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Televisual gold from this episode of Give Us a Clue. Lionel Blair being insufferable. Kenneth Williams? Oh, I say. Gareth Hunt collecting a payday between coffee ads.
Una Stubbs reminding me of an old aunt of mine. Molly Sugden. The lovely Nannette Newman.
And all those personalities kept in check by a tired looking Michael Aspel.
Give a us, such a pure innocent little show, I remember the past master of the game was, of course, Lionel Blair, who regularly amazed and delighted his team mates with his mime portrayals of the songs and movies of the so-called Blacksploitation genre. Una Stubb's eyes were out on stalks as she witnessed Lionel using his hands on Isaac Hayes' 'Shaft' for two minutes...
TV/YouTube recommendations to get through the summer on 18:32 - May 20 by Keno
Give a us, such a pure innocent little show, I remember the past master of the game was, of course, Lionel Blair, who regularly amazed and delighted his team mates with his mime portrayals of the songs and movies of the so-called Blacksploitation genre. Una Stubb's eyes were out on stalks as she witnessed Lionel using his hands on Isaac Hayes' 'Shaft' for two minutes...
You've been listening to I'm sorry I haven't a clue, haven't you?
TV/YouTube recommendations to get through the summer on 18:32 - May 20 by Keno
Give a us, such a pure innocent little show, I remember the past master of the game was, of course, Lionel Blair, who regularly amazed and delighted his team mates with his mime portrayals of the songs and movies of the so-called Blacksploitation genre. Una Stubb's eyes were out on stalks as she witnessed Lionel using his hands on Isaac Hayes' 'Shaft' for two minutes...
It somehow ran for 352 episodes. That’s a LOT of charades.
LOL at why they stopped having non-celebs on the show:
Originally, each team consisted of the captain, two fellow celebrities and one non-celebrity, but the non-celebrity participants were soon dropped, another celebrity being added in their place. In the second episode of Series 2 (broadcast on 5 November 1979), the non-celebrity contestant, London fashion designer Leslie Dean, read the wrong side of the card handed to him and as a result started miming his own name rather than the specified film. In his autobiography, Lionel Blair stated that it was this incident that led to the dropping of non-celebrity participants