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Revision as of 22:14, 6 June 2006
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Host
Robin Ray (original host)
Joe Melia
Peter Wheeler
Fiona Bruce
Co-hosts
Original team captains: Frank Muir (1965-94) and Robert Morley
Later captains: Patrick Campbell (1970s), Arthur Marshall (1980-8), Joanna Lumley (1994), Alan Coren (1996-), Sandi Toksvig (1996-2002) and Rod Liddle (2003-).
Broadcast
BBC2, 17 October 1965 to 22 December 1988 (c.300 episodes); one-off special 1994
BBC1, 13 May 1996 to 17 July 2005 (469 episodes)
Synopsis
DING! And the word is 'Call My Bluff'. Vic?
"Well, in prehistoric times, fish used to be able to talk. In English! They also used to keep pets, one of which was called a 'Bluff'. Now, when a friend fish says 'Hello fish! can you call my bluff for me?' he wants you to call his pet. Sadly, fishes have lost the ability to talk nowadays."
Very good Vic. Sandi?
"'Ha ha ha! I'm Danish! Anyway, one day, a synonym for someone's agent was a 'Bluff', thereby, ha ha! when you got someone to call your agent you quite literally got them to 'Call My Bluff'. Ha!"
And finally Phillippa?
"Actually it's none of those, in fact it isn't a word, merely a phrase. It is a saying, originating from Sweden, for your best friend's wife-in-law."
So is it a way of calling fish pets over, a synonym for an agent or a word game on the BBC? Nick?
"Well actually I wouldn't have written this if I didn't know what it was, and I'm quite sure it's Vic's."
Pictures
From left to right - Robert Morley, Robin Ray, Frank MuirInventor
Based on an American Goodson-Todman show of the same title. According to Frank Muir in his memoir A Kentish Lad, the American show "was a bit of a shambles, mainly because the bluffs... were so obviously false that it was painfully easy to spot the trues. The show proved not to be to the taste of American viewers and only lasted one season."
Theme music
Ciccolino by Norrie Paramor
Trivia
The show was officially axed in 2003, only to be revived a few months later with a new host. The last run went out on Sunday mornings, between the god slot and Countryfile. It may not have been the most thrilling of shows, but it deserved better than that.
