Celebrity Squares: ATV: 1976

[r2danny2]

Hi. I was in the audience of this episode. Any chance I could get a full copy. Would be great if you could help me out. Thanks and take care

[snuffythewomble]

Love the pink safari suit Bob!!

[MrDjsooner]

Davidleigh65 Yes that is Kenny Everett doing the voice over, he also did the voice for the cat in the cartoon safety ad with the young lad, Not a lot a poeple know that!

[custardaghost]

@MrDjsooner

"Charlie Says"?

Yeah, very appropriate for "lively" Kuddley Ken

[TheChrisrg]

Bob was a legend.

[davidleigh65]

love bob's safari suit lol.....and is that kenny everett doing the voice overs?

[71shoelover]

TV Was shit back then and TV is shit now.

[SuperBagshot]

contestants used to be so humble, britain has changed

[mrceleb2006]

Britain's answer to "The Hollywood Squares"!

[chumshot1]

Yay Mr Humphries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zakwilks]

arthur mullard dirty no good paedophile

[ThePorn2522]

@zakwilks How do you know - from personal experience?

[zakwilks]

@ThePorn2522...no from what his own daughter said he did to her & even his own friends said they were not suprised

[givethedjabj]

That is my ideal dinner party guest list !!!

[admiralhanson]

Jeez ... How many of them are still alive ? :-( Terry Wogan, John Conteh and Roy Hudd. Monkhouse himself is sadly missed and even Kenny Everet on links is no longer with us.

[vanillaorchid]

What is Monkhouse wearing????

[colinclarke1000]

FMOB! I haven't seen this in years.....probably because its not been on ha ha..still great telly...

[moonboots69]

willie rushton seemed to be on this every week... as i remember.

[notreallydavid]

@MrElliotpaige: 'Carry On Slag' - they never showed that one on TV.

She looks surprisingly tasty, don't you think? Or maybe the time has come for me to die.

[crazyclive]

@notreallydavid If you're talking about Patsy Rowlands, you're not alone. She looks up for it dressed like that... :)

[trickhoseroff]

You just don't get celebrities...in squares...these days...



[Aussiemarco]

A pink safari suit?? Gotta love the 70's.

[flaxonx3]

Fancy making an old man like Magnus Pyke climb to the top box.

[MrElliotpaige]

Boffin (Dead),Carry On Slag(Dead),IRA Group Leader (Alive),Doll Maker (Dead) Pedophile (Dead) Boxer - Pansyweight (Alive) Boring Cunt (Alive)

Professional Homosexual (Dead) Hairy Genius (Dead)

[BlowThemAllAway]

These were the glory days of television when each ITV region was a different channel. Nowadays, ITV is a joke, everything is centred in London, and the regions are gone. The old channels, like ATV in Birrmingham, will never be forgotten by many who lived through those days.

[Marillionboy]

Bob as the conductor of a game show was second to none. Always topped Forsyth for me because of his sheer delight at being nice to people.

[converse91970]

One of myh earliest TV memories, and a fair few safari jackets on show too. I remember Kenny Everett doing the voiceovers!

[Feisty1967]

Come on, how many of us played the dead, alive, dead game?

[Feisty1967]

Shame most of them are dead now, great days!

[Secretaryboy]

This was so cosy watching these 70s programmes, childhood was great back then.

[operator35]

Great theme tune. Does anyone have a clean recording of it?

[HELLO2YOU3]

loved this as a kid so Meany stars no longer with us shame we can't say the same of the crap that's out there now

[TheHarecat]

Fucking hell, apart from Wogan (unfortunately) there all brown bread.

Arthur Mullard was a kiddy fiddler, apparently.

[Witheredgoogie]

@TheHarecat No, sour grapes apparently.

His daughter told some story or other to the newspapers about beatings etc when she found he had left her nothing in his will.

[ghughesarch]

@TheHarecat John Conteh and Roy Hudd are still around too.

[darrowby1972]

@ghughesarch - You mean Roy Dudd is sadly still alive surely???

[Feisty1967]

@TheHarecat Yeah, he fiddled with his own daughter, slapped his erection on the kitchen table and got her to feel it.

