Going for Gold – BBC One London – 25 August 1994". BBC Genome Project. 25 August 1994 . Retrieved 22 May 2016. Going for Gold – BBC One London – 7 September 1992". BBC Genome Project. 7 September 1992 . Retrieved 22 May 2016. Finding a way to present the future of the Olympic Stadium post-Games as something other than a complete shambles. The Beat the Buzzer round was a general knowledge round, played with hands on plungers. Questions were worth one, two or three points. Beginning with a general knowledge question worth one point, a contestant who gave a correct answer would be told the subject of the next question, and got to choose the value to play for. If nobody answered correctly, it restarted with another general knowledge question worth one point. The first three players to reach six points (or nine in the 2008 version) went on to play the next round. Going for Gold – BBC One London – 4 November 1991". BBC Genome Project. 4 November 1991 . Retrieved 22 May 2016.

Players scored based on the number of consecutive questions they got right – if an incorrect answer was given, their score returned to zero. The score taken from this round was the highest point reached over 40 seconds. After this round, the two highest scoring players went through to the final round. A "first to two" general knowledge playoff was held if there was a tie, using the same style of questions from round 1. Going for Gold – BBC One London – 12 October 1987". BBC Genome Project. 12 October 1987 . Retrieved 22 May 2016. Bushnell, denied an Olympic berth in his usual event of single sculls, carried a huge chip on his shoulder over the difference in social status between himself and "rowing royalty" Burnell who, of course, knew this would be his last chance to equal his father's gold in the Edwardian-era London games.

Going for Gold – BBC One London – 27 February 1995". BBC Genome Project. 27 February 1995 . Retrieved 22 May 2016. New York, NY – BBC AMERICA’s Summer of London programming continues on Wednesday, July 25 with a tribute to the London Games featuring the US premieres of the uplifting drama Going for Gold – The ‘48 Games, starring Doctor Who’s Matt Smith, and Absolutely Fabulous: Olympics special starring comedy icons Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley.

The Semi-Final weeks occurred at the end of each half of the season with between 7–10 weekly winners (depending upon season length). Each week was made up of four daily heats with the winner of each heat going through to Finals week and the losing players returning each day (there was no weekly final). By this point the contestants were buzzing in noticeably earlier as the standard of competition increased. Going for Gold – BBC One London – 5 July 1995". BBC Genome Project. 5 July 1995 . Retrieved 22 May 2016.Going for Gold is a British television game show that originally aired on BBC1 between 12 October 1987 and 9 July 1996. It was revived for Channel 5 from 13 October 2008 to 20 March 2009. The Going for Gold screenwriter Billy Ivory says he believes London 2012 is poised to repeat the success of London 1948. Hugh Bonneville ( Downton Abbey) and Frances O’Connor ( Mansfield Park, The Importance of Being Earnest) star in this splendid adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s dramatic masterpiece. With dreams of escaping her provincial upbringing, Emma Rouault (O’Connor) marries local doctor Charles Bovary (Bonneville), and moves in with him. But it is not long before she feels constrained and frustrated by married life. Ignoring her devoted husband and immersing herself in romantic fantasies, Emma begins a string of affairs. First, a young student, Léon (Hugh Dancy, King Arthur), captures her imagination, but when the dashing aristocrat, Rodolphe, shows Emma the alternatives to married life, she enters into the affair with body and soul. Romantic and tragic, Flaubert’s story of a woman’s quest for fulfillment in love is an enduring classic not to be missed. Bonus features include: A Complex Heart: Gustave Flaubert, a 30-minute profile of the author and the places that inspired him. Going for Gold – BBC One London – 12 November 1993". BBC Genome Project. 12 November 1993 . Retrieved 22 May 2016. The 1987–1996 run of the quiz show each week had seven contestants that spoke English (each representing a different European country, although each of the home nations of the United Kingdom fielded their own contestants) who would compete against each other for a place in the finals. The show followed a repechage format (now common, but was unusual then), whereby unsuccessful contestants from Monday's show would return on Tuesday, and so on throughout the week. Each episode lasted for 25 minutes, including four rounds.

The show was shown on BBC1 in the UK and on Super Channel (later NBC Super Channel) in Continental Europe and on BBC TV Europe (which carried a mix of BBC1 and BBC2 output up to its dissolution in early 1991). Going for Gold – BBC One London – 23 March 1989". BBC Genome Project. 23 March 1989 . Retrieved 22 May 2016.Going for Gold – BBC One London – 31 March 1988". BBC Genome Project. 31 March 1988 . Retrieved 22 May 2016. Going for Gold – BBC One London – 6 November 1989". BBC Genome Project. 6 November 1989 . Retrieved 22 May 2016.