589 Top Secret

First  viewed : Uncertain

We'll  leave  1982  with  this  one  because  it's  marginally  more  likely  that  I  saw  an  episode  of  this  in  its  first  season  ( autumn  1982 )  than  the  second  ( autumn  1983 ).

Barry  Took  chaired  this  celebrity  quiz  show  where  an  ordinary  person  with  some  ( reasonably  )  extraordinary  secret  was  wheeled  on  and  the  celebrity  panellists  had  to  determine  what  it  was  by  elimination  questions. The  in-the-know  audience  could  applaud  to  let  them  know   they  were  getting  close. Jan  Leeming. Chris  Kelly  and  Alfred  Marks  were  regulars  on  the  panel.

The  only  one  I  can  remember  is  a  man  who  made  a  loophonium, an  instrument  made from  a  toilet.  Hmm, no  queue  of  people  waiting  to  put  their  lips  to  that  one.

It  lasted  for  two  seasons  then  I  guess  they  ran  out  of  secrets.