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They had to complete each of them to progress through to the Vortex. When I was 8, the Vortex was absolutely terrifying! The contestant would move, then the Vortex would move.

If the contestant stepped into the path of the invisible Vortex, they exploded and died an horrific death! Ok, they just got teleported somewhere else. Those who managed to avoid the Vortex, and not be dissolved, were allowed to board a train back to Earth. Human validation. Thank you, your vote was recorded and will be displayed soon. Tags All tags.

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Set on the planet Arg, the inhabitants sometimes human, sometimes dragon shape-changers called "the Argonds" put the contestants through their paces, including:.

Also of note is The Red Salamander, a mute but very tall lizard who often played against the contestants in the Drogna game when competing for prizes such as green cheese rolls see later. As you may have noticed by now, nearly everything to do with the game was an anagram of "dragon", including the obligatory salute "Gronda, Gronda". The currency on the planet was the Drogna, which were clear plastic pieces containing a coloured shape in the middle.

The value of the drogna was equal to the number of sides on the shape, multiplied by their position in the rainbow hence a sign saying Richard of York Gained Battle on the wall.

One of the initial challenges, the "drogna game", was a floor-tile puzzle that made use of these shapes. A particular logic applied to where you could or couldn't move e. One of the sub-games involved the contestants finding Lesley Judd , who would turn out to be The Mole and attempt to sabotage subsequent challenges. Other games were wide and varied, but included stepping through a series of poles, guiding a mouse around a computer maze, interacting with the Argonds and their strange quirks, defeating the Red Salamander at the Drogna game, guiding a fellow player out of a pitch-black room, gentle physics problems, and solving codes.

For a large part of each show, the players were just left alone with a bunch of puzzles and had to work out for themselves what they were expected to do. Although the challenges in each programme were all variations-on-a-theme throughout the series, the final round in later shows was always the superb Vortex game, where the contestants had to cross a hexagonal lattice. They had to move without stepping on the same space as the vortex, which would "evaporate" them.

The contestant and the vortex which was invisible to the contestants but visible to the viewers would take one turn each move. Said vortex would never walk into the contestant, but the contestant was always at risk of walking into the vortex. Only by logic, guesswork, and the occasional use of green cheese rolls which could be used to identify where the vortex was could the team get across safely to the waiting shuttle.

Otherwise they had to walk home, and it's a long way from Arg to Earth. The following seasons survive intact. Crazy credits All the cast credits list the actors as being played by the characters they portray. User reviews 6 Review. Top review. Journey to another time. Watching it now on DVD, a number of things strike you: how well-spoken everybody is, how the male contenstants casually patronise the female ones, and the preposterousness of inviting the presenter of 'Play School' to solve logic problems based on recongising Tschiakovsky's ' Overture' or the title of Lawrence of Arabia's book 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'.

Also that it's a strange example of reality T. The problems are too hard, some of the gags are brilliant while others fall flat, the early episodes varied in length because they couldn't edit them into a consistent format and apparently, in some instances, they even ran out of time in filiming them.

And yet there's a magic here, with its bizarre sense of humour and challenges far more engaging than those seen on other vaguely similar programmes. Series 1 featuring Moira Stewart, of all people is the most improbable, it really feels like the producers are winging it; series 3, with the vortex, the aspidistra, and the backwards speaking man, is the one that surely sticks in most people's minds.

They really don't make them like this any more. Details Edit. Release date May 24, United Kingdom. United Kingdom. BBC United Kingdom. Technical specs Edit. Color Color. Related news.