Advent Calendar 2021 Day 6: The Crystal Maze, 1993

A festive whimsy and a fundamentally show-altering moment in one, as the fourth of its five kids' issue Christmas specials was chosen as the moment to literally hand over from Richard O'Brien, as the cold open specifies although it's never followed up on after the titles, to the new Maze Master, part-time Georgian dandy adventurer Edward Tudor-Pole. The change in attitude is immediately obvious, less conspiratorial and detached, more strident and fantastical. Tudor-Pole gives it a better go than many recall but you never quite get past someone as large in profile and definition as O'Brien. You could argue this whole show wouldn't. Having these likely easily confused kids on the first show with a new host, though.