{"id":2217,"date":"2011-10-01T08:04:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T07:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2011-09-28T08:21:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T07:21:40","slug":"top-of-the-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/top-of-the-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Top of the Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- skool-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Top of the Form was produced bt the BBC in the UK. Its a programme that\u00a0began on Saturday 1 May 1948, as a radio series and eventually made it onto the television as a childrens programme.<\/p>\n<p>The Childrens quiz series ran from 1962 to 1986 with various presenters including Bob Holness famous for his quiz Blockbusters along with\u00a0Richard Dimbleby\u00a0and\u00a0David Dimbleby. Judith Chalmers was originally lined up to co-present, but was vetoed by The Powers That Be on the grounds that a woman wouldn&#8217;t have the authority required of a questionmaster.<\/p><div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\nskool\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/top-of-the-form.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2218\" title=\"top-of-the-form\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/top-of-the-form.jpg\" alt=\"Top of the Form\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/top-of-the-form.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/top-of-the-form-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/top-of-the-form-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/top-of-the-form-377x300.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It enabled two schools to enter a team of four pupils ranging in age from under 13 to under 18. Initially Grammar-schools were entering, with only occasional presence of \u201cnew\u201d comprehensive representatives. Prize was simply \u201ctaking part\u201d,and winning of course. 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Its a programme that\u00a0began on Saturday 1 May 1948, as a radio series and eventually made it onto the television as a childrens programme. The Childrens quiz series &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/top-of-the-form\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[56,57,54,53,52],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-primetime","tag-56","tag-57","tag-54","tag-53","tag-52"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Top of the Form<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Top of the Form - BBC School Quiz from radio and television\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/top-of-the-form\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Skooldays\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/top-of-the-form\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/top-of-the-form\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Skooldays\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7737d0880c9ea762e2b2c2475c12a0ca\"},\"headline\":\"Top of the Form\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-10-01T07:04:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/top-of-the-form\/\"},\"wordCount\":158,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/top-of-the-form\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/top-of-the-form.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"1940\",\"1950\",\"1960\",\"1970\",\"1980\"],\"articleSection\":[\"PrimeTime\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/top-of-the-form\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/top-of-the-form\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/top-of-the-form\/\",\"name\":\"Top of the Form\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/top-of-the-form\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/top-of-the-form\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/top-of-the-form.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-10-01T07:04:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7737d0880c9ea762e2b2c2475c12a0ca\"},\"description\":\"Top of the Form - BBC School Quiz from radio and television\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/top-of-the-form\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/top-of-the-form\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/top-of-the-form\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/top-of-the-form.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/top-of-the-form.jpg\",\"width\":\"500\",\"height\":\"397\",\"caption\":\"Top of the Form\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/top-of-the-form\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Top of the Form\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Skooldays\",\"description\":\"Nostalgic &amp; 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