- 90s TV show The Crystal Maze is to become an ‘interactive experience’
- There have now been calls for the show to return to TV
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ONE of the best loved Nineties game shows, The Crystal Maze, is set to make a dramatic return after almost 20 years.
But while many fans would love nothing better than to see the Channel 4 show gracing our screens once again, they are going to have to settle for the next best thing – a ‘live and immersive interactive experience’ in the centre of London which everyone can take part in.
- The Crystal Maze featured four different ‘zones’ set in various periods of time and space.
- It involved a team of six contestants taking part in a series of challenges in order to win ‘time crystals’.
- Each crystal gave the team five seconds of time inside The Crystal Dome, the centrepiece of the maze, where the contestants took part in their final challenge.
The popular TV show, which ran for six series’ on Channel 4, saw contestants attempting to complete physical and mental challenges across four themed zones – Aztec, Futuristic, Medieval and Industrial – in order to collect crystals, then attempt to win a prize from The Crystal Dome.
The first four series’ were presented by Richard O’Brien, while the final two were hosted by Ed Tudor-Pole.
The website for the new ‘interactive experience’ is calling for people to register their interest in taking part and says: ‘The legendary game show is back! But this time we all get to play!’
Crowdfunding for the product will begin on Sunday 14th June, when more information about the event will be shared.
Meanwhile, the Radio Times has now launched a campaign calling on The Crystal Maze to make a return to our television screens.
You can register your interest for the next interactive experience here
- The series ran from 15 February 1990 until 10 August 1995
- It was originally intended to be a British remake of the French programme Fort Boyard, however the unavailability of the French show’s set led British producer Malcolm Heyworth to reinvent the show, using themed zones as a way of keeping the show visually fresh
- There were six series’ and five Christmas specials
- A total of 83 episodes were made
- The maze cost £250,000 to build and was the size of two football pitches.
- At its height it was the most watched show on Channel 4, regularly attracting between 4 and 6 million viewers.
- In 2006 and again in 2010, the show was voted ‘greatest UK game show of all time’ by readers of UKGameshows.com.
