"Hickboo, Jargoon, Zurf, Morepork, and Jirble. ""Queach"", for instance, was defined as ""a malicious caricature"", ""a cross between a quince and a peach"", or ""a mini-jungle of mixed vegetation"". The first and second of those particular definitions are bluffs. The theme music for the show was ""Ciccolino"" by Norrie Paramor. ""Call My Bluff"" originally aired on BBC2 from 17 October 1965 to 22 December 1988. The original host was Robin Ray. Robert Morley and Frank Muir captained the teams. Morley was later succeeded by Patrick Campbell, and Arthur Marshall took over upon Campbell's death. Various celebrities also stood in as"
"is, I am well aware, no virtue whatsoever in this. It results from a combination of heredity, health, good fortune and shallow intellect."" He also edited ""Salome, Dear, not in the Fridge"", ""Never Rub Bottoms with a Porcupine"", ""Whimpering in the Rhododendrons"", and ""Giggling in the Shrubbery"". Arthur Marshall (broadcaster) Arthur Marshall, MBE (10 May 1910 – 27 January 1989) was a British writer, raconteur and broadcaster, born in Barnes, London in the UK. He was best known as a team captain on the BBC's ""Call My Bluff"". Charles Arthur Bertram Marshall was the son of Charles Marshall, an electrical"
"Arthur Marshall (broadcaster) Arthur Marshall, MBE (10 May 1910 – 27 January 1989) was a British writer, raconteur and broadcaster, born in Barnes, London in the UK. He was best known as a team captain on the BBC's ""Call My Bluff"". Charles Arthur Bertram Marshall was the son of Charles Marshall, an electrical engineer from Colchester and Dorothy, née Lee, from Manchester. He was enrolled at the kindergarten section of the Froebel Institute in Hammersmith in 1916, for two years, and then went to Ranelagh House, a co-educational school overlooking Barnes Common. In the summer of 1920 his father moved"
"13 May 1996 with Alan Coren and Sandi Toksvig as the team captains and Bob Holness replacing Robinson as chairman. In 2003, Toksvig was replaced by the journalist Rod Liddle, and newsreader Fiona Bruce took the chair. The series finished again on 17 July 2005. ""Call My Bluff"" returned for a special during the BBC's ""24 Hour Panel People"" in aid for ""Comic Relief 2011"", with Alex Horne, Roisin Conaty, Russell Tovey, Tim Key, Sarah Cawood and David Walliams participating. The host was Angus Deayton. Almost all the first 263 episodes from Series 1–8 have been wiped from the BBC"
"Call My Bluff Call My Bluff is a long-running British game show between two teams of three celebrity contestants. The point of the game is for the teams to take it in turn to provide three definitions of an obscure word, only one of which is correct. The other team then has to guess which is the correct definition, the other two being ""bluffs"". It was brought back to BBC TV by producer Richard L. Lewis. Examples of words used in ""Call My Bluff"", taken from a book published in connection with the show in 1972, are Queach, Strongle, Ablewhacket,"
"Alan Coren Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007) was an English humourist, writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz ""The News Quiz"" and a team captain on BBC television's ""Call My Bluff"". Coren was also a journalist, and for almost a decade was the editor of ""Punch"" magazine. Alan Coren was born in Southgate, North London, in 1938, the son of a plumber and a hairdresser. This is a source of some confusion, as some appear to think he was born in Paddington. Coren was educated at East"
"An anthology of his writings, called ""The Essential Alan Coren – Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks"" and edited by his children, was published on 2 October 2008. Alan Coren Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007) was an English humourist, writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz ""The News Quiz"" and a team captain on BBC television's ""Call My Bluff"". Coren was also a journalist, and for almost a decade was the editor of ""Punch"" magazine. Alan Coren was born in Southgate, North London, in 1938, the son of a"
"they are wrong, the team which provided the definitions are awarded the point. ""Call My Bluff"" was first aired in October 1965, with Robin Ray as chair. Presenter Robert Robinson chaired it for many years. the programme was chaired by Fiona Bruce. Other television game shows based on the concept include ""Take My Word For It"" and ""Wordplay"". In Japan, featured the game under the same name. The 30 minute late night game show aired on Fuji TV in 1993, and was rebroadcast on Fuji TV 739 satellite channel in 2008. ""Tahoiya"", originally meaning ""a cabin used for boar hunting"","
