A list of Bullseye episodes and their guests

In this part of my Bullseye pages, there are lists of episodes and lists of guest throwers (Bronze Bully throwers) divided into whether they were a professional, a celebrity (in series 3 and 4), or a celebrity in a Christmas episode. On this particular page, there is a list of every episode of Bullseye along with the guest who appeared on it.

On this page: a list of episodes.
On other pages:
Professional guest throwers
Celebrity guest throwers
Christmas guests

The list on this page was originally based on Wikipedia's list that existed at some point in 2024, then got deleted. I have made lots of additions and corrections as I have seen more episodes on Challenge and found more rare episodes on YouTube. I can't verify any of the dates of the original broadcasts listed here - with a few exceptions, these are exactly what Wikipedia had, and I know that some of them are wrong. (The few dates I can confirm - such as when YouTubers videoed the episode when it was first broadcast, or when Jim Bowen says 'happy new year' - are different to the ones on the Wikipedia list.) I thought about removing the dates, but they give a rough guide to the time of year of the original broadcast, so are useful, even if some of them are wrong. The actual episode numbers on the Wikipedia list differ from some other sources, and Challenge sometimes plays earlier series in a different order, but it is still a useful guide on which to base things.

Wikipedia's list might have been made from a combination of old TV guides and what had been shown on Challenge TV at the time it was written. There are a number of episodes missing from this list - these are episodes that were never shown, have been lost since their broadcast, haven't been shown on Challenge, or are unlikely to be shown by Challenge. There are some episodes I've seen on Challenge/YouTube that weren't in the list. Some of the missing episodes in the original Wikipedia list might never have existed, but it's impossible for me to know for sure.

As I said elsewhere, the first two episodes of series 1 were considered too bad to be shown. They were probably destroyed. There was an episode where two contestants became drunk and annoying, and the episode couldn't be edited to be showable. Jim Bowen has said that Eric Bristow was the guest in that show, which, if he didn't come back to throw again in that series, would make it series 3, 6, 13 or 14 - I expect that it was series 3 or 6. (13 and 14 generally had new young players.) Several episodes have been lost completely, but over the years, some have been found and shown on Challenge. There is the episode with the murderer, which will probably never be shown on Challenge. I think this was series 9, episode 19, and the charity guest might have been Deta Hedman. There might be episodes where people said or did things that cannot be said or done now, and if those episodes cannot be edited, they won't be shown on Challenge. Some missing episodes are on YouTube uploaded by people who videoed them when they were originally shown. Because there are episodes missing from the following list, it is possible that there are one or two guest throwers who don't appear at all.

It is possible to see pictures from the sets of Bullseye in Shutterstock pictures and elsewhere. These sometimes reveal that professionals and celebrities might have appeared in episodes that other sources didn't know about e.g. this Shutterstock picture shows the Krankies on the set of series 4. I contacted the Krankies and Ian Tough said that they did appear on the show. Conversely, this Shutterstock picture appears to show Keith Deller on the set of series 2 (because it has the series 2 order-of-play board). However, it is actually from the Christmas episode of series 3 - it was taken at the same time as a picture of the celebrities that took part at the time (Anne Diamond etc). It shows that the order-of-play board existed on the set of series 3, but was never shown on television.

Every professional on a Christmas episode for who I have all the records also appeared in the same series in a non-Christmas episode. If this is always the case, we can deduce appearances in lost or unknown episodes as follows: Eric Bristow probably appeared in series 3 and 6, John Lowe probably appeared in series 6 (actually, we know that he did because he said he would at the very start of series 6), Keith Deller probably appeared in series 3 and 4, and Maureen Flowers probably appeared in series 3. All of these are possible, and I think very likely. I have added these deductions as 'possible' appearances. (The case for Eric Bristow in series 3 or 6 is very likely as he was also the guest thrower in the "drunk" episode mentioned earlier.)

The fool-proof way of identifying a specific episode is with the series, the likely episode number, and the charity thrower, with the assumption that no charity thrower appeared twice in one series (except for the Christmas episodes). For example, "Series 3, episode 5, Duncan Norvelle". The episode number might not be correct, but the description is enough to identify that episode. Wikipedia, IMDB, and people elsewhere all disagree slightly with each other on the episode numbers, so I'm mostly sticking with Wikipedia until ITV/Carlton/Central release a definitive guide. (I don't think there is a definitive guide, outside crew members' descendants having old records.)

In series 3 and 4, there were non-professional celebrity throwers as listed on my Bullseye celebrity guest page. In the Christmas episodes, there were lots of celebrities as listed on my "Guests who appeared in the Christmas episodes of Bullseye" page.

Apart from the charity throwers, sometimes Bullseye warm-up men appeared in comedy dialogues with Jim Bowen in the introductions.

Bullseye warm-up man Bobby Bragg:
Bobby Bragg on Bullseye

Bullseye warm-up man Denny Hodge:
Denny Hodge on Bullseye

Sometimes the closing credits misspell the names of the professionals. For example, Gerry Haywood was once Gerry Hayward. Ritchie Gardner was once Richie Gardner. Sometimes the closing credits have the wrong name completely. For example, in series 1, episode 7, the credits say the guest was Alan Evans, but it was actually Billy Lennard.

