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The format remains a bit of a mystery, but given the rather intriguing cast list, we would hazard a guess that the subject was cinema. Leading lady Margaret Lockwood was in the chair, with two teams each made up of a dramatic actor, a comic actor, and a screenwriter: Kenneth Home, Leslie Phillips and lain MacCormick
 
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versus Michael Trubshawe, David Tomlinson and Eric Sykes.
 
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From the cast list, you would probably expect a cinema quiz, and fair enough, so did we. Leading lady Margaret Lockwood was in the chair, with two teams each made up of a dramatic actor, a comic actor, and a screenwriter: Kenneth Home, Leslie Phillips and lain MacCormick versus Michael Trubshawe, David Tomlinson and Eric Sykes.
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But it wasn't about cinema after all. The game was for the three members of a team to make up a story in ten-second segments, into which thay had to slip a particular phrase to be guessed by their opponents (similar to [[The Railway Carriage Game]] three decades later).
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== Inventor ==
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Daphne Padell and [[Kenneth Horne]]
== Trivia ==
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Revision as of 16:48, 1 February 2025

Contents

Host

Margaret Lockwood

Broadcast

BBC-tv, 28 July 1954 (pilot only)

Synopsis

From the cast list, you would probably expect a cinema quiz, and fair enough, so did we. Leading lady Margaret Lockwood was in the chair, with two teams each made up of a dramatic actor, a comic actor, and a screenwriter: Kenneth Home, Leslie Phillips and lain MacCormick versus Michael Trubshawe, David Tomlinson and Eric Sykes.

But it wasn't about cinema after all. The game was for the three members of a team to make up a story in ten-second segments, into which thay had to slip a particular phrase to be guessed by their opponents (similar to The Railway Carriage Game three decades later).

Inventor

Daphne Padell and Kenneth Horne

Trivia

This was one of a series of panel game pilots broadcast in the summer of 1954. The others were: Music, Music, Music!, Ask Your Dad, Change Partners, It's a Mystery, One of the Family, Tall Story Club and Find the Link.

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