Concentration

Hosts

Philip Brady (1959-1967) Terry Dear (1959-1960) Howard Craven Ron Cadee Don Davies Lionel Williams (1970) Mike Hammond (1997)

Assistant

Joan McInnes (1970)

Announcer

Cameron Humphires (1997)

Broadcast

Nine Network: 1959 – 1967 Seven Network: 1970 Seven Network (daily): 31 March 1997 – 7 November 1997

Packagers

GTV-9 Melbourne (1959-1961) Grundy Organization (1959-1970) All American Fremantle International (1997) Beckers Entertainment (1997)

Concentration is based on the U.S. format of the same name.

Gameplay

Two contestants try to match pairs of cards that were gradually removed from the board, slowly revealing elements of a rebus puzzle that one of the contestants had to solve to win prizes.

In the 1997 series, the winner could win one of eight major prizes by finding seven matching pairs of prizes with one of the eight prizes having no match. New champions started with a time limit of 40 seconds plus 5 seconds for each return to the major prize round. Clearing the board in time retired the champion with the last major prize matched. If time ran out, the player continued as carryover champion.

Photos

Original host Philip Brady with a partially-revealed rebus.

Second host Terry Dear.

Third host Howard Craven.

Lionel Williams and Joan McInnes on the set of the 1970 version.

Mike Hammond, host of the 1997 series.

Merchandise

Two board games were released by John Sands Pty Ltd., under license from Milton Bradley as its Australian distributor.

First Edition (1960)

Second Edition (1962)

Music

Main (1970) - "Boogaloo Smith" by James Clarke

Inventor

Based on the American game show of the same name by Jack Barry and Dan Enright.

See Also

Match Mates - Kids' version

Youtube Links

Clips of the first half of the 1997 pilot (Susie vs. Patrick)
Second game of a 1997 episode (Vikki vs. Brett)
Second game of another 1997 episode (Geniene vs. Tim)