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Jeux Sans Frontières (English: Games Without Frontiers) is a Europe-wide television game show.

In its original conception, it was broadcast from 1965 to 1999 under the auspices of the European Broadcasting Union and featured teams from different European countries in outlandish costumes (often large latex suits) competing to complete bizarre tasks in funny games.

In the United Kingdom, participants came from the heats of It's a Knockout. The presenter of that series, Stuart Hall, provided the British commentary. Wales had its own team between 1991 and 1994 and the programme was broadcasted on S4C in Welsh by Iestyn Garlick.

The idea of the show came from the General Charles de Gaulle, whose wish was that French and German youth would meet in a series of funny games to reinforce the friendship between France and Germany. The games were inspired by the matches between French cities. Some games were played in swimming pools. In 1965, three French men (Pedro Brime, Claude Savarit, Jean-Louis Marest) brought the idea of the games to all Europe with success. Teams representing France, Germany, Belgium, and Italy took part in the first edition of the show called Inter Nations Games.

Each participating country hosted one round of the games, presented by the host broadcaster. Every game was umpired by two "international" judges, Gennaro Olivieri and Guido Pancaldi. EBU announced that the show would be relaunched in summer 2007 after 7 years of inactivity. Due to financial considerations it was delayed, and is now forecast to Summer 2008.

An online petition was launched on June 4, 2007, to persuade EBU to revive JSF.

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