Win, Lose or Draw (UK game show)
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Win, Lose or Draw was a television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 game show
Game show
A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...

 that aired for several seasons in the ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

 daytime schedule in 1990, produced by Scottish Television
Scottish Television
Scottish Television is Scotland's largest ITV franchisee, and has held the ITV franchise for Central Scotland since 31 August 1957. It is the second oldest ITV franchisee still active...

. The game was based on an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 television game show of the same name
Win, Lose or Draw
Win, Lose or Draw is an American television game show that aired from 1987 to 1990 in syndication and on NBC. It was taped at CBS Television City, often in Studios 31, 33, and 43 at various times...

.

Format

Win, Lose or Draw was essentially based on the board game Pictionary
Pictionary
Pictionary is a guessing word game designed by Robert Angel and first published in 1985 by Seattle Games Inc. The game is played with teams with players trying to identify specific words from their teammates' drawings.-Objective:...

. There were two teams, each composed of two celebrities and one non-celebrity. Three women played against three men. The teams took turns guessing a phrase, title, or thing that one teammate was drawing on a large pad of paper with markers. There's no talking by the one who was drawing, nor inscription of letters, numbers, or symbols. However, if a team mentioned a word that was part of the answer, the player at the sketch-pad could write it.

Series 1 (1990)

  • Week 1 - Annabel Croft
    Annabel Croft
    Annabel Croft is a former professional tennis player and current radio and television presenter. As a tennis player she won the WTA Tour event Virginia Slims of San Diego and represented Great Britain in the Fed Cup and the Wightman Cup.After retiring from tennis, she turned to television...

    , Ulrika Jonsson
    Ulrika Jonsson
    Eva Ulrika Jonsson is a Swedish television presenter in the UK, who became famous as a TV-am weather presenter and moved on to present Gladiators and became a team captain of the show Shooting Stars.-Early life:...

    , Emlyn Hughes
    Emlyn Hughes
    Emlyn Walter Hughes, OBE was an English footballer who captained both the England national team and the much-decorated Liverpool F.C. team of the 1970s.- From Blackpool to Liverpool :...

    , David Jensen
    David Jensen
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  • Week 2 - Michaela Strachan
    Michaela Strachan
    Michaela Evelyn Ann Strachan is an English television presenter.-Personal life:Strachan attended Claremont Fan Court School, Esher, a Christian Science school. Later, while at college, she briefly held jobs as an Avon lady and as a kissogram...

    , Sandi Toksvig
    Sandi Toksvig
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    , Tommy Boyd
    Tommy Boyd
    Timothy Leslie Boyd , better known as Tommy Boyd, is a British radio and television presenter who now lives in Chichester, West Sussex.-Early career:...

    , Peter Simon
  • Week 3 - Kate Copstick
    Kate Copstick
    Kate Copstick is a Glasgow-born Scottish actress, television presenter, writer, critic, director and producer.-Career:She is best known for her roles on the children's TV shows No. 73 and ChuckleVision. She also played Marlene Marlowe in Marlene Marlowe Investigates and performed as part of the...

    , Gail McKenna
    Gail McKenna
    Gail McKenna is an English actress who rose to fame in the 1980s as a Page Three girl and glamour model...

    , Nicky Campbell
    Nicky Campbell
    Nicholas Andrew Argyll "Nicky" Campbell is a Scottish radio and television presenter and journalist. He is known for his time presenting on programmes such as the consumer affairs programme Watchdog...

    , Pat Sharp
    Pat Sharp
    Pat Sharp is a British radio and television presenter and disc jockey. In the UK, he is known mainly for his work on the children's television programme Fun House, his former mullet and his radio shows as well as his support of Arsenal...

  • Week 4 - Andrea Boardman
    Andrea Boardman
    Andrea Boardman is an English television presenter.-Presenting career:She started out presenting when ITV's Disney Club launched in the UK in 1988. Andrea was given the role as female presenter after 2000 hopefuls applied for the job...

    , Anthea Turner
    Anthea Turner
    Anthea Millicent Turner is an English television presenter and media personality.-Education:Turner was educated at the independent St. Dominic's High School in Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent....

    , Alistair Divall, Peter Simon
  • Week 5 - Coleen Nolan
    Coleen Nolan
    Coleen Patricia Nolan is an English born television presenter, author and singer of Irish descent. She was the youngest member of the girl group, The Nolans, in which she sang alongside her sisters...

    , Maureen Nolan, Paul Coia
    Paul Coia
    Paul Coia is a Scottish television presenter and continuity announcer who was the first voice on Channel 4.-Early life and career:...

    , Paul Ross
    Paul Ross
    Paul Ross is an English television and radio presenter, journalist, and media personality. He is the son of Martha Ross and the elder brother of Jonathan Ross.-Early life:...

  • Week 6 - Kate Copstick
    Kate Copstick
    Kate Copstick is a Glasgow-born Scottish actress, television presenter, writer, critic, director and producer.-Career:She is best known for her roles on the children's TV shows No. 73 and ChuckleVision. She also played Marlene Marlowe in Marlene Marlowe Investigates and performed as part of the...

    , Debbie Rix, John Millar
    John Millar (footballer born 1927)
    John W. Millar is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as an inside forward for Queen of the South, Bradford City and Grimsby Town.-References:...

    , Peter Simon
  • Week 7 - Carol Smillie
    Carol Smillie
    Carol Patricia Smillie is a Scottish television personality, model and actress. Smillie is well-known for presenting the award winning BBC series Changing Rooms, which won her a National Television Award for Most Popular Factual Programme in 1998.She became the hostess of the British version of...

    , Jane Tucker
    Jane Tucker
    Jane Tucker is a singer, song writer and pianist. She is best known for being part of the musical trio Rod, Jane and Freddy. Jane was born into a family with an artistic background. Her grandmother was an opera singer, her mother a pianist, and her father was Rex Tucker, the drama director for the...

    , Rod Burton
    Rod Burton
    Rod Burton is a singer, songwriter, and musician best known for being part of the trio Rod, Jane and Freddy. He originally studied at the London College of Printing as a graphic designer and had a highly successful career in illustrating books, but songwriting was his main ambition so he quit the...

    , Timmy Mallett
    Timmy Mallett
    Timmy Mallett is a TV presenter and broadcaster in the UK. He achieved cult status on BBC Radio Oxford and Manchester's Piccadilly Radio and later on TV-am...


Series 2 (1991)

  • Week 1 - Peter Duncan
    Peter Duncan (actor)
    Peter Duncan is a British actor and television presenter, best known as a former presenter of Blue Peter and for his later family travel documentaries.-Education:...

    , Peter Simon, Linda Robson
    Linda Robson
    Linda Patricia Mary Robson is an English actress. She played Tracey in the BBC comedy, Birds of a Feather from 1989 to 1998.-Personal life and education:...

    , Pauline Quirke
    Pauline Quirke
    Pauline Perpetua Quirke is a British actress. She is best known for her role as Sharon in the comedy series Birds of a Feather, alongside her lifelong friend and frequent acting partner Linda Robson...

  • Week 2 - Cheryl Baker
    Cheryl Baker
    Cheryl Baker is an English television presenter and singer. She is most famous for being a member of 1980s pop group Bucks Fizz, and has performed for the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest twice, winning it the second time.-Early career:After leaving school and a series of secretarial jobs, Cheryl...

