Star Turn
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Host
Bernard Cribbins (1976-78)
Graeme Garden (1979-81)
Broadcast
BBC 1, 5 May 1976-19 July 1981 (61 programmes)
Synopsis
Charades competition aimed at kids but actually featuring two teams of kid-friendly adults. Two teams of performers were given various performance tasks (singing, telling jokes, telling stories, etc.). We assume there was some metric for deciding who did them the best.
Trivia
Strangely seems to have changed its title between Star Turn and Star Turn Challenge on a regular basis. Michael Hoskin comes to our rescue: "From memory, the celebrities on the teams on "Star Turn" had no particular connection with each other. But on "Star Turn Challenge", each team represented a group of linked people. E.g. once they had Edmonds, Chegwin and Philbin on one team representing Swap Shop." They played the cast of Angels. Another classic matchup was The Goodies vs The Liver Birds.
Noted for its manual "card-flipping"-style scoreboard.
