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Viewer participation competition where the object each week to identify a six-letter word. | Viewer participation competition where the object each week to identify a six-letter word. | ||
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Each letter would be identified via a sketch of some variety, which nearly always included some brilliant miming by host Adrian Hedley. At the end of the programme, Mr Noseybonk (a man - Hedley in disguise, of course - wearing a really quite scary mask with a very, very long nose and a pair of ill-fitting trousers) would run around a park or some such location, with some jaunty background-music, looking at different objects - the first letters of these prominent objects being the answer to the write-in competition. | Each letter would be identified via a sketch of some variety, which nearly always included some brilliant miming by host Adrian Hedley. At the end of the programme, Mr Noseybonk (a man - Hedley in disguise, of course - wearing a really quite scary mask with a very, very long nose and a pair of ill-fitting trousers) would run around a park or some such location, with some jaunty background-music, looking at different objects - the first letters of these prominent objects being the answer to the write-in competition. | ||
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In the early series there would be a sketch involving inept detective "Cid Sleuth", and other characters included the O-Men (Sylvester McCoy and David Rappaport), Biggum the Scottish giant - all you ever saw of him was his sandals - and Pterry the pterodactyl. After Janet Ellis left to join ''Blue Peter'', Julia Binsted provided a replacement of sorts as "Dot", a character who changed from a silver dot on the screen into a human and could manipulate the visual elements of the show. | In the early series there would be a sketch involving inept detective "Cid Sleuth", and other characters included the O-Men (Sylvester McCoy and David Rappaport), Biggum the Scottish giant - all you ever saw of him was his sandals - and Pterry the pterodactyl. After Janet Ellis left to join ''Blue Peter'', Julia Binsted provided a replacement of sorts as "Dot", a character who changed from a silver dot on the screen into a human and could manipulate the visual elements of the show. | ||
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Reprised to an extent with [[See it, Saw it]]. | Reprised to an extent with [[See it, Saw it]]. | ||
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Revision as of 01:44, 15 July 2019
Contents |
Host
Adrian Hedley (all series)
Janet Ellis (1979-83)
Co-hosts
Character voices: John Leeson
David Cleveland and David Wyatt (Cid Sleuth section, 1979-81)
Chris Emmett (1980)
"The 'O' Men": Sylvester McCoy and David Rappaport (1980-84)
Wilf Lunn (1980-84)
Tommy Boyd (1981)
"Dot": Julia Binsted (1983-4)
Paul Shearer (1984)
Howard Stableford (final series, 1984)
Broadcast
16 July 1979 to 15 June 1984 (49 programmes in 6 series)
Synopsis
Viewer participation competition where the object each week to identify a six-letter word.
Janet Ellis and Adrian HedleyEach letter would be identified via a sketch of some variety, which nearly always included some brilliant miming by host Adrian Hedley. At the end of the programme, Mr Noseybonk (a man - Hedley in disguise, of course - wearing a really quite scary mask with a very, very long nose and a pair of ill-fitting trousers) would run around a park or some such location, with some jaunty background-music, looking at different objects - the first letters of these prominent objects being the answer to the write-in competition.
Mr NoseybonkIn the early series there would be a sketch involving inept detective "Cid Sleuth", and other characters included the O-Men (Sylvester McCoy and David Rappaport), Biggum the Scottish giant - all you ever saw of him was his sandals - and Pterry the pterodactyl. After Janet Ellis left to join Blue Peter, Julia Binsted provided a replacement of sorts as "Dot", a character who changed from a silver dot on the screen into a human and could manipulate the visual elements of the show.
Jig (foreground) reveals the six-letter wordReprised to an extent with See it, Saw it.
Inventor
Devised by Clive Doig.
