- 16/05/2025
The contestants in this episode are Kelly Buxton & Del Marshall from Derbyshire & Yorkshire, Vic Williams & Louise Dickens from Kent, Eileen & Paul Givens from Tyne & Wear, and Pete & Amy Noble from the West Midlands. Bruce Forsyth hosts an entertaining episode, helped out by Rosemary Ford, who looks as if she's forgotten her dress here in her latest attire. Among the games are "Big Top" (involving the teams dressed as Chinese performing dogs), "Make a Kite" (exactly what it says on the tin), "Cockney Karaoke", judged by guest Wendy Richard, who has a surprise for Brucie that is as amusing as it is ironic, and "Game of the Name", where the teams have to guess the famous people's real names, and where one audience member nearly ruins it. For the final two couples the finale is a spoof on The Barretts of Wimploe Street, where Ronnie Corbett pops up as guest judge and Rosemary Ford wears a bustle that has to be seen to be believed. But what is she concealing under it? And has she the bottle to show us?
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00:00¶ Life is the name of the game
00:04¶ And I want to play the game with you
00:08¶ Life can be terribly pain
00:11¶ If you don't play the game with two
00:15¶ And I want to play the game with you
00:18¶¶
00:20Hip-hop!
00:22Hey!
00:24Oh! Thank you!
00:26¶¶
00:29Thank you very much.
00:33Oh! You're very kind.
00:35Thank you very much.
00:37Good evening.
00:39Good evening, ladies, gentlemen, children.
00:41Welcome to the Generation Game.
00:43Nice to see you. To see you!
00:45Oh, it has been an exciting week.
00:48Oh.
00:50Well, ask me what happened.
00:52Oh, go on, come on.
00:54After three, you say what happened.
00:56One, two, three.
00:59Well, earlier this week,
01:01I had the pleasure of attending a party
01:04and the even greater pleasure of meeting the one and only Mel Gibson.
01:08Ooh!
01:10We got chatting and the inevitable question had to be asked,
01:13what's it like being a super megastar idolised by countless millions,
01:17most of them female,
01:19who won't leave you alone for a minute?
01:21I said, Mel, it isn't easy.
01:23Well, I've had to learn to live with being idolised.
01:26You know, all my love, girl, oh, girls of all ages,
01:29banging on the door of my house, day and night, shouting,
01:32let me out!
01:34It doesn't upset me. I'm never upset when I'm doing this show
01:37because it means that I can introduce
01:39the lovely, the very gorgeous Rosemary Ford!
01:42Oh!
01:44Oh!
01:46Oh!
01:48Oh!
01:50Oh!
01:53Oh!
01:55Ooh!
01:57Well, there she is, the Madonna of Ealing.
02:00LAUGHTER
02:02I save that one all day.
02:04Anyway, well, Rosie, there are one or two people in our audience tonight,
02:07just one or two,
02:09find it difficult to believe that I have the same attraction
02:12that Mel Gibson has.
02:14Now, you're a young woman, what do you think?
02:17Our first contestants tonight are from Derbyshire.
02:21I didn't ask you to introduce the contestants, I wanted you to say...
02:24Well, Bruce, listen, listen.
02:26Is all this because I asked you for one of your photographs the other day?
02:29Yeah, yes, you asked me for a photo,
02:31but you also said you want it signed with all my love.
02:35That's true.
02:37Yeah, and you wanted lots of kisses on the bottom.
02:39No, the photograph.
02:41LAUGHTER
02:43Oh, they're a strange crowd.
02:45Well, I have to say, I can't deny that either.
02:47Well, that's all I wanted to know. That's answered my question.
02:50And you know, my gran was delighted when I gave her that photograph.
02:54LAUGHTER
02:56Your gran? All right, you won. Introduce the contestants.
03:00Right. Glenn, I did the Madonna line.
03:02LAUGHTER
03:04Our first team's from Derbyshire and Yorkshire.
03:07They're mother-in-law and son-in-law,
03:09Henny Buxton and Dale Marshall.
03:11Right.
03:13CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
03:15How are you?
03:19How are you? Welcome.
03:20And welcome. That's lovely.
03:22Now, you are Henny Buxton? Yes.
03:24Buxton, yes. And where are you from?
03:26From Derbyshire. From Dut... From...?
03:28Derbyshire. There's a trait of an accent there.
03:30Where are you originally from? Holland.
03:32Oh, from Holland. Oh, that's where the Generation Game first started, you know.
03:36Yeah. It was a Dutch show. Yes.
03:38Did you ever see it there? A long time ago.
03:40A long time ago, yes. That's right. And do you think we do it better?
03:43The same. Oh, yes.
03:45That was a silly question. Right.
03:47Now, who would you love to meet?
03:49Er, Neil Diamond. Oh, he's very good. Neil Diamond.
03:52Why would you like to meet him? Because I saw his latest show,
03:55and he has a lovely bum.
03:57LAUGHTER
04:00A lovely bum?
04:02A lovely bum. You went to see his show?
04:04Where were you sitting? In the orchestra?
04:06No, he just walked past in the front.
04:08Oh, he just passed, and you saw his bum, and that was it?
04:11Oh, lovely. Well, he's a great singer.
04:14He doesn't sing many bum notes.
04:16LAUGHTER
04:17Over now to Adele, your son-in-law, Adele Marshall.
04:20That's right. And what do you do?
04:22I'm a prison officer. A prison officer?
04:24AUDIENCE GROANS
04:26So you got the evening off? That's right.
04:29Yeah, so I'll make a note of that.
04:31Screw loose.
04:33LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
04:36CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
04:39Here we are. Here we are.
04:41I understand that most prisoners get to watch my show on television, is that right?
04:45That's right, Bruce, yeah, but only for punishment.
04:48LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
04:51Well, enjoy it. Enjoy it. Enjoy it. Right.
04:55Well, have you achieved anything at all?
04:57Yes, Bruce. I used to play for the village football team.
05:00Yeah, the village football team. Yes, good.
05:02And the first opening game of the season... Yes?
05:04...we played, and we lost 27-1.
05:06LAUGHTER 27-1?
05:08What position did you play? I was the goalkeeper.
05:11LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
05:15Go on.
05:17Now, you never did tell me your wife's name.
05:19It was Annemiek. Where did you get married, by the way?
05:21We got married in a place called Haarlem, in Holland.
05:24Oh, in Holland? Oh, that must have been lovely.
05:27Oh, so there's not a lady living in the land
05:32That you'd swap for your dear young Dutch
05:35All together now!
05:37There's not a lady living in the land
05:43That he'd swap for your dear young Dutch
05:50Anyway, welcome. Thank you for doing this.
05:53We'll have a drink on the back of the bus.
05:55Nice people. Nice people.
05:58Now then, who have we got now?
06:00Our second team's from Kent. Yes.
06:02Their stepfather and stepdaughter,
06:04Louise Dickens.
06:06CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
06:08Hello.
06:10Hello.
06:12Welcome.
06:14Welcome.
06:16Now, it's Louise Dickens, and what are you doing, darling?
06:18I'm a pensions administrator.
06:20Oh, a pensions administrator.
06:22You know, we don't get pensions at the BBC, you know.
06:24No, they just work you to death before you can claim it.
06:27If you make it past 70, they put you in last at the summer wine.
