Parlour Games
Synopsis
A (fairly) regular strand featuring various different panel games, produced by Neil Munro, who also usually set the questions and sometimes hosted.
- Reactions (Regional Programme, 14 May 1939), host Freddie Grisewood.
- Contestants attempt to identify famous people from the fewest possible clues.
- Noah's Ark (Regional Programme, 16 July 1939), host Freddie Grisewood.
- Contestants identify songs, poems and quotations featuring the names of animals.
- Puzzle Corner (Regional Programme, 30 July 1939), host Lionel Gamlin.
- Memory Test (National Programme, 13 August 1939), host Freddie Grisewood.
- Audio version of an observation quiz.
- Adverbs (Home Service, 7 September 1939)
- One player asks questions, which are answered in the way suggested by a particular adverb. The player has to guess the adverb.
- My Aunt Went To Town (Home Service, 10 September 1939)
- A version of the "I Packed My Bag" memory game.
- Proverbs (Home Service, 17 September 1939)
- The individual words of a proverb are hidden in the answers to successive questions. The player has to work out the proverb.
- A.R.P. General Knowledge Test (Home Service, 24 September 1939)
- Quiz about the work of the Air Raid Precautions service.
- Coffee Pots (Home Service, 1 October 1939), host David Miller
- A version of Twenty Questions.
- Ghost Spelling (Home Service, 8 October 1939), host Norman Shelley
- Adding one letter at a time to a word without completing it.
- Word Splits (Home Service, 15 October 1939), host David Miller
- Players make the most and longest words out of the letters of another.
- Salted Almonds (Home Service, 5 November 1939), host David Miller
- Christmas Shopping (Home Service, 17 December 1939), host David Miller
- The '"I packed my bag" game in another guise.
- Word Squares (Home Service, 28 January 1940), host David Miller
- Emergencies (Home Service, 18 February 1940), host David Miller
- Free Association (Forces Programme, 23 February 1940), host David Miller
- Word association as per Mallett's Mallet.
- How, When and Where (Forces Programme, 5 March 1940), host David Miller
- I Went Sight Seeing (Forces Programme, 11 March 1940), host David Miller
- Another "I packed my bag" variant.
- Musical Proverbs (Forces Programme, 22 March 1940), host David Miller
- Adverbs (Forces Programme, 27 March 1940), host David Miller
- Alibi (Home Service, 31 March 1940), host Freddie Grisewood
- Pairs of "alibists" are questioned separately about what they were doing when a crime was committed, and try to make their stories match.
- Yes, Mmmm or No (Forces Programme, 1 April 1940), host David Miller
- The "Yes/No interlude", some years before Michael Miles made it his own.
- Ask It Basket (Forces Programme, 4 April 1940), host David Miller
- Word Snooker (Forces Programme, 9 April 1940), host David Miller
- Take a word, change a letter, do it again and you've got a chain! That's how you play Word Snooker...
- Mystery Cruise (Forces Programme, 10 April 1940), hosts David Miller and Eddie Pola
- Contestants try to identify mystery items packed for a cruise.
- Alliteration (Forces Programme, 17 April 1940), host David Miller
- Making up sentences that are alliterative.
- Truth (Home Service, 21 April 1940), host David Miller
- Reactions (Forces Programme, 22 April 1940), host David Miller
- Paint Box (Forces Programme, 2 April 1940), host David Miller
- Naming songs with colours in the title.
- I Hide and I Find (Forces Programme, 17 May 1940), host David Miller
- Telegrams (Home Service, 26 May 1940), host David Miller
- Truth (Forces Programme, 2 June 1940), host David Miller
- Ships (Forces Programme, 10 June 1940), host Raymond Glendenning
- Involved alliteration somehow.
- Limerick Race (Forces Programme, 26 June 1940), host Freddie Grisewood
- How Many? (Forces programme, 17 July 1940), host Lionel Gamlin
- Quiz on a numerical theme.
- Rhyme, Initials, Celebrities' Names (Forces Programme, 25 July 1940), host Lionel Gamlin
- Identifying celebrities from limerick clues.
- Melody Match (Forces Programme, 29 July 1940), host not known
- Something like Name That Tune?
- Analogy Bee (Home Service, 4 August 1940), host Frank Phllips
- Small Ads (Forces Programme, 16 August 1940), host Freddie Grisewood
- I've Heard It (Forces Programme, 18 August 1940), host Neil Munro
- What? (Forces Programme, 25 August 1940), host Frank Phillips
- General knowledge quiz.
- The Working Man's Signature Tune (1 September 1940), host Reginald Foort
- Rime Time (Forces Programme, 26 August 1940), host Lionel Gamlin
- As Quick as You Can (Forces Programme, 3 November 1940), host Lionel Gamlin
- More Salted Almonds (Forces Programme, 14 October 1940), host not known
- Pedantic Proverbs (Home Service, 27 October 1940), host Freddie Grisewood
- Identifying common proverbs phrased in an unusual manner.
- Inanimate Animals (Forces Programme, 1 December 1940), host Lionel Gamlin
- Word Snakes (Home Service, 8 December 1940), host not known
- That Name Suggests (Home Service, 5 January 1941), host Lionel Gamlin
- Backward Ballads (Forces Programme, 28 January 1941), host Lionel Gamlin
- Rime Time (Forces Programme, 1 March 1941), host Freddie Grisewood
- Hesitations (Forces Programme, 28 March 1941), host not known
- Can You Beat It? (Forces Programme, 29 March 1941), host Carroll Levis
- Free Association (Home Service, 29 March 1941)
- Inanimate Animals (Home Service, 20 April 1941)
- Progressive Thought (Home Service, 27 April 1941)
- Snap! (Home Service, 18 May 1941)
- Rime Time (Home Service, 17 August 1941)
- Rhymes With Reason (Forces Programme, 27 September 1941)
- Inventors In The Dictionary (Forces Programme, 12 October 1941), host Neil Munro
- The Implausible Punster (Home Service, 22 November 1941), host Neil Munro
- Rime Time (Forces Programme, 20 December 1941), host Neil Munro
- Hidden Personalities (Home Service, 25 December 1941), host Neil Munro
- Sing on the Dotted Line (Home Service, 26 December 1941), host Neil Munro
- I Love My Love With A Song (Home Service, 26 January 1942), host Neil Munro