    , Helen Brumby, John Eccleston
    John Eccleston
    John Eccleston is a puppeteer, writer and presenter known for his work as lead puppeteer of Rygel in Farscape, Groove in The Hoobs and his many roles on British children's television alongside Don Austen...

    , Gordon Inglis
  • Week 3 - David Yip
    David Yip
    David Yip is an English actor.Yip, of Asian and English descent, was born in Liverpool and trained at East 15 Acting School, London...

    , James MacPherson
    James Macpherson
    James Macpherson was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of poems.-Early life:...

    , Hilary O'Neil, Ellis Ward
    Ellis Ward
    Ellis Ward was an American rower and coach best known for his time as the coach of the University of Pennsylvania rowing team...

  • Week 4 - Gaby Roslin
    Gaby Roslin
    Gaby Roslin is an English television presenter and actress. She rose to fame while co-presenting The Big Breakfast on Channel 4 between 1992 and 1996, and also presented the BBC's Children in Need charity appeal from 1994 to 2004....

    , Andrew O'Connor, Jessica Martin
    Jessica Martin
    Jessica Martin is an actor and comedian. She is probably best known for her work as an impressionist and voice artist on the television series Spitting Image, impersonating the voice of Her Majesty The Queen. She also appeared on Yorkshire Television's 3-2-1 in the 1980s with impressionist Aiden J...

    , Derek Lord
    Derek Lord
    Derek Lord in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, is an Irish actor. He is best known for playing Davie Sneddon in Take the High Road.- Filmography:*A Shot at Glory as Stephen O’Shea*The Yugoslav Hitman as Nikola Štedul...

  • Week 5 - Debbie Greenwood
    Debbie Greenwood
    Debbie Greenwood is a British television presenter and a former beauty queen who won the title of Miss Great Britain in 1984.-Career:...

    , Liz Kershaw
    Liz Kershaw
    Liz Kershaw is a UK radio broadcaster.-Early career:The elder sister of fellow broadcaster and world music exponent Andy Kershaw, she began her career as a pop journalist for the Yorkshire Post before joining Leeds station Radio Aire, where her brother also worked for a time.While in Leeds, she...

    , John Jeffrey
    John Jeffrey
    John Jeffrey is a Scottish former internationalistrugby union player. His nicknames are "The Great White Shark" and "JJ", the former because of his blond "thatch of hair"....

    , Ross King
    Ross King (presenter)
    Ross King, real name Derek Ross King , is a Scottish television presenter, actor and writer. He formerly presented shows on Radio Clyde from America and various local LA shows...

  • Week 6 - Jakki Brambles
    Jakki Brambles
    Jackie Brambles , formerly known as Jakki Brambles, is an English journalist, radio DJ and television presenter.-Early life and early career:...

    , Kate Copstick
    Kate Copstick
    Kate Copstick is a Glasgow-born Scottish actress, television presenter, writer, critic, director and producer.-Career:She is best known for her roles on the children's TV shows No. 73 and ChuckleVision. She also played Marlene Marlowe in Marlene Marlowe Investigates and performed as part of the...

    , Adrian Walsh
    Adrian Walsh
    Adrian Conrad Walsh is an Irish businessman who was educated and began his professional career in Ireland, and is the current CEO of Fiat Group Automobiles Ireland Limited. Walsh was handpicked by Fiat S.P.A...

    , David Wilkie
    David Wilkie
    David Wilkie may refer to:* Sir David Wilkie , Scottish painter* Sir David Wilkie , British surgeon, scientist and philanthropist* David Wilkie...

  • Week 7 - Caroline Ashley, Carol Smillie
    Carol Smillie
    Carol Patricia Smillie is a Scottish television personality, model and actress. Smillie is well-known for presenting the award winning BBC series Changing Rooms, which won her a National Television Award for Most Popular Factual Programme in 1998.She became the hostess of the British version of...

    , Andy Crane
    Andy Crane
    Howard Andrew 'Andy' Crane is an English television and radio presenter, best known for presenting Children's BBC , amongst many others.-Career:...

    , Gareth Jones
    Gareth Jones (presenter)
    Gareth Jones is a Welsh television presenter and celebrity. He began his broadcasting career under the name Gaz Top....


Series 3 (1992)

  • Week 1 - Dana
    Dana
    -Singers:Some singers are popularly known only by the name, Dana:* Dana Rosemary Scallon , Irish-American singer and politician* Dana , Korean pop singer* Dana International , Israeli pop singer-In fiction:...

    , Susan Maughan
    Susan Maughan
    Susan Maughan is an English singer who released successful singles in the 1960s.-Career:...

    , Jeff Stevenson, Allan Stewart
  • Week 2 - Helen Atkinson Wood, Bonnie Langford
    Bonnie Langford
    Bonita Melody Lysette "Bonnie" Langford is an English actress, dancer and entertainer. She came to prominence as a child star in the early 1970s then she subsequently became a companion of Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy's Doctor Who and has appeared on stage in various musicals such as Peter Pan:...

    , Bernie Clifton
    Bernie Clifton
    Bernie Clifton is a British comedian and entertainer, who appeared on the BBC television series Crackerjack with Michael Aspel, Peter Glaze, Don Maclean and Jan Hunt in the 1970s....

    , Duncan Goodhew
    Duncan Goodhew
    Duncan Alexander Goodhew MBE is a British swimming athlete. After swimming competitively in America as a collegian at North Carolina State University, he was an Olympic swimmer for Great Britain and won Olympic gold and bronze medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.-Biography:Goodhew...

  • Week 3 - Lorraine Chase
    Lorraine Chase
    Lorraine Chase is an English actress and model. She became well known for her strong cockney accent and frequent use of cockney slang, and found fame through a series of television commercials for Campari before embarking on an acting career.-Television:After initially working as a model, Chase...

    , Blythe Duff
    Blythe Duff
    Blythe Duff is a Scottish actress, best known for her role as Jackie Reid in the ITV television series drama, Taggart.-Background:Duff was raised in East Kilbride...

    , Simon Biagi, Mike Read
    Mike Read
    Michael David Kenneth Read is an English radio disc jockey, writer, journalist and television presenter.-Early life:...

  • Week 4 - Sarah Greene
    Sarah Greene
    Sarah Greene is a British television personality well known for presenting live TV: long-running series e.g. Blue Peter, from 19 May 1980 until 27 June 1983, Saturday Superstore, Going Live for 10 years and big event/awards shows.- Early life and career :Greene was born in London, England, the...

    , Kate Robbins
    Kate Robbins
    Katherine Robbins is an English actress, comedienne and singer.-Biography:Robbins is a first cousin once removed of Paul McCartney and older sister of Amy Robbins . She attended Wirral Grammar School for Girls and won the Drama Prizes each year, notably with her monologue "All this glitters is not...

    , Steve Jones, Mike Smith
    Mike Smith (television presenter)
    Mike Smith is a British television, radio presenter, racing driver, pilot, and businessman.-Radio career:...

  • Week 5 - Faith Brown
    Faith Brown
    Faith Brown is an English actress, singer, comedienne and impressionist.-Background and Early Career:Born as Eunice Irene Carroll, Faith Brown began her career as a singer at the age of fifteen, backed by a local group. She later became the resident cabaret singer in Liverpool's Rialto Ballroom...

    , Gordon MacArthur, Nula Conwell
    Nula Conwell
    Nula Conwell is a British-born character actress with strong Irish family ties. She appeared in David Lynch's 1980 Oscar nominated film The Elephant Man and is well known for playing Police Officer W.D.C. Viv Martella in the long-running crime UK series The Bill from 1984 to 1993, until her...

