The celebrities were six recipients of Children in Need assistance, which begs the question; why do the celebrities have to be celebrities? But with Larry Grayson and Aimi MacDonald causing chaos, Terry can feel one of his headaches coming on.

Having announced his/her guess the compere slowly (revealing only one answer at a time) removes the key card. The host read the statement out and then the six celebrities wrote down the answer that they think would fit the blanks. To be frank, if it wasn't for that almost mandatory requirement, then I wouldn't even be watching this version of the show, much less writing an article about it. Whether or not His Dark Material is appropriate stuff for comedy is a long discussion for another time but the question here is: should someone who has their own 18 certificate comedy special joking about almost any subject you can think of be a contestant on a family quiz show airing (just) pre-watershed? And in 1996 there was a second revival, notable for there being bigger cash prizes on offer, and for being as silly as it always had been really.Terry was always a witty host who held his own against the panelists, and after he left the show in 1983, he was replaced in 1984 by Les Dawson who was also a very amusing host with lots of great jokes and he often mocked the whole show. When the wallet is empty, turn the whole set of questions upside down and place them all back in the wallet - Remember to replace the Key Cards.

Acerbic Lily had little respect for the format and had no trouble at all with keeping people in check.And it all started with *that* theme tune, the one that went "Blankety Blank, Blankety Blank (Boom Boom), Blankety Blank, Blankety Blank (Boom Boom)" for about five years which we suppose was dead handy if you suffered from amnesia and forgot which programme you were currently watching. By the time this ended in the early-90s, he went on to other shows including Auntie’s Bloomers and its several spin-offs.

As always, there was a panel of six celebrities, featuring plenty of people who were famous in Australia at the time.Wogan used to ask some unseen bloke (originally Eugene, later Eamonn - they just had to be Irish names, didn't they? The contestant then made their choice and the more popular their answer was, the better the prize, although the famous consolation prize of a chequebook and pen was actually much better and of a higher value than some of the main prizes. This is someone who had one of the most successful careers in TV and radio of anybody, and there isn’t really too much that I could tell you about him that you wouldn’t already know.