Exit - it's the Way-Out Show

Host

Ed Stewart

Broadcast

Rediffusion London, 28 September to 28 December 1967

This was an early evening quiz I think it was only shown in London, sandwiched between the ITN national news and Crossroads on a Thursday night when other regions were showing local news.[Rediffusion were not big on local news!] Its opening titles depicted 'Swinging London' and Ed Stewart [looking like Vernon Kay] fresh from the pirates before his Junior Choice days. it seemed like you were about to see a trendy pop show but in fact it turned out to be a simple word game using big letters, a sort of Countdown meets Play Your Cards Right. There was a voice-only adjudicator who Ed referred to as 'The Major' and also two hostesses, Jane and Lesley, who according to a conversation I had with Ed some years ago, became Jane from Childrens TV's Rainbow and Lesley became Lesley Judd of Blue Peter.

The contestants were members of the public, apart from the last show at Christmas which had Long John Baldry, Monica Rose[ Double Your Money/Sky's The Limit], Lynn Redgrave and Tim Brooke-Taylor playing the game.