It did mean they could spend their budget on securing some big names to play the game and that was part of the appeal of the show, not having to rely on minor celebrities like the 1980s equivalent of Rylan Clark.

Many familiar faces - Roy Kinnear, Jim Davidson, Adrienne Posta, Suzanne Dando - are back for this version. Yesterday is a cancelled cheque; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely. Hosted by Michael Aspel, the series features two teams captained by Lionel Blair and Una Stubbs competing to guess their teammates' mimes before time runs out. But look at the dispute at the end of the round when after being extremely loose with the rules, Parky suddenly becomes pedantic about the pronunciation of Pook's Hill.

The shows on this set feature a galaxy of celebrities, comedians and actors, including: Kenneth Williams, Diana Dors, Richard O’Sullivan, Barbara Windsor, Robin Askwith, David Jason, Yootha Joyce, Mollie Sugden, Paula Wilcox, Spike Milligan, Russ Abbot, Warren Mitchell, Kenny Everett, June Whitfield, Terry Scott, Dick Emery, Maureen Lipman, Beryl Reid, Rodney Bewes, Faith Brown, Paul Eddington, John Inman, Dudley Moore, Victoria Wood, all three Goodies and two Doctors Who! The game is based on charades, a party game where players used mime rather than speaking to demonstrate a name, phrase, book, play, film or TV programme. Pre-empting the audience's question about how they get such a lineup, Parky said they'd economised by keeping it in the family, with Richard O'Sullivan bringing his "daughter" and Parky himself bringing "the wife".

There's been a big jump in available episodes (or at least in episodes I can find) and I've leapt into Series Six. So, you’ve got, say, an air steward and a marketing expert appearing with the likes of Faith Brown and Kenneth Williams. They were even mirroring the other team member's regular "ummm"s half a second later, and the end result sounded very unpleasant. This Company does not however exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence. The goods and services will be collected by us within 28 days of our receiving your cancellation notice and we will charge the cost of collecting the goods or services, and will deduct this from any sum owed by us to you.I'm hoping the later series with Michael Parkinson, Lisa Goddard and Lionel Blair will also be released soon. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. With there being only a handful of episodes available I'm already at Series Thirteen from 1987 which appears to be the first with Michael Parkinson and Liza Goddard replacing Aspel and Una. 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.