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Encyclopedia > I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, often abbreviated to the initialism ISIHAC, is a radio comedy programme which has been broadcast several times annually on BBC Radio 4 from April 11, 1972 to the present. The show, introduced as "the antidote to panel games", consists of a panel of four comedians, split into two teams and "given silly things to do" by a chairman. The show's many influences include I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again and Give Us A Clue. Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial letter or letters of words, such as NATO and XHTML, and are pronounced in a way that is distinct from the full pronunciation of what the letters stand for. ... Radio comedy, or comedic radio programming, is a radio broadcast that may involve sitcom elements, sketches or any other form of comedy found on other mediums. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... A game show is a radio or television program involving members of the public or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, playing a game, perhaps involving answering quiz questions, for points or prizes. ... A panel is a thing that blocks one area from another. ... A comedian (also comedienne, female) is a person who attempts to make people laugh through a variety of methods, normally through joke telling. ... A chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... Give Us a Clue is a televised version of charades hosted at different times by Michael Aspel and Michael Parkinson with two teams, one captained by Lionel Blair and the other by Una Stubbs. ...

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Format

The show roughly follows a standard panel game format: the chairman introduces a series of nominally competetive rounds, played by a panel of four comedians, between which he chats, makes complicated double entendres, reads letters, and performs various other humorous routines. A game show is a radio or television program involving members of the public or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, playing a game, perhaps involving answering quiz questions, for points or prizes. ... A chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... A double entendre or innuendo is a figure of speech similar to the pun, in which a spoken phrase can be understood in either of two ways. ...


In some games the panellists play as individuals, while for others they are grouped into two teams of two players each. Most of the games involve interaction between the players, but the team games tend to consist of separate efforts.


Although many of the games appear to result in the determination of a winner, the show is not, in fact, the least bit competitive. Although there is a scorer, she keeps no actual score, and no winner is announced. Several games lack even the appearance of competitiveness.


Participants

The chairman is Humphrey Lyttelton, generally referred to as "Humph". Humphrey Lyttelton (b. ...


The regular panellists for much of the show's history were:

Since Rushton's death in 1996, the fourth panel member has been a fortnightly guest. Guest panellists have included: Graeme Garden (born February 18, 1943 in Aberdeen, Scotland) is a British comedy writer and performer. ... Tim Brooke-Taylor (born July 17, 1942 in Buxton, Derbyshire) is a British comic actor most well known in Britain as a member of The Goodies comedy trio, and as one of the panel members of the comedy radio show Im Sorry I Havent a Clue. ... Barry Cryer (born in 1935) is a writer and comedian. ... Willie Rushton (August 18, 1937 - December 11, 1996) was a British cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer. ...

Colin Sell usually provides musical accompaniment to some of the games. Guest pianist, when Colin Sell has been double booked and the ISIHAC team have won the coin toss, has been former Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band member and Monty Python collaborator Neil Innes. Bill Bailey (born 1964 as Mark Bailey) is a British musician and comedian. ... Max Boyce is a Welsh comedian and singer, who came to national fame during the mid-1970s as a result of the phenomenal success of the Welsh rugby team of that period. ... Kenny Everett as Sid Snot Kenny Everett (December 25, 1944-May 26, 1995) was a popular British entertainer, both on Radio and Television. ... Stephen Fry on the cover of his autobiography Stephen John Fry (born 24 August, 1957) is a British comedian, author, actor, and director. ... Andy Hamilton is a British comedian, game show panelist, director and comedy script writer for television and radio. ... Mike Harding (born 1944) is a British singer/comedian. ... Jeremy Hardy (born 17 July 1961) is a British alternative comedian. ... Tony Hawks is a British comedian and author. ... Harry Roy Hill (born 1964 in Woking, Surrey) is the stage name of Matthew Hall, a stand-up comedian who has graduated to being a star of British television by way of a BBC radio series Harry Hills Fruit Corner. ... John Junkin, born January 29, 1930 in Ealing, Middlesex, England is a British radio, television and film performer. ... Phill Jupitus (born March 6, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight) is a British comedian. ... Paul Merton on the Room 101 set Paul Merton (born January 17, 1957) is a British actor, deadpan comedian and writer, who is best known as a panellist on Have I Got News For You and Just a Minute on BBC Radio 4. ... Ross Noble performing his show Noodlemeister in Edinburgh, 2004. ... Linda Smith is a British comedian who was educated at Sheffield University. ... Sandi Toksvig (born May 3, 1959 in Copenhagen) is a comedian and radio presenter famous in the United Kingdom. ... Bill Tidy MBE (October 9, 1933--) is a British cartoonist, known chiefly for his comic strips: The Fosdyke Saga (Daily Mirror) The Cloggies (Private Eye) Grimbledon Down (New Scientist) Dr. Whittle (General Practitioner) Kegbuster (Whats Brewing?) External links Bill Tidys home page Categories: People stubs | 1933 births | British... The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (more often the Bonzo Dog Band) was the brainchild of the British art-school set of the 1960s. ... The Monty Python troupe in 1970. ... Neil Innes (born December 9, 1944) is a British writer and performer of comic songs, best known for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles. ...