06:31Not just the actors, the stage crew, the camera crew, everybody.
06:34Even the tea lady. She's 100.
06:37But her tea's 99.
06:42Oh, wait. No, never mind.
06:44No, I won't wait. It will be embarrassing. Right.
06:46Have you got a boyfriend? Yes.
06:48His name's Mark Chaplin. He works for a bank.
06:50And he's my six-foot-six-and-a-half toy boy.
06:52He's six-foot-six-and-a-half?
06:55My goodness. Does he hear you talking?
06:57Oh, where is he? Where is he? He's up there in the white suit.
06:59Oh, yes, I see him. There's six people trying to look round him.
07:02Enjoy the show. My six-foot-six-and-a-half. Yes.
07:05Now, you wear contact lenses, and it has caused problems.
07:09Tell us about that. What happened?
07:10Well, one night I was staying round my mum's, and I got up in the morning for work,
07:13put my contact lenses in, went all the way to work,
07:15and realised I was having a bit of trouble seeing the screen and the paper.
07:18So I rang my mum up to see, you know, if she could shed some light on the situation,
07:22and she said that she was having trouble as well, which was a bit of a shame,
07:24as she's an ambulance driver.
07:26Oh, no! So you both put the wrong ones in?
07:29She was wearing yours and you were wearing hers?
07:31Oh, my goodness. I hope you don't wear the same dentures.
07:36Now, then, over to your stepfather, Vic Williams.
07:39That's right.
07:40How are you, Vic? Lovely. And what do you do?
07:42I'm an ambulance driver from...
07:43Oh, same as your wife?
07:44Same as... Well, she's my crew mate.
07:46No, you work in the... Oh, that's absolutely marvellous.
07:48We work together.
07:49And how did you meet? By accident?
07:57That was good, wasn't it?
07:59Nice one.
08:00Right, now, how did you get engaged, by the way?
08:03Well, I asked her to marry me during a tour of duty, actually.
08:06Oh, what?
08:07While attending an RTI.
08:08Yeah, well, I hope he didn't ask you at the back of the ambulance.
08:11Ah-ha! Ah-ha! Ah-ha!
08:16Right, did you... Did you see her with a kiss?
08:20Or did you resuscitate each other?
08:26We've all done that, haven't we, lads?
08:29Right, now, then, where would...
08:32Now, where would an ambulance woman and an ambulance man get married?
08:35Do you give up?
08:36Yes.
08:37St John's.
08:38Right.
08:39Now, one night at a karaoke evening,
08:42someone volunteered you to sing like a virgin.
08:45Or will you sing like a virgin?
08:48Yeah.
08:49So what happened?
08:50Well, I decided I was too old to sing like a virgin,
08:52so I decided to sing my way, the old Frank Sinatra number.
08:55Oh, yeah, yeah.
08:56And I rehearsed it all day, and I was very nervous when I went on stage.
08:59Yeah.
09:00I was so nervous, I decided I was going to do it like Tommy Cooper.
09:05You're big as Tommy Cooper.
09:07And it's a good idea, my way.
09:09Would you do just the last bit of it?
09:11I'll try.
09:12Go on, then, into camera four there.
09:16I've lived a life of sport.
09:20I've travelled each and every byway.
09:25And more.
09:27Much more than this.
09:29I call it dishonour.
09:33Oh, it's marvellous.
09:35What about this?
09:38It's marvellous.
09:39That's great.
09:40That is a wonderful idea to do.
09:42Tommy doing my way is a lovely idea.
09:44Over there, your lovely people, thank you for being with us.
09:47We've got a game coming up very, very soon.
09:51Before our first game, I'd just like to point out that our contestants
09:54have no idea what we have planned for them.
09:56They do not rehearse.
09:58This is your rehearsal.
10:00We're now ready for our first game, which is called Big Top.
10:04So here, performing the Lion Dance,
10:06we have some of the members of the Chinese State Circus.
11:28Well done.
11:38Wonderful.
11:39There we are.
11:41Well, that's all there is to it.
11:44Go and get yourselves ready.
11:46Go and get yourselves ready.
11:47And we'd like to thank Sui Wei and Haoqing Qi, the lion.
11:54There we are.
11:55And, of course, over here we have the orchestra,
11:59of course, who are playing on the side.
12:01Thank you very much.
12:03Lovely.
12:06Hello, Miss Wu.
12:08Is there an interpreter here?
12:10Yes, yes.
12:11This is Tianran Min, the interpreter.
12:16Lovely to meet you.
12:19Now, would you ask Miss Wu to come back and do some marking?
12:22Yes.
12:23Good.
12:24That's what I was trying to say.
12:25Good.
12:26Thank you, Miss Wu, and thank you, Tianran.
12:28Down there you go, if you will.
12:30That's fine.
12:31Now, could we have the first couple on, please?
12:34There you go.
12:35That's...
12:36Well, you're a bit...
12:37Yes, fine.
12:38Come round here.
12:39That's lovely, lovely, lovely.
12:40Get yourselves there.
12:41And round...
12:42No, round here.
12:43Stop acting already.
12:45Right.
12:46Now, the run round, we want you to go round to your left,
12:50OK, and be like a proud lion.
12:52Hold on.
12:53Just a minute.
12:54Who's working you?
12:55Right.
12:56Here we go, then.
12:57So, round you go in your nice lion sort of trot, and be proud.
13:01Come on.
13:02Round you come.
13:03Follow him.
13:04That's it.
13:05Follow him.
13:06Oh, look at these two.
13:07Very good.
13:09Very good.
13:10Come on.
13:11Round here.
13:12Round here.
13:13You're a bit top-heavy, but never mind.
13:15Very good.
13:16Very good.
13:17You're a bit top-heavy, but never mind.
13:19That's fine.
13:20Fine.
13:21Over here you come.
13:22Over here.
13:23Over here.
13:24Fine.
13:25That's good.
13:26Now, will you face each other?
13:27Face each other.
13:28Now, we want you to wag your tails.
13:29Wag your tails.
13:30This is why we've got the ladies to do that bit.
13:33Right.
13:34Now, then, scratch your ear with your leg.
13:38No, not with that.
13:40Get your leg up, Deeds.
13:42That's it.
13:43He's so tall, you see.
13:45He's so tall, you see.
13:48Okay.
13:49All right.
13:50You did that very well.
13:51Now, I want you to lie down and stretch out
13:53the way the lions do in the sun.
13:55So, just lie down and stretch yourselves out.
13:58Just stretch your...
14:01Stretch your...
14:08That's it.
14:09Now, get your legs up in the air.
14:10Legs in the air, the way the lions do.
14:13That's it.
14:13Oh, it's lovely in the sun.
14:15Right.
14:16Now, then, get up.
14:17I want you to get up.
14:18You've done that very well.
14:19Get up nice and carefully.
14:20Because we've got to do the catching the ball.
14:22And then you can do that bit where you jump up.
14:24So, could we...
14:25Thank you very much, Rosie.
14:26Catch the ball.
14:28There.
14:29Well done.
14:30Well done.
14:31That's marvellous.
14:32She hits the point.
14:33Okay.
14:34Catch the ball.
14:35Oh, yes.
14:37Look.
14:38Here you are.
14:41All right.