"founded an amateur dramatic society, Thorpe Players, in the village of Thorpe, Surrey where he lived for many years. He was a writer and presenter on many shows, including the 1960s satire programmes ""That Was The Week That Was"" and ""The Frost Report"". He was well known to television audiences as a team captain on the long-running BBC2 series ""Call My Bluff"". Muir found unexpected household fame when he undertook voice-overs for advertisements, including Cadbury Dairy Milk Fruit & Nut chocolate ""(""Everyone's a Fruit and Nut case"""", to the tune of the ""Danse des mirlitons"" from Tchaikovsky's ""The Nutcracker""). Other"
"which was chaired by Barry Cryer. Arthur Askey was another regular on the show. He married showgirl Dorothy (née Sibil) and the couple had two sons: Robin Ray, a well-known television personality in the 1960s and 1970s, who initiated ""Call My Bluff"" and specialist classical music shows, and Andrew Ray, a child star of the 1950s who had a long career on stage, film and television. He was the subject of ""This Is Your Life"" on two occasions, in October 1955 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre, and in February 1975, when Andrews surprised"
"in 1947. Then to Chery Louise Munro in 1947. The two divorced in 1966, the year he married Vivienne Orme. Campbell suffered from a stammer, but nevertheless delighted television audiences with his wit, notably as a regular team captain on the long-running show ""Call My Bluff"", opposite his longtime friend, Frank Muir. Muir noted that ""When he was locked solid by a troublesome initial letter he would show his frustration by banging his knee and muttering 'Come along! Come along!'"". Some of his funniest short stories described incidents involving his stammer. Glenavy stood six feet five inches tall, and several"
"television personality, notably on the BBC show ""Call My Bluff"" with Patrick Campbell and Frank Muir. For a number of years in the early 1970s he appeared as one half of a double act, with Jackie Stewart, as an insert within the ""BBC Sports Personality of the Year"" show. In June 1975 he appeared alongside his son, Damon Hill, on the popular television programme ""Jim'll Fix It"". His appearance was later rebroadcast as part of the twentieth anniversary celebrations of the programme in January 1995, with Damon presenting a new segment at the end. In 1990, Hill was inducted into"
"Call My Bluff (U.S. game show) Call My Bluff was an American game show from Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions that aired on NBC daytime from March 29 to September 24, 1965. Bill Leyden was emcee, with Johnny Olson and Wayne Howell as announcers. ""Call My Bluff"" originated from Studio 6A at NBC Studios in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. Two teams, each consisting of two contestants and one celebrity, competed. The object was for the teams to earn points by determining the correct definitions to obscure words. Both teams were given a word. Each player on one team was provided a definition"
"the rumour. In 1962, Holness became the host of UK game show ""Take a Letter"", was relief host of Thames Television's magazine programme ""Today"" in 1968, and from 1983 until 1994 presented the British version of ""Blockbusters"", for which he is best known. In 1988 he starred in a celebrity special of ""Catchphrase"" and appeared again with his daughter, Carol, in a Christmas version of Family Catchphrase. In 1995, he hosted Yorkshire Television's big-budget game show flop ""Raise the Roof"" before becoming the chairman of a revived ""Call My Bluff"" for the BBC. Holness appeared on one episode of ""Ant"
"to change direction and work towards a lighter style concentrating mainly on entertainment and humour. The first two presenters were Chris Evans (from 1992 to 1994) and Gaby Roslin (1992 to 1996). At its height in 1993, viewing figures reached around two million per edition, and it was the highest rated UK breakfast television programme. Along with Evans and Roslin, Bob Geldof presented a short-lived political interview slot. His wife Paula Yates interviewed people whilst lying on a bed, and the puppet characters Zig and Zag created morning mayhem in the bathroom with Evans in a slot called 'The Crunch'."