    , Andrew Paul
    Andrew Paul
    Andrew Paul is a British-Jewish actor best known for playing PC Dave Quinnan in the ITV drama The Bill for 13 years.- Career :...


Series 4 (1993)

  • Week 1 - Linda Lusardi
    Linda Lusardi
    Linda Lusardi is an English actress, television presenter and former Page Three Girl. She is married to the actor Samuel Kane; they have two children, both born in Enfield, London: Lucy Anne and Jack Francis ....

    , Jan Ravens
    Jan Ravens
    Janet "Jan" Ravens is an English actress and impressionist, famous for her voices on Spitting Image and Dead Ringers.-Early life:...

    , Bob Mills
    Bob Mills (comedian)
    Robert Edward "Bob" Mills is a British comedian, notable for his appearances in cult TV series such as In Bed with Medinner and The Show, the latter an attempt to do a non-fictional British version of The Larry Sanders Show.Born in Chester, after a very short spell training for the Merchant Navy,...

    , Nick Revell
    Nick Revell
    Nick Revell is a British stand-up comedian and writer for radio and television. Born John Revell, he studied at Lincoln College, Oxford, and subsequently taught English at Westminster School....

  • Week 2 - Sue Carpenter
    Sue Carpenter
    Sue Carpenter is a former United Kingdom newsreader and television presenter. Born on 17 May 1956, she graduated in English Literature at King's College London in 1977....

    , Coleen Nolan
    Coleen Nolan
    Coleen Patricia Nolan is an English born television presenter, author and singer of Irish descent. She was the youngest member of the girl group, The Nolans, in which she sang alongside her sisters...

    , Gary Bushell, Paul Ross
    Paul Ross
    Paul Ross is an English television and radio presenter, journalist, and media personality. He is the son of Martha Ross and the elder brother of Jonathan Ross.-Early life:...

  • Week 3 - Emma Forbes, Barbara Windsor
    Barbara Windsor
    Barbara Ann Windsor, MBE , better known by her stage name Barbara Windsor, is an English actress. Her best known roles are in the Carry On films and as Peggy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders....

    , Andy Gray
    Andy Gray (actor)
    Andy Gray is a Scottish actor and comedy writer. He co-wrote and co-starred in the BBC Radio Scotland sketch show Naked Radio, and its later television counterpart Naked Video, before becoming well known as the appropriately named "Chancer", best friend and source of problems to Willie Melvin in...

    , Peter Simon
  • Week 4 - Janet Ellis
    Janet Ellis
    Janet Ellis is a British television presenter and actress, who appeared on BBC children's television in the 1980s, including a four year period as a presenter on Blue Peter, a role she won after hosting the award-winning children's programme Jigsaw.- Early life :Ellis's father was a soldier,...

    , Caron Keating
    Caron Keating
    Caron Louisa Keating was a Northern Irish television presenter on British and Northern Irish television.-Early life and education:...

    , Nick Hancock, Mark Kermode
    Mark Kermode
    Mark Kermode is an English film critic, musician and a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He contributes to Sight and Sound magazine, The Observer newspaper and BBC Radio 5 Live, where he presents Kermode and Mayo's Film Reviews with Simon Mayo on Friday afternoons...

  • Week 5 - Pauline Quirke
    Pauline Quirke
    Pauline Perpetua Quirke is a British actress. She is best known for her role as Sharon in the comedy series Birds of a Feather, alongside her lifelong friend and frequent acting partner Linda Robson...

    , Linda Robson
    Linda Robson
    Linda Patricia Mary Robson is an English actress. She played Tracey in the BBC comedy, Birds of a Feather from 1989 to 1998.-Personal life and education:...

    , Tommy Boyd
    Tommy Boyd
    Timothy Leslie Boyd , better known as Tommy Boyd, is a British radio and television presenter who now lives in Chichester, West Sussex.-Early career:...

    , Shane Richie
    Shane Richie
    Shane Richie is an English actor, comedian, singer and media personality, known for his portrayal of the character Alfie Moon in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders.-Early life and career beginnings:...


Series 5 (1994)

  • Week 1 - Panther, Saracen, Dani Behr
    Dani Behr
    Dani Behr is an English singer, actress and television presenter.-Early life:Behr was born in Mill Hill London, of South African Jewish descent. Her father is a partner in London estate agents Behr & Butchoff...

    , Barry McGuigan
    Barry McGuigan
    Finbarr Patrick McGuigan MBE , known as Barry McGuigan and nicknamed The Clones Cyclone, is a former Irish and British professional boxer who became a world featherweight champion.-Background:...

  • Week 2 - Carol Smillie
    Carol Smillie
    Carol Patricia Smillie is a Scottish television personality, model and actress. Smillie is well-known for presenting the award winning BBC series Changing Rooms, which won her a National Television Award for Most Popular Factual Programme in 1998.She became the hostess of the British version of...

    , Paul Coia
    Paul Coia
    Paul Coia is a Scottish television presenter and continuity announcer who was the first voice on Channel 4.-Early life and career:...

    , Mr Motivator
    Derrick Evans
    Derrick Errol Evans , better known as "Mr. Motivator", is a Jamaican-born British exercise instructor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s through appearances on the UK breakfast television show GMTV, where he dressed in tight, colourful spandex outfits...

    , Annabel Croft
    Annabel Croft
    Annabel Croft is a former professional tennis player and current radio and television presenter. As a tennis player she won the WTA Tour event Virginia Slims of San Diego and represented Great Britain in the Fed Cup and the Wightman Cup.After retiring from tennis, she turned to television...

  • Week 3 - Debbie Greenwood
    Debbie Greenwood
    Debbie Greenwood is a British television presenter and a former beauty queen who won the title of Miss Great Britain in 1984.-Career:...

    , Linda Lusardi
    Linda Lusardi
    Linda Lusardi is an English actress, television presenter and former Page Three Girl. She is married to the actor Samuel Kane; they have two children, both born in Enfield, London: Lucy Anne and Jack Francis ....

    , Peter Simon, Mike Sterling
  • Week 4 - Gareth Jones
    Gareth Jones (presenter)
    Gareth Jones is a Welsh television presenter and celebrity. He began his broadcasting career under the name Gaz Top....

    , Steve Johnson
    Steve Johnson
    Steve Johnson may refer to:* Steve Johnson , wide receiver playing for the Buffalo Bills* Steve Johnson , Australian Football League player* Steve Johnson , baseball player...

    , Penny Smith
    Penny Smith
    Penelope Jane Smith is an English television presenter and newsreader. She has worked on the breakfast TV show GMTV, for Sky News and for Classic FM.-Early life:...

    , Janet Ellis
    Janet Ellis
    Janet Ellis is a British television presenter and actress, who appeared on BBC children's television in the 1980s, including a four year period as a presenter on Blue Peter, a role she won after hosting the award-winning children's programme Jigsaw.- Early life :Ellis's father was a soldier,...

  • Week 5 - Paul Ross
    Paul Ross
    Paul Ross is an English television and radio presenter, journalist, and media personality. He is the son of Martha Ross and the elder brother of Jonathan Ross.-Early life:...

    , Kate Robbins
    Kate Robbins
    Katherine Robbins is an English actress, comedienne and singer.-Biography:Robbins is a first cousin once removed of Paul McCartney and older sister of Amy Robbins . She attended Wirral Grammar School for Girls and won the Drama Prizes each year, notably with her monologue "All this glitters is not...

