From “Families At War“, the great missed opportunity to establish Vic and Bob as mainstream TV stars. This is the Cubiscus, the final round and the highlight of the show. The rest of show was hit and miss, a surreal variant of Generation Game, where instead of learning new skills in a short amount of time, rival families competed using the specialist skills of the family members. For instance challenging running skills by running on a treadmill while carrying Leo Sayer on their back. In the end I think the thing that really killed it was the utterly charmless Alice Beer as co-presenter. I’m not sure it needed a school marm-esque figure there, it was like the BBC felt they needed a “BBC1” face (Beer had been sour-facing it up on Watchdog) to make it not so scary to people unaccustomed to Reeves and Mortimer.