The Fuse was a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 game show, broadcast on ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

. It was hosted by Austin Healey

Austin Healey

Austin Sean Healey is a former English rugby union player, who played as a utility back for Leicester Tigers, and has represented the England national rugby union team and the British Lions....

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Format

Six contestants worked as a team to rescue fuse boxes, to save money from going up in Smoke. By round three, only two contestants were left, one of which got eliminated. In the final round the one remaining contestant had to answer six rapid fire questions, each on a different topic, in order to win the cash that had been amassed so far.