    , Linzi Hateley
    Linzi Hateley
    Linzi Hateley is an English stage actress who is currently starring as one of the leads in the West End production of the musical Mamma Mia!. Her performance as Donna started on 5 March 2007....

    , Joe Pasquale
    Joe Pasquale
    Joseph Ellis "Joe" Pasquale is an English comedian from Grays, Essex, arguably most famous for his high-pitched voice, use of visual gags and more recently being crowned "King of the Jungle", on the reality TV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!...

  • Week 6 - Gary Bushell, Richard Digance
    Richard Digance
    Richard Digance is a comedian and folk singer.- Biography :He studied Mechanical Engineering at Reid Kerr College Paisley, during which time he was inspired by Billy Connolly....

    , Annabel Giles
    Annabel Giles
    Annabel Giles has been a model, a television and radio presenter, an actress, a comedienne and a novellist during her career .-Career:...

    , Caron Keating
    Caron Keating
    Caron Louisa Keating was a Northern Irish television presenter on British and Northern Irish television.-Early life and education:...

  • Week 7 - Anna Walker
    Anna Walker
    Angela Walker is an English television presenter who has presented such programmes as, Wish You Were Here...?, Big Strong Boys, Holidaymaker, Garden Challenge, Garden Invaders and Tomorrow's World....

    , Mike Osman
    Mike Osman
    Mike Osman is an English radio presenter, impressionist and entertainer.He was born in Millbrook, Southampton, England in August 1959, the fourth of seven brothers...

    , DJ Normski, Andrea Boardman
    Andrea Boardman
    Andrea Boardman is an English television presenter.-Presenting career:She started out presenting when ITV's Disney Club launched in the UK in 1988. Andrea was given the role as female presenter after 2000 hopefuls applied for the job...

  • Week 8 - Judi Spiers
    Judi Spiers
    Judi Spiers is a presenter on British radio and television.Spiers began her broadcasting career at Westward Television in 1977, the ITV station for south-west England. She impressed in the birthday slot with Gus Honeybun with cheeky humour. In short order, she moved to the What's Ahead...

    , Jenny Powell
    Jenny Powell
    Jenny Powell , is a British television presenter.-Early life:Powell's parents are from South Africa, she attended Woodford County High School for Girls in Woodford Green and the Italia Conti school in London.-Career:...

    , Ross Newton
    Ross Newton
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    , Roger De Courcey
    Roger De Courcey
    Roger De Courcey is a British ventriloquist best known for performing with Nookie Bear. He was the winner of the 1976 New Faces televised talent competition grand final....

  • Week 9 - Gary Martin, Richard Calkin, Debbie Gibson, Sally Ann Triplett
    Sally Ann Triplett
    Sally Ann Triplett is a British singer and actress most famous for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest and many West End productions.-Eurovision:...

  • Week 10 - Suzanne Dando
    Suzanne Dando
    Suzanne Dando is a former British Olympic gymnast, who competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She works as a television presenter mainly with Sky Sports.-British and Olympic gymnast:...

    , Gary Davies
    Gary Davies
    Gary Davies is a British broadcaster. During the 1980s and 1990s he was a BBC Radio 1 disc jockey and also a regular presenter of Top of the Pops.-Early career:...

    , Allan Stewart, Kathy Tayler
    Kathy Tayler
    Kathy Tayler, born 23 March 1960, is a UK TV presenter and former champion modern pentathlete.- Athletics:Kathy won the women's modern pentathlon World Cup in 1979 at the age of 19. She was a member of the Great Britain modern pentathlon team that twice won gold at the World Athletics...

  • Week 11 - Darren Day
    Darren Day
    Darren Day , is an English actor, singer and television presenter, well known for his West End theatre starring roles.-Early life:His paternal grandfather was a support and warm-up act for George Formby...

    , Sally Meen
    Sally Meen
    Sally Meen , is an English television presenter.Meen has a degree in Catering and Institutional Management, and latterly qualifications in Art and Design. Her TV career started out on TSW, before becoming a weather presenter on GMTV...

    , Tessa Sanderson
    Tessa Sanderson
    Theresa Ione Sanderson CBE is a former British javelin thrower and heptathlete who competed in the javelin competition in every one of the six Olympics from 1976–1996 winning the Gold medal in 1984...

    , Geoff Stevenson
  • Week 12 - Falcon, Trojan, Bob Mills
    Bob Mills (comedian)
    Robert Edward "Bob" Mills is a British comedian, notable for his appearances in cult TV series such as In Bed with Medinner and The Show, the latter an attempt to do a non-fictional British version of The Larry Sanders Show.Born in Chester, after a very short spell training for the Merchant Navy,...

    , Liz Kershaw
    Liz Kershaw
    Liz Kershaw is a UK radio broadcaster.-Early career:The elder sister of fellow broadcaster and world music exponent Andy Kershaw, she began her career as a pop journalist for the Yorkshire Post before joining Leeds station Radio Aire, where her brother also worked for a time.While in Leeds, she...

  • Week 13 - Coleen Nolan
    Coleen Nolan
    Coleen Patricia Nolan is an English born television presenter, author and singer of Irish descent. She was the youngest member of the girl group, The Nolans, in which she sang alongside her sisters...

    , Denise Nolan, Tommy Cannon
    Tommy Cannon
    Tommy Cannon is a comedian and the feed member of comedy double act Cannon and Ball, along with Bobby Ball....

    , Bobby Ball
    Bobby Ball
    Bobby Ball is one half of the comedy double act Cannon and Ball, along with Tommy Cannon.He married his first wife, Joan, in 1964, with whom he had two sons, Robert and Darren , who are now a comedy double act in their own right, performing under their surname 'Harper'. Bobby and his first wife...


Series 6 (1995)

  • Week 1 - Yvette Fielding
    Yvette Fielding
    Yvette Fielding is a British broadcaster, producer and actress. She is best known for being the presenter of the TV shows Blue Peter, Most Haunted and Ghosthunting With....-Early life and career:...

    , Anna Walker
    Anna Walker
    Angela Walker is an English television presenter who has presented such programmes as, Wish You Were Here...?, Big Strong Boys, Holidaymaker, Garden Challenge, Garden Invaders and Tomorrow's World....

    , Kriss Akabusi
    Kriss Akabusi
    Kriss Kezie Uche Chukwu Duru Akabusi MBE is a former sprint and hurdling athlete from the United Kingdom. During his career, he won the gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1990 European Championships, a gold in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1991 World Championships, and a silver medal in...

    , Andy Crane
    Andy Crane
    Howard Andrew 'Andy' Crane is an English television and radio presenter, best known for presenting Children's BBC , amongst many others.-Career:...

  • Week 2 - Paul Zenon
    Paul Zenon
    Paul Zenon is an English magician and comedian, known for television shows across many genres; in particular his 'Street Magic' specials featuring him performing stunts and tricks in pubs and on the streets....

    , Windsor Davies
    Windsor Davies
    Windsor Davies is a British actor, well known for playing the part of Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the 1970s/1980s British sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum.-Early life and career:...

    , Philippa Forrester
    Philippa Forrester
    Philippa Forrester is an English television and radio presenter, producer and author. Having presented shows such as Tomorrow's World, The Heaven and Earth Show and Robot Wars, she now makes wildlife programmes with her husband, Charlie Hamilton James.-Education:Forrester was educated at Westgate...

