@@joemcconnell2674 Yep, the names we grew up with, oldies but with REAL talent are dwindling with the passing years. Mike Yarwood popped into my mind recently...Remember him?
@@gaggymott9159 yes I remember him well. Ken Dodd. And let's not forget about Tommy Cooper. I still remember seeing him collapsing and unfortunately dying! On stage way back in 1984. The audience laughing thinking it was a part of the act. Until they seen him being trailed behind the curtains.
2 members of the men's team hosted a quiz show for Anglia Television, Nicholas Parsons of course hosted Sale Of The Century & Don Maclean hosted the short lived game show Mouthtrap.
Alan Hawkshaw's Chicken Man is always associated with the parody of going back to school because of Grange Hill - the number of adverts on TV and radio in August that advertise school uniforms, equipment and the like, have used that music. The fact that Give us a Clue used it had been forgotten in time - outside YT, that is.
@@Shakyfan1970 I believe the music was a stock track that could be used by anyone paying the royalties. I think the later music for Give Us A Clue was much better. 👍
1:47 Lionel looks as if he is modelling for either Foster Menswear or C&A at the time. I thought he was doing his flies up at first, but he's unzipping his jacket.
The voiceover for Give Us A Clue, when he says and here`s your host Michael Aspel is of course Philip Elsmore, who used to present for the Thames TV region, in case you want to know.
Early editions featured ordinary people on it - members of the public - Una Stubbs and Lionel Blair as captains, two other celebrities and a “member of the public” - invariably a stockbroker or bank manager or chartered accountant or quantity surveyor from somewhere like Surrey or Berkshire - my dad didn’t realise that - so, when Lionel Blair introduced the two celebrities, then introduced the final one - occupation and name - dad - “Never heard of him!”. That prevailed until one contestant tried to mime his own name - the card has the TV show or whatever it is and the name of the contestant who has to mine it on each side of the card - he looked at the wrong side of the card and, instead of trying to mime the show, tried to mime his own name instead - after that, they stopped using ordinary people and just used celebrities! Funnily enough, the members of the public got equal billing with the celebrities in the closing credits!
they pretended to be public but were really actors or members of equity. at least 3 of them were easily recognized as actors in other shows and adverts.
The person who was commissioned to make the title sequence, I think, hadn't a clue that the programme was about charades, and just put together something based purely on the title of the show.
At the time the tune called Chicken Man was library music so both shows could use the same tune & the final edition of Give Us A Clue to use Chicken Man as it's theme tune was broadcast on the day that Prince Charles (Now King Charles III) & Lady Diana got married.
No, Lionel definitely never hosted it. He was team captain throughout the entire run on ITV. It was Aspel who first presented it, then Michael Parkinson. The show briefly returned for a few weeks on BBC One, in 1997, hosted by a guy called Tim Clark. Lionel Blair wasn't involved in this version. A one-off edition was made for charity a few years ago, Comic relief I think, can't recall who hosted it but Lionel returned as team captain.
what a terrible programme!! give it another ten years and libby morris, michael aspel, anita harris and don maclean will join all the other panel members in heaven or hell!!