[darrowby1972]

Line up is as follows

DEAD - DEAD - ALIVE - DEAD - DEAD (nonce) - ALIVE - SADLY ALIVE - DEAD & SADLY DEAD (imo) even Bob sadly!

[PinkFloydFan74]

Aww you don't get this sort of thing today, sadly.

[mistofoles]

Who the hell was John Conti??

[UliJones]

@mistofoles He was a boxer. Check out the sleeve of Band on the Run by Wings.

[ebf1957]

@mistofoles

John Conti was a boxer. I don't know what weight class he was in.

[crazyclive]

@mistofoles His name is John Conteh, not 'Conti'. If you have a question, Wikipedia is (normally) your friend in matters such as these... :)

[Feisty1967]

I have very fond memories of this show from when I was a child, it's such a shame that most of them are gone now, including the host and Kenny Everett.

[cosworth6nut]

I fondly remember this show from many years back. I know a lot of them are dead now, is Willie Rushton one of them? We only had three main channels (there were and still are regional variations like BBC Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and if memory serves, RTE1 and RTE2). It may have been crap, but that is all we had :) and I liked it.

[kylebook]

A VERY WEAK version of the USA's "Hollywood Squares".

[disneyfan81]

@kylebook However, the grid looks uncannily like the one on the Peter Marshall-hosted "Squares".

[kylebook]

@disneyfan81 Agreed, right down to the spiral staircases on the sides.

[courtney359]

people had to compulsory watch

this crap when there were only

3 channels.

[bluebus270]

this reminds me, i must get a powder dark pink safari jacket next time i'm in town.......

[gazzza123]

That great V/O from Kenny Everett

[XxDrewblexX]

iwould love to see the full episode

[salopred]

As of 2010, 6 out of the 9 panelists are dead. Plus Bob and Kenny. RIP guys

[Foresttaft]

Also has any got any Arthur mullard Yus, my dear! Footage to put on here?

[Foresttaft]

Yer and I reckon that will change as time goes on.

Imagine seeing this on here and thinking, "Jesus there's only three of us still alive"

I wonder who will be last man standing, my moneys on Wogan..

[rippleway123]

Sad that only 3/9 are still with us!

[quizmaster85]

Bob Monkhouse - a fantastic host with a heart of gold and sense of humour to match. R.I.P.

[elstruthio]

Even the ATV bit at the beginning brings back memories

[artvandelay1]

What a line up! Would love to have a seen a bit of the banter between Bob and the celebs.

Thanks for uploading this, there only seem to be clips of the 90s version elsewhere.

[c8a6lvin]

Not as good as the Peter Marshall version

[darrowby1972]

Dont talk such utter wet!

[darrowby1972]

@c8a6lvin -rubbish!

[tinroofbusted]

Gads I miss the times, My faves of course are Magnus Pike and John Inman. SADLY Gone from our lives!!!.

Thanks for the vids and upkeep of our favourite Brits

[TheSBWproductions]

SCIENCE!

[Legendofalunchtime]

Ah these ARE celebrities!

[XxDrewblexX]

It's nice to see John Inman from Are You Being Served? on it :D

[1ATV]

Another regular who was not on this show - Diana Dors , and quite often

Larry Grayson , would love to see more

episodes , but l have a feeling that they

were all wiped , apart from perhaps

this one ? Great pity , this would have been cult viewing now.

Would also like to see any clips of Punchlines , which was a slightly

similar show.

[SeanElGatoTelevision]

The same was thought for the US show that inspired it, the original edition of Hollywood Squares (1966-81)...until a number of 2" Quad tapes were found in storage (forgotten about for years) about seven years ago during a search for tapes of another program.

[disneyfan81]

@SeanElGatoTelevision Yeah, and the other program, if you're curious, was the supernatural soap opera "Dark Shadows". 

[jaymccrearydotcom]

This video doesnt work anymore :-(

[fendweller]

Phenomenal raspberry safari suit from Bob. What a line-up, though, eh?

[UKSazzy67]

6 of them are now dead, including the host Bob Monkhouse and the voiceover man Kenny Everett.

[MrGary66]

These arent celebrities these were STARS

[g1tfinger]

Now i'm convinced this array of celebs were on every single episode. Any time I saw it, Mullard and Rushton were always on. As were pat coombs and Magnus Pike...