Raymond Baxter has occasionally been drafted to commentate on sessions of Mornington Crescent.


Humour

Many of the games are inherently humourous; see below for discussion. All games are played for laughs, even when theoretically capable of being taken seriously.


A frequent source of humour is the supposed presence of something, or someone, which is visually impressive but makes no sound, and therefore cannot be properly appreciated by the radio audience. For example, the regular scorer is "the lovely Samantha" (who never speaks a word), and the team have trialled many "advanced laser scoreboards" over recent decades. In fact these things are of course fictional (the "laser display screen" [sometimes described in more elaborate terms], used in rounds in which one team or both mustn't see what the audience sees, most frequently "Sound Charades" [see below], is in fact a man running onto the stage holding a large card with the words written on it [conveyed to listeners at home by the"'mystery voice"]; this explains the joke employed on at least two occasions of the display screen's being "so generously funded by our hosts"). The studio audience invariably plays along with the joke by providing gasps of wonder, applause, wolf-whistles, etc., at the appropriate moment.


Possibly the most well-developed instance of this form-versus-content humour was an occasion when Humph announced that they had a very distinguished actor as a guest, and he would be joining in the game of Mornington Crescent. The panellists first played a normal game of Mornington Crescent, ostensibly to give the guest a chance to acclimatise. With much gravitas the guest then approached the panel's table, taking his place such that he would be the last to make his first move. When the game started, the penultimate player, the last of the panellists, won on his first move, thus denying the distinguished guest the opportunity to make even a single move in the game. The chairman apologised, but explained that that was an unavoidable possibility in the game, and the guest gracefully left, without having ever uttered a word. The show was inundated with complaints at the treatment of Alec Guinness, despite the fact that the "distinguished actor" had never actually been named on the show. Form-versus-content humour is a type of humour in which the medium (loosely interpreted) in which a statement is made contributes to making the statement humourous. ... The Swan Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 - August 5, 2000) was a British actor who became one of the most versatile and best loved performers of his generation. ...


The show is notable for including far more and far ruder innuendo and double entendre than the BBC would ever broadcast on television in a similar early evening timeslot. For example: Innuendo can refer to: For Innuendo as a figure of speech please see Double entendre. ... A double entendre or innuendo is a figure of speech similar to the pun, in which a spoken phrase can be understood in either of two ways. ... ... An American family watching television in the 1950s. ...

"She's become quite friendly with the two elderly archivists, Jack and Arthur. They've recently gone part time, so Samantha's come to a working arrangement. She does the paperwork, Arthur gets her forty-fives out, and Jack's off all afternoon."

(By way of explanation, "forty-fives" could be taken to refer to 45 rpm vinyl records or Samantha's ample 45-inch bosom; and "Jack's off" can be heard as "jacks off", a slang expression for masturbation). 33⅓ LP vinyl record album The vinyl record is a type of gramophone record, most popular from the 1950s to the 1990s, that was most commonly used for mass-produced recordings of music. ... The term breast can refer to the upper ventral region of the human torso. ... Slang is the non-standard use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. ... Masturbation is the manual excitation of the sexual organs, most often to the point of orgasm. ...


Games

Pick Up Song

The panellists sing along to a well known song. The sound is turned off for a while, and the aim is to be as close as possible to the original when it's turned on again.