List of episodes of Bullseye

Episodes that aren't shown on Challenge TV (as of February 2025) are in a lighter blue. Occasionally, Challenge skips episodes that it has shown previously, so it is difficult to know for sure if it doesn't have an episode.

Series 1: 15 episodes (2 unaired). You can recognise this series by the blue circles on the walls, grey sets and rosette name badges.

Nr	Guest	Possible date	Score	Comments
1	John Lowe.	Unaired	?	This was never shown.
2	John Lowe.	Unaired	?	This was never shown.
3	Bobby George.	28 September 1981	?	Missing from Challenge TV.
4	Maureen Flowers.	5 October 1981	260	Missing from Challenge TV, but a clip was shown when Maureen Flowers returned in series 2, episode 4.
5	Alan Evans.	12 October 1981	215
6	Eric Bristow.	19 October 1981	185
7	Billy Lennard.	26 October 1981	345
8	Tony Brown.	2 November 1981	151	Missing from Challenge TV, but a clip was shown when Tony Brown returned in series 2, episode 9.
9	Ceri Morgan.	9 November 1981	146
10	Jocky Wilson.	16 November 1981	295
11	Dave Whitcombe.	23 November 1981	240
12	John Lowe.	30 November 1981	?	Missing from Challenge TV.
13	Linda Batten.	7 December 1981	304
14	Cliff Lazarenko.	14 December 1981	245
15	Tony Green.	21 December 1981	185

Series 2: Maybe 17 episodes. You can recognise this series by the red-grey-black circles on the floor or the round name tags.

Nr	Guest	Possible date	Score	Comments
1	Cliff Lazarenko.	10 October 1982	?	Missing from Challenge TV.
2	Tony Skuse.	17 October 1982	?	Missing from Challenge TV.
3	Eric Bristow.	24 October 1982	?	Missing from Challenge TV.
4	Maureen Flowers.	31 October 1982	165
5	Ceri Morgan.	7 November 1982	242
6	Linda Batten.	14 November 1982	116
7	Billy Lennard.	21 November 1982	281
8	Angus Ross.	28 November 1982	179
9	Tony Brown.	5 December 1982	245	Starred Daphne Fowler from Eggheads
10	Steve Brennan.	12 December 1982	120
11	Jocky Wilson.	19 December 1982	205
12 Christmas	Eric Bristow, Cliff Lazarenko, Maureen Flowers, Katharine Whitehorn, Margo MacDonald, Nigel Mansell.	?	n/a	Missing from Challenge TV.
13	Dave Whitcombe.	2 January 1983	?	Missing from Challenge TV.
14	John Corfe.	9 January 1983	150
15	Alan Glazier.	16 January 1983	?	Missing from Challenge TV.
16	Alan Evans.	23 January 1983	?	Missing from Challenge TV.
17?	Bobby George.	?	?	In series 9, episode 17, Bobby George said that he had been in every series of Bullseye so far. This episode is missing from Challenge TV.

Series 3. 26 episodes. Contains celebrity guests as well as professionals. The celebrities had 60 added to their score, and Tony Green did some fairly generous scoring for them. You can recognise this series by the red-grey-red-grey circles on the floor existing at the same time as square name tags. (Series 2 had a similar floor but round name tags.)

Nr	Guest	Possible date	Score	Comments
1	Jocky Wilson.	27 November 1983	226
2	Linda Lewis.	4 December 1983	107 + 60	Singer.
3	Tony Brown.	11 December 1983	240	The winning contestants were playing for the Star Prize, and had 98 and one dart left. The final dart hit single 14 and bounced out of the board :(
4 Christmas	Eric Bristow, Keith Deller, Maureen Flowers, Anne Aston, Anne Diamond, Judith Hann, Kenneth Kendall.	?	n/a	Missing from Challenge TV. There are photographs on the internet, and I saw a clip in a documentary about Bullseye, so the programme exists at least partially somewhere.
5	Duncan Norvelle.	1 January 1984.	186 + 60	"Chase me!" Comedian. The final dart clearly hit 1, but Tony Green called it as 20, so his score should be 167 + 60. This episode is missing from Challenge TV, but is on YouTube with its original broadcast date.
6	Acker Bilk.	8 January 1984	137 + 60	Famous clarinet player.
7	Bobby George.	22 January 1984	236	Bobby George still had his curly hair here.
8	Lance Percival.	29 January 1984	132 + 60	Comedian, That Was The Week That Was.
9	Steve Brennan.	5 February 1984	247
10	Nick Owen.	12 February 1984	117 + 60	Broadcaster, newsreader etc.
11	Billy Lennard.	19 February 1984	260
12	Norman Vaughan.	26 February 1984	102 + 60	Game show host and co-creator of Bullseye.
13	Linda Batten.	18 March 1984	205
14	Lionel Blair.	1 April 1984	124 + 60	Dancer, actor. Anthony King was a contestant - he returned as a guest thrower in series 4.
15	Paul Lim.	8 April 1984	203
16	Mo Moreland (The Mighty Atom).	15 April 1984	173 + 60	Dancer. If you discount Duncan Norvelle's score (because Tony Green misread a 1 as a 20), this would be the highest score for a celebrity guest in either series 3 or 4. However, Tony Green seems to have misread the scores here too. I don't think any celebrity's score where you can't see the board close-up for yourself can be taken as genuine.
17	John Lowe.	22 April 1984	241
18	Steve Jones.	29 April 1984	139 + 60	Famous disc jockey.
19	Ceri Morgan.	6 May 1984	209
20	Ted Moult.	13 May 1984	120 + 60	Celebrity farmer.
21	Dave Whitcombe.	20 May 1984	260
22	Bob Champion.	27 May 1984	129 + 60	Famous jockey (horses, not discs or Wilsons).
23	Cliff Lazarenko.	?	187
24?	probably Eric Bristow.			This is a guess. This episode might not exist, and is not on Challenge TV.
25?	probably Keith Deller.			This is a guess. This episode might not exist, and is not on Challenge TV.
26?	probably Maureen Flowers.			This is a guess. This episode might not exist, and is not on Challenge TV.

