzles set by the alien Arg... Read allTwo celebrities and a member of the public take a trip to the planet Arg - sometimes willingly, sometimes not - and attempt to work their way through a series of puzzles set by the alien Argonds.Two celebrities and a member of the public take a trip to the planet Arg - sometimes willingly, sometimes not - and attempt to work their way through a series of puzzles set by the alien Argonds.

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Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 nomination total

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Christopher Leaver

Gandor

Charmian Gradwell

Gnoard

Anne Palmer

Assistant Argond…

Richard Lewis

Assistant Argond

Karen Walker

Assistant Argond

Bill Homewood

Dagnor…

Sarah Lam

Dorgan…

Lesley Judd

Lesley Judd…

Kenny Baker

A Highly Trained Aspidistra

Patrick Dowling

Self - Presenter

Moira Stuart

Darong

Ian Messiter

The Rangdo

Jane Kite

Assistant Assistant Argond

Sue Lipscombe

Assistant Assistant Argond

Lynn Allen

Assistant Assistant Argond

Paul Darrow

Self - Explorer

Denise Coffey

Self - Explorer

Mark Dugdale

Self - Explorer

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Trivia
Out of all of the episodes made for the series, four episodes no longer exist on their original broadcast-quality formats - two from the first season are lost as are two from the second season - and are thought to survive only as domestic off-air recordings. The following seasons survive intact.

Quotes
Opening narration: [FIRST SEASON] Many light years away, on the far side of the galaxy, in a region often visited by time-travelers, lies Arg. A small planet of little consequence. Naturally, the inhabitants of Arg get a bit fed up with trippers and tend to discourage them. Often they will even nick the essential crystal off their time machines and hide it. Visitors from planet Earth enquiring after their crystal can nevertheless feel quite at home here, because the Argons are a polite race and careful to adapt their shape so as not to frighten strangers. Unfortunately, they also have a regrettable sense of humor...

Crazy credits
All the cast credits list the actors as being played by the characters they portray.

Connections
Featured in The 100 Greatest Kids TV Shows (2001)

Soundtracks
Duo in G, Opus 34
(uncredited)
Composed by Ferdinando Carulli
Performed by Julian Bream and John Williams
(series theme-tune)

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Challenging fun galactic adventure game

The adventure game was one of my favourite programmes as a child. Set somewhere in the galaxy, the contestants had to solve problems to earn credits (known as drogma or something like that). The game had these plants that the contestants interacted with and at the end they had to navigate from one side of the vortex to the other side. I wish they would bring it back but the BBC had a habit of doing away with good programmes and replacing them with crap (eg the chess programme "The master game" and "The adventure game").

I don't know what it is, but TV programs back in the early to mid 80's were so much more interesting and stimulating than what we have today.