[Yorkmackem]

Willie Rushton was always sat in the middle square if I recall, great deadpan comic, vastly underrated / overlooked.

[disneyfan81]

@Yorkmackem Yeah, but how would you compare him to Paul Lynde (for those who don't know, he was the predominate center square on "Hollywood Squares")?

[admiralhanson]

Not to mention Kenny Everitt on links ....

[dracula0091]

MAKES US FEEL HOW OLD WE ARE LOL

[Hodnux]

Dead, dead, alive, dead, dead, alive, dead, dead, dead. is my guess dinkiep

[Hodmox]

Correction. 3 are alive [John Conteh, Roy Hudd and Wogan]

[crusher19860138]

REAL TELEVISION-look at all those celebs-they could not make anything this good now even if they was shown how to!

[dunkiep]

so, did you all play 'dead or alive' as the celebs introduced themselves?

[smashwhammy]

With a set similar to the Peter Marshall set.

[ReeseyLee]

I used to love this! Sad to think that most of them are now dead. Such nostalgia. I have to say that this is proof that even our B list celebs were better than our A listers now.. and so much more diverse and fantastic. Imagine it now.. we would have Jordan, Danielle Lloyd, AAmon Holmes, Jackiey (Jade's mum), Cheryl cole ...and an assortment of other non entities!

[crazyclive]

@ReeseyLee I know I'm coming in very late on your post, but that's very unfair. If they brought CS back today (indeed Central did bring it back in 1993 with Bob in the chair), they could have this as a possible line up: Stephen Fry; Damian Lewis; David Mitchell; John Sargeant; David Ginola; Sue Perkins; Gabby Logan; KT Tunstall; and Gillian Taylforth. A good, solid mix of proper celebrities for you, all of whom would be bookable. The only problem is, who would you have as host and voiceover? :S

[ReeseyLee]

@crazyclive As long as it is not the awful Graham Norton I wouldn't mind!

[crazyclive]

@ReeseyLee I can't stand Norton either, so I agree with you there. However, my main point was to take issue with the ever-prevailing thesis of a 'golden era' of television where all the celebrities were great. It has never existed and it certainly didn't then.

[ReeseyLee]

@crazyclive But 70s TV was great; and the thing was that we didn't seem to have Z listers as our celebrities back then. Nowadays any non-entity can become a 'celebrity' just by sleeping with someone or participating in a reality show. We certainly didn't have a celebrity culture, where these non-entities were given the amount of air time they are today. So in this respect I think that it was a 'golden era'. An era that was without the likes of Jordan and Kerry Katona has to be golden!

[crazyclive]

@ReeseyLee I think your memory of the 1970s is very selective, if I may say. For Katie Price, I give you Nina Carter. For Kerry Katona, I give you Lena Martell. There were lots of very minor celebrities back then: consider another regular CS panellist, Françiose Pascal. By the turn of the decade, she was gone. There was an awful lot of rubbish television broadcast in the 1970s that was only shown once and then binned. That era was no worse or better than any other era, including this one.

[ReeseyLee]

@crazyclive I didn't say there was anything wrong with minor celebrities. I was talking about the non-entities who are only famous for who they have slept with or who they talk about sleeping with! I am not sure how you can make comparisons with Kerry Katona and Lena Martell... the mind boggles at that one! Lena Martell (although not to everyone's taste) coudl at least claim to be a real singer. I don't recall her ever being trashed on booze, falling out of a taxi in a cocaine induced state



[ReeseyLee]

or introducing her kids to one man after the other! You mention Françiose Pascal; and although she was just a minor celebrity, at least she had actually done something and didn't have her celebrity status bestowed on her by group of night club goers or second rate footballers. I totally agree with you about there being a lot of rubbish made in the 70s; but TV has definitely been dumbed down in recent years. I suppose I just liked the 70s; so prefer the Tv shows back then too!

[dtwdvne]

Could you please upload the whole episode.

[granadagreg]

Address caption made up using overstock Letraset from Crossroads, sent down to Elstree on the overnight.

[putthetellyon1]

Goodness me, how young do they all look.

[ChucklesWickedly]

Kenny Everett's voice is instantly recognisable.