    , Kate Robbins
    Kate Robbins
    Katherine Robbins is an English actress, comedienne and singer.-Biography:Robbins is a first cousin once removed of Paul McCartney and older sister of Amy Robbins . She attended Wirral Grammar School for Girls and won the Drama Prizes each year, notably with her monologue "All this glitters is not...

  • Week 3 - Carol Smillie
    Carol Smillie
    Carol Patricia Smillie is a Scottish television personality, model and actress. Smillie is well-known for presenting the award winning BBC series Changing Rooms, which won her a National Television Award for Most Popular Factual Programme in 1998.She became the hostess of the British version of...

    , Mickey Hutton, Faith Brown
    Faith Brown
    Faith Brown is an English actress, singer, comedienne and impressionist.-Background and Early Career:Born as Eunice Irene Carroll, Faith Brown began her career as a singer at the age of fifteen, backed by a local group. She later became the resident cabaret singer in Liverpool's Rialto Ballroom...

    , Brendan O'Carroll
    Brendan O'Carroll
    Brendan O'Carroll is an Irish comedian, writer, actor and director. Best known for portraying the foul-mouthed Irish matriarch Mrs. Brown, O'Carroll has been a popular comedian in Ireland since the early 1990s.-Early life:...

  • Week 4 - Andrea Boardman
    Andrea Boardman
    Andrea Boardman is an English television presenter.-Presenting career:She started out presenting when ITV's Disney Club launched in the UK in 1988. Andrea was given the role as female presenter after 2000 hopefuls applied for the job...

    , Kate Copstick
    Kate Copstick
    Kate Copstick is a Glasgow-born Scottish actress, television presenter, writer, critic, director and producer.-Career:She is best known for her roles on the children's TV shows No. 73 and ChuckleVision. She also played Marlene Marlowe in Marlene Marlowe Investigates and performed as part of the...

    , Nicholas Parsons
    Nicholas Parsons
    Nicholas Parsons OBE is a British actor and radio and television presenter.-Early life:...

    , Ainsley Harriot
  • Week 5 - Ally McCoist
    Ally McCoist
    Alistair Murdoch "Ally" McCoist, MBE ; 24 September 1962) is a Scottish football manager and former player. He is the current manager of Rangers in Scotland....

    , Danny Baker
    Danny Baker
    Danny Baker is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter. Since the late 1970s, he has worked for a wide range of publications and broadcasters including NME, LWT, the BBC, and Talk Radio....

    , Malandra Burrows
    Malandra Burrows
    Malandra Elizabeth Burrows is an English actress and singer.-Early life:Burrows' first name, Malandra, is a portmanteau of her parents' names, Malcolm and Sandra. Her mother encouraged her at an early age to begin dancing; she initially trained under Billy Pearce's mother Jean...

    , Carol Sarler
  • Week 6 - Vicki Michelle
    Vicki Michelle
    Vicki Michelle MBE , is an English actress best known for her role as Yvette Carte-Blanche in the television comedy series Allo 'Allo! - a role which she has reprised in both 2008 and 2009 as a cast of the stage show based on the television series.After spending much of 2008 on tour with the Allo...

    , Nina Myskow
    Nina Myskow
    Nina Myskow is a British journalist and TV celebrity who appeared on New Faces and was also a columnist for The Sun and The News of the World under the byline "The Bitch on the box" in the 1980s...

    , Andrew O'Connor, Allan Stewart
  • Week 7 - Paul Coia
    Paul Coia
    Paul Coia is a Scottish television presenter and continuity announcer who was the first voice on Channel 4.-Early life and career:...

    , Debbie Greenwood
    Debbie Greenwood
    Debbie Greenwood is a British television presenter and a former beauty queen who won the title of Miss Great Britain in 1984.-Career:...

    , Jilly Goolden
    Jilly Goolden
    Jilly Goolden is a British wine critic, journalist and television personality.-Education:Goolden was educated at an independent convent school ,-Career:...

    , Johnny Vaughan
    Johnny Vaughan
    Jonathan Randall Vaughan is an English broadcaster and journalist. Vaughan has become well known as a television and radio personality and has also built a reputation as a film critic. He co-presented Capital Breakfast alongside Lisa Snowdon on 95.8 Capital FM between 2004 and 2011...

  • Week 8 - Jo Brand
    Jo Brand
    Josephine Grace "Jo" Brand is a BAFTA winning British comedian, writer, and actor.- Early life :Jo Brand was born 23 July 1957 in Wandsworth, London. Her mother was a social worker. Brand is the middle of three children, with two brothers...

    , Dale Winton
    Dale Winton
    Dale Winton is an English radio DJ and television presenter.-Early life:Winton's father, Gary, was "domineering" and died when Winton was 13. Winton was brought up by his mother, actress Sheree Winton...

    , Liza Tarbuck
    Liza Tarbuck
    Liza Tarbuck is an English actress and television and radio presenter, and daughter of comedian Jimmy Tarbuck.She trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA graduating in 1986 alongside Clive Owen, Rebecca Pidgeon and Serena Harragin.-Acting:...

    , Nick Hancock
  • Week 9 - Syd Little
    Syd Little
    Syd Little is an English comedian and straight man in the double act Little and Large, with Eddie Large....

    , Eddie Large
    Eddie Large
    Eddie Large is the stage name of Edward Hugh McGinnis, a British comedian. He is best known as a partner in the double act Little and Large, with Syd Little....

    , Linda Lusardi
    Linda Lusardi
    Linda Lusardi is an English actress, television presenter and former Page Three Girl. She is married to the actor Samuel Kane; they have two children, both born in Enfield, London: Lucy Anne and Jack Francis ....

    , Nightshade
  • Week 10 - Lionel Blair
    Lionel Blair
    Lionel Blair is a British actor, choreographer, tap dancer and television presenter. He is the son of Myer Ogus and Deborah Greenbaum...

    , Ian Krankie, Janet Krankie
    The Krankies
    The Krankies are a Scottish comedy duo that enjoyed success as a cabaret act in the 1970s and on television in the 1980s, featuring in their own television shows and releasing their own music single. They entered semi-retirement in 1992, but they have regularly appeared in pantomime since.The duo...

    , Judi Spiers
    Judi Spiers
    Judi Spiers is a presenter on British radio and television.Spiers began her broadcasting career at Westward Television in 1977, the ITV station for south-west England. She impressed in the birthday slot with Gus Honeybun with cheeky humour. In short order, she moved to the What's Ahead...


Series 7 (1996)

  • Week 1 - Yvette Fielding
    Yvette Fielding
    Yvette Fielding is a British broadcaster, producer and actress. She is best known for being the presenter of the TV shows Blue Peter, Most Haunted and Ghosthunting With....-Early life and career:...

    , Windsor Davies
    Windsor Davies
    Windsor Davies is a British actor, well known for playing the part of Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the 1970s/1980s British sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum.-Early life and career:...

    , Cheryl Baker
    Cheryl Baker
    Cheryl Baker is an English television presenter and singer. She is most famous for being a member of 1980s pop group Bucks Fizz, and has performed for the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest twice, winning it the second time.-Early career:After leaving school and a series of secretarial jobs, Cheryl...

    , Kriss Akabusi
    Kriss Akabusi
    Kriss Kezie Uche Chukwu Duru Akabusi MBE is a former sprint and hurdling athlete from the United Kingdom. During his career, he won the gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1990 European Championships, a gold in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1991 World Championships, and a silver medal in...

