The frustrations of The Crystal Maze were very real.
In fact, it was so agonisingly frustrating we often found ourselves yelling at the telly because it was full it of complete pillocks.
They were often tripped up by things such as their team mates offering them helpful hints on how to complete a task (things like ‘it’s on your left’ seemed awfully baffling), and sometimes they just simply tripped up and face planted the floor.
The show ran for five years between 1990 and 1995 with Richard O’Brien at the helm for three series and Ed Tudor-Pole for the final two.
There were the four zones, the Aztec, futuristic, medieval and industrial which tested the team on their via skill tests, physical tests, mental tests and… Read the full story