14:42Weren't they good?
14:43I mean, I thought...
14:50Come here, take your head off.
14:52Good.
14:53That was marvellous.
14:54Okay, get the lady...
14:55She's gone.
14:56She's gone asleep.
14:57Penny, Penny, they were here.
14:59Oh, she couldn't understand the English, you see.
15:01I said, get out.
15:02Right.
15:03Will you come back and do some marking?
15:04Miss Wu and Mr Tian Ranmin.
15:11Did you like that?
15:13Good.
15:14Right in here, right in here.
15:16Now, would Miss Wu like to say something about them?
15:22Yes.
15:24It's all right, they're moving next door.
15:29I thought so, too.
15:30Very well indeed.
15:31I saw you laughing there.
15:32Yes.
15:33So...
15:3418 points to this line.
15:36Yes, to Henny and Dale, yes.
15:38And 17 to this.
15:40And 17 there.
15:41It's also very close.
15:41Yes.
15:4218 and 17.
15:43Yes.
15:44Well done to them.
15:45Well done.
15:46Yes.
15:47Good luck with your season at Trap In Common.
15:51Now, you're going to be there till November the 15th
15:53with the Chinese State Circus.
15:55Good luck to you all.
15:57Thank you, Miss Wu, and thank you, Tian.
15:59Okay, there you go.
16:02Well, what's on the Chinese checkerboard, Miss Ford?
16:07Well, Henny and Dale have 18.
16:10Vic and Louise have 17.
16:12All right.
16:13Well, lovely.
16:14Well, go over there and take all that stuff off, okay?
16:17Get rid of all that stuff.
16:18Yes, you're stuck together there somewhere.
16:20All right.
16:21Our second game is called Make a Kite.
16:24Please welcome from Sky Bums in Shrewsbury, Mr Paul Morgan.
16:34Very well done, Paul.
16:35Well done.
16:36Well done.
16:37Now, you're going to construct a Morgan kite,
16:40which is named after you, of course.
16:41That's right.
16:42And you export a lot of these to Europe and parts of America.
16:44Yes, we do.
16:45Do you send them there, or do you fly them there?
16:48We send them.
16:49But you've also written a book on the subject, which is called...?
16:52The Book of Kites.
16:53The Book of Kites.
16:54Yes, with my wife, Helen.
16:55Oh, you wrote it with your wife?
16:56Yeah, we co-wrote.
16:57Oh, good. Lovely.
16:58Well, I hope that does well as well.
16:59Now, come over here, and all of you get sort of nice and close in here
17:02so you can see exactly what Paul's up to.
17:05And get in there so you can see. That's fine.
17:07Away you go, Paul, in your own words.
17:09Okay.
17:10You start by taking three of the sticks
17:13and putting them into the centre boss.
17:17Like that.
17:20Then you take the kite
17:23and start feeding
17:25the sticks through the centre holes.
17:27That's it. Get in.
17:28Don't worry about me. Just you get in.
17:30And then up through the other holes there.
17:35That's it.
17:36As you can see, the loop of line goes onto the notches.
17:39Oh, it goes into the little notch there for you to...
17:41Up there.
17:42...to get the little bit of string into.
17:43See that?
17:44That's good.
17:45Once you've got those three in...
17:46Nice.
17:48...you can put the other remaining three sticks in.
17:52That's it.
17:53And then
17:55another little niche in the wood there.
17:57This is a nice kite.
17:59My little boy would love one of those.
18:05I mean, if I went home tomorrow and he saw that on his bed...
18:10...he'd think, wasn't that lovely?
18:14That's it.
18:15He loves presents.
18:17Okay.
18:20There we are.
18:21Absolutely marvellous.
18:22Will you come back and do some marketing if you want to?
18:24You need to come.
18:25Well, there you go. Take it.
18:26So come over here
18:27and have a look at your bits and pieces.
18:29Now, you're going to work as a team,
18:30which should make it much easier for you.
18:32Hope you were watching carefully.
18:35Okay, so you've got about a minute and a half
18:37starting from...
18:39...then.
18:46That's it.
18:47Good.
18:49Get that first bit in.
18:52And then you'll be away.
18:54You're off to a fairly good start, both of you.
19:00Oh!
19:01That's the centrepiece gone.
19:02There we are.
19:04Get that in.
19:05You've got to get that in the three of them.
19:14Get it in the little niche.
19:19It's really not as easy as it looks, believe me.
19:23I wish you could all try this.
19:25There's 30 seconds left.
19:27I don't want to rush it.
19:28What do you mean, hang on?
19:29We can't hang on.
19:30I'm sorry.
19:31Hang on, hang on.
19:32I can't change the rules just for you.
19:34See, prison officer, you see.
19:39I wish a game would come along right now.
19:42It's the only thing that could save us.
19:43Oh, that's not looking too bad.
19:45That's not looking too bad at all.
19:47Okay, time's up.
19:48Wherever you're up to, time is up.
19:50Paul, would you come back and do some art with me?
19:58Now, they're holding on like grim death,
20:01but can you get in there and see what you've...
20:03Well, they've got the three sticks into the centre box there.
20:06Okay.
20:07I think 14.
20:0814 out of 20.
20:10Not a bad effort.
20:11They've got more in there than I thought, actually.
20:13Okay, would you like to try and get it in the air?
20:15Everybody blow after three.
20:17One, two, three.
20:20Nothing.
20:21Now, over here.
20:23Now.
20:24Are they out?
20:25I mean, they've got...
20:26Well, they've got nearly all the sticks in there.
20:28One fell out.
20:29One fell out.
20:3117.
20:3217, Ed.
20:33Oh, well done indeed.
20:34Paul, thank you very much for doing it.
20:36Good luck with Sky Gardens and your book.
20:48Now, what's on the board?
20:49Miss Ford?
20:50Henny and Dale have 32.
20:52Vic and Louise have 34.
20:54Oh!
20:55Well done.
20:56Well done.
20:57You better luck, you two.
20:58Oh, Henny and Dale.
21:01But anyway, you do get a...
21:08I feel so...
21:09Get out!
21:10No, you stop it!
21:12Stop!
21:13Get off!
21:16You do get a Generation Game telephone to each of you and...
21:22You can go off like that.
21:24And we'll see you in our grand final, which is coming up very, very soon.
21:27Thank you very much for being with us.
21:29Henny and Dale, that's it.
21:39Who have we got left?
21:41Right, our third team's from Tyne and Wear.
21:43Their mother and son, Eileen and Paul Given.
21:55Welcome, welcome.
21:56That's it.
21:58You're married.
21:59I am.
22:00And you are Eileen...
22:01Given.
22:02Given.
22:03I see, Given.
22:04What do you do?
22:05I work in a clothes shop and I'm also a slimming consultant for a slimming class.
22:08Oh!
22:09So you help larger ladies...
22:10Lose weight.
22:11With their size problems.
22:12That's right.
22:13Oh, I'll make a note of that.
22:15Fat, lot of good.
22:19Now, you're married to Kenny for 22 years.
22:21Yeah.
22:22Well done.
22:23And what does he do?
22:24He's a welder.
22:25Oh, does he wear goggles in bed?
22:27Paul Given, what have we got?
22:31Oh, all right, I'd like to watch you.
22:33Was it a romantic proposal?