"married the Irish artist Beatrice Elvery, whose family founded Elverys Sports. His grandson, under the name ""Patrick Campbell"", was a noted satirist in the early years of television. He was a longtime captain of one of the panels in the BBC gameshow ""Call My Bluff"" against British comedy writer Frank Muir. Another grandson, Michael Campbell, later the 4th and last Lord Glenavy was the author of the homosexual novel ""Lord Dismiss Us"". James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy James Henry Mussen Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, PC (4 April 1851 – 22 March 1931) was an Irish lawyer, politician in the British"
"there was a culture within the BBC which tolerated sexual harassment, she says she was groped by a ""famous individual"" on air in the 1980s. Toksvig said the allegations of inappropriate behaviour at the BBC ""did not surprise me at all"". In the comedy circuit, Toksvig performed at the first night of the Comedy Store in London, and was once part of their Players, an improvisational comedy team. In television, she appeared as a panellist in comedy shows such as ""Call My Bluff"" (a regular as a team captain), ""Whose Line Is It Anyway?"", ""Mock the Week"", ""QI"", and ""Have"
"Charles, Clement Freud, Mariella Frostrup, Liza Goddard, Jeremy Hardy, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, Helen Lederer, Carolyn Marshall, Graham Norton, Su Pollard, Wendy Richard, Arthur Smith, Jim Sweeney and Richard Vranch. Both this series and the series before were produced by Mike Mansfield. In 1999, the BBC televised the show, with 20 episodes recorded during a single week in Birmingham. Nicholas Parsons was again the chairman. There were no regular panellists but those appearing were Pam Ayres, Clare Balding, Isla Blair, Jo Brand, Gyles Brandreth, Ken Bruce, Michael Cashman, Barry Cryer, Stephen Frost, Liza Goddard, Tony Hawks, Peter Jones, Maria McErlane, Richard Morton,"
"archives. The episodes that survived in the archives are Episode 3 of Series 2, Episodes 5 & 38 of Series 4, Episodes 3–4 of Series 5 and Episodes 15–16 of Series 8. Call My Bluff Call My Bluff is a long-running British game show between two teams of three celebrity contestants. The point of the game is for the teams to take it in turn to provide three definitions of an obscure word, only one of which is correct. The other team then has to guess which is the correct definition, the other two being ""bluffs"". It was brought back"
"from the chairmanship of LWT, and on 9 March 1971 John Freeman, best known for presenting ""Face to Face"" for the BBC, became chairman and chief executive of LWT. He said ""I expect many people are thinking I need my head examining, but I decided to take it up all the same. The public should have the kinds of programmes it wants, which means you must take into account minority interests as well as majority ones"". Freeman made it quite clear that he expected to have full control within the company without any interference from Murdoch. By early May, Freeman"
"""Open House"", ""Picture Parade"", ""Points of View"", the leading literary quiz ""Take it or Leave it"", ""Ask the Family"", ""BBC-3"" – including the discussion during which Kenneth Tynan became the first person to say ""fuck"" on British television (Robinson told Tynan that this was ""an easy way to make history"") – and ""Call My Bluff"". In 1967, Robinson presented the edition of ""The Look of the Week"" in which classical musicologist Hans Keller was brought face to face with the young Pink Floyd. He wrote and presented ""The Fifties"" on BBC1. Robinson was the presenter of ""The Book Programme"" on"
"as a Municipal Reformer. From 1918-1919 he served as chairman and was an Alderman of the council from 1922-1934. He served as the vice-chairman of the National Trust during the 1930s, but he declined the chairmanship, because he was not ""a great landowner"". He placed the Trust's finance committee on a more professional footing; it subsequently fell to his son Mark Norman to chair that committee through the difficult economic circumstances of the 1970s. From 1933 to 1935 he served as vice-chairman of the BBC, and was chairman from 1935 to April, 1939. Norman married Lady Florence Sibell Bridgeman (1877–1959),"
"if one of the bluffs was chosen, the winning team won the cash jackpot and the losing team was defeated and replaced. Among the celebrities who appeared on ""Call My Bluff"" were Bill Cullen, Art James, Gene Rayburn, Betty White, Peggy Cass, Abe Burrows, and Lauren Bacall. Despite its short run, Milton Bradley issued a board game adaptation of ""Call My Bluff"" in 1965. ""Call My Bluff"" is believed to be destroyed due to network practices at the time. Two rehearsal shows are known to exist, one of which is held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Call My"
"be considered the English equivalent of Bennett Cerf: a writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panelist on the BBC radio quiz ""The News Quiz"" and a team captain on BBC television's ""Call My Bluff"". Coren was also a journalist, and for almost a decade was the editor of ""Punch"" magazine. Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was an author known for comic fantasy novels, most notably the ""Discworld"" series of 41 novels. He was strongly influenced by Wodehouse, Sharpe, Jerome, Coren, and Twain. Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), a writer for ""Vanity Fair"", ""Vogue"" and other magazines, playwright, and a close"
