The pair then swapped places - and Batey would compare the couple's answers about each other. If they got one question correct they won £10 but if they concurred on all six they scooped the jackpot of up to £2,000.
Losers were consoled by a carriage clock - although the fun would always be to see how they reacted when they realised they did not know their spouse as well as they thought they did.
In 1988, after falling audiences meant the show was shunted back to daytime, it was pulled by ITV. There have already been two attempts to bring it back.
A 1994 UK Living version called The New Mr and Mrs failed to find any fans while an 'ironic' kitsch ITV revival in 1999, hosted by Julian Clary, fared even worse - and just six episodes were made.
Yet the show has not disappeared-from the public mind. Batey, now 77, has brought out a board game and interactive DVD featuring the sort of questions that would have appeared on screen and he also had a successful cabaret act.
A spokesman for Celador said the company believed there was still a market for the show, and insisted it would not be following the 'camp' route of the Clary programme.
He said: 'It is still at the developmental stage and we are working out whether it is just married couples or if it will be open to people with all sorts of relationships.
'A lot of how the final version will look, as well as who will be the host, will depend on what network picks it up.'
