History Trivia / CatchPhrase

* EditedForSyndication: Challenge's reruns of the "Snake Charmer" episode edit the offending puzzle so Mr. Chips' right hand no longer moves, toning the moment down considerably (and making the laughter from the contestants, audience and host baffling to anyone unfamiliar with the original version).

** Challenge somewhat unceremoniously stopped broadcasting Catchphrase in March 2023, partway through series 14. The show was brought back to its airing schedule, this time on weekday mornings, in August of the same year, but only showing Series 12 to 15 for unknown reasons. Then the airing slot was adjusted to Sunday afternoons, but no episode was broadcast on New Year's Eve 2023, and the show was quietly dropped from the schedule. Then in March 2024 came the most half-hearted attempt at showing Catchphrase on Challenge, as once again only Series 12-15 would be shown, this time **once** a day, and only on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This was deemed to be a flop, so, after only showing two episodes, Challenge quietly dropped it from their schedule once again after a week.

* ProductionPosse: Art James and Marty Pasetta had previously worked together on a late 60s game show called ''Temptation'' ([[SimilarlyNamedWorks not to be confused with the]] ''Series/SaleOfTheCentury'' [[Series/Temptation2007 remake]]), although it was apparently a coincidence that this happened.

* EditedForSyndication: Challenge TV's reruns of the "Snake Charmer" episode edit the offending puzzle so Mr. Chips' right hand no longer moves, toning the moment down considerably (and making the laughter from the contestants, audience and host baffling to anyone unfamiliar with the original version).

** Season 14 (Nick Weir's first series) was presented far differently from how it was recorded in production. The first episode recorded just so happened to feature the infamous moment when Nick Weir tripped and broke his leg on the steps. The first episode that aired in broadcast was the seventh to be recorded, as that was the soonest to be recorded after Nick stopped wearing a foot plaster, and ITV didn't want to give him a bad first impression. [[TheScrappy Not that the incident]] [[CarriedByTheHost helped matters]].

** At least once in the first UK series, a Bonus Catchphrase was reused from the American version with only some minor color differences.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The US version suffered from the crowded syndication market that felled many other shows over the years; the then-new Lorimar-Telepictures had an "insurance policy" in place for stations, ''Perfect Match'', hosted by [[Series/{{Blackout}} Bob]] [[Series/WheelOfFortune Goen]]. And the UK version initially got screwed over by TVS' loss of broadcasting rights, only for Carlton (the replacement for Thames on London weekdays) to rescue it and run it until 2002 (though the move to daytime is where the series started slipping).

** Season 14 (Nick Weir's first series) was actually presented far different how it was recorded in production. The first episode recorded just so happened to feature the infamous moment when Nick Weir tripped and broke his leg on the steps. The first episode that aired in broadcast was actually the seventh to be recorded, as that was the soonest to be recorded after Nick stopped wearing a foot plaster and that ITV didn't want to give him a bad first impression. [[TheScrappy Not that the incident]] [[CarriedByTheHost helped matters]].

** During Mark Curry's stint as host, the show had suffered a massive budget cut. This was partially shown by a number of catchphrases being copied directly from Roy Walker's and Nick Weir's own runs.

* PropRecycling

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Whilst Challenge TV shows all episodes from the Carlton-era series whilst Roy Walker was hosting, the original run by TVS (from 1986 to 1993) will likely never see the light of day again, as most all of the TVS library is currently in legal limbo, and the paperwork for the TVS archives is supposedly lost[[note]] It began when TVS decided to purchase MTM Enterprises (the creators of ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'', ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'', and others), and got heavily into debt, and as a result lost their broadcasting rights to Meridian, and it was then sold to International Family Entertainment, the holding company for what is now [[Creator/ABCFamily Freeform]], spun off from Pat Robertson's CBN organization. When Creator/FoxKids acquired what then became Fox Family, MTM came along, and when that got sold to Disney, MTM's library had already been absorbed into Fox. Throughout all these legal shenanigans, TVS' library got lost in the shuffle.[[/note]] . However, episodes from the TVS era do exist on Website/YouTube to be watched at any time, presuming that no one tries to call copyright.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Wink Martindale posted on Youtube a sizzle reel for a potential US revival series- it didn't get picked up, though. [[Series/{{Whammy}} Todd]] [[Series/FamilyGameNight Newton]] hosted. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdnVYPCKX3s here]].

* ProductionPosse: Art James and Marty Pasetta had previously worked together on a late 60s game show called ''Temptation'' ([[NamesTheSame not to be confused with the]] ''Series/SaleOfTheCentury'' [[Series/Temptation2007 remake]]), although it was apparently a coincidence that this happened.

* ProductionPosse: Art James and Marty Pasetta had previously worked together on a late 60s game show called ''Temptation'' ([[NamesTheSame not to be confused with the]] [[Series/Temptation2007 crap pile of that name from 2007]]), although it was apparently a coincidence that this happened.

* EditedForSyndication: Challenge TV's reruns of the "Snake Charmer" episode edit the offending puzzle so Mr. Chips' right hand no longer moves, toning the moment down considerably.