    • In this show the male non-celebrity contestant was Johnny Vegas
      Johnny Vegas
      Johnny Vegas is an English actor and comedian. He is known for his angry rants, portly figure, high husky voice and support of St Helens rugby league club. More recently he has moved into dramatic acting.-Early life:He was born in St Helens, Lancashire, the youngest of four children of Laurence...

       (under his birth name of Michael Pennington) - his first television appearance.
  • Week 2 - Faith Brown
    Faith Brown
    Faith Brown is an English actress, singer, comedienne and impressionist.-Background and Early Career:Born as Eunice Irene Carroll, Faith Brown began her career as a singer at the age of fifteen, backed by a local group. She later became the resident cabaret singer in Liverpool's Rialto Ballroom...

    , Saracen, Anna Walker
    Anna Walker
    Angela Walker is an English television presenter who has presented such programmes as, Wish You Were Here...?, Big Strong Boys, Holidaymaker, Garden Challenge, Garden Invaders and Tomorrow's World....

    , Joe Pasquale
    Joe Pasquale
    Joseph Ellis "Joe" Pasquale is an English comedian from Grays, Essex, arguably most famous for his high-pitched voice, use of visual gags and more recently being crowned "King of the Jungle", on the reality TV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!...

  • Week 3 - Ricky Tomlinson
    Ricky Tomlinson
    Eric Tomlinson , known by his stage name Ricky Tomlinson, is an English actor and comedian, best known for his roles as Bobby Grant in Brookside, DCI Charlie Wise in Cracker and James "Jim" Royle in The Royle Family....

    , Mickey Hutton, Linda Lusardi
    Linda Lusardi
    Linda Lusardi is an English actress, television presenter and former Page Three Girl. She is married to the actor Samuel Kane; they have two children, both born in Enfield, London: Lucy Anne and Jack Francis ....

    , Jenny Powell
    Jenny Powell
    Jenny Powell , is a British television presenter.-Early life:Powell's parents are from South Africa, she attended Woodford County High School for Girls in Woodford Green and the Italia Conti school in London.-Career:...

  • Week 4 - Philippa Forrester
    Philippa Forrester
    Philippa Forrester is an English television and radio presenter, producer and author. Having presented shows such as Tomorrow's World, The Heaven and Earth Show and Robot Wars, she now makes wildlife programmes with her husband, Charlie Hamilton James.-Education:Forrester was educated at Westgate...

    , Judi Spiers
    Judi Spiers
    Judi Spiers is a presenter on British radio and television.Spiers began her broadcasting career at Westward Television in 1977, the ITV station for south-west England. She impressed in the birthday slot with Gus Honeybun with cheeky humour. In short order, she moved to the What's Ahead...

    , Andrew Paul
    Andrew Paul
    Andrew Paul is a British-Jewish actor best known for playing PC Dave Quinnan in the ITV drama The Bill for 13 years.- Career :...

    , Billy Pearce
    Billy Pearce
    Billy Pearce is an award winning English performer, comedian, actor and entertainer. A regular on UK television in the 1980s and 1990s, Pearce has been described as a "supreme entertainer". His summer shows and pantomimes regularly break box office records.-Early life:Pearce was born in Leeds in...

  • Week 5 - Ronnie Ancona, Liza Tarbuck
    Liza Tarbuck
    Liza Tarbuck is an English actress and television and radio presenter, and daughter of comedian Jimmy Tarbuck.She trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA graduating in 1986 alongside Clive Owen, Rebecca Pidgeon and Serena Harragin.-Acting:...

    , Nick Hancock, Gordon Kennedy
    Gordon Kennedy (actor)
    Gordon Kennedy is a Scottish actor. Kennedy grew up in Tranent, East Lothian, and attended George Watson's College in Edinburgh...

  • Week 6 - Linda Nolan, Janet Krankie, Ian Krankie
    The Krankies
    The Krankies are a Scottish comedy duo that enjoyed success as a cabaret act in the 1970s and on television in the 1980s, featuring in their own television shows and releasing their own music single. They entered semi-retirement in 1992, but they have regularly appeared in pantomime since.The duo...

    , Nicholas Parsons
    Nicholas Parsons
    Nicholas Parsons OBE is a British actor and radio and television presenter.-Early life:...

  • Week 7 & 8 - Vanessa Feltz
    Vanessa Feltz
    Vanessa Jane Feltz is an English television personality, broadcaster and journalist. She currently presents an early morning radio show on BBC Radio 2, a mid morning phone-in show on BBC London 94.9. In 2011, she started hosting The Vanessa Show on Channel 5. The first series ended on June 24th...

    , Lorraine Kelly
    Lorraine Kelly
    Lorraine Kelly is a Scottish television presenter, journalist and actress, best known as a presenter for TV-am, and later GMTV and ITV Breakfast, on Lorraine.-Early life:...

    , Ainsley Harriott
    Ainsley Harriott
    Ainsley Harriott is a British celebrity chef and television presenter.-Early career:Trained at Westminster College of Catering, Ainsley obtained an apprenticeship at Verrey's restaurant in the West End and later worked as a commis chef...

    , Lee Hurst
    Lee Hurst
    Lee Hurst is an English stand-up comedian. He is perhaps best known as a panellist on the comedy sports quiz They Think It's All Over, where he was a regular from 1995 to 1998.In 1999, Hurst was voted no...

  • Week 9 - Bonnie Langford
    Bonnie Langford
    Bonita Melody Lysette "Bonnie" Langford is an English actress, dancer and entertainer. She came to prominence as a child star in the early 1970s then she subsequently became a companion of Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy's Doctor Who and has appeared on stage in various musicals such as Peter Pan:...

    , Linda Nolan, Paul Ross
    Paul Ross
    Paul Ross is an English television and radio presenter, journalist, and media personality. He is the son of Martha Ross and the elder brother of Jonathan Ross.-Early life:...

    , Robert Duncan
    Robert Duncan (actor)
    Robert Duncan is an English actor. He is best known for his television role as Gus, the jargon-speaking manager, from Drop the Dead Donkey. He also appeared in Casualty as Peter Hayes between 1995 and 1996.-Biography:...

  • Week 10 - Craig Doyle
    Craig Doyle
    Craig Doyle is an Irish television and radio presenter. To British viewers he is recognisable as working for the BBC and ITV...

    , Sian Lloyd
    Siân Lloyd
    Siân Lloyd is a Welsh television presenter, best known as a ITV Weather presenter.-Biography:Lloyd was born in Maesteg, Bridgend, Wales, the daughter of two teachers. She attended Ystalyfera Bilingual School and performed at the Eisteddfod where she won the Crown...

    , Debbie Greenwood
    Debbie Greenwood
    Debbie Greenwood is a British television presenter and a former beauty queen who won the title of Miss Great Britain in 1984.-Career:...

    , Paul Coia
    Paul Coia
    Paul Coia is a Scottish television presenter and continuity announcer who was the first voice on Channel 4.-Early life and career:...

  • Week 11 - ?, ?, ?, ?
  • Week 12 - C.P. Grogan, Kate Williams
    Kate Williams
    Kate Williams is an English actress from London who trained at London's East 15 Acting School.She remains best known for two television roles: Joan Booth in the 1970s sitcom Love Thy Neighbour and Audrey Withey in the crime drama Widows...

