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Having reached the BBC retirement age of sixty, British producer
Barney Colehan stepped aside after ten years with It's A Knockout and
Jeux
Sans Frontières, his position taken by Cecil Korer. The tenth anniversary
of the British domestic series was marked by a special feature in Radio Times
magazine and original series personnel Charlie Chester and MacDonald Hobley
made special guest appearances in the opening heat. New costume characters introduced into the Domestic series this year were
the Tweedles and the Giants. In a new development,
winning teams from the It's A Knockout heats competed for the Knockout
Trophy in a special event, It's A Championship Knockout.
On the international stage, RTP of Portugal joined the list of
broadcasters, but at this point, Portuguese teams did not participate.
In addition to the by now traditional summer Jeux Sans
Frontières competition, two countries got together to host the fifth series of Interneige,
a version of JSF staged in the snows of winter, the first such competition
since 1968. Two towns each from Switzerland and France competed for the Winter
JSF Trophy. Competitors were generally sourced from specialist ski resorts and
clubs.
At the end of the year, the West Germans won their sixth Jeux Sans Frontières Golden Trophy, the first in
seven years, with an outstanding score of 52pts (just four points short of the
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