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1 "Big Brother vs Australian Idol" 17 February 2006                      Status: Lost
Teams For Each Episode:
2 "Country Bumpkins vs City Slickers" 24 February 2006                      Status: Lost
3 "AFL vs NRL" 3 March 2006                                              Status: Lost
4 "Stage vs Screen" 10 March 2006                                          Status: Lost
5 "Blondes vs Brunettes" 17 March 2006                                      Status: Lost
6 "Academics vs Athletes" 24 March 2006                                      Status: Found
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'Friday Night Games' was a 2006 Australian game show which was created as a spin-off to the 2005 special show: Big Brother: Friday Night Live which in itself, was a weekly live to air game show featured as part of the tv show: 'Big Brother Australia'. This show however was pre-recorded and shot on location in Dreamworld's: 'Games Arena' at dreamworld studios in coomera qld.
Big Brother vs Australian Idol             
Country Bumpkins vs City Slickers                 
AFL vs NRL                                         
Stage vs Screen                                     
Blondes vs Brunettes                                   
Academics vs Athletes                                                                              Country Bumpkins vs Australian Idol
Stage vs NRL
Athletes vs Brunettes
Country Bumpkins vs Brunettes vs Stage


The general premise of Friday Night Games was celebrities in teams of 3 competing in rediculous and wacky games for the purpose of winning three shows (the heat, the preliminary final and the grand final) and donating AU$50,000 to charity. Every week to make teams 4 players, the show would include a 'celeb to be'. This was a member of the public who would be decided from hundreds of applicants whittled down to a handful of contestants competing in two challenges explained on the show each week. The first challenge (which was recorded before the show's actual taping) had challenges which included holding onto a balloon whilst riding "Wipeout", holding a piece of paper above their head whilst riding on the Tower Of Terror, a roller coaster at Dreamworld, without ripping it or trying to make origami whilst riding on the Giant Drop, another thrill ride at Dreamworld. The next challenge featured contestants playing shorter formatted various mini games during each episodes recordings with the female and male winners of each games then being added to the teams of celebrities.


When it comes to found/lost episodes, just two of the ten episodes that went to air have been found. They are: Episode 6: Baby Night (the entire episode and the commercials) and Episode 10: The Grand Final Show (missing only the first two segments of the episode). These episodes are on YouTube.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwITkpxiq_c&t=1s&ab_channel=VHSDungeon The Incomplete Grand Final Episode (Episode 10)]
 
Some of the confirmed themes of the shows from lost episodes are as follows:
 
- 'Aussie Barbeque Night' (confirmed to be Episode 1)
- 'Circus Night' (unconfirmed Episode Number)
- 'Wedding Night' (confirmed to be Episode 5)
 
1 "Big Brother vs Australian Idol" 17 February 2006                    Status: Lost
2 "Country Bumpkins vs City Slickers" 24 February 2006                    Status: Lost
3 "AFL vs NRL" 3 March 2006                                            Status: Lost
4 "Stage vs Screen" 10 March 2006                                        Status: Lost
5 "Blondes vs Brunettes" 17 March 2006                                    Status: Lost
6 "Academics vs Athletes" 24 March 2006                                    Status: Found
7 "Pre-Final #1 - Country Bumpkins vs Australian Idol" 31 March 2006    Status: Lost
8 "Pre-Final #2 - Stage vs NRL" 7 April 2006                            Status: Lost
9 "Pre-Final #3 - Athletes vs Brunettes" 14 April 2006                    Status: Lost
10 "Grand Final - Country Bumpkins vs Brunettes vs Stage" 21 April 2006    Status: Partially Found[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwITkpxiq_c&t=1s&ab_channel=VHSDungeon The Incomplete Grand Final Episode (Episode 10)]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r63WI0Tnd9M&t=4164s&ab_channel=ForTheLoveOfBroadcast The Only Found Complete Episode: Athletes vs. Academics"]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r63WI0Tnd9M&t=4164s&ab_channel=ForTheLoveOfBroadcast The Only Found Complete Episode: Athletes vs. Academics"]
==Episode List==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! style="background-color:red" | #
! style="background-color:red" | Air Date
! style="background-color:red" | Status
|-
|1||17 February 2006||[https://youtu.be/4En-BbaqS7Y<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''']
|-
|2||24 February 2006||[https://youtu.be/lnzCu_-is0E<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''']
|-
|3||3 March 2006||[https://youtu.be/tULFpYKTSLA<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''']
|-
|4||10 March 2006||[https://youtu.be/9UOfTl-5AkI<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''']
|-
|5||17 March 2006||[https://youtu.be/Uc8h8S-n_kc<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''']
|-
|6||24 March 2006||[https://youtu.be/lnzCu_-is0E<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|7||31 March 2006||[https://youtu.be/Q4r4dq4TbuM<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''']
|-
|8||7 April 2006||[https://youtu.be/nkPa-64haX0<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''']
|}
|9||14 April 2006||[https://youtu.be/Q4r4dq4TbuM<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''']
|-
|10||21 April 2006||[https://youtu.be/nkPa-64haX0<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found''']

Revision as of 13:23, 13 August 2023

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'Friday Night Games' was a 2006 Australian game show which was created as a spin-off to the 2005 special show: Big Brother: Friday Night Live which in itself, was a weekly live to air game show featured as part of the tv show: 'Big Brother Australia'. This show however was pre-recorded and shot on location in Dreamworld's: 'Games Arena' at dreamworld studios in coomera qld.

The general premise of Friday Night Games was celebrities in teams of 3 competing in rediculous and wacky games for the purpose of winning three shows (the heat, the preliminary final and the grand final) and donating AU$50,000 to charity. Every week to make teams 4 players, the show would include a 'celeb to be'. This was a member of the public who would be decided from hundreds of applicants whittled down to a handful of contestants competing in two challenges explained on the show each week. The first challenge (which was recorded before the show's actual taping) had challenges which included holding onto a balloon whilst riding "Wipeout", holding a piece of paper above their head whilst riding on the Tower Of Terror, a roller coaster at Dreamworld, without ripping it or trying to make origami whilst riding on the Giant Drop, another thrill ride at Dreamworld. The next challenge featured contestants playing shorter formatted various mini games during each episodes recordings with the female and male winners of each games then being added to the teams of celebrities.

When it comes to found/lost episodes, just two of the ten episodes that went to air have been found. They are: Episode 6: Baby Night (the entire episode and the commercials) and Episode 10: The Grand Final Show (missing only the first two segments of the episode). These episodes are on YouTube.

Some of the confirmed themes of the shows from lost episodes are as follows:

- 'Aussie Barbeque Night' (confirmed to be Episode 1) - 'Circus Night' (unconfirmed Episode Number) - 'Wedding Night' (confirmed to be Episode 5)

Teams For Each Episode:

Big Brother vs Australian Idol Country Bumpkins vs City Slickers AFL vs NRL Stage vs Screen Blondes vs Brunettes Academics vs Athletes Country Bumpkins vs Australian Idol Stage vs NRL Athletes vs Brunettes Country Bumpkins vs Brunettes vs Stage


The Incomplete Grand Final Episode (Episode 10) The Only Found Complete Episode: Athletes vs. Academics"


Episode List

# Air Date Status
1 17 February 2006 Lost
2 24 February 2006 Lost
3 3 March 2006 Lost
4 10 March 2006 Lost
5 17 March 2006 Lost
6 24 March 2006 Found
7 31 March 2006 Lost
8 7 April 2006 Lost

|9||14 April 2006||Lost |- |10||21 April 2006||Partially Found