380 Give Us A Clue

First  viewed : Early  1979

Give  Us  A  Clue   was  simply  Charades  on  the  TV  with  Michael  Aspel  presiding  over   a  contest  between  male  and  female   teams   headed  by  character  actress  Una  Stubbs  and  annoyingly  camp  light  entertainer  Lionel  Blair.  The  teams  consisted  of  two  other  celebrities  and   initially   a  usually  rather  overawed  member  of  the  public  though  they  were  soon  dropped  in  favour  of  having  a  fourth  celebrity.

  Confusingly,  it  had  the  same  theme  as  Grange  Hill  for  the  first  two  series.

I  never  tuned  in  specially  to  watch  it  but  it  was  a  reasonably  entertaining  alternative  to  Nationwide  on  a  Wednesday.

Michael  Parkinson  and  Liza  Goddard  replaced  Aspel  and  Stubbs  in  later  series.

It  ran  for  13  years  from  1979  to  1992. There  was  a  brief  revival  on  BBC One  in  1997  with  none  of  the  original  participants  involved.