Viewers grew bored of him, producers banned him! | The Ian Lygo 100% Quiz Saga

25 years ago this month, something extraordinary happened.

People often discuss game show cheaters, and perhaps even make television docu-drama series about them. But what about those times when a game show royally screwed over the contestant? When the producers shifted the goalposts without prior warning? When a contestant was so good they just had to be binned?

Sources
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Channel 5 News / MITOGEN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyQOCsLjYTs
UK TV Game Shows: http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/100%25
IMDB News: https://web.archive.org/web/20041012113714/https://www.imdb.com/news/sb/1998-12-17
Highbeam Research: https://web.archive.org/web/20121023041154/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-60203929.html
Guinness World Records: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/81247-most-consecutive-wins-on-a-tv-game-show-quiz-show
Boom! Spanish Wikipedia entry: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A1Boom!_(Espa%C3%B1a)

Footage
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Channel 5 launch 30th March 1997 Part 1 of 5 / Sticky Tape N Rust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr0YCPmQaXc
Excerpt of a Lygo episode / TonyT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsrzHEJuKpk
Lesley Davenport on 100% Quiz Show (1998) / Bather100: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgMIL7GmG5o
Charles Ingram – The Major Fraud Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SaPf6g87Zc
ITV – Quiz – Trailer | Starring Michael Sheen as Chris Tarrant / Telly Archive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hAIGa2IQOY
Channel 5 Continuity 100 Tuesday 9th September 1997 / ChrisVHS89: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLDaHUqzPyU
Press Your Luck Michael Larson Episodes With Unaired Footage / J Luke Hypernova: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBtJTFr2DC0
Channel 5 100% incomplete and continuity (4th July 1999) Part 2 of 2 / Sticky Tape N Rust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c43kWA909I
100% (Channel 5 Gameshow) S2 E?? / Stressball13: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wra2ePwi-e8
Channel 5 Continuity & 100% Sex – Early Hours Of Friday 13th August 1999 / ChrisVHS89: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ug8qRRjyStA
100% Channel 5 game show / Tdrury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PJmiVIhhYk
100% ’80s Special (2001) Part 1 / Adam Beckwith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFcKAakveE0
100% Finale (2001) / TheMeakers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNAv-NNuWmk

And thanks to Timerino for the animated 100 second countdown clock! https://youtube.com/watch?v=B8m96Rn0CRM

Timecodes
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0:00 Intro
0:28 Channel 5
1:13 100%
4:13 News report
7:16 Ken Jennings
9:24 The end of 100% & closing opinions