Mornington Crescent

Main article: Mornington Crescent


This is by far the best-known ISIHAC game. Ostensibly it is an obscure game of extreme complexity, involving the naming of London Underground stations in convoluted patterns not readily discernible by the observer. In fact the rules are completely fictitious, and the game is a parody of such obscure games. It is a very popular game for fans of the show to play themselves. Slight modifications to the famous London Underground roundel indicate the name of each station on platform and outdoor signs. ... In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ...


One Song To The Tune Of Another

Main article: One Song To The Tune Of Another Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...


Panellists sing the lyrics of one song, to the tune of a completely different song. This is the epitome of inherently silly games, though to perform it without preparation can still involve a fair bit of skill. Additional humour derives from Humph's impenetrable attempts to explain how it is played.


Cheddar Gorge

Main article: Cheddar Gorge (game) Cheddar Gorge is a word game often played on the BBC radio comedy show Im Sorry I Havent A Clue. ...


The panellists take turns to say a word each, the ostensible object being to avoid completing a sentence; whoever completes a sentence is eliminated. In practice, many potential sentence ends are forgiven, and the object is to construct as bizarre a monologue as possible.


Sound Charades

Main article: Sound Charades Sound Charades is a variant of charades played on BBC Radio 4s antidote to panel games Im Sorry I Havent A Clue. ...


In Sound Charades a team of two panellists is given the title of a book, film, or other artistic work, and they must communicate it to the other team. This is allegedly a variant of charades, in which a single player is given this task. However, whereas in charades the player is not permitted to speak and communicates by mime, in Sound Charades the title is communicated by acting out a very short improvised play. Usually the title to be communicated is a contorted pun on the central object in the play, which has (of course) not been explicitly named but only described indirectly. For example, the film Zulu has been acted out by a whispered question being answered with directions that pass several animal enclosures - the questioner has been given directions to the 'zoo loo'. Charades or charade is a word guessing game. ... Zulu is a 1964 Anglo-American film depicting the 1879 Battle of Rorkes Drift between the colonial British and the Zulus. ...


The game also provides Humph with the regular opportunity to make fun of Lionel Blair, long standing team captain on Give Us A Clue, the tv show from which Sound Charades was derived. These usually involve some sort of outrageous innuendo. Lionel Blair (born 1931 or 1934 in Montreal, Canada) (real name Lionel Ogus) is a British actor, choreographer, tap dancer and television presenter. ... Give Us a Clue is a televised version of charades hosted at different times by Michael Aspel and Michael Parkinson with two teams, one captained by Lionel Blair and the other by Una Stubbs. ...


Limerick improvisation

The chairman supplies the first line of a limerick, and the four panellists each supply a line in turn to complete it. Usually four rounds are played, rotating the panellists so that they each get a turn supplying each possible line. This article is about the poetic form. ...


This is the most serious of the games, in the sense that its ostensible object (to create a funny poem on the spot) is precisely the actual object for which the panellists are aiming. The game is a test of comedic and improvisational skill, and is difficult to do well. Out of four rounds, the ISIHAC panellists typically produce one or two really good limericks, with the remainder still being creditable. A book containing a collection of the best limericks was published in 1999 as "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: The Official Limerick Collection". Comedy is the use of humour in the performing arts. ... Improvisation is the act of making something up as you go along. ...


Swanee-Kazoo

This is a musical game, and the game yielding by far the most bizarre sounds, thus making excellent radio. It is also an inherently extremely silly game.


As with most of the musical games, the panellists play in teams of two. One member of the team is issued with a swanee whistle, and the other a kazoo. Note that the latter instrument is easy to play well, but the former takes some skill to produce a melody. Using these instruments, they perform a well-known song, as a duet. A slide whistle (variously known as a swanee whistle, piston flute or less commonly jazz flute) is a wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorders and a tube with a piston in it. ... Two examples of the kazoo The kazoo, a simple musical instrument (membranophone) that adds tonal qualities when the player hums into it. ... A duet is a musical composition for two performers, most often used for a vocal or piano duet. ...