"""unpardonable folly"". Several years as party leader earned Salmond an unusually high profile for an SNP politician in the London-based media. In 1998, Salmond won the Spectator Award for Political Strategist of the Year. Following an appearance on the entertainment programme ""Call My Bluff"", Salmond used one of the 'bluff' cards that are used as props in the show in the run-up to the first elections to the Scottish Parliament. To counter his frustration at having to sit in silence through what he claimed was an inappropriately political speech by Tony Blair at a charity lunch, he held up the"
"personality to front their new programme. At the time, the broadcaster's initial choices included Philip Green, Felix Dennis, and Michael O'Leary, but when approached to front the programme, each respectfully declined the offer given to them. Eventually, the BBC approached Alan Sugar as their next choice, and on 19 May 2004, they announced that he had been chosen to head the programme's first series. When the UK version proved successful, Sugar opted to return for subsequent series as a direct result. When the show began, the prize offered to the candidates taking part was a job with a six-figure salary,"
"decades-long runs in the UK: ""Twenty Questions"" lasted until 1976, while ""Just a Minute"" has remained on the air with the same host since 1967. Other long-running games on radio include ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" since 1972, ""The News Quiz"" since 1977, ""My Word!"" from 1956 to 1988, and ""My Music"" from 1967 to 1994. The British version of ""What's My Line?"" may have been the first television panel show in the UK, with an original run from 1951 to 1963 and several remakes in later years. The word game ""Call My Bluff"" aired from 1965 to 2005,"
"Peter Wheeler (broadcaster) Peter Wheeler (1934–18 May 2010) was an English television and radio broadcaster and actor. He grew up in the north west of England, was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School, and first appeared as a boy actor in radio dramas. He began presenting news reports and conducting interviews for Granada Television in the early 1960s, before working for BBC TV on ""Crossword On Two"", a quiz show, and ""Call My Bluff"" in 1967. At around the same time, he also hosted the Granada children's quiz ""Junior Criss Cross Quiz"". In 1971, he created and hosted another quiz,"
"be turned down by his former collaborator. Eventually, he pitched it to Jane Root, then controller of BBC Two, who agreed to develop it. When it was decided that the show would air on television, Michael Palin was offered the job of chairman with Fry and Davies as captains of the ""cleverclogs"" and ""dunderheads"" teams, respectively. However, when Palin decided not to take the job, the producers opted to change the format; Fry became the host, with Davies as the only regular panellist. Root commissioned a pilot and a further 16 episodes after that, although budget limitations reduced the first"
"of the show, all created by Messiter, include a 1952 version on South African radio, and a television version on the DuMont network in the United States. The pilot for the show was recorded in 1967, featuring Clement Freud, Derek Nimmo, Beryl Reid and Wilma Ewart as panellists. The chairman was originally planned to be Jimmy Edwards but he was unavailable on Sundays, the proposed recording dates, and was replaced by Nicholas Parsons who was originally supposed to be a panel member. Parsons did not want the job and only reluctantly took it, just for the pilot episode. After the"
"down opportunities to work on it as he preferred to remain a listener. The official, authorised history of the show and ISIRTA, ""The Clue Bible"" by Jem Roberts, was published by Preface Publishing in October 2009. Humphrey Lyttelton, primarily known as a jazz trumpeter and bandleader, was invited to be chairman because of the role played by improvisation in both comedy and jazz music. In the first series Lyttelton shared the role of chairman with Barry Cryer but he made it his own (especially once Cryer replaced Cleese as a regular panellist) and continued as chairman until his death on"
"Foundation since 2011, and was appointed Deputy Chairman of Channel 4 in 2012, a post he was obliged to relinquish upon becoming Director-General of the BBC. On 29 June 2018 Tony Hall was elected as the new President of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). On 25 March 2015, Hall decided not to renew ""Top Gear"" presenter Jeremy Clarkson's BBC contract after an internal investigation found that Clarkson had assaulted the programme's producer. Hall and his wife received death threats which the BBC decided were 'credible', and they were subsequently guarded by police. On 28 March, Scotland Yard confirmed that officers"
"as a producer, presenter and DJ for London's Capital Radio before moving to the BBC where, over the next thirty years, she presented programmes for both radio and television—notably, ""You and Yours"", ""Making History"", ""Nationwide"", ""Breakfast Time"", ""We're Going Places"", ""Children in Need"", ""Out of Court"" and ""Crimewatch"". Other BBC TV presenting credits include ""Pebble Mill at One"", ""Daytime Live"", ""Omnibus at the Proms"", ""Having a Baby"", the documentary series ""Hampton Court Palace"", "" Great Ormond Street Hospital"", ""Maternity Hospital"", ""Out of This World"" and the ""Children's Royal Variety Performance"". She was a regular guest on ""Call My Bluff"", and"