Gladiators
About Gladiators
Gladiators was a British television series produced by LWT for ITV on Saturdays nights from October 1992 to January 2000. It is an adaptation of the United States game show American Gladiators. A revival of the show was broadcast on Sky1 in 2008 and 2009.
The show was originally presented by John Fashanu and Ulrika Jonsson. John Fashanu was replaced by Jeremy Guscott in 1997, before returning for the final mini series in 1999.
The referee was John Anderson and the timekeepers over the show's run were Andrew Norgate, Derek Redmond and Eugene Gilkes. John Sachs commentated for the show from the beginning to the end and the gladiators were cheered on by a group of cheerleaders, known as G-Force.
Applicants who wanted to take part in the show had to go through fitness tests before they were selected to take part in the show.
Contenders faced the Gladiators in a number of events to score points which were used to calculate who had the head start in the final Eliminator. The difference between the two contenders scores were halved to calculate the head start time. For example, a contender who finished the events 10 points ahead of the other contender, would get a 5 second head start.
Events included -Atlaspheres, Catapult, Danger Zone, Duel, Gauntlet, Hang Tough, Hit & Run, Joust, Pendulum, Pole-Axe, Powerball, Pursuit, Pyramid, Skytrak, Sumo Ball, Suspension Bridge, Swingshot, Tightrope, Tilt, Vertigo, The Wall, Whiplash.
Gladiators included - Ace, Cobra, Diesel, Hawk, Hunter, Khan, Raider, Rhino, Saracen, Shadow, Trojan, Warrior, Wolf, Amazon, Blaze, Falcon, Flame, Jet, Lightning, Nightshade, Panther, Rio, Rocket, Scorpio, Siren, Vogue and Zodiac.
Comments
This series needs to be showed more on Challenge verses the new gladiators
Will Jenkins 17 October 2011
i love the gladiators i like it when jet and lighting do there flips
emma jennings 23 January 2012
Please can you do the Gladiators 1992_ 2000 programs for watching again. I really enjoyed it and I would like you to still keep putting it on TV for watching.
Always keep the best on going everybody likes the old Gladiators Series and it brings back good days.
I am giving you good advice that you should carry on Challenge TV.
Please let me know if it would be possible if you could do them.
Yours faithfully
Terence McDermott
Terence McDermott 08 May 2012
Get This Back On Challenge This Was The Top Watched GameShow In The 1990's
Francis King 13 February 2013
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