The two team captains, Una Stubbs and Lionel Blair, died within three months of each other. Una Stubbs passed in August 2021 while Lionel Blair followed her in November 2021.
For a while the show shared its signature tune (Alan Hawkshaw's 1975 track "Chicken Man") with the BBC school series Grange Hill (1978).
The first two series featured two guest celebrities plus a member of the public on each team, but from series 3 on it was upped to three guest celebrities.