The Pressure Pak Show

*The Pressure Pak Show*
The Pressure Pak Show
Genre	Game show
Presented by	Jack Davey
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
Original release
Network	ATN-7; GTV-9;
Release	1957 –; 1958

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]

References

^ "THE PRESSURE PAK SHOW. EP 032". National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
^ "PRESSURE PAK SHOW". National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
^ "THE PRESSURE PAK SHOW. EP. 007". National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 16 October 2021.

External links

The Pressure Pak Show at IMDb

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[1] "THE PRESSURE PAK SHOW. EP 032". National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 1 March 2013.

[2] "PRESSURE PAK SHOW". National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 16 October 2021.

[3] "THE PRESSURE PAK SHOW. EP. 007". National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 16 October 2021.

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