Series 4. Wikipedia says 29 episodes, but my guess is about 31. Contains celebrity guests as well as professionals. Celebrities had an extra 60 points added to their scores, and Tony Green was generous in saying where their darts had landed. You can recognise this series by there being a three-board rotating frame on the right of the set.

Nr	Guest	Possible date	Score	Comments
1	Jocky Wilson.	2 September 1984	220
2	George Best.	9 September 1984	127 + 60	Footballer.
3	Peter Locke.	16 September 1984	167
4	Joe Brown.	23 September 1984	157 + 60	Singer. The screen gave the score as 217 (157+60), but Tony Green said 214 (154+60). Either way, this is the highest score from a celebrity in series 3 or 4 where Tony Green didn't inflate the score by lying about where the darts hit the board.
5	Alan Glazier.	30 September 1984	342	The winners won a speed boat.
6	Gary Wilmot.	7 October 1984	91 + 60	Comedian, actor. At one point, Gary Wilmot threw four darts instead of three. According to an interview Gary Wilmot did on a Bullseye documentary, Tony Brown had told him to do this. The pair who came last got to do the Star Prize gamble. The non-dart player, who had a broken leg and a stick, scored 28. The dart player scored 2. They missed out on a speed boat.
7	Mike Gregory.	14 October 1984	240
8	Tessa Sanderson.	21 October 1984	101 + 60	Athlete.
9	Dave Lee.	28 October 1984	330	This is Dave Lee the dart player.
10	Faith Brown.	4 November 1984	113 + 60	Comedian.
11	Alan Evans.	11 November 1984	401	He scored 401, which is the highest score from a professional or anyone else on Bullseye.
12	Pat Roach.	18 November 1984	89 + 60	Actor, wrestler.
13	Steve Brennan.	25 November 1984	283
14	Carol Lee Scott.	2 December 1984	90 + 60	Actor, comedian, Grotbags. At the end of her throwing, Carol Lee Scott argued with Tony Green about his scoring, and the camera stayed away without zooming in, so I think she was given a higher score than she actually achieved. According to his autobiography, Jim Bowen fell out with Carol Lee Scott after the filming had finished.
15	Anthony King.	9 December 1984	268	Anthony King was a contestant from series 3, who was the first contestant to throw 180. His score in this episode is in the realms of the top professionals.
16	Henry Cooper.	16 December 1984	118 + 60	Boxer. There were Christmas decorations up, even though this wasn't the Christmas episode.
17 Christmas	Eric Bristow, Jocky Wilson, Keith Deller, Kathy Staff, Margaret Harris, Tommy Boyd, Alvin Stardust, Anne Aston, Emu, Rod Hull, Vivienne Rooke.	23 December 1984.	n/a	Celebrity Christmas episode.
18	Cliff Lazarenko.	30 December 1984	281	This episode had Christmas decorations up still, but it wasn't a celebrity Christmas episode. YouTuber @stickytapenrust6869 who videoed it at the time had the date as the 30th of December, while Wikipedia had the date as the 31st of December.
19	Jimmy Greaves.	10 February 1985	108 + 60	Footballer.
20	Sharon Kemp.	17 February 1985	236	This was an all women episode.
21	Jimmy Cricket.	24 February 1985	125 + 60	Comedian. The added 60 was left until the end so Jimmy Cricket could say a variation of his catchphrase: "Tony, there's more" before Tony Green added it on.
22	Terry O'Dea.	3 March 1985	300
23	Lil Coombes.	17 March 1985	120	No one gambled.
24	Paul Henry.	24 March 1985	155 + 60	Actor.
25	Leighton Rees.	31 March 1985	203
26	Sharon Davies.	7 April 1985	120 + 60	Swimmer.
27	Bobby George.	14 April 1985	285
28	Kenny Lynch.	21 April 1985	110 + 60	Comedian, singer.
29	Eric Bristow.	28 April 1985	?	This existed, but is missing from Challenge TV.
30?	The Krankies.	?	?	There is a Shutterstock picture of the Krankies on the set of series 4. I contacted the Krankies, and Ian said that they had been on the show. Challenge TV doesn't have the episode with them in it, which is a shame as it would have been good to see them throw darts.
31?	probably Keith Deller.	?	?	I'm guessing that Keith Deller appeared in this series (because he appeared in the Christmas episode), but I have no proof, and Challenge doesn't have an episode with him in it in this series.

