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BBC Playback gives the Crump brothers their quiz-show rematch

Steve Coogan's character comedy heads five new archive uploads, with parenting disputes, Jonathan Creek mysteries and Pippin also on the schedule.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Meet Guy Crump... | Coogan's Run | BBC Playback

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0:00Stuart and Guy sing along during a drive towards Blockbuster.
1:18The brothers rapidly answer questions on an arcade quiz machine.
2:20A rooftop hostage situation becomes a recreation of the 1975 Top of the Class final.
3:23A flashback reveals the original Banana Splits tiebreaker question.
4:50The rematch reaches its decisive answer.

The quiz isn't over. For the Crump half-brothers in Coogan's Run, losing a school television final in 1975 is unfinished business, and their attempt to recreate it becomes a rooftop hostage farce.

BBC Playback's archive compilation "Meet Guy Crump... | Coogan's Run | BBC Playback" was the most-watched of its five new uploads, reaching about 11,000 views. Before the elaborate rematch, Stuart and Guy put their trivia knowledge to work on an arcade quiz machine. A flashback then reveals the old sticking point: a question about The Banana Splits. Viewers return to that reference in the comments, while one asks for a full-length version of the brothers' Blockbuster adventure.

Elsewhere, "After You've Gone: Parenting Skills | Series 1 | BBC Playback" revisits Jimmy and Diana's competing approaches to bringing up children, with Nicholas Lyndhurst and Celia Imrie supplying the domestic friction. Jonathan Creek gets both a full episode and a highlights edit, while Come Outside brings Auntie Mabel and Pippin into the week's mix.

The older After You've Gone upload "The Night Prowler" has the strongest daily viewing among the highlighted videos, with the newly posted Pippin rescue close behind. Channel-wide daily views are below half their usual pace, though the subscriber total held steady across the week. Among similarly sized television channels, BBC Playback's weekly view gain sits below NCIS and close to Channel 4 Food: a substantial week's viewing for an archive spanning sitcom parenting and fiercely overcommitted quiz contestants.

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What viewers say

Gonna need a full lenght version of the Crump's Blockbuster
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This was brilliant, Banana Splits reference and all ❤️
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Paul Calf just needed a blank tape and nobody gave it to him
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