Jigsaw (1)

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)

Tommy Boyd (1980-1)

"The 'O' Men": Sylvester McCoy and David Rappaport

"Dot": Julia Binsted (1983-4)

Paul Shearer (1984)

Howard Stableford (final series, 1984)

Wilf Lunn

Broadcast

16 July 1979 to 15 June 1984 (49 programmes)

Synopsis

Viewer participation competition where the object each week to identify a six-letter word.

Each letter would be identified via a sketch of some variety. At the end of the programme, Mr Noseybonk (a man wearing a mask with a very, very long nose) would run around a park or some such location looking at different objects - the first letters of these prominent objects being the answer to the write-in competition.

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.

Reprised to an extent with See it, Saw it.