22:35Not at all, no.
22:36No?
22:37No.
22:38He actually proposed to me in a little cafe called The 1A, which is your equivalent of The Greasy Spoon.
22:44Oh, really?
22:45And he proposed over Spam fritters, chips, mushy peas and a pot of tea.
22:53He's a very incurable romantic, my man.
22:55Yeah, and you said yes?
22:56I did, yes.
22:57Well, you must like mushy peas, that's all I'm saying.
22:59Now then, over to you, Sam, Paul.
23:01What do you do?
23:02I'm a PE student.
23:03A PE?
23:04Student.
23:05What, a mushy PE?
23:08I just thought of that.
23:10To myself.
23:11Right.
23:12Now, a hypnotist visited your college recently.
23:15What happened?
23:16Well, he put us under and every time Love Me Tender was played...
23:21Yes.
23:23...the broomstick was the most gorgeous girl I'd ever seen in my life.
23:27And there I was for five minutes, I was like kissing and caressing this broomstick.
23:32And then, like, he brought us out of it and there I was, stuck with this broomstick.
23:36And it wasn't until afterwards that I felt...
23:38Embarrassed because you've been trying to make love to a broomstick?
23:41Exactly.
23:43I just thought of something.
23:44Did you fly off the handle?
23:47Anyway, thank you for being with us.
23:48Over you go there, we've got a game coming up and some people to play with.
23:52So over you, there you go.
23:53Nice people.
23:54Nice people.
23:56Now then.
23:58Who have we got now, the last team?
24:00They're from the West Midlands, their father and daughter, Pete and Amy Noble.
24:05Right.
24:15Welcome, welcome, that's fine.
24:17Now, you are Amy Imogen...
24:20No.
24:21A noblewoman, your grace.
24:24Your grace.
24:25Oh, your grace.
24:27Oh, I haven't had a grovel for a long time.
24:29Do to the world a good.
24:30Now, what do you do?
24:31I'm a motor insurance clerk.
24:33Any boyfriend?
24:34Not at the moment.
24:35No, I see.
24:36And you're a motor insurance clerk?
24:37Yeah.
24:38But nobody's got a claim on you?
24:39No.
24:40I see.
24:42You suffer from...
24:43Dettophobia.
24:44What's that, dettophobia?
24:46It's the fear of paying my bills.
24:48Oh, I see.
24:50Everybody's doing jokes, don't they?
24:52Who's getting all these jokes?
24:54Right, any fantasy ambition at all?
24:57To be stranded on a desert island with the Chippendales.
25:00No.
25:01With a bottle of baby oil.
25:02With a bottle of baby oil?
25:06What, all six of them?
25:07Yeah.
25:08Yeah, I suppose you want Sundays off.
25:11And when you've finished with the baby oil, I suppose you'd then throw a bottle in the sea with a note saying,
25:16Send more baby oil.
25:19Well, that's a lovely ambition.
25:21Right, over now to your dad, Peter.
25:23Noble.
25:24No, a nobleman!
25:25By liege.
25:26By liege.
25:27Oh, I'm not...
25:28I'm unworthy, I'm unworthy.
25:30I'm unworthy!
25:32Don't just stand there, say I'm not!
25:34You're not, Bruce.
25:35Yeah, for goodness sake.
25:36A bit of wasted grumbling time, that was.
25:39You've got three sons and a daughter.
25:41Well, tell us a little about your little love there.
25:43Well, Amy can be a very clumsy girl, Bruce.
25:47Clumsy?
25:49A few months ago, we were at a friend's wedding reception, and after having a dance,
25:52she skipped from the floor, tripped over a handbag, and fell flat onto our table,
25:58scattering drinks everywhere, and knocking her brother's pint all over him, which he'd just bought.
26:04Brother's pint of beer that he'd just bought?
26:05He'd just bought.
26:06Oh, blimey.
26:07Did you hurt yourself, dear?
26:08I bruised my chest.
26:12What a shame.
26:13So you knocked yours back before he had a chance of knocking it?
26:16A shame.
26:17A shame.
26:18Oh, it's a shame.
26:20So it was all...
26:22So it was all booze, bruises, poops.
26:26Now you're doing impression of Wurzel Gammage.
26:28I don't like booze.
26:29Peter, that's lovely. Oh, I love him. Away you go.
26:31Here we is on the Generation Game.
26:34For some, it could be a rise to fame.
26:37But for all Wurzel, a telephone would suffice.
26:40And to be able to say,
26:43Nice to see you.
26:44See you.
26:45Bye.
26:52That was marvellous.
26:53Over there you go.
26:54That was really marvellous.
26:55Come on.
26:56That was very good.
26:59Right.
27:00Our next game is called Cockney Karaoke.
27:03So go and get ready.
27:05Go on. Round there and get ready.
27:06Now I'm sure we all know what a karaoke machine looks like and sounds like.
27:12The words come up on the screen and they change colour as you sing them.
27:15All you have to do is follow them along.
27:18So, all right, all of you, come back now.
27:21Oh, you look marvellous.
27:23You look great.
27:25Come right just here.
27:27That's lovely.
27:28Lovely, lovely, lovely.
27:29That's fine. That's marvellous.
27:31Now you're from the North East, aren't you?
27:33And you're from the West Midlands.
27:35Now it's a Cockney number.
27:36Now Cockneys don't just sing.
27:38They move all the time.
27:40That's because we always sing so badly.
27:44That's why.
27:45That we sing like that.
27:46So make it very physical.
27:47Knees up, full of life and the Cockney accent.
27:51Now we'll have a try of that first of all.
27:53So first of all say,
27:54What's your cock?
27:55What's your cock?
27:56Very good.
27:57What's your cock?
27:58Nearly.
27:59What's your cock?
28:01All right.
28:02What's your cock?
28:03Very good. Very good.
28:04A bit worse all, but very good.
28:06OK.
28:08Now Rosie will now give a demonstration.
28:10And I did without the use of a net.
28:12Rosie, on the spoons.
28:13Right.
28:14You have your spoons here.
28:15There's a little gap between them.
28:16We've made it a little easier
28:17because you've attached them.
28:18Now just run them down your fingers.
28:21And that's where you get the noise from.
28:23You run them down your fingers.
28:26And then you can do this.
28:27You hit yourself.
28:28Rosie, the fellow's not looking at the spoons.
28:30I can tell you can do that.
28:31Get it.
28:32Get it.
28:33She's doing it.
28:36There you go.
28:39Get it.
28:40Now, you're all now insulted.
28:42Sorry about that.
28:43It wasn't bad for a beer, either.
28:46Now, cue music.
28:51Move, move.
28:52Oh, you've got a lovely bunch of coconuts.
28:55Go on.
28:57Go on.
28:58Big ones, small ones.
29:00Big ones, small ones and the biggest you hate.
29:02Give them a twist, a flick of the wrist
29:04and that's what the troll's saying.
29:06Oh, I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts.
29:08Very good.
29:09Every morning they will make you eat.
29:13This tends be right, the ideal of be love.
29:17Sing a roller bowl, a bowl of penny and pitch.
29:19Sing a roller bowl, a bowl of penny and pitch.
29:23Together.
29:24Sing a roller bowl, a bowl of penny and pitch.
29:26Now, there's two.