The humour principally derives from the sound of the instruments. Both the swanee whistle and the kazoo have quite a silly sound, and the juxtaposition of the two is quite incongruous due to the contrast between them. Furthermore, the swanee whistle is not usually considered a melody instrument, more usually being employed for special effects (such as the voices of the Clangers). Typically, the kazoo player can hold the melody, thus holding the performance together, while the swanee whistle produces a deranged version of the melody, only hitting the right note by accident. The Clangers is a gentle, British stop motion animated childrens television series made by Smallfilms who were Oliver Postgate (writer and narrator) and Peter Firmin (modelmaker, animator and illustrator). ...


Word for Word

This is based on word association, an investigative technique in psychology which can be used as a game. In the word association game, players in turn say whatever word comes into their mind first after hearing the previous word. "Word for Word" is a word disassociation game: players may say any word as long as it has no connection whatsoever to the previous word. This is surprisingly difficult to do. A competitive structure is provided by eliminating any player that utters a word connected to the preceding one; the last player left wins. Psychology (ancient Greek: psyche = soul and logos = word) is the study of mind, thought, and behaviour. ...


This game produces amazing strings of nonsense. Furthermore, as with the other elimination games, the elimination rule is not strictly followed. Fairly direct links between words are occasionally permitted, but words may be deemed connected based on bizarre and tortuous chains of association.


This game is particularly popular for fans to play in an idle moment. It may be initiated merely by saying an incongruous word in isolation.


Censored song

The panellists, in teams of two, are given a song to sing, and are invited to bowdlerise it by replacing objectionable words with the use of a buzzer. In fact they are given perfectly innocuous songs, and the objective is to make the song as suggestive as possible by the strategic censoring of innocent words. Thomas Bowdler (July 11, 1754 – February 24, 1825), an English physician, has become (in)famous as the editor of a childrens edition of William Shakespeare, the Family Shakespeare, in which he endeavoured to remove every thing that could give just offence to the religious and virtuous mind. ...


Straight face

In this game, panellists in turn announce words, and the audience is used to judge whether the word is funny. If the audience laughs, "even the merest titter", then the player who provided the offending word is eliminated. Often, the chairman will ignore words that produce enormous laughs, but will eliminate players whose words produce a barely-audible laugh. The last player remaining wins.


It is possible to predict quite accurately which words will raise a laugh. Arguably this is because some words are inherently funny. Panellists actually take quite daring risks, skating the line between boring and funny words at the risk of elimination. This game can thus be played in a manner that involves considerable comedic skill, not only in judging inherent funniness but also in reading the audience and adjusting the timing and delivery of the word to get the intended effect. It can be viewed as stand-up comedy minus the jokes. Some influential comedians have long regarded certain words in the English language as being inherently funny and have used these to enhance the humor of their comic routines. ... Richard Pryor hits the money line A stand-up comedian or stand-up comic is someone that performs in comedy clubs, usually reciting a fast paced succession of amusing stories, short jokes and one-liners, typically called a monologue. ... A joke is a short story or short series of words spoken or communicated with the intent of being laughed at or found humorous by the listener or reader. ...


Celebrity What's My Line?

This is the epitome of modifying an existing game in a way that completely destroys its original intent. In this case, the original is What's My Line?, a game in which a panel guesses a guest's occupation by asking a series of yes/no questions. Having a celebrity guest immediately defeats the requirement that the occupation be unknown to the panellists. (For example, Dame Judi Dench, a famous actress and a fan of ISIHAC, has been a guest for this game.) The panellists nevertheless pretend not to know, and give the appearance of playing seriously. Apart from the silliness of pretending that a celebrity's occupation is unknown, humour comes from the bizarre lines of questioning from the panel. Whats My Line? was a weekly panel game show produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television. ... Judi Dench as M in GoldenEye Dame Judi Dench (born December 9, 1934) is a renowned British stage, film and television actress. ...


What's My Line? traditionally begins with the guest performing a mime that illustrates their occupation, giving a cryptic clue to the panel. This feature is retained unmodified in Celebrity What's My Line?, appearing to a radio listener as a short silence punctuated by laughter from the studio audience. A mime is the representation of action, character or mood using only gestures and movements rather than words, or the actor in such a performance, specifically a mimic or pantomimist. ...


