Also, there were no technological advances that could have made it more interesting. The contestants should have been able to see Suzi – it was only because it was too expensive to achieve in the 80s that they never did it then. Just hearing her certainly doesn’t add to the game. They could have had her appear on a ridiculously oversized screen behind them so as to maintain the sense of urgency while the contestants were poring over maps and debating the finer points of another cryptic clue.

Had it been given a studio with lots of books in it, a slightly bigger budget, and a better timeslot (early Sunday evenings on BBC1 comes to mind) and it maybe, just maybe, could have been a hit all over again.