Call My Bluff: 20/05/1977


9:00 pm - 9:30 pm, Monday, March 23 on BBC Four (9)

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About this Broadcast

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20/05/1977
Season 1, Episode 1

Robert Robinson hosts as team captains Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell are joined by guests Sinead Cusak, Ian Ogilvy, Miles Kington and Penelope Keith for a game of word definitions and deceptions. First broadcast in 1977


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Game Show/Quiz/Contest Show/Game Show

Cast & Crew

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Frank Muir (Team captain)
Patrick Campbell (Team captain)
Sinead Cusack (Panellist)
Ian Ogilvy (Panellist)
Penelope Keith (Panellist)
Miles Kington (Panellist)
Brian Penders (Director)
Johnny Downes (Producer)

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Did You Know..

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Robert Robinson (Host)
Frank Muir (Team captain)
Patrick Campbell (Team captain)
Sinead Cusack (Panellist)
Ian Ogilvy (Panellist)
Born: September 30, 1943 in Woking, Surrey
Best Known For: The Return of the Saint.
Early-life: Ian Raymond Ogilvy was born in 1943 in Woking, Surrey. His father was a leading figure in advertising. As a youngster Ogilvy knew he wanted to act, thanks to roles in school plays. After serving an apprenticeship as an assistant stage manager with London's Royal Court Theatre, he went on to study at RADA. His first film, Revenge of the Blood Beast, was directed by his childhood friend Michael Reeves, with whom he also made The Sorcerers and Witchfinder General.
Career: While working in repertory theatre, Ogilvy boosted his CV with a number of appearances in series such as The Avengers and Strange Report, and gained much popularity in Seventies programme Upstairs, Downstairs. He continued to work solidly in film and TV, most notably in I, Claudius. In 1978, he was given the starring role in The Return of the Saint, a show which made him a household name. He moved to America in the 1980s and appeared in a host of TV shows including Melrose Place, Diagnosis Murder and Murder, She Wrote. He also appeared in the movie Death Becomes Her.
Quote: 'It's dumb to have regrets, and in any case, whatever else The Return of the Saint did or didn't do, it made me very well known. For an actor, that is the big thing.'
Trivia: Away from acting, he has enjoyed success with his novels, which have included Loose Chippings, The Polkerton Giant, and Measle and the Wrathmonk.
Penelope Keith (Panellist)
Born: April 02, 1940 in Sutton, Surrey
Best Known For: Playing snobby women in a variety of sitcoms.
Early-life: Born Penelope Anne Constance Hatfield in Clapham, South London, on April 2, 1940; her father reportedly disappeared soon after she was born. She met him once, during an outing, but did have a very close relationship with her mother and grandmother. Unfortunately, she failed to bond with her stepfather and still doesn't like to talk about him. After deciding on acting as a career, she attended London's Webber Douglas Academy, where Terence Stamp was among her fellow students. After graduating, she worked in local repertory theatre.
Career: Keith became a star on the small screen in 1975, playing snooty Margo Leadbetter in BBC sitcom The Good Life. More success followed with To the Manor Born, in which she played penniless aristocrat Audrey fforbes-Hamilton alongside Peter Bowles, with whom she was reunited in ITV's Executive Stress in 1986. No Job for a Lady in which she played a rebellious Labour MP and Next of Kin, in which she depicted a retired woman coping with her estranged daughter's children, failed to make much of a mark. She has since largely stayed away from TV, concentrating instead on the theatre, gardening and charity work. However, Keith did return to the small screen in 2003 in Margery and Gladys opposite June Brown, and starred in a one-off To the Manor Born Christmas Special in 2007.
Quote: 'I was very tall and very plain. I wasn't going to get very far on looks - so I thought I'd better be the funny girl.'
Trivia: In 2002, she spent a year as the High Sheriff of Surrey and was made a Dame in 2014.
Miles Kington (Panellist)
Brian Penders (Director)
Johnny Downes (Producer)

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