Dale's Supermarket Sweep

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Dale's Supermarket Sweep
Genre Game show
Created by
  • Jamie Hardwick
  • Al Howard
Presented by Dale Winton (1993-2007)
Rylan Clark-Neal (2019-)
Voices of
  • Bobby Bragg
  • Gary King
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original language(s)English
No. of series8
No. of episodes589 (20 unaired)
Production
Running time30 minutes (inc. adverts)
Production company(s)
Distributor Fremantle
Release
Original network ITV (1993-2007)
ITV2 (2019-)
Original release6 September 1993 (1993-09-06) –
present
Chronology
Related shows Supermarket Sweep (US version)

Dale's Supermarket Sweep (more commonly known as Supermarket Sweep) is a British game show that is based on the original American version. Hosted by Dale Winton, it originally ran from 6 September 1993 to 6 September 2001 and then revived from 12 February to 31 August 2007. On 13 October 2017, it was announced that FremantleMedia had acquired the global rights to the format and confirmed that the series will return. [1]

Game show Type of television or radio program where contestants compete for prizes

A game show is a type of radio, television, or stage show in which contestants, individually or as teams, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles, usually for money or prizes. Alternatively, a gameshow can be a demonstrative program about a game [while usually retaining the spirit of an awards ceremony]. In the former, contestants may be invited from a pool of public applicants. Game shows often reward players with prizes such as cash, trips and goods and services provided by the show's sponsor prize suppliers.

<i>Supermarket Sweep</i> American television game show

Supermarket Sweep is an American television game show. The format combined an ordinary team-based quiz show with the novel concept of a live, timed race through a supermarket. In the timed race, cameras followed the teams with shopping carts through a large vacated supermarket with several aisles; the value of items thrown into the cart determined the winning team. The original show was broadcast on ABC from December 20, 1965 to July 14, 1967. Revivals aired on Lifetime from February 5, 1990, to June 16, 1995, and later from April 3, 2000, to May 23, 2003, with reruns airing until March 26, 2004.

Dale Winton English radio DJ and television presenter

Dale Jonathan Winton was an English radio DJ and television presenter. He presented the shows Dale's Supermarket Sweep from 1993 until 2001 and again in 2007, the National Lottery game show In It to Win It between 2002 and 2016 and the 2008 series of Hole in the Wall. Winton also presented Pets Win Prizes (1995–96) and The Other Half (1997–2002).

Contents

Format

The game consists of three teams of two, each with a clock that starts with 60 seconds on it. The teams then attempt to add as much time as possible to their clock by answering questions and riddles posed by host Dale Winton. The time they accumulate determines how long they have in the 'Big Sweep' round to run around a studio mock-up of a supermarket, collecting shopping items. The team with the shopping trolley filled with items of the most value wins the chance to enter the final 'Super Sweep' prize round. Within the game there were a number of rounds.

Mini Sweep

The Mini Sweep is a question round. On answering a question correctly, they have 10 seconds added to their clock. Dale then gives the winning contestants a clue as to which item he requires. The contestants then have to find the item with a "Supermarket Sweep" logo on within the supermarket and return to the start with it within 30 seconds for a bonus of £25 (£50 in the revived version) to their sub total.

Games

There are a variety of possible games each week. Each correctly answered question or riddle is rewarded with 10 seconds added to the contestants' clock. Some games (such as Pick a Pair) offer a bonus 30 seconds if all contestants agree on an answer and that answer is correct.

Original games were: Counting Calories, Rhyme Time, In Betweens, Totals, Memory Game, Higher or Lower?, Pick a Pair, Random Reveal, Reverse Reveal, Scrambled Letters, and Dale's Bluff. These games were introduced later in the series: Wordsearch, Alphabet Soup, and Odd One Out.

Round Robin/Dale's Daily

If a team answer a question correctly, it wins 10 seconds; right or wrong, contestants then switch with their partners tasked with answering the next question. The categories can be: TV, Movies, Music, or Hot Gossip.

Big Sweep

This is the round where the contestants enter the aisles, starting with the team with the most time on their clocks and followed by the other two teams according to their times. The aim of this round is to gain as much value in their trolleys as possible in order to go on to the £5,000 Super Sweep game (formerly £2,000), at the end of this round the value of the shopping is calculated by Dale's checkout assistants Caroline, Justin and Sam. Various bonuses are available to boost their totals and there are penalties for dropped items. The lowest ever total was recorded in a 1997 episode and constituted a "sub-total" of £0. They did, however, manage some shopping. This resulted in a grand total of £56.

Bonuses

Inflatables

Every episode featured a shopping list and inflatable bonuses as standard. By series 3, two of the other aforementioned bonuses would also be featured on each episode. However, in the revived version, the bonuses were just Pick-n-Mix, Managers Special, the shopping list and inflatables. Inflatables included a Wine Bottle, Bunch of Bananas, Single Banana, Burger, Plant, Guitar, Cake, Hammer, Microphone, Crayon, Carrot, Jukebox, Saxophone, Fish, Lollipop, Devils Trident, Golf Club and Cactus (Revived version).

Penalties

Dale gives a penalty of £25 to teams who:

His regular joke is that there would also be a penalty for "knocking over the cameraman".

Super Sweep

The team with the higher Big Sweep total (added with their sub total from bonuses and previous rounds) keeps their money and advances to the Super Sweep. The team has 60 seconds to find the £2,000 prize (£5,000 in the revived version), by solving three clues. The first clue is given by Dale and time doesn't start until the clue has been read. The team must find the item from the clue to get the next clue. The second clue leads the contestants to the final item, behind which the money is found. As with the US version, the team has to find all three items and have their hands on the money before time expires. If they don't, they only leave with the cash equivalent of the value of the goods in their trolley (unlike the US version, which awards $200 for each item found if they don't find all three items).

Transmissions

SeriesStart dateEnd dateEpisodesRecorded
16 September 199317 December 1993751993
25 September 199416 December 1994751994
34 September 199515 December 1995751995
42 September 199613 December 1996751996
51 September 199719 December 1997801997
61 September 1998 [2] 1 March 1999 [2] 84 [2] 1998
72 May 2000 [2] 6 September 2001 [2] 85 [2] 1999
812 February 2007 [2] 31 August 2007 [2] 40 [2] 2007

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References

  1. ↑ "FREMANTLEMEDIA GOES WILD IN THE AISLES WITH SUPERMARKET SWEEP". FremantleMedia. 13 October 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Fremantle Archive Sales - DALE'S SUPERMARKET SWEEP". Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
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