My Wildest Dream
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Host
"Peacemaker": Kenneth McLeod (May to September 1956), Roy Rich (September to December 1956), Paul Carpenter (1957)
Co-host
Regular panellists: Tommy Trinder, David Nixon, Alfred Marks, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Gray (replaced David Nixon in 1957 series)
Broadcast
BBC Home Service, 1955
Granada for ITV, 15 May 1956 to 4 or 11 June 1957
Synopsis
One of Granada TV's first gameshows and possibly the first transition of any programme from the BBC to ITV.
Four comedians/actors (two of which were always Tommy Trinder and David Nixon) pitted their wits against each other to try and find out the 'wild dreams' of members of the public. Roy Rich, later to become a supremo at Southern Television, kept the peace between the panel and the public.
Three shows were recorded in an afternoon. Incidentally, the 'studio challengers' were paid £5 and expenses for appearing on the programme.
Trivia
According to the Daily Telegraph's TV critic, "My Wildest Dream seems to prove that four comedians, each extremely funny in his own right, cancel out one another when they appear together." Regular panellist Terry-Thomas noted in his autobiography, "The critics were right. It was a terrible show."
