Give Us a Clue [DVD]

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Well, with the flying humpty dumpty, that brings the score to sixteen to the girls, fourteen to the fellas, a nice close match.”

BFI | Film & TV Database | GIVE US A CLUE[06/02/79] (1979)". Archived from the original on 22 September 2009 . Retrieved 11 January 2023.Calendar Girls The Musical is blooming brilliant!... Paul’s What Age Expects and Nolan’s My Russian Friend And I were very different but both quite memorable.” ( Brad Barnes, Peterborough Telegraph, 25th October 2023)

BFI | Film & TV Database | GIVE US A CLUE[15/09/81] (1981)". Archived from the original on 22 September 2009 . Retrieved 11 January 2023. BFI | Film & TV Database | GIVE US A CLUE[01/09/80] (1980)". Archived from the original on 22 September 2009 . Retrieved 11 January 2023. BFI | Film & TV Database | GIVE US A CLUE[26/11/79] (1979)". Archived from the original on 22 September 2009 . Retrieved 11 January 2023. BFI | Film & TV Database | GIVE US A CLUE[29/09/80] (1980)". Archived from the original on 22 September 2009 . Retrieved 11 January 2023.Give Us A Clue was a TV panel game, which aired on ITV between 1979 and 1992. Spanning a massive thirteen discs, the set covers most of the episodes that Michael Aspel hosted between 1979 and 1984. The show is a simple game of charades played by two teams; One for the ‘boys’ and one for the ‘girls’. The team captains for this period were actress Una Stubbs and dancer Lionel Blair. Have to admit, I've never heard of Country Matters before. It appears to be a Granada series. I'm still hoping Network do a DVD release of at least the first series of In Suspicious Circumstances, which is also from Granada (they're not always accurate, but on Wikipedia, it says that there were some legal issues with some of the stories).

The episodes appear to have been sourced from the original master tapes and are of excellent quality. For a show with a lot of physical movement, the frame rate isn’t too jarring, making it a pleasant watch. One or two episodes have a couple of slight glitches in sound, but nothing that lasts for too long or is too frequent. The majority of the episodes look so good, that I have to wonder why they haven’t been run on TV for a long time. Special Features: BFI | Film & TV Database | GIVE US A CLUE[13/03/84] (1984)". Archived from the original on 26 January 2009 . Retrieved 11 January 2023. I was drunk with the success. Oh, I was throbbing with it. Oh, it’s marvellous when you’ve pulled it off.”

Michael Aspel presented this television version of the Victorian parlour game charades game with Lionel Blair and Una Stubbs (and later Liza Goddard) as team captains, joined by teams of celebrity guests.

This is all speculative, but my gut feeling is that this is all smoke and mirrors and what DVDXCOPY actually does do is to use some sort of DeCSS algorithm.The first couple of series features Blair and Stubbs each playing in teams with two other celebrities and a member of the public. This version of the format feels like they tried to find a way to include the audience, but it doesn’t quite fully fit. The game is fun, but the inclusion of the public confuses matters. It might just be me, but celebrities of this era mostly look like the average person you’d find on the street. This means a member of the public blends in, and you have to remind yourself they aren’t famous. I guess that’s the bonus of the three discs that contain this version; The game is so lively you don’t really care. After the first few series, they swap the fourth player for another celebrity; This ramps up the chemistry and makes the episodes even more nostalgic for celebrity spotters. There are also a fair few unexpected matchups that make you think “who knew that person was on a show with them?”. For example, who would have thought Doctor Who’s Jon Pertwee (Third Doctor) and Peter Davison (Fifth Doctor) teamed up with Geoffrey from Rainbow? BFI | Film & TV Database | GIVE US A CLUE[27/02/79] (1979)". Archived from the original on 22 September 2009 . Retrieved 11 January 2023. It's nice that Parkinson does appear more engaged with the game than Aspel who seemed to just watch with amused detachment, but he's now giving far too much assistance to the point that the teams barely have to work to put things together. BFI | Film & TV Database | GIVE US A CLUE[23/01/79] (1979)". Archived from the original on 22 September 2009 . Retrieved 11 January 2023.