{"id":41942,"date":"2024-12-10T22:33:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T22:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=41942"},"modified":"2024-12-11T07:09:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T07:09:55","slug":"christmas-2024-day-10-pop-quiz-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-2024-day-10-pop-quiz-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2024: Day 10: Pop Quiz 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/category\/christmas-2024\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/category\/christmas-2024\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-40739 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/merrychristmas23a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"81\" \/><\/a><\/span>Christmas 1984<\/strong>. Exactly 40 years ago this month, Toyah guested on the <em>Pop Quiz Christmas Special<\/em> on BBC1. The programme aired at 4.15pm on Christmas Eve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">This was the penultimate edition of the original <em>Pop Quiz. <\/em>There were four series, plus five specials, 48 episodes in total, with Toyah guesting four times.\u00a0The final <em>Pop Quiz Special<\/em> aired a few days later on 28th December 1984. Though there have been a number of revivals since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Pop Quiz<\/em> was a British television quiz programme that originally aired on BBC1 from 4th July 1981 to 28th December 1984 with a <em>Top of the Pops<\/em> special on 4th January 1994 hosted by Mike Read. It was then revived from 21st May to 9th July 1994 on the same channel but this time hosted by Chris Tarrant (Toyah also guested on this series, alongside Pete Burns). It was revived again on Red TV from 14th June to 30th August 2008 with Mike Read returning as host. He also hosted two specials on BBC Four in December 2016 and January 2017 &#8211; <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Please c<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">lick on the caps below for larger versions<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/pq1984b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/pq1984b.jpg noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/popquiz1984b.jpg\" alt=\"popquiz1984b\" width=\"600\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/popquiz1984b.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/popquiz1984b-300x106.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 1984. Exactly 40 years ago this month, Toyah guested on the Pop Quiz Christmas Special on BBC1. The programme aired at 4.15pm on Christmas Eve. This was the penultimate edition of the original Pop Quiz. There were four series, plus five specials, 48 episodes in total, with Toyah guesting four times.\u00a0The final Pop Quiz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3285],"tags":[3292,1683],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41943,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41942\/revisions\/41943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}