The Grand Knockout Tournament (1987)

1h 19m
Running Time

June 19, 1987
Release Date

The Grand Knockout Tournament (1987)

1h 19m
Running Time

June 19, 1987
Release Date

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Release Date
June 19, 1987

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Running Time
1h 19m

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The Grand Knockout Tournament (also known as It's a Royal Knockout) was a one-off charity event which took place on 15 June 1987, and was shown on British television on 19 June 1987 (BBC1, repeated on 27 December 1987), in addition to airing on American TV via the USA Network on 12 August 1987, and European satellite channel Superchannel on 6 March 1988 (repeated on Christmas Day 1988). It followed the format of It's a Knockout (the British version of Jeux sans frontières), a slapstick TV gameshow which was broadcast in the UK until 1982.

The event was staged on the lakeside lawn of the Alton Towers stately home and theme park in Staffordshire. However, the event used its own specially created immersing set, meaning that the location was not very recognisable in the TV broadcast.

Although regarded as a failure, a similar show without royal involvement was made the following year at Walt Disney World in Florida, featuring teams of celebrities representing the United Kingdom, USA, and Australia.

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