29:27Roller bowl, ball of roll.
29:29Roller bowl, ball of roll.
29:30Sing a roller bowl, a bowl of penny and pitch.
29:33You, don't do anything, don't do it!
29:41Now you!
29:48Now you!
29:55OK, everybody!
29:58Ah!
30:01Do you mind?
30:02You too!
30:03I've got to hand it back to Coconut!
30:05Come on, move! Move!
30:06Before you throw a mate with it!
30:08What's it called?
30:09Oh, go on!
30:11Come on!
30:12Sing!
30:16Come on, everybody, sing!
30:20Sing!
30:28Sing!
30:35Hey!
30:46Oh, dear!
30:47There was a few funny tempos there!
30:50I might be a bit biased, but I don't think there's anything like a Cockney character.
30:54So, to judge this, here's that lovely actress, Wendy Richard!
31:09Well, my darling, did you enjoy that?
31:11Oh, I did, it was wonderful.
31:12It was very difficult to judge.
31:14Was it?
31:15Oh, I thought so, because, well, both couples had their own various qualities and talents,
31:22which were obviously coming from...
31:23Yes, they were all out of time.
31:26Yes, they were all out of time.
31:27Well, I'm used to that, so...
31:29No, I mean, Paul really threw himself into it.
31:32Yes.
31:33And Eileen was good.
31:35Pete was very good.
31:38Amy wasn't bad either.
31:41But you, we asked you, you know, with you having your Cockney, you know, sort of ancestry.
31:45Well, yes, well, I hate to sort of be biased or anything,
31:48but in actual fact, I'm the only Geordie in the whole of EastEnders.
31:52So, I hate Geordie.
31:53You're Geordie?
31:54You're Geordie.
31:55I'm sticking with an old Easter.
31:56Oh, I didn't know either.
31:57Oh, I hope it's not going to be a fix.
32:00No, not, I mean, to be fair, shall I give them up now?
32:02Yes, yes, why not, my darling?
32:03All right, then.
32:04Nothing else to do.
32:06Well, Eileen and Paul, I'm giving 17.
32:0917, very good, very good.
32:13Very good indeed.
32:14And Pete and Amy, I'm giving 17 as well.
32:17Oh, 17 as well!
32:19Oh!
32:21Well, thank you, my darling, thank you, my darling.
32:23Thank you, darling.
32:24No, no, nothing biased about that at all.
32:26No.
32:27Now, the new series of Grace and Favour, when's that coming out?
32:29That's right, well, we think probably in the new year.
32:31And I also heard that Are You Being Served is the top British series on American TV.
32:37That's right, five nights a week, there we are in Grace Brothers.
32:40It's wonderful.
32:41Well, that's absolutely great.
32:42Wendy, it's been lovely to see you, my darling.
32:44Thank you so much, thank you.
32:45Good luck for everything.
32:46And you.
32:48There we are.
32:50All right, thank you.
32:51Thank you, love.
32:52No worries.
32:53No worries, I didn't know that.
32:55Well, what's on the board, Miss Ford?
32:58Well, Eileen and Paul have 17, Pete and Amy also have 17.
33:0317, 17, all right.
33:05All for me and all for Luke.
33:14It's called Take Your Clothes Off.
33:17No, no, sorry, Take Your Clothes Off, sorry, my fault.
33:19Take Your Clothes Off.
33:20But just the jacket, that's it, and your hats.
33:22Throw them down there anyway, because you're stars.
33:25Yes, underlings, pick them up.
33:27That's fine, that's marvellous.
33:28Jolly good.
33:29Reminds me, I must go to the laundry tomorrow.
33:30Right.
33:31Our fourth item is called Game of the Name.
33:35I'm going to give you the real names of some famous people.
33:38All right, then?
33:39One of you will write down the name, that person is known as today.
33:43The other one will hold up an article associated with that person.
33:47So, who's going to do the writing and who's going to do the holding up?
33:50You do the writing.
33:51I'll do the writing.
33:52You do the writing, you'll do the holding up, and you?
33:54What do you want to do?
33:55I'll do the writing.
33:56You'll do the writing, you'll do the holding up.
33:57Yes.
33:58OK, so get to your tables and your lecterns.
34:00Whoever's doing the writing, get to there.
34:02The other ones, get behind the table.
34:04That's it, get behind there, that's fine.
34:07Right, now, the first name is Marion Morrison.
34:12Marion Morrison.
34:16So, write down who you think that is.
34:19Have we got an answer?
34:20Yes, we have.
34:21We've got an answer, fine.
34:22Right, well, now, that was, of course, John Wayne.
34:28And what have we got over there?
34:30Maggie Thatcher.
34:35Marion Morrison, Maggie Thatcher.
34:38Well, there we are.
34:39And, oh, we've got the hat.
34:41So, you've got one point.
34:42Well done indeed.
34:46John Wayne's got to, we've got one point, but nothing.
34:49John Wayne would never have worn a hat like that when he was on horseback or any other time.
34:55So, there we are, that's the first one over with one point each.
34:58Now, the next one is Thomas Woodward.
35:02Thomas Woodward.
35:05Thomas Woodward.
35:13Bookends.
35:19Definite bookends.
35:21You'd think they'd been nobbled, wouldn't you?
35:23There you are, all those things, you've got an answer?
35:26Yes.
35:27OK, so, it is, of course, Tom Jones.
35:32Tom Jones.
35:33So, what have you got over there?
35:35Kevin Keegan.
35:36Kevin Keegan.
35:37Kevin Keegan, and we've got a top hat.
35:40Can you imagine Tom Jones wearing that?
35:42Not at all, not even if he was going to a wedding.
35:45And we've got Sting here.
35:47Well, at least it was, you know, music.
35:49You were nearing that way, and the top hat, no good at all.
35:52OK, put your things down there.
35:54And the next one coming up, it is William Pratt.
35:58William Pratt.
36:01We've all met one of those in our time.
36:03William Pratt.
36:07I'll give you a clue, it was an old movie star.
36:12Are we starting to write my name?
36:15William Pratt.
36:17But then when I said an old movie star, he changed his mind.
36:20Well done.
36:21William Pratt.
36:23Anybody know out there?
36:24Boris Karloff.
36:25Shut up!
36:26Mouthy.
36:30All you had to say was yes.
36:35The lady didn't hear that, did she?
36:37Didn't hear anything.
36:38No, didn't hear anything.
36:39Oh, good.
36:40Well, something was said, you must have heard something.
36:43Oh, you're too busy concentrating?
36:45Oh, bless her heart, Amy, bless her heart.
36:47OK, that was, of course, Boris Karloff.
36:51OK, so what have you got over there?
36:53Boris Gardner.
36:55You had a laugh here, didn't you?
36:57Boris Karloff.
37:06You were concentrating, weren't you, dear?
37:11Right, nothing for that, and the...
37:13Can you imagine Boris Karloff playing a trumpet?
37:16No, nothing for that either.
37:18And we've got Burt Lancaster, nothing for that.
37:21And nothing for the football.
37:22Boris Karloff playing football.
37:24So, bad luck there, no points at all,
37:27but come here, a good bit of fun.
37:38Bit difficult for you, yeah.
37:40Now, what's on the board, Gertrude Shufflebutton?
