Box Clever

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Box Clever
Genre	Game show
Created by	Cecil Miller; Patricia Owtram; Robert Richardson
Presented by	Emlyn Hughes
Starring	Dr. Sue Kingsman
Theme music composer	Robert Lockhart
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	24
Production
Running time	25 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	31 October 1986 –; 8 May 1987

Box Clever is a British game show that aired from 31 October 1986 to 8 May 1987 and was hosted by Emlyn Hughes.

Format

Two families consisting of three members played a strategic board game with the moves dependent on correct answers to a wide variety of questions put by Dr. Sue Kingsman of Trinity College, Oxford. The winners then went on to play a computer game for prizes. The prize consisted of record and book tokens, and the winning family then took on new opponents until they were beaten.

Winner

The programme only aired for a single series, which was won by the Chiappino family from Southampton.

References

↑ "BOX CLEVER". Getty Images. Retrieved 23 December 2025.
↑ "BOX CLEVER". Getty Images. Retrieved 23 December 2025.
↑ "The first edition of Box Clever, which includes the full description, of the format of the quiz". youtube.com. 2 November 2020. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2020.

External links

Box Clever at IMDb
Box Clever at UKGameshows.com

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[1] "BOX CLEVER". Getty Images. Retrieved 23 December 2025.

[2] "BOX CLEVER". Getty Images. Retrieved 23 December 2025.

[3] "The first edition of Box Clever, which includes the full description, of the format of the quiz". youtube.com. 2 November 2020. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2020.