Now Get Out of That is a BBC television series, in which two teams compete against each other in endurance tests.
Programme The show was presented by Bernard Falk. Nineteen episodes were produced over the life of the show which ran for four series from 1981 to 1984 and was broadcast on BBC One.
Format The series obtained its name from the initial challenge of the teams having to get out of a certain situation, and to cope with the unknown for 24 hours in the open, in a contest of resourcefulness and resilience.
Title sequence The title sequence didn't have any theme music, just the stylised programme title overlaid with various sound effects. For series 1, the titles were live action, shot from the point of view of a contestant crashing breathlessly through the forest undergrowth, with the noise of distant dogs in pursuit. The barbed wire framed logo was superimposed over the sequence. For series 4, the leitmotif throughout the sequence was a lit fuse burning down to the inevitable explosion. The words of the programme title conveyed, in a series of live action model shots, the nationalities of the contestants and the kind of tasks they would have to undertake in their quest.
Series overview
Episode list
Series 1 (1981) Teams from Oxford University and Cambridge University compete against each other. In and around Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire. Their target is to retrieve an electronic device, codenamed 'The Beast', from a castle.
Series 2 (1982) Competing again, teams from Oxford University and Cambridge University go up against each other. In this series, their mission is to retrieve an isotope from a fallen satellite, and it's a race against the clock.
Series 3 (1983) Oxford and Cambridge join forces for this series, taking on an American team. This series' challenge is to cope with the unexpected for 30 hours in the open. It's a race to blow up an enemy communications cable and escape.
Series 4 (1984) Two teams of amateur adventurers from Britain and the USA have been given the task of rescuing a defecting biochemist from enemy territory in the shortest possible time.
References
External links Series information from the BBC Genome Project Series information from the BFI Archive Now Get Out of That at UKGameshows.com Now Get Out of That at IMDb