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Timeshift - Season 12 - Episode 8 - Eyes Down! The Story of Bingo
It is one of Britain's most popular leisure pursuits, but high street bingo came about almost by accident as the result of a loophole in an obscure piece of gambling legislation. Almost overnight, in January 1961 what had been a quiet parlour game or occasional seaside flutter was turned into a brash multi-million pound business.
As Timeshift affectionately recalls in this documentary, soon nearly a quarter of the population were playing and becoming fluent in the rhyming slang of 'bingo lingo' - from 'Legs Eleven' to 'Clickety Click, Sixty Six'. This explosion of interest quickly led to a moral panic about the dangers of easy prize money, but bingo was defiantly here to stay - and not just as the preserve of older women, as today's mega-halls full of hen-night parties show.
Episode: 8
Runtime: 60
Date Modified: 2018-02-20 08:45:21
Air Date: 2013-01-30
Year Released: 2002
Rating: 6 out of 10
Content Rating: TV-PG
Views: 33
Quality: HD
Networks:
BBC Four,
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