This week it’s the quarter-final show Mr and Mrs, so our contestants will be joined by their partners to see which couple knows each other best.

There’s nothing you don’t know about your husband or wife… is there?

Mr & Mrs was a popular show with a simple format. Host Derek Batey asked couples questions about their partners, such as: “When does your wife prefer to clean the valance” or “what is your husband’s favourite root vegetable” and the winners were the couple who knew each other best. Each couple were asked three multiple choice questions about their partner’s habits, likes and dislikes and how they thought they would react to any predicament thrown at them. Whilst one of the couple were being questioned, the other was locked away in a sound-proof booth wearing large headphones which piped in some gorgeous ‘muzak.’

Another example of the ‘hard-hitting’ questions: “When you’re having a meal at home, do you always have serviettes, sometimes have serviettes, or never have serviettes?”

If the couples correctly answered all six questions they received the jackpot prize.

If the jackpot was not reached, the winning couple would receive ten pounds for each correct answer and, of course, a beautiful carriage clock!

Re-made in 1994 and more successfully in 1999, with Julian Clary hosting, Mr and Mrs reinvented the concept of kitsch. Though this time around the prize mountain was better than ever; luxurious holidays and high speed cars, and not a carriage clock in sight!

Bizarrely, it was claimed that Who Wants to be a Millionaire cheat, Tecwen Whittock originally hatched his ‘cough plot’ whilst watching Mr & Mrs. His adoptive brother said after the trial that Tecwen had watched the show and said:” That’s easy to do. You only have to be in the crowd and cough.”

Saturday 12 May 2007 6:40pm - 7:45pm