Blankety Blank October 1979 (Part 1 of 4)

[@happinesscounts]

Absolute legends, you can't get shows like this anymore!

[@tongapuss]

I've loved each generation of this programme, right up to Lily Savage in 2002. She had a special sarcastic way of speaking to people. Just brilliant as was Les Dawson. All three presenters have been just brilliant in my humble estimation.

[@metalbearuk]

You're so right, what passes for a 'celebrity' these days fall far short of the mark.

[@AlbieGray]

Absolutely WONDERFUL to see Barbara Windsor (ex-Peggy, EastEnders) on this episode. :) Very nice to see her in this vintage show!

[@LUPUS1970]

Amazing how Larry Grayson coined the phrase of tweets and tweeting !!

[@nkt1]

Tweewting.

[@PutTheTellyOn]

Larry Grayson.. hilarious! And David Jason playing the cheeky schoolboy!

[@nathanblizzard4049]

So many legends in one place WOW!!!

[@LeChave]

OMG! I'm sure I remember this episode.. with the banter between grayson and wogan, and i'd have been 8 at the time!!!

[@norm7446]

7:45. Does this make Larry Grayson the Worlds first Twitter Celeb

[@nigelmathewsnrm]

It's now 2023 and I actually said to a young lady in a shop the other day, 'What's your name love?', while I was looking for my wife and I was asking if anyone had seen her, after when I caught up with her, she said she had been talking with the young lady and I knew she had, after having learnt her name. Long story short, there was no objection.

[@nicholasdavies8795]

Islas hair ! Beautiful ( for the year ) ...... and she was a massive crush for me !

[@AlbieGray]

Wow! Great to see Barbara Windsor (Peggy Mitchell, EE) in this episode!

[@SCFCSTOKE1]

So Larry invented Twitter @ 07:42...ahead of the game

[@Phiyedough]

Moira Lister did a radio series with Norman Wisdom, called "Robbing Hood". When I first heard it I thought it was Stephanie Cole.

[@MissTLI1980]

You can't beat Les Dawson for this show however I'm a huge Larry Grayson fan so was fab to see this.

[@pjgathergood6987]

I love Dawson, one of my favourite wordsmith comedians, but I gotta say he was never at his best on 'Blankety Blank'. Like him or loathe him (Wogan could be a bit smarmy during this era, though got back much of his charm in later years) it was always Wogan's show.

[@robertmudrow8034]

Babs looks fed up when she thinks she's not in frame lol

[@annoldham3018]

I used to love the ready signs. The BBC budget must have been a bit meagre. 🤣

[@UFOBevy]

Shut that door

[@BNCA70]

Seems awful now but to have so many celebrities in one show at the same time was awesome in those days! - and all ad-libbing. Happy memories

[@BB-wc9jx]

Great entertainment with likeable decent celebrities not like the crap version with Bradley walsh now!!!

[@MsFullheart]

good to see david jason!

[@ianbell7342]

cor isla .... very much loved her❤❤

[@UFOBevy]

The Toffee-apple gag is brilliant

[@Laneykl4lyf]

Lmao David Jason puts on a northern accent for the entire episode!

[@laymonite]

Wow this brings back memories. Surely this show is ripe for a remake in today's celebrity culture. With the credit crunch they could give the same prizes (except the chequebook). Wogan, Jason, Grayson and Windsor are fantastic and Isla St Clair looks phwoar!

[@1ATV]

Isla st Clair and Larry Grayson , probably already in television centre recording the Gen game at the time and David Jason prior to having his funny bone removed .

[@pjgathergood6987]

Audio problems are either from a tape recorded on a stereo recorder keep dropping into mono, or trying to play an old mono tape on a stereo recorder.

[@ChuckFosterUK]

The original episode should be on Challenge soon!

[@Dukes-nt1er]

a STRANGE SETUP...... the FIRST series of blankety blank shown in Early 1979...... Did NOT have the READY STICKS.....strange they introduced these in the second series shown LATE 1979............. but on the Third series in 1980...They were gone..... in favour of the illuminated name surround of the guests.... the idea they stayed with until... the shows end in 1990.....

[@AllenJeremy]

In the first series of Blankety Blank they did have lights that lit up each time the contestant matched with the celebrity panelist, from series 2 onwards the contestants fflipped the card over.

[@Maundervision]

@Feisty1967 This probably got something like 20 million viewers, 'cause in Oct '79 ITV was still on strike for most of the month. Must go check...

[@OfflineSetup]

Amazing to think everyone in the show have long since died.

[@nkt1]

Nonsense. Three of the celebrity guests are still alive.

[@sallyjoan]

no they are not@@nkt1

[@nkt1]

@@sallyjoan Pete Murray, David Jason and Isla St Clair are all still alive. Don't believe me? Look it up.

[@rossmcl177]

Barbara Windsor has aged very well actually.

[@ShanaiCollins]

Larry ❤️❤️❤️❤️💋💋💋💋💖💗💓💞💕💘🧡🧡🧡🧡💛💛💛💛💚💚💚💚💙💙💙💙💙🌈🌈🌈🌈

[@SamHodkin23]

@akava77 True, but the Ready signs were parodied occasionally, Roy Kinnear used a ZZzzz one episode, and in Kenny Everett's first appearance [where he bent Wogan's wand unrehearsed], he took the mick by putting up a massive READY sign.

[@StrikingAlexa]

sy=ure that was 1979 with Larry Grayson entioning twitter?

[@glennlennox3636]

Terry is not very nice to the contestants. He's only interested in mingling with the celebrities.

[@StrikingAlexa]

mentioning*

[@luvhart]

Moira Lister.....I would ;-)

[@goodiesguy]

This could just be a bad episode, but I much prefer the Aussie version in which this is based on. The aussie one had lights instead of the contestant turning over a card thing when it was a match.

[@annother3350]

Yeh the card thing really spoilt it, right?

[@royfr8136]

Les Dawson. was better...

[@steffanhoffmann8937]

I never liked it at the time. Now it just seems embarrassingly dated.