37:43Well, that's your real name.
37:46Well, Eileen and Paul have 18, Pete and Amy also have 18.
37:51Oh, a tie-breaker!
37:53Well, I think, under the circumstances,
37:55and with that being a bit difficult, I think that's probably fair.
37:58There we are, so it's the first one, get nice and close in it,
38:00all get in close.
38:01The first one to answer correctly will be the winner.
38:04So, here we go.
38:05In the American presidential election,
38:08who is standing for the Democrats?
38:10Clinton.
38:11Clinton, well done.
38:12Well done, you did it.
38:14Well done, my lad.
38:16All right.
38:17Good on you, I'm sorry to lose you,
38:19but you will get a Generation Game telephone with that up,
38:22and thank you for being...
38:23And I'll never forget Boris Gardner, if I live to be 100.
38:27OK, there'll be...
38:28Jonny...
38:31What about me? I've been well done all day.
38:33Right, let's remind ourselves
38:35who you'll be playing in our grand final.
38:38Come right over here.
38:39Here we are.
38:42Lovely ship there, that's good.
38:44And have we got a grand final for you now.
38:47We go into the classics this week, the classics.
38:50I'll say no more.
38:51The vital toss-up, heads or tails?
38:53Louise?
38:54Heads.
38:55Heads.
38:56It is tails.
38:57Look at that, tails, so you lost the toss.
38:59Do you want to go first or second?
39:01Second.
39:02Second, you want to think about it.
39:03OK, fine, so if you'll just pop over there
39:05and get these two ready.
39:06Over you go there, Vic.
39:08Now, with you two,
39:09will you just wrap these two in a roll of under felt?
39:12Good.
39:13Ladies and gentlemen,
39:14the Balls Upon Road Theatre Company
39:16proudly present
39:17The Barretts of Wimpole Street,
39:19take one.
39:28Hello?
39:29Are you in? Oh, yes.
39:30I'm sorry we couldn't get your size.
39:33No wonder his eyes are watery.
39:35How do you get those glasses on?
39:37Anyway, look,
39:38Elizabeth is going to recite a patriotic poem
39:41and I want you to salute.
39:43So every time I cough, you salute, OK?
39:46Let's have a rehearsal.
39:47Right.
39:48HE CLEARS THROAT
39:55Have you got a woman in there?
39:57Anyway, I bet you're sorry you wrote it now, aren't you?
40:01Anyway, my dear Elizabeth, daughter,
40:03pray read to me your patriotic poem.
40:06Certainly, Papa.
40:07This green and present land of ours...
40:10Even more at market.
40:11I mean, that was good.
40:13This green and present land of ours...
40:17This is Wimpole Street, not Coronation Street,
40:19you know what I mean?
40:20So try to get more about that.
40:22You know what I mean?
40:23HE CLEARS THROAT
40:24No, not yet.
40:26Not yet, I was just clearing me throat.
40:29Right, away you go, my dear.
40:30These green and pleasant lands of ours,
40:33its rolling hills and dales...
40:35HE CLEARS THROAT
40:37Sorry about that, go on.
40:39Our fields are full of sheepses.
40:42Sheepses?
40:43Sheepses?!
40:44For goodness sake, you've lost already, you have, dear.
40:47You'll never get to the conveyor belt, I tell you that.
40:52Oh, blimey.
40:56This green and pleasant land of ours...
40:59Oh, blimey, maybe the maid's doing poetry now.
41:02Go and polish your cruets or something.
41:04Oh, I'm sorry to be a noose.
41:06Yeah, well, you can't help it.
41:07And don't go home tonight wearing that bustle.
41:10Why not?
41:11Well, you could cause a ten-mile tailback on the M25.
41:16I bring you message from your beloved Robert Browning.
41:20Oh, I say, read it, read it, read it.
41:23Dearest, I'm hidden in the suit of armour.
41:28Gasp!
41:29He's... he's here!
41:31Browning, leave my house at once!
41:33Your line's on your left arm.
41:37So be it!
41:39Oh, I have...
41:40He's doing Tommy Cooper!
41:43I have a poem in this room for my dearest Elizabeth.
41:47I love her terribly.
41:49Yeah, well, you can't be easy in a suit of armour.
41:52Right, now, OK, jolly good.
41:54Now, Elizabeth, summon the butler, dear.
41:56Summon the butler and get him out of this house.
41:58OK, go over there and pull the bell rope, dear.
42:00Just pull the bell rope.
42:01That's it, pull it.
42:02That's it, good.
42:03Oh, I say!
42:05Well, it's a surprise.
42:07That's where he put it.
42:08Right.
42:09Still warm.
42:10Right.
42:12Your next line's on the bell, Paul.
42:13There we are.
42:14Go on, read it, dear.
42:15He departs here before me to...
42:17Hold on.
42:18They've got the... the words...
42:20The words should have started at the top and go down.
42:24You put them at the bottom to go up.
42:26Do I have to do everything?
42:29Sorry.
42:30Please, Papa, at least allow Robert to...
42:33to read this poem before he departs.
42:36Good, fine.
42:37OK, there's your poem.
42:38OK, all right, Browning, read your potted poem.
42:41Come on, read it.
42:43Oh, sorry, sorry.
42:45Sorry about that, sorry.
42:47I cannot see the daffodils
42:49or smell a bright red rose.
42:51I could put on my auntie's frock,
42:54but I'm not one of those.
42:57That's it, round the back.
42:58Get it, get it.
42:59Bring it on, dear.
43:00Get your poems up, dear.
43:01Clear up.
43:02You're overpowering the notion, dear.
43:04You faint, you faint.
43:05No, not on me.
43:06No, over there, dear.
43:08On the... on the sateen.
43:10Faint.
43:11She's gone.
43:12Right, that's fine.
43:13Yes!
43:14I think she's fainted.
43:16Oh, well done, Mabel.
43:17Well done, dear.
43:18Get a doctor quickly.
43:20I think I'll have a quick drink.
43:22Oh, dear.
43:23Right.
43:25What a...
43:26What a lovely bottle and glass.
43:28Yes, I think I need a drink more than she does.
43:31Well, I'll tell you something,
43:33nobody can say I don't keep a good cellar.
43:35Oh, well, bottom's up.
43:38Mmm.
43:39Mmm.
43:40Lovely.
43:41Lovely.
43:43Lovely.
43:44There was a quick happy hour, Mabel.
43:46The doctor should be here any second.
43:48I said the doctor should be here any second.
43:51I said the doctor should be here any second.
43:55I said...
43:58Which one's the patient?
44:01Which one do you think?
44:02Because it ain't the one on the couch, for heaven's sake.
44:05Doctor, Miss Elizabeth has fainted.
44:08Well, wait a minute, wait a minute.
44:10You're browning.
44:11Oh, I stood nowhere near fire.
44:13She's as thick as a blanket.
44:15Get up, dear, get up, dear, and crawl.
44:17Crawl towards him, crawl towards him.
44:19Crawl towards him.
44:20OK, you're still emotional.
44:22And read the line, it's on the bag.
44:24Read the line, it's on the bag.
44:25Please, Papa, allow him one final poem of love.
44:28I implore you.
44:29All right, and just one, and it better be good.
44:32The line's in your inside pocket.
44:34Throw the bag away, throw the bag away.
