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By looking at the various souvenirs and memorabilia here for It's A Knockout and Jeux Sans Frontières an idea can be gathered as to
the scale of popularity that existed for the shows, not only here in the UK but also across Europe and world wide.

Here Come The Belgium's
A BBC "Best Of" Video of the program.

Jeux Sans Frontières Trophy

 

 

Royal Tournament Board Game.

It's A Knockout Board Game
The board game by Denys Fisher

It's A Knockout Board Game
A later version of the board game.

It's A Knockout
A hard back annual from 1977 including crossword, articles and interviews.

It's A Knockout
A publicity poster for one of the regional heats.

The Grand Knockout Tournament
A Behind The Scenes Book of the Tornament.

It's A Knockout Programme
 From the regional heat held at Westminster Lodge St Albans May 22 1977

Lincolnshire Life October 1978
With an article about the BBC regional heat held in Cleethorpes on May 21st

The Grand Knockout Tournament
Public program of the event.

 

It's A Knockout
Regional heat public program

Stuart Hall
Autographed photo

The Goodies & The Beanstalk
The 1973 Christmas Special.

Radio Times June 1987
Including an article about the Knockout Tournament

Radio Times August 1970
Including listing for the UK heat of Jeux Sans Frontières in Cardiff

Radio Times
Including article about the new series of It's A Knockout

Radio Times July 1971
Including article about new series of Jeux Sans Frontières

Radio Times May 1969
Including an article on the new series of It's A Knockout.

Simply The Best
An application form for the ITV program
Clicking on the image below will open a full page PDF version of the file

Jeux Sans Frontieres
French version of the board game

 

Giochi Senza Frontiere
Italian version of the board game

Spel Zonder Grenzen
German version of the board game

BBC Book
Published in 1971, this 48 book from the BBC contains instructions on playing 35 games from the TV series..

It's A Knockout Programme 1978.
Front cover and signed by Arthur Ellis
 Bath, Bristol and Minehead.

 

Jeux Sans Frontières Trophy 1969

Ocean Computer Game

 

It's A Knockout Card Game
A pairs match-up card game produced by McVities.

Herb Alpert - SRO
The Herb Alpert album Standing Room Only features the track Bean Bag which is used as the UK theme to the program It's A Knockout.

Giochi senza frontiere. Trent'anni di Giochi (Jeux Sans Frontières: Thirty Years of Games)

If your Italian language is okay the book below (website link - www.librogiochisenzafrontiere.it) chronicle JSF.  The stills below are from press releases for the book.  LHS - The Camelot set Blackpool 1976 and  RHS - Colwin Bay 1971
   

It's A Knockout memorabilia mugs.
The link below is for a vendor who currently sells memorabilia mugs on Ebay.
Click on the image below for the actual item (may not work if item hasn't been re-listed/or is unavailable).
http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/cdsandmugs/

 

 

Jeux Sans Frontières Envelope / First Day Cover

 

 

Retro 80's T-Shirt
based on the Australian Television version

Autographed Postcard
Signed by Stuart Hall

The back of the autographed postcard

Post card "1st Day Cover"
Jeux Sans Frontieres at Sherborne Castle 1982.

Autographed Post Card "First Day Cover"
Jeux Sans Frontieres at Blackpool 1971.

Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers.

The program It's A Knockout is said to have been the inspiration for the Peter Gabriel hit Games Without Frontiers. The lyrics for which are to the right. The song reached number 4 in the UK singles chart in 1980.

 

A one, two, one two four
Jeux sans frontieres (4X)

Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane
Jane plays with Willi, Willi is happy again
Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Britt
Adolf builts a bonfire, Enrico plays with it

Whistling tunes we hide in the dunes by the seaside
Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle

It's a knockout
If looks could kill, they probably will
In games without frontiers, war without tears
If looks could kill, they probably will
In games without frontiers, war without tears
Games without frontiers, war without tears

Jeux sans frontieres (3X)

Andre has a red flag, Chiang Ching's is blue
They all have hills to fly them on except for Lin Tai Yu
Dressing up in costumes, playing silly games
Hiding out in tree-tops shouting out rude names

Whistling tunes we hide in the dunes by the seaside
Whistling tunes we piss on the goons in the jungle

It's a knockout
If looks could kill they probably will
In games without frontiers, war without tears
If looks could kill they probably will
In games without frontiers, war without tears
Games without frontiers, war without tears

Jeux sans frontieres (repeat to fade)

Audio Downloads - Click on the thumb nails to hear the following MP3's

The Jeux Sans Frontieres television theme

 

 

Original tv theme

 

BBC TV Theme (Herb Alpert)
(including Stuart Hall introduction)

 

JSF Penguin Game
A 30 second audio clip of Stuart Hall commentating on the famous Penguin Game.

 

 

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