    , Kevin Day
    Kevin Day
    Kevin Day is a British stand up comedian, comedy writer and sports presenter, born in London.He came to prominence in the British alternative comedy stand up scene of the late eighties and early nineties, playing clubs like The Comedy Store...

    , Christopher Cazenove
    Christopher Cazenove
    Christopher Cazenove was an English cinema, television and stage actor.-Early life and career:He was born Christopher de Lerisson Cazenove, the son of Arnold de Lerisson Cazenove and Elizabeth Laura in Winchester, Hampshire, but was brought up in Bowlish, Somerset...

  • Week 13 - Maria McErlane
    Maria McErlane
    Maria McErlane is a British actress and presenter specialising in comedy. She has appeared in several TV series, including The Fast Show, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Thin Ice and Happiness, and "straight" roles in The Bill and Holby City but is probably best known as the narrator for Antoine de Caunes...

    , Michaela Strachan
    Michaela Strachan
    Michaela Evelyn Ann Strachan is an English television presenter.-Personal life:Strachan attended Claremont Fan Court School, Esher, a Christian Science school. Later, while at college, she briefly held jobs as an Avon lady and as a kissogram...

    , Jim Bowen
    Jim Bowen
    Jim Bowen is an English stand-up comedian and TV personality. He is best known as the host of the ITV gameshow Bullseye, which he hosted between 1981 and 1995.-Early life:...

    , Tim Vincent
    Tim Vincent
    Tim Vincent is a Welsh actor and television presenter who was a presenter on the popular children's programme Blue Peter between 1993 and 1997...

  • Week 14 - Ann Bryson
    Ann Bryson
    Ann Bryson is a British actress who is best known for featuring in the television series Days Like These and Space Vets.-External links:...

    , Annabel Giles
    Annabel Giles
    Annabel Giles has been a model, a television and radio presenter, an actress, a comedienne and a novellist during her career .-Career:...

    , Phill Jupitus
    Phill Jupitus
    Phillip Christopher Jupitus is an English stand-up and improvised comedian, actor, performance poet, musician and podcaster....

    , Norman Pace
    Norman Pace
    Norman Pace is an English actor and comedian, best known as one half of the comedy duo Hale and Pace with his friend and comic partner Gareth Hale...

  • Week 15 - Susan Brookes, Sue Jenkins
    Sue Jenkins
    Susan Elizabeth Jenkins is an English actress and one of two daughters of Albert and Marjorie Jenkins.-Biography:Sue Jenkins became an actress at the age of eighteen having studied at drama college...

    , Ross King
    Ross King (presenter)
    Ross King, real name Derek Ross King , is a Scottish television presenter, actor and writer. He formerly presented shows on Radio Clyde from America and various local LA shows...

    , James MacPherson
    James Macpherson
    James Macpherson was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of poems.-Early life:...

  • Week 16 - Andrea Boardman
    Andrea Boardman
    Andrea Boardman is an English television presenter.-Presenting career:She started out presenting when ITV's Disney Club launched in the UK in 1988. Andrea was given the role as female presenter after 2000 hopefuls applied for the job...

    , Lesley Vickerage
    Lesley Vickerage
    Lesley Vickerage is an English actress best known for her roles as WPC Jenny Dean in the British television series Between the Lines and as Helen Lynley in the British television series The Inspector Lynley Mysteries....

    , Gareth Jones
    Gareth Jones (presenter)
    Gareth Jones is a Welsh television presenter and celebrity. He began his broadcasting career under the name Gaz Top....

    , Paul Zenon
    Paul Zenon
    Paul Zenon is an English magician and comedian, known for television shows across many genres; in particular his 'Street Magic' specials featuring him performing stunts and tricks in pubs and on the streets....

  • Week 17 - Carol Smillie
    Carol Smillie
    Carol Patricia Smillie is a Scottish television personality, model and actress. Smillie is well-known for presenting the award winning BBC series Changing Rooms, which won her a National Television Award for Most Popular Factual Programme in 1998.She became the hostess of the British version of...

    , Blythe Duff
    Blythe Duff
    Blythe Duff is a Scottish actress, best known for her role as Jackie Reid in the ITV television series drama, Taggart.-Background:Duff was raised in East Kilbride...

    , Andy Cameron
    Andy Cameron
    Andy Cameron is a Scottish comedian, television and radio broadcaster. He was born in London while his father, Hugh Cameron, was serving in the Army during World War II. Cameron was raised by his grandmother, Isabella 'Bella' Cameron, in the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen, south east of Glasgow,...

    , Ally McCoist
    Ally McCoist
    Alistair Murdoch "Ally" McCoist, MBE ; 24 September 1962) is a Scottish football manager and former player. He is the current manager of Rangers in Scotland....


Series 8 (1997)

  • Week 1 - Davina McCall
    Davina McCall
    Davina McCall is an English television presenter and actress, most notable as the presenter of the UK version of Big Brother up until its move to Channel 5.- Early life :...

    , Johnny Vaughan
    Johnny Vaughan
    Jonathan Randall Vaughan is an English broadcaster and journalist. Vaughan has become well known as a television and radio personality and has also built a reputation as a film critic. He co-presented Capital Breakfast alongside Lisa Snowdon on 95.8 Capital FM between 2004 and 2011...

    , Elaine C. Smith
    Elaine C. Smith
    Elaine Constance Smith is a Scottish actress and comedienne. She was born in Baillieston in Glasgow, and she continues to live in the city. She was awarded the honourary degree of Doctor of The University by The University of Glasgow in 2008...

    , Roger Black
    Roger Black
    Roger Anthony Black MBE is a retired British athlete. During his athletics career, he won individual silver medals in the 400 metres sprint at both the Olympic Games and World Championships, two individual gold medals at the European Championships, and 4x400 metres relay gold medals at both the...

  • Week 2 - Liza Tarbuck
    Liza Tarbuck
    Liza Tarbuck is an English actress and television and radio presenter, and daughter of comedian Jimmy Tarbuck.She trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA graduating in 1986 alongside Clive Owen, Rebecca Pidgeon and Serena Harragin.-Acting:...

    , Paul Ross
    Paul Ross
    Paul Ross is an English television and radio presenter, journalist, and media personality. He is the son of Martha Ross and the elder brother of Jonathan Ross.-Early life:...

    , Clare Grogan
    Clare Grogan
    Clare Grogan is a Scottish actress and singer. She is sometimes credited as C. P. Grogan.-Early life:...

    , Colin McCredie
    Colin McCredie
    Colin McCredie is a Scottish actor, best known for his role as DC Stuart Fraser in the STV drama, Taggart....

  • Week 3 - Cheryl Baker
    Cheryl Baker
    Cheryl Baker is an English television presenter and singer. She is most famous for being a member of 1980s pop group Bucks Fizz, and has performed for the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest twice, winning it the second time.-Early career:After leaving school and a series of secretarial jobs, Cheryl...

    , Sian Lloyd
    Siân Lloyd
    Siân Lloyd is a Welsh television presenter, best known as a ITV Weather presenter.-Biography:Lloyd was born in Maesteg, Bridgend, Wales, the daughter of two teachers. She attended Ystalyfera Bilingual School and performed at the Eisteddfod where she won the Crown...

    , Fred MacAulay, John Parrott
    John Parrott
    John Parrott MBE is an English professional snooker player and TV personality.He won the World Snooker Championship in 1991, defeating Jimmy White in the final. Two years earlier he had lost 3–18 to Steve Davis, the heaviest final defeat in modern times...