Series 5. Possibly 19 episodes (Wikipedia says 26). You can recognise this series by the three semi-circles at the bottom of each staircase.

Nr	Guest	Possible date	Score	Comments
1	Cliff Lazarenko.	1 September 1985	261
2	Peter Masson.	8 September 1985	216
3	Lil Coombes.	15 September 1985	131
4	Gerry Haywood.	22 September 1985	215	Haywood's first time on Bullseye
5	Bob Anderson.	29 September 1985	287	Bob Anderson used to be a javelin thrower.
6	Cathie Gibson-McCulloch.	6 October 1985.	230	Bowen said the Bronze Bully is solid bronze. The Star Prize was a time share at Walton Hall. The time-share company went out of business shortly afterwards.
7	Bobby George.	13 October 1985	225
8	Sharon Kemp.	20 October 1985	183
9	Alan Evans	27 October 1985	340	Challenge doesn't have this episode, and Wikipedia didn't say who the guest was. We can know that Alan Evans was in an episode before John Cosnett's episode because Jim Bowen said so on John Cosnett's episode. It must have been one of these three missing ones.
10	Terry O'Dea	3 November 1985	325	Challenge doesn't have this episode, and Wikipedia didn't say who the guest was. In episode 14 with Eric Bristow, a 'Bully's top ten' table was shown, which included Alan Evans, Terry O'Dea and Keith Deller, and their scores. It proves that they appeared in this series, but not which episode. They all must have appeared in these three missing episodes, but I am not sure which of the three appeared in which.
11	Keith Deller	10 November 1985	335	Challenge doesn't have this episode, and Wikipedia didn't say who the guest was. As with Alan Evans and Terry O'Dea, Keith Deller was definitiely in one of these three missing episodes, but I don't know which one.
12	John Cosnett.	17 November 1985	361
13	Steve Brennan.	24 November 1985	340
14	Eric Bristow.	15 December 1985	283
15	Leighton Rees.	26 January 1986	321	Bowen said about the Bronze Bully, "The highest scorer on the series can take it home to keep." But at the start of the next series, John Lowe had to bring it back, so they must have changed their minds. Also in series 6, episode 14 (guest Lionel Smith), Bowen said that the highest scorer in the series keeps Bully for a year.
16	Ritchie Gardner.	2 February 1986	220	The non-dart player won the Star Prize with two darts.
17	Dave Lee.	9 February 1986	300
18	Sandra Lee.	9 March 1986	111
19	John Lowe.	16 March 1986	?	Challenge doesn't have this episode. John Lowe won the Bronze Bully in this series. In episode 1 of the next series, Bowen said that Lowe had appeared in the final episode of this series.

Series 6. Possibly 26 episodes. Peter Evison and Scott Coleman were contestants in this series. This is the first series in which the guest thrower's score is written in big text on the screen. You can recognise this series by there being a red spider's web design around the traditional board.