44:38Get the line, get the line, that's it, fine.
44:40And better be good, away you go.
44:42Dance for me, my gypsy maid.
44:45Dance as the firelight flickers.
44:48Too close to the flames, my love.
44:50You might set fire to your...
44:52Oh, the flames!
44:54That was terrible.
44:56Come on, Rosie, we can beat that.
44:58You start the poem off, and I'll try and finish it.
45:01OK.
45:03It's all too much for Elizabeth's dad.
45:06He'll defend her with his pistols.
45:12Oh, charming, thanks a lot.
45:14Pistols, pistols.
45:16I know what Brownie wants to do.
45:18Let's get his hands on her crystals.
45:32Right, over there you go, and wait there.
45:41Are you ready? Good.
45:42We're ready now for the Barretts of Wimpole Street, take two.
45:51Are you ready?
45:53I thought you said he's not here.
45:55Quick, send him on, for goodness' sake, send him on.
45:58Right, come here, come.
46:08OK, hello? Anyone at home? Good, you're there, good.
46:11Now, don't worry, we'll get you out.
46:13One of the lads has got a tin opener.
46:15Right, now, Elizabeth is going to recite a patriotic poem,
46:18and I want you to salute, OK?
46:20Every time I sneeze, you salute.
46:23Let's have a rehearsal. OK, here we go.
46:25ACHOO!
46:27Good!
46:29There's another one. Right.
46:31Very good, but lay off the strong bow.
46:35It's doing you more harm than good, OK?
46:38Ah, my dear daughter Elizabeth, pray, read us your patriotic poem.
46:43Certainly, Papa.
46:45Papa? Who's Papa?
46:47Papa, you been on the pawpaw?
46:50No, dear, doing more upmarket, dear.
46:52This is Wimpole Street, all right, not Portobello Road.
46:55OK, so very upmarket.
46:57Certainly, Papa.
47:02Oh, to be in glorious England,
47:04to see the swaying of the corn.
47:06Achoo!
47:09Very good, you're doing well. Right, go on.
47:11The cows that stand in fields of green,
47:13and on they could achoo.
47:15Achoo? Achoo?
47:17No, not yet.
47:19All right, forget it, forget it.
47:21It'll take too long to explain.
47:23But look, dear, you see... Oh, blimey, she's here again.
47:25Look, here we go.
47:27The lush green valleys, the soaring peaks...
47:30Yes, oh, Mabel, the maid's doing poetry now.
47:32Now, go and dust your knick-knacks or something.
47:34Oh, well, I'm a little behind with me work.
47:37I can see that, dear, you're a lot behind with your work
47:39from the looks of it, and whatever you do,
47:41don't put that dress on back to front.
47:43Why? It'll frighten the life out of your mother.
47:48Right, here we go.
47:50I bring you message from your beloved Robert Browning.
47:52Yes, read it, dear, read it.
47:54Dearest, I am hidden in the suit of armour.
47:58My goodness! Gasp! Gasp!
48:01Gasp! He's here!
48:03Browning, leave my house at once.
48:05Your line's on your left arm.
48:07Oh. That's it.
48:15Go on, put it together, go on.
48:18So be it.
48:20But I've hidden a poem in this room for dearest Elizabeth.
48:25My whole being aches and throbs for her.
48:29There'll be no throbbing here tonight, I tell you that.
48:32Elizabeth, summon the butler, dear, summon the butler.
48:34Over there, just pull the bell rope, dear.
48:36Pull the bell rope and summon the butler and throw this man out.
48:39Just pull it, dear, pull it. Please, pop off.
48:41Just a minute. Hold on, there it is.
48:43The poems in the rhubarb pie, the maid is bait.
48:46Here's the rhubarb pie.
48:50For goodness sake, you're supposed to cut the rhubarb.
48:53Oh, I don't like rhubarb.
48:55Well, force yourself, dear, force yourself.
48:57Force, rhubarb.
49:00I thought I'd get a round of applause. Never mind.
49:02That's it, go on.
49:04Ah, we'll swap, OK, now that your line's on the bell rope, dear.
49:07Please, pop off.
49:09I know, look where they've put it now.
49:11Can you see, dear? Go on.
49:13Allow Robert to read me his poem before he...
49:18..departs. Departs, that's it, good boy, OK.
49:20Now, very well, but read your potted poem, but be brisk.
49:24My feelings for you are strong and true.
49:29Despite the ugly rumours,
49:31that all I really want from you
49:34is the occasional glimpse of your...
49:37Oh, for goodness sake, will you stop all that?
49:39How dare you? Get him out, get him out.
49:41Out you go now, you, dear. You're overcome with emotion.
49:44Faint, faint, that's the obviousity that'll do.
49:46That's lovely, faint there.
49:48Has she fainted?
49:50I don't know why we keep her on, you know, I don't know why we keep her on.
49:53Quickly, get a doctor.
49:55Yes, I need another drink.
50:01She doesn't give a forex if I have a drink or not.
50:05The doctor should be here any second now.
50:07Doctor, should be here any second now.
50:10The doctor.
50:12What were you doing?
50:14Yes, you, I was waiting for you, come here.
50:17Right, now do your line, do your line.
50:20Which one's the patient?
50:22Which one do you think, for goodness sake?
50:24Doctor, Miss Elizabeth has fainted.
50:27Wait a minute, you're browning.
50:29Oh, so is my gravy.
50:32She's getting worse, I tell you, she's getting worse.
50:34Now, dear, crawl over here, love.
50:36Act all the time, very good, crawl.
50:38And your line's on the bag here.
50:40Your line's on the bag.
50:42Please, Papa, allow him one final poem of love, I implore you.
50:46Just one more, just one more poem.
50:48The line's in your inside pocket.
50:50Yeah, in here, look, go on then, and make it good this time.
50:53Away you go.
50:54In days of old, when nights were bold,
50:57And armour made them numb,
50:59It was a bit of a nuisance, cos they couldn't scratch their...
51:02No, no, no, no, sit down.
51:04He's getting worse, he's dreadful.
51:06Look, we can beat that.
51:07All right, you start it off, the poem, and I'll finish it.
51:09Right.
51:10And make it a bit easier this time.
51:12OK.
51:13It's all too much, our play is done.
51:16Let's close with rhyming ditties.
51:20LAUGHTER
51:23Oh, thanks a lot, thanks a lot, yes.
51:25Let me see, ditties...
51:27You keep your mouth shut.
51:29Ditties, yeah.
51:30I wish these two lived far apart, at least in separate cities.
51:34LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
51:45There we are, come over here, well done, you two.
51:47Can we have the other two back?
51:49There we are, absolutely marvellous.
51:51Louise and Vic, in you come, that's fine.
51:54Now, who to judge this?
51:56We have a man of many, many parts and many characters,
51:59and someone we will always love,
52:02Mr Ronnie Corbett.
52:04CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
52:08Well done, well done.
52:10It's good, it's good.
52:17Thank you very much.
52:18Well, what did you think?
52:19Well, terrific, very, very exciting.
52:20Yes.
52:21Stimulating production.
52:22You took a few liberties with the book, the text.
52:24Yes, we did.
52:25You played Edward Barrett.
52:26Edward, didn't you, yourself?
52:27Oh, did I?
