A four-person panel including one guest panelist was given three minutes to guess a mystery fad, item or person from the past.
The quiz show approach of Flashback resembled that of Front Page Challenge.
The initial panelists were Maggie Morris, Allan Manings and Alan Millar.
[1] Soles remarked that the program's intention was to foster "a pleasant sense of nostalgia.
Its debut was 23 September 1962, and its final episode was broadcast 16 June 1968.