Nr	Guest	Possible date	Score	Comments
1	Bob Anderson.	unknown	229	Featured Scott Coleman as a contestant, and Jim Bowen wearing a pink suit. At the end of the show, Bowen states that this is the first in the series. Wikipedia doesn't mention this episode, and Challenge doesn't have it. The dates are all from Wikipedia, so all the dates in this series might be a week or more wrong. This episode is on YouTube uploaded by @betaman7988.
2	Rab MacKenzie.	31 August 1986	268
3	Keith Deller.	7 September 1986	260
4	Lillian Barnett.	14 September 1986	186
5	Jocky Wilson.	21 September 1986	281
6?	Peter Locke.	?	300	This episode isn't in the Wikipedia list, and it isn't on Challenge. In the Dennis Hickling episode, there is a list of the Bronze Bully high scorers of the series so far, and Peter Locke appears - therefore, he must have been in episode 2 to 6 (and all the other episode numbers in the series here are one out. Lillian Barnett was not in the list, but that might be either because she got 186 or because her episode was originally filmed/shown later. More proof that Peter Locke was in this series is in this YouTube clip of Peter Locke in series 6 of Bullseye by @bomperballs. You can tell it is series 6 by the red spider's web design on the board surrounding, which only appeared in series 6.
7	Dennis Hickling.	28 September 1986	230
8	Ritchie Gardner.	5 October 1986	305
9	Sharon Kemp.	12 October 1986	200
10	Terry O'Dea.	19 October 1986	305
11	Leighton Rees.	26 October 1986	301
12	Cathie McCulloch.	2 November 1986	280
13	Malcolm Davies.	9 November 1986.	239	The non-dart player of the last pair won the Star Prize with two darts.
14	Lionel Smith.	16 November 1986	365	The winning contestants in this episode won every single prize, then gambled and lost the lot. The non-darts player scored 61; the darts player hit two treble ones and a single twenty. They would have won a holiday. (They still kept their £890 cash.) Afterwards, Bowen said, "I admire your courage... I think it's courage." Lionel Smith won this series' Bronze Bully. Bowen said that Lionel Smith played darts for England aged 52. The date here is Wikipedia's one, but someone on YouTube, who videoed it when it was first shown on TV, had the date as 25/01/1987.
15	Sonja Ralphs.	23 November 1986	220	Sonja Ralph's first time on the show. She said that she won an open in the US where men were involved, and the men tried to get her banned from the men's tournament and the women tried to get her banned from the women's. In the end, she won them both.
16	Kevin Kenny.	30 November 1986	300
17	John Cosnett.	7 December 1986	141
18	Linda Batten.	14 December 1986	186
19	Cliff Lazarenko.	21 December 1986	326
20 Christmas	Eric Bristow, Bob Anderson, John Lowe, Fatima Whitbread, Frank Carson, Ray Alan (with Lord Charles?), Sarah Greene.	?	n/a	Challenge doesn't have this episode, and I haven't seen it on YouTube.
21	Bobby George.	4 January 1987	?	Bobby George was definitely in this series, but not necessarily in this episode. (In series 9, episode 17, he said he had been in every series of Bullseye so far.) Challenge doesn't have this episode.
22	probably Eric Bristow.	11 January 1987	?	I don't know if Eric Bristow was in this particular episode, but I think he might have been in this series outside the Christmas episode (because he was in the Christmas episode). Whether he was or wasn't, Challenge doesn't have this episode anyway.
23	?	18 January 1987	?	Challenge doesn't have this episode.
24	?	25 January 1987	?	Challenge doesn't have this episode.
25	?	1 February 1987	?	Challenge doesn't have this episode.
26	John Lowe.	8 February 1987	(less than 365)	Challenge doesn't have this episode. In episode 1 of this series (guest Bob Anderson), John Lowe came on to return the Bronze Bully that he won at the end of series 5. He said that he would wait until the last episode of the series before he threw again. Therefore, not only was John Lowe in this series, but he must have been the last guest too. Even without knowing that, I would have guessed he was in this series (outside the Christmas episode) because (as far as I know) guests who appeared in a Christmas episode always appeared in a non-Christmas episode too.

Series 7. 27 episodes. You can recognise this series by there being two semi-circles at the bottom of each staircase (as in series 6) at the same time as there is a blue spider's web design around the traditional board.

Nr	Guest	Possible date	Score	Comments
1	Keith Deller	13 September 1987	184	Lionel Smith came on to return the Bronze Bully that he won in series 6.
2	Sonja Ralphs.	20 September 1987	222
3	Dave Lee.	27 September 1987	288	No one wanted to gamble.
4	John Lowe.	4 October 1987	200
5	Terry Collins.	11 October 1987	255
6	Linda Batten.	18 October 1987	182
7	Ritchie Gardner.	1 November 1987	240	The Star Prize was some clothes.
8	Peter Evison.	15 November 1987	300
9	Maureen Flowers.	22 November 1987	310
10	Eric Bristow.	6 December 1987	240
11	Mike Gregory.	13 December 1987	152
12 Christmas	Eric Bristow, Jocky Wilson and Cliff Lazarenko, with Jan Leeming, Duggie Brown, and Bob Carolgees and Spit the dog. It featured appearances by Rustie Lee, Steve Nallon, Denny Hodge, Geoff Capes, and Gerry Thomas.	?	n/a	This isn't on Challenge, but there is a video on YouTube uploaded by @tvtimemachine1192.
13	Jocky Wilson.	3 January 1988	305
14	Cathie McCulloch.	10 January 1988	131	Alan Warriner (no relation) was a contestant, and his pair won.
15	Peter Locke.	17 January 1988	236
16	Cliff Lazarenko.	24 January 1988	95	This is the lowest score from a professional, which just goes to show that you can have good days and bad days. The lowest score from a celebrity was 89 (before 60 was added to it) from Pat Roach.
17	Alan Evans.	31 January 1988	183
18	Dave Whitcombe.	7 February 1988	325
19	Bob Anderson.	14 February 1988	211	Before the prize round, one of the winning contestants said that his wife wouldn't be very pleased if they won a lot of prizes then gambled them all away. "She says don't gamble at all." They won sherry glasses, a decanter and tray; matching luggage; a DIY saw bench and planer; and a remote control cat. Despite what his wife told him, and despite winning a remote control cat, they decided to gamble anyway. The darts player hit a treble twenty, and they ended up winning a caravan.
20	Leighton Rees.	21 February 1988	335
21	Chris Johns.	28 February 1988	306
22	Bobby George.	6 March 1988	280
23	Ronnie Sharp.	13 March 1988	270
24	Ray Farrell.	20 March 1988	340
25	Alan Glazier.	27 March 1988	240
26	Sharon Kemp.	3 April 1988	155
27	Lionel Smith.	10 April 1988	173

Series 8. 25 episodes. You can recognise this series by the presence of a grey sofa on a blue platform, among other things.

