Celebrity Squares: ATV: 1976
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn6Mm38C1bc
This is the only clip of the 70's version of show I've found on Youtube. "Celebrity Squares" originated from the US version's "Hollywood Squares", and began on ATV (Associated TeleVision), a Midlands outlet of the ITV regions. A young looking Bob Monkhouse presents, in an even younger looking polo neck and lightish red buttoned jacket. The show ran from 1975-1979, however it came back in a short 90's revival(1993-1996) with a more demure-looking Monkhouse.
The shows seen to have harvested partly, the American schmaltz of the original, with an American-sounding voiceover, presenting the celebrities (How do the ones in the second and third rows get up there?), and the end credits are shown also, with the announcer giving a mail address if you would like to be a contestant, ending it with B1 2JPEEEE. That was actually Kenny Everett, then-radio star, taking the pee.
Cue "name-clanging" exercise. The celebrities involved were:
Magnus Pyke - Eccentric Scientist and media figure
Patsy Rowlands - British actress on the "Carry On" films. Not hard to see why...
Terry Wogan - Radio/Chat Show Host/Future Eurovision Song Contest Moaning Announcer
Pat Coombs - English actress. Appeared in "Eastenders", "Till Death Us Do Part", Carry On movies and much more...
Arthur Mullard - Singer/comedy actor, most famously appeared in sitcon "Romany Jones" and "The Arthur Askey Show"
John Conti - British boxer
Roy Hudd - Singer/Actor
John Inman - Sitcom actor, famous role as Mr. "I'm Free" Humphries from 70s sitcom "Are You Being Served?"
Willie Rushden - Actor, comedian and chat show host. Appeared early 60s satire show "That Was The Week That Was"
Other Youtube users in the comments sections discuss about the dead/alive ratio of the celebrities on show.
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