Call My Bluff

[Nearly Sane]

Started on this day in 1965. A post from the BBC elsewhere alerted me to this. By the time I was of an age to watch it, it was Robert Robinson, Frank Muir, and Patrick Campbell - I hadn't realised until reading the wiki on it that there had been quite such a turnover of hosts and captains before that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_My_Bluff

[SteveH]

Ah,would that it were still on, NS, would that it were...

[SteveH]

The only word I remember from it in the early days was the verb "to Grimthorpe", meaning to restore something with more money than taste. I can confirm the inappropriateness of Lord Grimthorpe's botching of the East front of St Albans Cathedral, as it is just down the road from me.
https://wordsmith.org/words/grimthorpe.html

[Nearly Sane]

Ah,would that it were still on, NS, would that it were...

Oddly, that particular verbal tic of Robert Robinson's brings Ask The Family to mind rather than Call My Bluff - though that may be because of the Not The Nine O'clock News sketch.