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13/03/1979
Season 1, Episode 1
Robert Robinson presides over another duel of words and wits as team captains Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell are joined by Joanna Lumley, Miles Kington, Rula Lenska and Ian Wooldridger. First broadcast in 1979
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Game Show/Quiz/Contest
Show/Game Show
Cast & Crew
Robert Robinson
(Presenter)
Frank Muir
(Team captain)
Patrick Campbell
(Team captain)
Joanna Lumley
(Panellist)
Miles Kington
(Panellist)
Rula Lenska
(Panellist)
Ian Wooldridge
(Panellist)
Alan Bell
(Director)
Johnny Downes
(Producer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Robert Robinson
(Presenter)
Frank Muir
(Team captain)
Patrick Campbell
(Team captain)
Joanna Lumley
(Panellist)
Born:
May 01, 1946
in
Srinagar, Kashmir
Best Known For:
Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous.
Early-life:
Joanna Lamond Lumley was born on May 1, 1946, in Srinagar, Kashmir. As a child she lived with her family in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, where her father was a major in the Ghurkas. She came to England aged nine to attend boarding school in Kent, and later a convent school in Hastings. At 16 she auditioned for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, but was turned down and decided to become a model instead, despite initially being told she was "too fat and too ugly".
Career:
Lumley's first film was 1969's Some Girls Do, followed by Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Her most notable early role was as Ken Barlow's girlfriend Elaine in Coronation Street. Lumley became famous thanks to The New Avengers in 1976. After Sapphire and Steel in the late 1970s, she turned her attention to the theatre and had a stint as a Times columnist. In 1992, Jennifer Saunders cast her as Patsy in sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. Since then, she has appeared in numerous TV dramas and films, including Maybe Baby, James and the Giant Peach, Jam & Jerusalem, Sensitive Skin, The Making of a Lady and The Wolf of Wall Street.
Quote:
"I can't see any difference in having your hair dyed, your teeth fixed, your nose done, or your face smoothed out or lifted."
Trivia:
Lumley received an OBE in 1995.
Miles Kington
(Panellist)
Rula Lenska
(Panellist)
Born:
September 30, 1947
in
St Neots, Cambridgeshire
Best Known For:
Playing Coronation Street's Claudia Colby.
Early-life:
Countess Roza-Marie Leopoldyna Lubienska was born in 1947 in Huntingdonshire to Major Count Ludwik Lubienski, the chief of the Polish military mission in Gibraltar during the Second World War. Her mother was the former Countess Elzbieta Tyszkiewicz. The family moved to the United Kingdom in 1946. Aspiring actress Roza-Marie changed her name to Rula Lenska, and appeared in early 1970s projects including Peter Sellers comedy Soft Beds, Hard Battles, TV series Special Branch and Edward the Seventh.
Career:
After appearing in Confessions of a Pop Performer and Space: 1999, she became a mainstream British star in 1976 series Rock Follies. Despite having little fame in North America, her appearance on shampoo commercials helped make her a cult star, largely thanks to chat show host Johnny Carson who used the ads as a running gag. Rula has been a TV regular in Britain for decades, starring in Minder, Boon, Casualty, Return of the Saint and Robin of Sherwood. She's also no stranger to soapland, having starred in Doctors and EastEnders. From 2009 to 2011 she played Coronation Street's Claudia Colby, leaving the role for the stage show Calendar Girls.
Quote:
"I don't like getting older. It's not so much the looks changing, it's that your body doesn't obey you in the same way."
Trivia:
On stage, Lenska has also appeared in The Vagina Monologues and 84 Charing Cross Road.
Ian Wooldridge
(Panellist)
Alan Bell
(Director)
Johnny Downes
(Producer)
