Guess My Story

Contents

Host

Peter West

Co-hosts

Resident panelists: Helen Cherry, Pat Kirkwood and Michael Pertwee

Broadcast

BBC-tv, 30 July 1953 to 1955

Synopsis

Game in which someone with a connection to a recent news story was brought on and the panellists were asked to work out who they were, very much in the manner of What's My Line?.

To be completed

Inventor

According to The Guardian, 29 July 1953: "The inventor of the game is Mr William Taylor, a local government official, of Southwark."

Trivia

Two days later, The Guardian reviewed the first broadcast, their un-named Radio Critic's view being summed up in the headline "New TV Game Dull, But Inoffensive".

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