Monday 9th December 2024: Neil has written host town and venue entries for the 1973 Cup Final IAK.

Saturday 7th December 2024: A small but important update today from Neil Storer who has been able to identify the venue for the 1973 Cup Final IAK.

Saturday 23rd November 2024: A rather unfortunate Additional Information note has been added today to Grand Prix 2023 - Semi-Final 1 concerning an infringement relating to product placement and sponsorship. Thanks to David Laich Ruiz for the information.

Wednesday 9th October 2024: Running scores and team members added today for IAK Australia 1987 Round 2 Heat 2.

Monday 9th September 2024: The 2024 series of Grand Prix drew to a close on Friday night in Spain. Details of the final have been added tonight, completing our coverage of Grand Prix 2024. Many thanks to David Laich Ruiz for all his help with this summer's programmes.

Tuesday 3rd September 2024: Details of the second semi-final of Grand Prix 2024 have now been added with thanks to David Laich Ruiz. The final is being broadcast in Spain this Friday night.

Sunday 1st September 2024: As promised, details have been added today for the first semi-final of Grand Prix 2024, with thanks to David Laich Ruiz.

Thursday 29th August 2024: A couple of days later than usual David Laich Ruiz and I have added details about the final heat of Grand Prix 2024, which aired in Spain on Monday night. The first semi-final is being shown tomorrow, so expect an update about that on Sunday. Also today, a final scoreboard and Additional Information added to the IAK Australia 1987 Grand Final.

Wednesday 21st August 2024: We at JSFnetGB have a lot of affection for the Australian It's A Knockout series from the mid-80s, so it's always a delight when another episode surfaces on YouTube, which is exactly what happened this week. It is an edition for which we previous had only the one confirmed team and the games titles, but now we can present the full result, running scores and of course the teams involved! IAK Australia 1985 Round 2 Show 15. Thanks to David Laich Ruiz for alerting me to the YouTube upload.

Tuesday 20th August 2024: Our weekly updates to Grand Prix 2024 continue today with Heat 6, which aired last night in Spain. With thanks to David Laich Ruiz.

Monday 19th August 2024: A small but potentially nostalgic update today to add the BBC's caption card for It's A Knockout to Series Guide 1981.

Wednesday 14th August 2024: Details of this Monday's fifth heat of Grand Prix 2024 has been added to the site today, with thanks to David Laich Ruiz.

Tuesday 13th August 2024: IAK Australia 1986 updated today to add running scores and team members to Round 2 Heat 11.

Friday 9th August 2024: Further work today on the IAK Australia 1987 page and running scores and team members added for IAK Australia 1986 Semi-Final 2.

Thursday 8th August 2024: Further updates to IAK Australia 1987 to provide running scores for the vast majority of programmes and also to Celebrity IAK Australia 1986, which has benefitted from fresh information about the first and fourth programmes.

Wednesday 7th August 2024: Grand Prix 2024 had been updated with information about the latest tranmission (Heat 4). Thanks to David Laich Ruiz. Also today, an update to IAK Australia 1987, particularly to Round 1 Heat 7, a recording of which has allowed me to fill in the gaps in the results for the previous six heats.

Monday 5th August 2024: The Promotional Items section is no more. Say it isn't so! Well, actually, it has just been renamed Collector's Items because I suddenly realised that a great many of the curios shown are not promotional in nature (such as officials and crew identification badges, trophies, medals, gifts from one team to another, etc). There are a slew of new items added too, all with thanks to Geoff Wilson, in Collector's Items 1970 (BBCtv commemorative tie and scarf), 1972 (Luton v. Watford pendant / JSF official's patch badge / official's ID passes for Spa, Passariano, Nice and Delft), 1973 (official's ID passes for Senigallia, Bellinzona, Chartres, Arnhem and Christmas at Cortina d'Ampezzo / coin for Senigallia), 1975 (official's ID pass for Southport), 1976 (Geel stained glass coat of arms / official's ID passes for Leeds and Blackpool), 1977 (official's ID pass for Doetinchem), 1979 (official's ID pass for Ascona), 1980 (official's stopwatch / JSF official's patch badge / commemorative metal plaque, Namur) and 1987 (dinner menu and Geoff's ID pass for The Grand Knockout Tournament).

