Oh, yes I've been waiting for quite a while to find this online,
David Walliams pre-Little Britain as "The Lift" on the popular 90s CBBC series "Incredible Games". One of the highly underrated shows from that era that still sticks in mind of many people I've spoken to.
This particular edition was the final one from the first series where Phillipa Forrester, Keith Chegwin and Roland Rivron took the places of three youths who would normally be in their position but this didn't mean that David Walliams wasn't as crazy and full of innuendos as normal.
I can remember when the show was featured on Take Two and some smart arsed viewer wrote in saying how much they loved "swimming to be an integral part of one of the games" but overall this really ticked all the right boxes.
And looking at the credits they'd definitely got the right people behind the scenes, with the format being devised by Stephen Leahy and Andrew O'Connor, the latter of whom now behind the production company producing Peep Show.
And the theme tune and incidental music is spot on with orchestra hits (yes!) as composed by Steve Brown who later went on to write the theme for SM:tv Live and the many parody songs in Dead Ringers.
The show got promoted from it's Sunday slot to a Tuesday afternoon slot in the second series but David didn't survive the move being replaced by a slightly less wacky American android.
I'm pretty sure however that the Dark Knight made a re-appearance on Jonathan Ross's "It's Only TV But I Like It" where contestants had to identify a Silurian from a line up of monsters in Doctor Who. And I'm certain Keith Chegwin had appeared on that show as well getting a bit of stick from one of them after trying to be smart arsed.
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