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Cleland Finn
Cleland Finn
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==Co-hosts==
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Team captains: Val Guest and Muriel Pavlow
== Broadcast ==
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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
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One of the first regular TV quizzes in the UK, this was almost certainly an adaptation of the American show of the same name in which names and phrases were acted out and contestants were asked to identify them. The US version was a phone-in; this show had a studio team (apparently of members of the public, though we're not certain of this. It ''might'' have been played as a straight panel game.)
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One of the first regular TV quizzes in the UK, this was almost certainly an adaptation of the American show of the same name in which names and phrases were acted out and contestants were asked to identify them. The US version was a phone-in, but the BBC's adaptation was played as a straight panel game.
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Revision as of 09:02, 13 October 2008

Contents

Host

Cleland Finn

Co-hosts

Team captains: Val Guest and Muriel Pavlow

Broadcast

BBC Television, 4 August 1947 to 1948

Synopsis

One of the first regular TV quizzes in the UK, this was almost certainly an adaptation of the American show of the same name in which names and phrases were acted out and contestants were asked to identify them. The US version was a phone-in, but the BBC's adaptation was played as a straight panel game.

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