Sunday 4th August 2024: Again thanks to the kindness of Geoff Wilson, we are able to share a PDF of the souvenir programme from the IAK heat at Harlow in 1976 - see Ephemera. This heat has also received a preliminary Games in Detail update today (IAK 1976).

Friday 2nd August 2024: A few days later than planned, Grand Prix 2024 has been updated with details of the third and latest programme of the new Grand Prix series. Thanks to David Laich Ruiz as always!

Thursday 1st August 2024: A nice update to IAK Cup Final 1972 today, with a Games in Detail section added to describe the games played. As the games were not titled in the souvenir programme, I have taken the opportunity to name them. And... while on the subject of the souvenir programme, you can find a PDF of this document under 'It's A Knockout Specials' as well as a newly uploaded PDF of the Luton 1972 programme on our Ephemera page. Many thanks to Geoff Wilson for his help regarding this update.

Wednesday 31st July 2024: A small delay on my part regarding Grand Prix Heat 3 as I have been busy scanning documents kindly donated by Geoff Wilson. Check out the Ephemera page where you can download the following new items: IAK 1972 Exeter (Camera Script), JSF 1975 Southport (Props list), JSF 1976 Leeds (Camera Script, Games Descriptions, Props list, Timetable and Venue Film Outline) and Blackpool (Camera Script and Timetable), The Grand Knockout Tournament 1987 (Dialogue Script and Games Descriptions) and an interesting curio, a document produced by the Knockout Production Office in 1973 concerning JSF results going back to 1965. Many thanks to Geoff and Neil Storer.

Wednesday 24th July 2024: A week later than scheduled, the second heat of Grand Prix 2024 was transmitted on Monday by TVE in Spain. David Laich Ruiz has supplied the details!

Friday 19th July 2024: A new Additional Information note added for IAK 1969 Heat 1 concerning a BBC trailer for the 1969 series.

Tuesday 16th July 2024: News has come through that last night's episode of Grand Prix 2024 was postponed unexpectedly when an unscheduled programme celebrating the Spanish victory in UEFA Euro 2024 pre-empted it. This means that the Grand Prix schedule will now run one week late for the rest of the series.

Tuesday 9th July 2024: Some positive news to the effect that a new series of Grand Prix launched in Spain last night. Thanks to the speed and diligence of David Laich Ruiz, we can present details about that first programme less than 24 hours later. See 2024 Introduction and Grand Prix 2024.

Wednesday 5th June 2024: A nice update today albeit a small one. Take a look at Collectables 1972 to see the promotional poster for JSF at Sheffield. With many thanks to Geoff Wilson and Neil Storer for supplying the item for scanning and restoration.

Sunday 2nd June 2024: I've been able to add new information to JSF 1971, specifically to the International Final at Essen, following my purchase of a 1978 magazine which included details about the event.

Friday 31st May 2024: Marko Vostan has researched the results of Bellezze sulla Neve 1992 and filled in the gaps that we had previously, Excellent work, Marko. Thank you.

Friday 24th May 2024: Neil has submitted some updates to IAK 1970 (Heat 6, Ramsgate once more) as well as adding Visiting Towns information to JSF 1967. Meanwhile, work continues on IAK Australia 1986 with additions to Semi-Final 1, Round 2 Heats 5, 6 and 9 and Round 3 Heat 9.

Thursday 23rd May 2024: Today Neil has been able to add information to the Games in Detail section of IAK 1970 (Heat 6, Ramsgate). Also today, IAK Australia 1986 has been updated to add running scores, team names, scoreboard and the full result. Thanks to David Alain Laich Ruiz for spotting this heat on YouTube. Round 3 Heats 1-4 of the 1986 series have also been updated.

Wednesday 22nd May 2024: I've been able to add an interesting Comment to JSF 1967 Heat 6 (Blackpool) for Game 10, with many thanks to Geoff Wilson.