Nr	Guest	Possible date	Score	Comments
1	Ray Farrell.	18 September 1988	305
2	Billy Lennard.	25 September 1988	321	Billy Lennard wore a long sleeved jumper, showing that you don't need to wear a short-sleeved shirt to throw well.
3	Deta Hedman.	2 October 1988	144
4	Alan Warriner.	9 October 1988	257
5	Ritchie Gardner.	16 October 1988	325
6	Alan Glazier.	23 October 1988	260
7	Bobby George.	30 October 1988	280
8	Dave Whitcombe.	6 November 1988	340
9	Peter Evison.	13 November 1988	240
10	Bob Anderson.	20 November 1988	200
11	Leighton Rees.	27 November 1988	222
12	Ann Thomas.	4 December 1988	163
13	Mike Gregory.	11 December 1988	380
14	Chris Johns.	18 December 1988	340
15 Christmas	Eric Bristow, Jocky Wilson, Bob Anderson, Bob Holness, Les Dennis, Roy Walker, Marti Caine, Denny Hodge.	?	n/a	This isn't on Challenge, but there is a video on YouTube uploaded by @Hondo20132.
16	Eric Bristow.	1 January 1989	225
17	Maureen Flowers.	22 January 1989	190
18	Cliff Lazarenko.	29 January 1989	245
19	Keith Deller.	5 February 1989	320
20	Ronnie Sharp.	12 February 1989	146
21	John Lowe.	12 March 1989	243
22	Jocky Wilson.	26 March 1989	340
23	Bert Vlaardingerbroek.	2 April 1989	199
24	Mark Day.	23 April 1989	169
25	Cathie McCulloch.	30 April 1989	170

Series 9. 25 or 26 episodes. For some reason, the Bronze Bully only appears in episode 1 and 7 in this series. There is no Christmas episode this year as far as I can tell. Wikipedia had the dates slightly wrong. You can recognise this series by the presence of a blue sofa on a blue platform, and the central part of the audience being only slightly wider than the platform.

Nr	Guest	Possible date	Score	Comments
1	Mike Gregory.	29 October 1989	203
2	Mandy Solomons.	5 November 1989	205	First time on Bullseye.
3	Ray Battye.	12 November 1989	228
4	Ritchie Gardner.	19 November 1989	321
5	Bob Anderson.	26 November 1989	260
6	Paul Reynolds.	3 December 1989	300
7	Alan Warriner.	10 December 1989	340
8	Ronnie Sharp.	17 December 1989	295
9	Peter Evison.	7 January 1990	323
10	Cliff Lazarenko.	14 January 1990	220
11	Eric Bristow.	21 January 1990	380
12	Maureen Flowers.	18 February 1990	330
13	Dave Lee.	25 February 1990	222
14	Leighton Rees.	4 March 1990	141	200th episode.
15	Alan Glazier.	11 March 1990	320
16	Mark Day.	18 March 1990	127	According to Bowen, Mark Day did 180, 180, 60 in rehearsal. He got only 127 on the actual show. His rehearsal score would have made him the highest scorer ever on Bullseye.
17	Bobby George.	25 March 1990	340	Bobby George and Jim Bowen said that Bobby George had been on in every series since the start.
18	Dave Whitcombe.	1 April 1990	299
19	Possibly Deta Hedman.	8 April 1990	?	In series 10, Jim Bowen said Hedman was on in the previous year (i.e. this year), but Challenge doesn't have her episode. It must be this one or the next missing one. The murderer also appeared in either this episode or the next one. Whichever episode that was won't get shown on Challenge. If Hedman wasn't in this particular episode, I would guess that the professional was Keith Deller.
20	John Lowe.	15 April 1990 (Easter day)	200
21	Ray Farrell.	22 April 1990	254	Ali Timmins was a contestant. In the next series, she was a guest thrower.
22	Chris Johns.	29 April 1990	220
23	Brian Cairns.	6 May 1990	340	First time on Bullseye.
24	Jocky Wilson.	13 May 1990	245
25	Dennis Hickling.	?	180	This episode isn't on Challenge, but there is a video on YouTube uploaded by @samhorseman166.
26	?	?	?	This episode isn't on Challenge. If Deta Hedman was in episode 19, I would guess that Keith Deller was the guest in this episode - there is a record of him being in every series from 3 to 12 except 9, so it would fit that he was in series 9.

Series 10. 27 episodes. You can recognise this series by the presence of a blue sofa on a blue platform, and the central part of the audience being much wider than the platform. This is the first of the series with a much larger audience.