52:28Yes.
52:29I don't know.
52:30I didn't know what part I was playing.
52:31Did you know he had eight children?
52:32No.
52:33Yes.
52:34His hobbies included gasping for breath and falling over.
52:37LAUGHTER
52:39It's rumoured that his wife, one night,
52:41was caught sewing his pyjamas,
52:43and she said,
52:44a stitch in time saves nine.
52:45LAUGHTER
52:47I loved it.
52:48APPLAUSE
52:50I know, you see.
52:52Right.
52:53Now, you want me to make...
52:54It's very difficult, wasn't it?
52:55Very difficult.
52:56I mean, it was rich in talent.
52:58Rich in...
52:59Both couples were rich in talent.
53:00The drama was...
53:01The drama was...
53:02Now, Eileen and Paul here...
53:05Hi, Eileen and Paul.
53:06Very good.
53:07Full of energy, full of sparkle,
53:08and...
53:09LAUGHTER
53:10What can I say?
53:11LAUGHTER
53:13I think you just said it.
53:14Yes, I did.
53:15And I would say...
53:1617.
53:1717?
53:1817.
53:19For Paul and Eileen, yes.
53:20Yes.
53:21APPLAUSE
53:22Well done indeed.
53:23Well done indeed.
53:24And I...
53:25If I may say so,
53:26a particularly good death.
53:27Yes.
53:28A particularly good...
53:29I mean, free movement.
53:30Wonderful.
53:31Yes, it was.
53:32Wonderful pirouette onto the chaise lounge.
53:33Yeah.
53:34And, in fact,
53:35I haven't seen such a dramatic turnaround
53:36since Michael Heseltine.
53:37LAUGHTER
53:38APPLAUSE
53:39Topicals as well.
53:40Topicals.
53:41All the topicals.
53:42The Easter pear.
53:43The Easter pear.
53:44You must have been up all night last night.
53:45LAUGHTER
53:46The Eastbridge.
53:47LAUGHTER
53:48Sorry, I didn't mean that.
53:49Read my mail again.
53:50Here we go, David.
53:51LAUGHTER
53:52Right, you little devil.
53:53Now, come on.
53:54I'll tell you what.
53:55Yes.
53:56I once went to a fancy dress party
53:57in a suit of armour...
53:58Yeah?
53:59..as a pair of nutcrackers,
54:00and I...
54:01LAUGHTER
54:03Excuse me.
54:04Now, if I may say,
54:05Vic and Louise,
54:06I wasn't sure
54:07whether it was Vic or Notre Paule.
54:08LAUGHTER
54:09Very lovely.
54:10You have upmarked
54:11the tones of the desk scene impeccable,
54:13and I have to, therefore,
54:14and it wasn't an easy decision,
54:15give you 18 points,
54:16so you win by one point.
54:17Oh, one point.
54:18Oh, well done, you two.
54:19Well done, you two.
54:20Oh, that's...
54:21Well done.
54:22Well done.
54:23Well done.
54:24Well done.
54:25Well done.
54:26Well done.
54:27Well done.
54:28Well done.
54:29Well done.
54:30Well done.
54:31OK, well,
54:32just as we were going on...
54:33Excuse me,
54:34come on, you can't see Rolly!
54:35You know how I see Rolly,
54:38he's a superstar.
54:39I'll protect you.
54:40I mean,
54:41everybody thought you'd gone.
54:42LAUGHTER
54:43That's terrible,
54:44but, you know...
54:45What are you up to now?
54:46You're going to a play, aren't you?
54:47Yes, I'm going to do
54:48Out Of Order
54:49with Donald Tindon
54:50at Bromley.
54:51Oh, that's the Ray Cooney play.
54:52Oh, very, very funny.
54:53Marvellous.
54:54For three weeks,
54:55then we're off to Australia.
54:56You're going to Australia?
54:57Yes.
54:58Shall we all go?
54:59Yes.
55:00Yes, travel us with you. We'll go to Australia, not Bromley.
55:04Anyway, Ronnie, good luck with the play at Bromley and also afterwards in Australia.
55:09Thank you, Bruce. Love to Annie. Stop for a drink, won't you?
55:11Yes, will I go now? Yes, fine. Johnny, that's why I'm pushing you.
55:14APPLAUSE
55:16There we are, everyone. There we are.
55:19Good luck, you two.
55:21But, you know, you do get a Generation Game telephone each,
55:24an answering machine, that is, and a pocket coloured television each.
55:27So thank you for being a part.
55:29Thank you for coming from the north-east.
55:31And if you just pop over there and you two come on quick through the doors
55:35and get to that door through there.
55:38APPLAUSE
55:41Right, take the doors away, please.
55:43Lots of articles going to pass before your eyes.
55:45Have a real good look. Everything you remember, you'll take home with you tonight.
55:48Look out for the tricky ones because they're more valuable than they look.
55:51OK, good luck for this. You have 40 seconds, starting from now.
55:57On the conveyor belt tonight we have a microwave oven,
56:00a toy trunk, a case of champagne,
56:03an occasional table, some trendy suitcases,
56:07a tambourine and castanets,
56:10a rocking horse,
56:12a lace tablecloth,
56:14an electric blender,
56:16a box of Bruce's bubbles,
56:19a fizzy drinks maker,
56:22a lady's evening top...
56:24CHEERING
56:27..a dressing table set,
56:29a slow cooker,
56:31a travel rug,
56:33some breakfast china,
56:35a set of bathroom scales...
56:37SCREAMING
56:38..and a collector's doll
56:40and, just out of shot, a wok.
56:42LAUGHTER
56:44CHEERING
56:46We said you'd still have your hat on.
56:48Now, take your hat off, Vic.
56:50Sit down, sit down.
56:51You're going to get another 40 seconds. This is a really serious bit.
56:54OK, as I said to you before, all you remember,
56:56you'll take home with you tonight.
56:58Another 40 seconds. Good luck for this part of the show.
57:01Your 40 seconds starts now.
57:03Microwave oven, cuddly toy, food blender,
57:07bubbles, tambourine,
57:10dolls, champagne,
57:14little occasional table,
57:17flowers...
57:20A wok.
57:21A wok, flowers...
57:23SCREAMING
57:25..a dressing table set, cuddly toy,
57:27a slow cooker...
57:29Yes.
57:30..a case of champagne...
57:32Have you ever played the tambourine?
57:33Tambourine, toy box.
57:34Yeah, good, got the tambourine, good.
57:36Travel bag, suitcase...
57:38Breakfast china.
57:39Breakfast china.
57:40Yeah, breakfast china.
57:42You've got the wok, a collector's doll...
57:44SCREAMING
57:45Oh, didn't they do well?
57:48How did you come here?
57:50You know, over here...
57:57Well, you did very well here, you really did,
58:00but I'm so glad you got the Box Of Bruce's Bubbles
58:03because that is the latest wassy machine.
58:06How about that?
58:07And look at this.
58:09Glad you got the tambourine because that is...
58:12A sunshine holiday for four to Marbella.
58:15Congratulations.
58:17Congratulations.
58:19Well, on behalf of Rosie and myself and everybody,
58:23and I do mean everybody, thanks for being with us this week.
58:26We'll see you again next week.
58:28Be there.
58:30APPLAUSE
58:45CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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