Tuesday 21st May 2024: Many thanks to Alys Hayes for supplying photographs of Southsea and the IAK venue there (IAK 1974 Heat 6 and IAK 1975 Heat 6).

Monday 18th March 2024: Many thanks to Gary Houghton for granting permission to use his photos of Procida (JSF 1966 Heat 9).

Sunday 17th March 2024: Official game titles added to IAK 1977 Heat 7 (Crawley).

Tuesday 5th March 2024: Sticking to the IAK Australia theme on which I ended yesterday's update, today I've added full results and games titles to IAK Australia 2011.

Monday 4th March 2024: Today we round off Marko's researches with the full results for Bellezze al Bagno 1993. I'm also grateful to David Laich Ruiz for supplying results and information about Heat 5 of Grand Prix 1995. Terrific work from both Mark and David. Finally, I've also added new information and results to IAK Australia 1985 with thanks to Geoff Wilson for making this possible.

Sunday 3rd March 2024: Full results and audience figures now added to Bellezze al Bagno 1991, Bellezze al Bagno 1992 and Bellezze sulla Neve 1991 thanks to the diligent research of Marko Vostan.

Tuesday 27th February 2024: Something added to a rarely updated section today - Knockout TV. We've found a regional ITV programme from 1995 which included a ten-minute feature about JSF (see NWA).

Friday 23rd February 2024: Between us, Neil and I have done a little tweaking to IAK 1967, particularly with reference to the Brighton heat.

Thursday 22nd February 2024: Eagle-eyed visitors may have noticed that several venue photos have been added over the last few days. These are all from sources which we or friends of JSFnetGB hold the copyright. If you can help by supplying photographs of venues or events - and these photographs were taken by you yourself - please send them in and we've do our best to add them to the site. Thank you.

Also today, a peek at an off-air recording of the IAK 1981 Dartmouth heat has led me to add a new Additional Information note concerning the BBC continuity announcement that led into it.

Sunday 18th February 2024: Further fabulous updates from Neil today, this time to IAK 1975.

Friday 16th February 2024: The second stop on our programme of 1975 updates is CUP FINAL 1975 - thanks to Neil for all the hard work.

Thursday 8th February 2024: Our 1975 updates begin today with a celebrity-packed update - yes, Neil Storer has tried to make sense of the first of those anarchic spin-offs featuring teams drawn from the worlds of television, film, sport and entertainment - Celebrity IAK 1975!

Friday 26th January 2024: A series of small but important updates to IAK 1973 today, courtesy of Neil.

Sunday 21st January 2024: Thanks are due to Neil today as he has sent a further update regarding IAK 1971 Heat 2 at Barrow-in-Furness, which now includes a Games in Detail section. Not bad for a programme that no longer exists!

Sunday 14th January 2024: Happy New Year to all visitors and contributors to JSFnetGB. Sadly, 2023 ended in the worst possible fashion when we learned that Matt Dale had passed away unexpectedly on Christmas Day. Matt's name might not be familiar to visitors but Matt worked behind the scenes for more than a decade, arranging our webspace and acting as technical support - in addition to being a great friend. His death has been a shock to the system, not least because he was only in his forties, and such a lovely chap. Rest in peace, pal. You'll be missed.

Our first update of 2024 concerns a 1971 It's A Knockout, namely the second heat, held at Barrow-in-Furness. Although the BBC recording no longer survives, 8mm behind the scenes footage was filmed at the event and is now available on YouTube. This has permitted Neil Storer to glean some fresh information about the programme. A couple of new items from this programme have also been added to Collectables 1971.

Saturday 23rd December 2023: It's always nice to be able to add a new page about a previously unknown Knockout-style programme, and that's what I'm able to do today: ANYTHING GOES 1983. This documents the unscreened pilot for the Anything Goes series of 1984 and 1985. We learned of this programme only when we found recordings of it in an archive that JSFnetGB is currently digitising for the owner. Lovely stuff!

