The Pressure Pak Show Explained

Genre:Game show
Presenter:Jack Davey
Country:Australia
Language:English

The Pressure Pak Show is an Australian television game show. It first aired from 1957 to 1958 on ATN-7 in Sydney and GTV-9 in Melbourne. It was hosted by Jack Davey, who also hosted The Dulux Show and Give it a Go.

The program was a simulcast of a long-running Jack Davey radio programs, broadcast on the Macquarie Radio Network.

Gameplay

According to the National Film and Sound Archive website, it was a guessing game in which the panel and contestants had to determine what phrase the host had picked, within a certain amount of time.[1] According to records of existing episodes, phrases ranged from simple (such as A Worm and Rock Around the Clock) to unusual/humorous (such as A Pygmy On Mt Lofty and Australia's 7th Best Dressed Man)

Episode status

At least 20 episodes are held by National Film and Sound Archive, along with episodes of a radio version.[2] At least one of the surviving television episodes features Jim Russell as one of the panelists[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: THE PRESSURE PAK SHOW. EP 032 . 2013-03-01 . National Film and Sound Archive.
  2. Web site: PRESSURE PAK SHOW . 2021-10-16 . National Film and Sound Archive.
  3. Web site: THE PRESSURE PAK SHOW. EP. 007 . 2021-10-16 . National Film and Sound Archive.