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34: 661:"How many Argonds are around the pond?" This game was played predominantly in Series 4 just before the Vortex game. Every player had a chance to win, and winners received a "Green Cheese roll" or, in later episodes, a "Great Crystal of Arg" to fanfare. The green cheese roll was of use when playing the Vortex. Gandor compèred the game; it started on a table with several 671: 539:
The look of the characters in Argond form was different in the various series. In Series 1, they looked like dragons, and each was distinct. In Series 2, they didn't look like dragons, but were furry, with no tails and mask-like faces, and primarily differed in colour. In Series 3 and 4, their heads
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The Vortex (series 2 - 4). This was the last task in the programme. To return to their ship, the players had to jump between a grid of points, taking turns with their opponent, the Vortex. The Vortex was represented by a video-effect-generated pulsating column in series two and a computer-generated
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inside a velvet bag. He shook the bag, withdrew some drognas, placed them on the table, and asked the first contestant, "How many Argonds are around the pond?". The contestants would usually either count the drognas or the non-blue drognas (assuming the blue one represented the pond), add the sides
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between 24 May 1980 and 18 February 1986. The story in each show was that the two celebrity contestants and a member of the public had travelled by spaceship to the planet Arg. Their overall task varied with each series. For example, the team might be charged with finding a crystal to power their
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The Drogna Game usually came in the middle of the programme. The game's rules of play, format, and result were changed frequently, always with each series, and sometimes from one episode to another. Two players played one variation from series three: one player was a contestant, and the other a
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In 2016, the show was made available to purchase for the first time, with seven episodes from the first two series available digitally from the online BBC Store. The store and apps were discontinued on 1 November 2017, making purchased programmes no longer playable.
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or points of the geometric figures on the drognas, and fail to guess the correct number. The key was that Gandor placed his fingers on the tabletop as he said, "How many Argonds are around the pond?" The number of fingers he placed on the table was the right answer.
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multiplied by the number of sides of the figure (though the contestants usually failed to work this out). For example, a red circle is worth one unit, an orange circle is worth two units, a red triangle and a yellow circle are both worth three and so on.
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that generally failed to provide any useful information until the password was revealed elsewhere and entered into the computer, then in series 3 and 4 a pseudo-3D first-person POV dungeon crawl on a
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accent) down his "Dogran-hole" after meeting him in person. In series 4, the radio-controlled dog puppet was eliminated, and the players guided an unseen entity speaking in a
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flashing column in series 3 and 4. If the human player jumped into the Vortex (which they could not see), it would explode, and the human was said to have been "
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who took the contestants through most of the puzzles and refereed the Vortex and Drogna games. In some episodes, he could only hear when he was wearing his
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The contestants had to complete several tasks to achieve their overall goal (i.e., regain their crystal and return to their ship). Many tasks involved the
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Episodes with a dagger (†) after the number are missing from the BBC archives. However, some of these 'missing' episodes do exist as off-air recordings.
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in reverse and exclamations of "Doog yrev!" when the contestants did well. He appears in every episode of series three and episode 2 of series four.
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was the ruler of planet Arg and was initially referred to as "Uncle" by the other Argonds. In the first series, his human form was played by
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returned to looking like dragons, with ruffs, though they had furry bodies and monkey-like tails and were almost identical to each other.
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on a plant stand. In series 3, he could move around the room and roared and shook when he was angry (the Rangdo was controlled by
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The credits for the series listed the human characters as being played by Argonds rather than the other way around.
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to find the password in the maze. In series 3, the players were guiding an alien doglike creature called a
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The broadcast of this episode was postponed from 28 January 1986 due to coverage of the
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known as Argonds. As a reference to this, most proper nouns in the programme (including
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ship to return to Earth. The programme is often considered to have been a forerunner of
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and wanted to televise a show to capture the mood. The programme had a similar
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released a home version for the BBC Micro, written by Patrick Dowling.
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Originally broadcast in 1984 on BBC2 on Thursday early evenings.
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accent to find the password "somewhere in the north" of the maze.
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Series 1, 3 & 4: Duo in G, Op. 34 No. 2: Rondo, composed by
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Originally broadcast in 1986 on BBC2 on Tuesday early evenings.
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Originally broadcast in 1981 on BBC2 on Monday early evenings.
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They were repeated in 1980 on BBC2 on Saturday mid-afternoons.
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A six-DVD box set of the series was released on 12 June 2017,
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It was repeated in 1985 on BBC2 on Thursday early evenings.
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Repeated in 2002, 2003, and 2004 on the digital TV channel
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It was repeated in 1982 on BBC1 on Friday late afternoons.
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Originally broadcast in 1980 on BBC1 on Saturday mornings.
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provided the opening narration for series one and four.
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The programme was devised by experienced BBC producer
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