Friday 22nd December 2023: A Christmas treat from Neil and myself! Neil has made a special update to XMAS 1974, which rounds off that year of updates at JSFnetGB. As a bonus, I've added and amended the page about XMAS 1982 (Quartet/Trio) after an illuminating conversation with the splendid Geoffrey Wilson, former It's A Knockout producer. We hope to be able to further update this page soon. Finally, as a Christmas gift for all visitors, we're reinstating our PDFs, now relaunched as Ephemera (comprising Souvenir Programmes and other digitised paper collectibles), which can be found in the left column under 'Fil Rouge'. Includes newly added Souvenir Programme for IAK 1975 Heat 2 from Swansea! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from JSFnetGB!

Thursday 21st December 2023: JSF 1974 Heat 7 and the International Final have now been updated to incorporate Neil's new information, completing the current updates to that page. We've also been able to add full team details for IAK 1975 Heat 2 (Caerleon / Caerphilly / Swansea), with the Swansea team names also added to JSF 1975 Heat 2 / International Final.

Thursday 7th December 2023: JSF 1974 Heats 5 and 6 have now been updated to incorporate Neil's new information.

Wednesday 6th December 2023: JSF 1974 Heat 4 has now been updated courtesy of Neil's fabulous research.

Monday 27th November 2023: Apologies for the lack of updates and the unexpected move for the site which was sadly unavoidable. As some regular visitors know, I received a copyright licensing demand for an image used on this website. After some investigation, I decided that I would have to pay for this retrospective licence, even though the company concerned conveniently overlooked the non-profit making nature of JSFnetGB and ended up benefitting from a naive misuse of a single image to the tune of £440. I am grateful to the regulars who chipped in and helped ensure that JSFnetGB could continue at a new address (a fresh start was vital to ensure that a similar claim did not follow). The site is now pretty much image-free, which of course is a huge shame. The alternative though was for the site to be taken down entirely - as was the solution arrived at for three of my other sites. All the time, effort and love that I and others have put into this and those sites and it's all ruined by corporate moneygrabbers who could have instead simply issued a 'cease and desist' notice which I would have speedily acted upon. Enough said.

The first major update at JSFnetGB since the move is to update IAK 1974, SOG 1974 and JSF 1974, all of which have benefitted from Neil Storer's fabulous researches. For the moment, the JSF updates are limited to Heats 1-3, though more will follow very soon.

Thursday 28th September 2023: Better late than never, Grand Prix 2023 has finally been updated, several weeks late, to include details of the second Semi-Final and the Final, which were screened on Spanish television on and 28th August and 4th September respectively. The lateness of this update should not reflect on the sterling efforts of David Laich Ruiz, who delivered the information for adding to JSFnetGB exceptionally promptly. The fault is entirely mine. The news is good regarding Grand Prix, which pleasingly has already been greenlit for a summer 2024 return.

Wednesday 27th September 2023: Knockout TV has been updated for the first time since 2018 today, to add information about It's A Royal Knockout: The Untold Story, which was broadcast on Channel 5 last weekend and is available to view on My5.

Tuesday 12th September 2023: Due to personal circumstances, the coverage of the 2023 series of Grand Prix del Verano has fallen behind schedule, for which I apologise, particularly to David Laich Ruiz, who has diligently provided the information the day after each of the semi-finals and final transmissions. The first semi-final has been processed today and the other information should be added shortly.

Wednesday 16th August 2023: Monday's fourth heat of the 2023 series of Grand Prix del Verano has been added today, with copious thanks to David Laich Ruiz. David has also supplied some further general information about the series and this has been added to the Series Guide 2023 introduction.

Monday 14th August 2023: Several days later than intended, and through no fault of David Laich Ruiz who delivered the information last Tuesday, our coverage of the 2023 series of Grand Prix del Verano continues today with details of the third heat. I've also added a 1968 Jeux Sans Frontières press item.

Thursday 3rd August 2023: The second part of our update regarding the Dunbar team has been added tonight, comprising an Associated Events note, a Comment on Game 1 - 'The Spanish Bull' - and four photographs - please see JSF 1969 Heat 4 at Martigny. Our thanks to Dunbar History once again.

