Aztec

Set in an Aztec village on the Amazon river, contestants have to do aztecy games, like shoot things at a God, collecting the crystal from sand mazes etc. The floor was sand covered, with the cells each side of the zone. The contestants entered the Zone via the Amazon River using canoes to paddle up river. Rick claimed the river was piranha infested. He sometimes wore a poncho, a silly hat, and put on a dreadful 'amigos' accent to amuse us all. The contestants looked at him strangely! I don't think some of them knew what to make of him.

Richard often put on sunglasses and sunbathed, and mentioned that Mumsey made the gargoyles used as timers. He made sandcastles in one episode.

Sunbathing .Wav

Little Song

Ed would sometimes tell a little story about the Aztec Gods

Futuristic

To get into the Zone, the team had to answer a question from the computer on something scientific or mathematical. I've never seen a team get the question wrong, so I don't know what would happen if they did. Set in space, Futuristic had a computer in charge of the games. In the first series Rick talked to the computer and answered as the computer. The producers saw the funny side and later on provided the computer with a voice.

Ed T-P called the computer 'Barbara' and was always chatting 'her' up. Richard used to argue with it, and was always telling it to stop moving the monitors about

Mumsey went on holiday with Duane the New Age Biker during series 3, so Auntie Sabrina took over*, but Mumsey returned for series 4. Sandra Caron played both Mumsey and Auntie Sabrina.

*(who had just returned from Bratislava after being trapped there on a school trip when the communist takeover happened in the 30's. Or something like that! More Richard bollocks! :))

Rick introduces Auntie Sabrina

In series 3 and 4 Richard often played a musical instrument in this zone during some of the more boring games. He usually carried a harmonica with him anyway to entertain us when the show slowed down a bit or he was bored. ('Oooh, time for some excitement music'). One of my housemates gave me a harmonica for Christmas; I think they were taking the piss. They soon regretted giving me a harmonica though... :)

Some .wav files of Richard singing:

Song for Mumsey part 1
Song for Mumsey part 2
Random Song

The table in the middle of the zone often had something on it, such as food, drink, Ricky's pocket money and once they had a Scalectrix set! Richard had a race with one of the contestants until the cars fell off going round a curve. Rick also had to frequently brush cobwebs off dusty contestants.

Industrial Zone (series 1-3)

'Enter At Your Own Risk' says the sign at the entrance to Industrial. H'mmm, reminiscent of anything else Richard has been in?

Richard claimed the games were made here. The games themselves were usually technical problems or a maze game. The zone had lots of corrugated iron walls and girders and things in it. Contestants got in by climbing over or opening an iron gate. They would struggle a bit, then Richard would say 'Gosh! Could this be a key over here?'

Ocean Zone (series 4-6)

According to Rick, one day as he was cleaning the drains out in Medieval, he found the SS Atlantis and decided to restore it. The ship was designed like an old fashioned liner with a central 'posh' area (complete with sofa and wood panels), and around the sides were metal gang-ways. The games here were often wet, and soggy contestants got sent to the boiler room for Mumsey to dry them out.

Ed claimed the ship had been sunk during a war, and was trapped in an air bubble. Only the ships cat (Starbuck) had survived, and still lived there. Although we never see Starbuck. Ed had a projector and showed some old film of the ship sometimes, or entertained us with whatever he'd found in the hold.