Blankety Blank is a British comedy game show based on the 1977-1978 Australian game show Blankety Blanks (which was in turn based on the American game show Match Game).
The British version ran from 18 January 1979 to 12 March 1990 with 187 episodes on BBC1, hosted first by Terry Wogan and then by Les Dawson. A revival fronted by Lily Savage (played by Paul O'Grady) was produced by the BBC from 26 December 1997 to 28 December 1999 for 27 episodes....
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Blankety Blank is a British comedy game show based on the 1977-1978 Australian game show Blankety Blanks (which was in turn based on the American game show Match Game).
The British version ran from 18 January 1979 to 12 March 1990 with 187 episodes on BBC1, hosted first by Terry Wogan and then by Les Dawson. A revival fronted by Lily Savage (played by Paul O'Grady) was produced by the BBC from 26 December 1997 to 28 December 1999 for 27 episodes.
From 7 January 2001 to 10 August 2002 the Lily Savage version aired on ITV1 for 45 episodes. This version was produced by Grundy (producers of the Australian version), then Thames Television.
Two contestants competed. The contestants were always a man and a woman or two women; at no point did two men compete head-to-head. The object was to match the answers as many of the six celebrity panelists as possible on fill-in-the-blank statements.
The main game was played in two rounds. The challenger was given a choice of two statements labelled...
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