Tuesday 1st August 2023: Our coverage of the new, 2023 series of Grand Prix del Verano continues today with information about the second heat which was transmitted in Spain last night. Thanks to David Laich Ruiz for the details!

Friday 28th July 2023: Neil Storer has very kindly supplied several promotional items for our Collectables section. Specifically, they are: a promotional beermat from Radevormwald 1970, the same for Lingen an der Ems 1971, another for Leck 1971, an Italian car sticker from Lincoln 1978, entrance tickets for It's A Knockout 1979 at Castletown, a commemorative competitors' plaque from Xmas 1984 at Blackpool, and a Gödöllő team shirt from Loèche-les-Bains 1993. I've also found a nice photo of British presenter David Vine which I've added to IAK 1971 Heat 5 - and as it depicts him announcing the final score, I have been able to add a Scoreboard for this event (something of a rarity for programmes that have been wiped!). Also, thanks to Dunbar History, I've been able to add a poster for the Dunbar 1969 event, plus information including new Media Attention and Additional Information notes, and three new photographs pertaining to the Dunbar programme to IAK 1969 Heat 4.

Wednesday 26th July 2023: Thanks to the generosity of Roger Bancroft, I have been able to add team member, games information and a cheerleader photo to IAK 1976 Heat 4 from Cleckheaton. And finally, it has been possible to produce a PDF of Roger's souvenir programme from the Cleckheaton event, and this has been added to the Series Guide page linked to above and also to the Downloads page.

Tuesday 25th July 2023: I'm pleased to be able to announce that there's a new series of Grand Prix del Verano underway in Spain - it premiered to great ratings last night. I am indebted to David Laich Ruiz who has provided details about the transmission. This has permitted me to write an introduction page for Series Guide 2023 and to start the page for Grand Prix 2023. Also today, David has written a feature about the series as whole, which has been added to Other Flavours.

Thursday 27th April 2023: Marathon running scores now added to all pre-1974 It's A Knockout pages for heats for which this information is available.

Monday 24th April 2023: Marathon / Fil Rouge running scores added to IAK 1972, JSF 1972, IAK 1973 and JSF 1973. Thanks to Neil for these updates.

Saturday 15th April 2023: Four new scoreboards and three new results added to IAK Australia 1986.

Friday 14th April 2023: Following on from yesterday's updates, I've added running scores and team members of IAK Australia 1985 Round 1 Show 12 (Semi-Final) and Round 2 Show 16. Information gleaned from this heat - and a general revision in the way to present rounds and heats in this particular competition - has caused some major reshuffling of the Team Database - Australia.

Thursday 13th April 2023: Thanks to David Alain Laich Ruiz for letting me know that four, previously unavailable episodes of the Australian It's A Knockout have been added to YouTube (click here to watch them on Macarthur Shearers team member Terry Gainey's channel). I've now watched these episodes and as a result, IAK Australia 1985 has been updated with results, running scores, team members and referee information. I've also updated the Team Database - Australia page to take account of this new information.

Saturday 18th February 2023: The work on updating pages to include Jeu Divisée and Fil Rouge tables continues. Check out NEIGE 1968, SOG 1969, IAK 1971 (now includes an additional photo for Heat 1, Colwyn Bay team member David Mitchell) and JSF 1971. Thanks to Neil Storer for these updates.

Monday 13th February 2023: Back to the early years of Jeux Sans Frontières to add some additional tables to show the running scores in Jeu Divisée and Fil Rouge games. Check out JSF 1968, JSF 1969 and JSF 1970 to see how this change improves our reporting. Thanks to Neil Storer for these updates.

Wednesday 8th February 2023:  A Belated Happy New Year to all visitors and contributors to JSFnetGB!  As is traditional at JSFnetGB, a New Year tidy up, albeit a much delayed one. As I explained last year, my health has been a concern of late and JSFnetGB has had to take a back seat. I will drop by to add to the site when I am able to and apologise for the lack of updates in recent months. That's not to say that there's not plenty of reason to visit the site regularly as there is a wealth of content here to delve into, built up over 20 years!