Updated: December 13, 2005 13:23   

Interceptor

With its helicopters and Annabel Croft and mad scurries across fields, Interceptor (ITV, 8.00pm) is an adventure game show with more than a passing similiarity to Channel 4's Treasure Hunt. Mark and Candy, a young married couple, find themselves dumped seven miles apart in the middle of the Kent countryside. Each carries a back pack. One of the packs contains £1,000. Guided by Annabel's radio messages, Mark and Candy have to find the keys which will open their packs and make their way back to base. If they can get there in 40 minutes, the money will be theirs. But lurking overhead is the Interceptor, a nasty bit of work in a black cape and a rough Scottish accent (despite belonging to an actor called Sean O'Kane) whose infra-red gun can ensure that the back packs will not be opened. With Annabel shouting "great!" and "brilliant!" and the

contestants going bananas, the show drums up a fair degree of excitement, though it is often difficult to know where everyone is and the map flashes by too quickly to be much help.

Article credited to Peter Waymark. Published in the Times on 18th July 1989.

Kindly sourced from the BFI by Gareth Lankshear.