Everyone thought she would be really bad at it but in fact, she managed to pull quite an audience, and in fact, the show was later renamed "Lily Savage's Blankety Blank" as a result, which was actually a rather dubious honour, but then she was a rather dubious character. This was the show where the star prize was a house, so the consolation was a teapot in the shape of a house, often known as “Bob’s Bungalow” (after host Bob Holness). We even have junior versions of these games and an array of brain games to get your kids thinking and help sharpen their minds.

The winning player was allowed to ask three of the celebs as to what they thought the most popular filler was and afterwards the player was allowed to take one of their words or come up with one of their own. There used to be a time when however good or bad they did, game show contestants would be given consolation prizes for taking part.

It’s really isn’t an exaggeration to say that it was more valuable than most of the actual prizes on offer.

Although points get lost when the contestants give stupid answers, or the panellists give funny - sorry, "funny" - answers, both of which happen here, really they can be forgiven for low scores when the answer could almost be anything. I contacted the group, who realised they'd made a mistake, took the ratings down, then uploaded a corrected version a week later (4.

Bearing in mind that even genuinely amusing moments from the panellists were shot down in flames by Les Dawson, then here every remark from a contestant or panellist that's worthy of a half-smile has Bradley having to prop himself up on the set so he can keep standing. It's not that the original Blankety Blank didn't scrape the barrel on more than the odd occasion, but Kemp became the "digital presenter and social media correspondent" for The X-Factor, and then branched out into Celebrity Gogglebox and I'm A Celebrity. The legend was revealed revealing a two-word phrase with one word blanked out - examples included: 'Traffic ____', 'Punch ____' and '____ Chop' - make of those what you will. Not long after this, at the end of 1997 Blankety Blank was revived, this time hosted by Paul O’Grady as his Lily Savage character, and the show continued in the usual style. This is based on the American game show The Match Game, and launched before the British version, the slightly differently-titled Blankety Blank.

In covering the original run of Blankety Blank I can not only look at it from today's perspective, but have the benefit of having lived through the time when it originally aired, meaning there's a dual perspective on some of the "dodgier" elements that I can present. Elvis, although had the episode been filmed nearer the broadcast date, then Charles may have muddied the waters a bit. Contestant A substitutes a word for 'BLANK' in doing so, Contestant A tries to guess the answers given by the panel. By the mid-2000s he was in Coronation Street, placed into the cast as one of the several shock secret sons of Mike Baldwin. Terry claims that Larry is being "cocky", while one of Barbara's answers has to be censored for the viewers at home.Contents: Question cards, reveal sleeve, four wipe-clean boards, two dry-wipe pens, score pad, rule sheet, ‘chequebook and pen’ trophy card. Here Bradley finds himself doing it, explaining that the winner of the competition "literally" goes on to the Supermatch. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. Compere asks contestant A the question which appears on the 'Contestant A' side at the top of the panel wallet.

We held a poll with the studio audience to ascertain what they thought was a correct phrase or saying.An outtake that was shown on the BBC's 'Auntie's Bloomers' showed a technician trying to deal with some rapidly-disappearing décor from the revolving set, including the contestants' name-panels, and host Dawson saying to him, with perhaps a little too much relish, "It's not just me that makes the cock-ups, is it? By the late-2000s, there was Spin Star, a short-lived game show that had the gimmick of being based around a large fruit machine, but it looked like his career was beginning to get stuck in hosting fairly average daytime game shows. He also had a show on ITV around this time (that I reviewed a while ago), and it seems that he was popular in America in the early-90s too. One last point of trivia for this edition is that if you don't count unofficial charity specials or that episode of Gameshow Marathon (and who does?