Nr	Guest	Possible date	Score	Comments
1	Bobby George.	9 December 1990	285
2	Ali Timmins.	16 December 1990	117	Ali Timmins only got 117 in this episode, but she showed she could throw in series 9, so this was just bad luck. Her score was far from being the lowest in Bullseye. (The lowest professional score was from Cliff Lazarenko who threw 95 in series 7.)
3 Christmas	Eric Bristow, Bob Anderson, Leighton Rees, Bella Emberg, Bobby Davro, Paul Shane, Bobby Bragg.	23 December 1990	n/a	There was a Dickensian theme but Tony Green looked like a confused Isambard Kingdom Brunel. I think this episode is missing from Challenge TV. It has been uploaded to YouTube by ChrisVHS89.
4	Mike Gregory.	30 December 1990	236
5	Bob Anderson.	6 January 1991	380
6	Keith Deller.	13 January 1991	163
7	Chris Whiting.	20 January 1991	260
8	Ray Battye.	27 January 1991	230
9	Mandy Solomons.	3 February 1991	186
10	Phil Taylor.	10 February 1991	180
11	Ritchie Gardner.	17 February 1991	321
12	Jocky Wilson.	24 February 1991	146	Jocky's score shows how you can have good days and bad days.
13	Maureen Flowers.	3 March 1991	147	Maureen's score also shows how you can have good days and bad days. She scored two treble ones and had one dart bounce out.
14	Eric Bristow.	17 March 1991	201
15	Chris Johns.	24 March 1991	255
16	Dave Whitcombe.	31 March 1991	245
17	Peter Evison.	7 April 1991	255
18	Denis Hickling.	21 April 1991	321	Bowen says "it's the new year episode", so the date here is completely wrong.
19	Ronnie Sharp.	28 April 1991	260
20	Brian Cairns.	5 May 1991	340
21	Paul Lim.	12 May 1991	198
22	Ray Farrell.	19 May 1991	144
23	Cliff Lazarenko.	26 May 1991	264
24	Deta Hedman.	2 June 1991	186
25	John Lowe.	9 June 1991	361
26	Leighton Rees.	16 June 1991	207	The winning contestants got all but one prize, then gambled and lost them all.
27	Alan Warriner.	23 June 1991	224

Series 11. 26 episodes. You can recognise this series by the presence of a red and beige platform for the throwers' seats.

Nr	Guest	Possible date	Score	Comments
1	Bob Anderson.	1 September 1991	160
2	Raymond van Barneveld.	8 September 1991	285
3	Graham Miller.	22 September 1991	126
4	Ronnie Sharp.	29 September 1991	290
5	Keith Deller.	6 October 1991	175
6	Jane Stubbs.	20 October 1991	241
7	Ritchie Gardner.	27 October 1991	260
8	Eric Bristow.	3 November 1991	200
9	Dave Whitcombe.	10 November 1991	265
10	Leighton Rees.	17 November 1991	213
11	Alan Warriner.	24 November 1991	243
12	Dennis Priestley.	1 December 1991	265
13	Phil Taylor.	8 December 1991	200
14	Bob Taylor.	15 December 1991	205
15 Christmas	Dennis Priestley, Phil Taylor, Bob Anderson, Frank Bruno, Linda Lusardi, John McCririck, Graham Walker and the Grumbleweeds.	?	n/a
16	Sharon Colclough.	29 December 1991	219
17	Sean Palfrey.	5 January 1992	260
18	Mandy Solomons.	12 January 1992	363
19	Mike Gregory.	19 January 1992	184
20	Cliff Lazarenko.	26 January 1992	320
21	Chris Johns.	2 February 1992	245
22	Jocky Wilson.	9 February 1992	283
23	Kevin Kenny.	16 February 1992	181
24	Rod Harrington.	23 February 1992	361	Bowen said, "It's his first time on Bullseye tonight... he's very very nervous." Rod Harrington then scored three consecutive treble 20s, and went on to score 361.
25	John Lowe.	1 March 1992	260	At no point does Bowen say this is the last in the series, so it's likely that the next episode does exist.
26	?	8 March 1992	?	Challenge TV doesn't have this episode.

Series 12. 26 episodes. You can recognise this series by how Jim Bowen has his microphone attached to the lapel of his suit, and not to his tie.

