The losers usually walked away with a cheque book and pen and don't even ask about the main prizes-straight from a jumble sale I reckon.Blankety Blank is a British comedy game show. It certainly wasn't the rubbish prizes on offer. As stated earlier, it was the hosts that made this show watchable. The Lily Savage years were not too bad but not as good as the earlier years. I can't really take to men in women's clothes and Savage could not compare to Wogan or Dawson. Then, we came to Lily Savage (for those who don't know, a man dressed as a woman). Les had been a comic and he too provided the fun on the show. The original was the charismatic Terry Wogan who provided plenty of entertainment. The only saving grace of the show was the hosts. They then had to pick a celebrity-who had jotted down his/her own answer a few minutes before-and hope that the celebrity had guessed the same answer. The contestants were asked to guess the missing word of a sentence. Each week, contestants were joined by a number of celebrities. The concept of Blankety Blank was pretty monotonous. They were so bad they became a running joke, and I can't even remember what the winners got, but when losers were presented with their consolation ornament who can forget the cry `Blankety Blank Chequebook and Pen'? The prizes reinforced the idea that the show was just fun. Six years after Les's sad, sudden death the show came back with Lily Savage, the loud-mouthed, brash, welfare-claiming friend of 'Paul O"Grady' (qv). Its run has seen three very different hosts, the overbearing 'Terry Wogan' (qv) (why didn't he stay in that bank in Ireland?) was followed by quirky northern comic ' Les Dawson' (qv).
#BLANKETY BLANK CHEQUEBOOK TV#
Hopefully relaxed enough not to bother getting up to switch channels (OK we got TV remote after the USofA). It cheered you up after a day at work, and relaxed you after that evening meal. The concept is simple, and was never designed to keep you on the edge of your seat. Answer a question and hope as many of the celebrity panel of six as possible gave the same answer. Just very interesting to see the table reversed for once and England borrows from America for a change.Ī simple parlour game. Clearly England managed to make it work much longer, even when it became a bad joke. "Don't put your BLANK in there," or "She pulled his BLANK" Rayburn would say constantly on the show, giving a grin. The host was Gene Rayburn, who played right along with all the insinuations. And the middle star on the bottom? It was Richard Dawson, just before he would get Family Feud. The middle star in the top row was Brett Somers, who was Jack Klugman's ex-wife on the Odd Couple.Ĭharles Nelson Reilly was beside her, the third celeb on the top. Of the six celebrities, three were constant regulars. Match Game was the king of this behavior. You couldn't say long, tomatoes, ripe, juicy, tender, etc, without loud laughter. Everything on American game shows in the seventies was sexual innuendoes. But we did have Charles Nelson Reilly! Match Game's reputation became incredible raciness. I can't recall now how they were arranged on BB, but on MG they were in two rows of three, six up top, six below.
Contestants on the left, six celebrities on the right. And I had not a clue who any of those "celebrities" were, but then I didn't know who Lily Savage was either! It was the exact same set-up that I watched on "Blankety Blank" as used to be on Match Game. It's Match Game" and no one had an ever-loving clue what I was talking about. When I saw Blankety Blank whilst on vacation in England, I sat flabbergasted, going "it's Match Game. The show clearly had a much longer run than Match Game did. Basically, Match Game went off when this Blankety Blank began, it seems. The last one I remember may have been Match Game '75. I do recall Match Game '73, I think I remember Match Game '72. In America, it was known as "Match Game" followed by the current year, changing the numerals at the end of each year. It began in 1977, went through three hosts and developed a reputation for bad parting gifts. Now we come to this one called "Blankety Blank".
All classic American shows, all originating from oversea in England. In England, it was "Man About the House." In the states, it became "Threes' Company" with John Ritter and Suzanne Somers. In America, the show was redone as "Sanford and Son" with Redd Foxx (Funnier still, there was an episode when Sanford and son went to see a Jewish version based on them, called Steinberg and Son. In America, it would be reworked into "All In The Family." In the UK, it was "Steptoe and Son". In Great Britain, the show would be called "Til Death To Us Part".
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