  • Week 4 - Ann Bryson
    Ann Bryson
    Ann Bryson is a British actress who is best known for featuring in the television series Days Like These and Space Vets.-External links:...

    , Annabel Giles
    Annabel Giles
    Annabel Giles has been a model, a television and radio presenter, an actress, a comedienne and a novellist during her career .-Career:...

    , Karl Howman
    Karl Howman
    Karl Howman is an English actor and also a British voice-over artist.He is well known but notable to many television viewers for his work as Jacko in the mid-1980's and early-90's BBC TV sitcom Esmonde and Larbey's Brush Strokes and as the title character in the series Mulberry .However Howman first...

    , Tony Roper
    Tony Roper
    Anthony Dean "Tony" Roper was a NASCAR driver. He was born in Springfield, Missouri, to Dean Roper and Shirley Medley. Growing up his family was heavily involved in auto racing. Roper started racing in 1986. For the next six years Tony raced in IMCA Modifieds and late models on Midwest dirt and...

  • Week 5 - Tessa Sanderson
    Tessa Sanderson
    Theresa Ione Sanderson CBE is a former British javelin thrower and heptathlete who competed in the javelin competition in every one of the six Olympics from 1976–1996 winning the Gold medal in 1984...

    , Allan Stewart, Roy Walker
    Roy Walker
    Robert "Roy" Walker is a television personality and comedian from Northern Ireland, who worked for many years as both a television presenter and comedy actor...

    , Jet
  • Week 6 - Simon Biagi, Frazer Hines
    Frazer Hines
    Frazer Hines is an English actor best known for his roles as Jamie McCrimmon in Doctor Who and Joe Sugden in Emmerdale. Hines was born in Horsforth, a civil parish of Leeds.-Acting career:...

    , Zodiac, Michaela Strachan
    Michaela Strachan
    Michaela Evelyn Ann Strachan is an English television presenter.-Personal life:Strachan attended Claremont Fan Court School, Esher, a Christian Science school. Later, while at college, she briefly held jobs as an Avon lady and as a kissogram...

  • Week 7 - Phill Jupitus
    Phill Jupitus
    Phillip Christopher Jupitus is an English stand-up and improvised comedian, actor, performance poet, musician and podcaster....

    , Ken Morley
    Ken Morley
    Ken Morley is an English comedian and actor who is best known for his role as Reg Holdsworth in Coronation Street. He played the role from 1989 until quitting the show in 1995...

    , Kate Robbins
    Kate Robbins
    Katherine Robbins is an English actress, comedienne and singer.-Biography:Robbins is a first cousin once removed of Paul McCartney and older sister of Amy Robbins . She attended Wirral Grammar School for Girls and won the Drama Prizes each year, notably with her monologue "All this glitters is not...

    , Judi Spiers
    Judi Spiers
    Judi Spiers is a presenter on British radio and television.Spiers began her broadcasting career at Westward Television in 1977, the ITV station for south-west England. She impressed in the birthday slot with Gus Honeybun with cheeky humour. In short order, she moved to the What's Ahead...


Series 9 (1998)

  • Week 1 - Kelly Holmes
    Kelly Holmes
    Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE, MBE is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...

    , Syd Little
    Syd Little
    Syd Little is an English comedian and straight man in the double act Little and Large, with Eddie Large....

    , Eddie Large
    Eddie Large
    Eddie Large is the stage name of Edward Hugh McGinnis, a British comedian. He is best known as a partner in the double act Little and Large, with Syd Little....

    , Linda Nolan
  • Week 2 - Carol Smillie
    Carol Smillie
    Carol Patricia Smillie is a Scottish television personality, model and actress. Smillie is well-known for presenting the award winning BBC series Changing Rooms, which won her a National Television Award for Most Popular Factual Programme in 1998.She became the hostess of the British version of...

    , Ann Bryson
    Ann Bryson
    Ann Bryson is a British actress who is best known for featuring in the television series Days Like These and Space Vets.-External links:...

    , Andy Kane
    Andy Kane
    Andy Kane , nicknamed Handy Andy, is a British television personality best known for his work on the BBC's DIY programme Changing Rooms.-Background:...

    , Shaun Williamson
    Shaun Williamson
    Shaun Williamson is an English actor, singer, media personality and occasional presenter, best known for his former role as Barry Evans in soap opera EastEnders and as a version of himself in BBC sitcom Extras.- Career :...

  • Week 3 - Isla Fisher
    Isla Fisher
    Isla Lang Fisher is an actress and author. She began acting on Australian television, on the short-lived soap opera Paradise Beach before playing Shannon Reed on the soap opera Home and Away...

    , John Regis
    John Regis
    John Regis may refer to:* Johannes Regis , Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance* John Francis Regis S.J. , French preacher recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church...

    , Maria McErlane
    Maria McErlane
    Maria McErlane is a British actress and presenter specialising in comedy. She has appeared in several TV series, including The Fast Show, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Thin Ice and Happiness, and "straight" roles in The Bill and Holby City but is probably best known as the narrator for Antoine de Caunes...

    , Glenn Hugill
    Glenn Hugill
    Glenn Hugill is a British television presenter and producer.He was educated at Barnard Castle School and Christ Church, Oxford....

  • Week 4 - Ian Kelsey
    Ian Kelsey
    Ian Kelsey is a British television actor.Kelsey was born in York, Yorkshire, England, to parents Julie and John . He also has an older brother named David. He trained at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre York and graduated at the Guildford School of Acting...

    , Colin McCredie
    Colin McCredie
    Colin McCredie is a Scottish actor, best known for his role as DC Stuart Fraser in the STV drama, Taggart....

    , Hilary O'Neil, Lisa Riley
    Lisa Riley
    Lisa Riley is a British television presenter and actress probably best known for playing the role of Mandy Dingle in the television soap opera Emmerdale and succeeding Jeremy Beadle on You've Been Framed.-Career:...

  • Week 5 - Kevin Woodford
    Kevin Woodford
    Kevin Woodford, BA , MHCIMA, Cert ED is a Manx celebrity chef, actor, television presenter, businessman, hotelier and former restaurateur.-Career:...

    , Judi Spiers
    Judi Spiers
    Judi Spiers is a presenter on British radio and television.Spiers began her broadcasting career at Westward Television in 1977, the ITV station for south-west England. She impressed in the birthday slot with Gus Honeybun with cheeky humour. In short order, she moved to the What's Ahead...

    , Kevin Lloyd
    Kevin Lloyd
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  • Week 6 - Jo Brand
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  • Week 7 - Sally Gunnell
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    , Joe Pasquale
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    , Davina McCall
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Original series

Series Start date End date Episodes
1 30 January 1990 16 March 1990 28
2 29 April 1991 14 June 1991 28
3 7 September 1992 9 October 1992 25
4 26 July 1993 27 August 1993 25
5 3 January 1994 1 April 1994 65
6 1 May 1995 7 July 1995 50
7 8 January 1996 24 May 1996 85
8 6 January 1997 21 February 1997 35
9 5 January 1998 27 February 1998 40

Teen series

Series Start date End date Episodes
1 ?? ?? ??

Late series

Series Start date End date Episodes
1 14 April 2004 22 October 2004 18

External links

(STV Player
STV Player
The STV Player is a website based video on demand service accessible though the main STV website and separately in the distinct domain name stvplayer.tv. Current programmes are available for 30 days after transmission on the main STV channel, with archive programming available longer-term...

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