Nr	Guest	Possible date	Score	Comments
1	Mandy Solomons.	6 September 1992	182	Unlike the first episode of some series, the Bronze Bully winner of the previous series didn't return to hand it back.
2	Jamie Harvey.	13 September 1992	303
3	Chris Johns.	20 September 1992	241
4	Leeanne Maddock.	27 September 1992	215
5	Graham Miller.	4 October 1992	305
6	Cliff Lazarenko.	11 October 1992	323	This is missing from Challenge TV, but there is a YouTube video uploaded by @AN00711111.
7	Peter Evison.	18 October 1992	306	There is a rowdy group of Jim Bowen fan club members in the audience.
8	Kevin Kenny.	25 October 1992	236
9	Jocky Wilson.	1 November 1992	241	Jocky announces that he's diabetic and off alcohol.
10	Mike Gregory.	8 November 1992	340
11	Ritchie Gardner.	15 November 1992	300
12	Phil Taylor.	22 November 1992	299	In the introduction, Jim Bowen did a 1970s-style camp joke that got heavily edited the second Tony Green appeared (on Challenge TV at any rate).
13	Jane Stubbs.	29 November 1992	163
14	Eric Bristow.	6 December 1992	300
15	Bob Anderson.	13 December 1992	?	This is missing from Challenge.
16	Dennis Priestley.	20 December 1992	325
17 Christmas	Phil Taylor, Mandy Solomons, Rod Harrington, Liza Goddard, Mike Reid, Steve Wright, Bobby Bragg, Norris McWhirter, Olly Croft.	?	n/a
18	Keith Deller.	3 January 1993	330	Keith Deller ended on a bull.
19	Rod Harrington.	10 January 1993	241
20	Dave Whitcombe.	17 January 1993	185
21	Leighton Rees.	24 January 1993	300
22	Steve Beaton.	31 January 1993	285
23	Antonio Muñoz-Ramos.	7 February 1993	250	Someone walks past the camera while Ramos is throwing.
24	Gerry Haywood.	14 February 1993	157
25	Phil Gilman.	21 February 1993	200
26	John Lowe.	28 February 1993	241

Series 13. 18 episodes. This series featured some new faces, possibly in an attempt to keep the program popular. You can tell if you are watching series 13 or 14 by how (among other things) the WinMau dartboard doesn't have inverted commas around its logo. The only ways to distinguish between series 13 and 14 are: the date in the end credits is 1993 for series 13, and 1995 for series 14, and series 14 has a Carlton eclipse logo at the very end, while series 13 doesn't.

Nr	Guest	Possible date	Score	Comments
1	Mike Gregory.	26 March 1994	281
2	Phil Taylor.	2 April 1994	241
3	Ronnie Sharp.	9 April 1994	328
4	Alan Warriner.	16 April 1994	150
5	Scott Coleman.	23 April 1994	186	Jim Bowen's introduction at the start of the programme is completely edited out (at least on Challenge), so maybe he said something terrible in it.
6	Raymond van Barneveld.	30 April 1994	220
7	Kevin Kenny.	7 May 1994	323
8	Steve Beaton.	14 May 1994	340
9	Leeanne Maddock.	21 May 1994	186
10	Ronnie Baxter.	28 May 1994	251
11	Graham Miller.	4 June 1994	245
12	Kevin Painter.	11 June 1994	380
13	Cliff Lazarenko.	18 June 1994	266
14	Geoff Williams.	25 June 1994	151
15	Eric Burden.	2 July 1994	207
16	Bobby George.	9 July 1994	201
17	Ian Carpenter.	16 July 1994	260
18	Dennis Priestley.	23 July 1994	285

Series 14. For series 14, all I am sure about are the episodes that Challenge shows and their guest throwers. The missing episodes might not have existed, or there might be more episodes that did exist that are missing.

Throughout Bullseye's history, no guest ever appeared twice in the same series (ignoring Christmas episodes). My guess is that series 13 and 14 were filmed at the same time, and intended to be a sort of "double series". None of the guests that I know for sure appeared in series 14 also appeared in series 13. Kevin Painter and Dennis Priestley were in series 13, so I wonder if they were actually in series 14. It might be that when series 14 was originally shown on television, it only had seven episodes, and they were mixed with old episodes from series 13. Few people would have noticed, and TV guides from back then wouldn't indicate this.

Nr	Guest	Possible date	Score	Comments
1	Rod Harrington.	1 April 1995	201	Wikipedia had Kevin Painter as the first episode in the series, but the Rod Harrington episode is definitely the first as Jim Bowen said so on the show.
2	Kevin Painter?	8 April 1995	?	Wikipedia said that Kevin Painter was in this series, but I don't know that he was. This episode is missing from Challenge.
3	Paul Williams.	15 April 1995	166
4	Dave Lee.	22 April 1995	241
5	?	29 April 1995	?	This episode is missing from Challenge.
6	Martin Adams.	6 May 1995	226
7	?	13 May 1995	?	This episode is missing from Challenge.
8	Martin Phillips.	20 May 1995	185
9	David Richardson-Page.	27 May 1995	260
10	Mandy Solomons.	3 June 1995	180
11	?	10 June 1995	?	This episode is missing from Challenge.
12	?	1 July 1995	?	This episode is missing from Challenge.
13	Dennis Priestley?	8 July 1995	?	Wikipedia said Dennis Priestley was in this series, but I don't know that he was. This episode is missing from Challenge.

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Acknowledgements / Sources

Thanks to: the Challenge TV channel. It's number 48 on Freeview. If it wasn't for Challenge, Bullseye would just be a distant memory for us all. I'm sure that Challenge continuing to show Bullseye is what has kept darts alive over the last decade or more.

Thanks to the following: (if you want to find rare episodes of Bullseye, the YouTube links are very useful, but you'll usually need to identify the series and episode yourself. Learn how to do that in my guide to identifying episodes of Bullseye.)

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