Late arrivals at a society ball

The closing round is often "Late Arrivals at the such-and-such Ball" which descends directly from frequent incidental dialogue included in the earlier, scripted BBC Radio 4 series I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again. Late arrivals at the Drunkard's Ball could for example include Mr.and Mrs.Large-Whisky and their son Oliver Large-Whisky (a pun on "I'll have a large whisky"). One running joke is the appearance of Mr. and Mrs. Bennett-(Long phrase of exclamation relevant to the subject) and their son Gordon, the joke being that this is an easy cop-out. After the chairman has identified the ball, the panellists announce the late arrivals, in no particular order. Play is fast and fluid. Gordon Bennett is a common phrase used in British English to express surprise or shock, for instance. ...


Historical headlines

The chairman identifies an historical event, such as the assassination of Julius Caesar, and invites the panellists to suggest the headlines that would be used by modern newspapers reporting on the event. Panellists make their suggestions in no particular order, leading to a fluid style of play. History is a term for information about the past. ... Jack Ruby murdered the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in a very public manner. ... This article is about Julius Caesar the Roman dictator. ... A headline is text at the top of a newspaper article, indicating the nature of the article below it. ... Reading the newspaper: Brookgreen Gardens in Pawleys Island, South Carolina. ...


This game presumably works as well as it does because of the United Kingdom's remarkable profusion of newspapers, representing every conceivable style and viewpoint. The round uses caricatures, and often stereotypes, of the papers' views, such as the Daily Express's perceived obsession with house prices, The Guardian's reputation for bad spelling, and the London Evening Standard concentrating on London-centric news (usually concerning a tube strike). The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent... The Daily Express is a British newspaper, currently tabloid, and it is owned by Richard Desmond. ... The Guardian was also the name of a U.S. television series. ... The Evening Standard is a newspaper published in London. ...


Themed film/book club

The chairman identifies a special interest group and invites the panellists to suggest films or books that would be of interest to this group. The titles suggested are mostly modifications of well-known film/book titles to create a themed pun, thus the builders' book club might feature "Grout Expectations", a pun on Great Expectations. Some of the suggestions are more elaborate, including puns on the author's name or explanations of their topicality. As with the other common final rounds, the suggestions are made in no particular order. For unknown reasons, this game usually features a reference to the film Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. Grout is a construction material used to embed rebars in masonry walls, connect sections of pre-cast concrete, fill voids, and seal joints (like those between tiles). ... Great Expectations is a Bildungsroman (a novel tracing the life of the protagonist) by Charles Dickens and first serialized in All the Year Round from December 1860 to August 1861. ... Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a 1974 film directed by Sam Peckinpah. ...


Alternative Definitions

The panellists must suggest alternative definitions for existant English words. See daffynitions. A daffynition is a pun format involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word (or group of words). ...


Non-game segments

Although more free-form than the games, the parts of the show between the games include some standard features.


At the beginning of the show, the chairman always announces in which town the recording is taking place, and says something about the team's reaction to, or exploits in, the region. Apart from this there is frequently gossip about the crew (especially the fictional scorer Samantha). Usually Humph rambles for a few sentences, apparently fairly aimlessly, before finishing on a double entendre set up by the preceding story. For an example of this form, see the Humour section above.


Since May 11, 1985 there has been a (fictional) scorer, usually "the lovely Samantha". Occasionally the Swedish stand-in scorer Sven, or another substitute, has made an appearance. Early in Samantha's career on ISIHAC a letter appeared in the Radio Times protesting at her sexist and humiliating treatment on the programme. May 11 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (132nd in leap years). ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Radio Times is the BBCs weekly television and radio programme listings magazine. ...


Mrs Trellis

A prolific correspondent to the chairman over the years has been the idiosyncratic (and allegedly fictional) Mrs Trellis of North Wales. Her incoherent letters, many of which involve her mistaking Humph for another Radio 4 presenter, are read out to much amusement. For alternate meanings, see Wales (disambiguation) National motto: Cymru am byth (Welsh: Wales for ever) Official languages: English and Welsh Capital: Cardiff First Minister: Rhodri Morgan AM Area  - Total:  - % water: Ranked 3rd UK 20,779 km² xx% Population  - Total (2001):  - Density: Ranked 3rd UK 2,903,085 140/km² NUTS...

A Mrs. Trellis of North Wales has written in to complain that the show has an enormous fistful of rampant innuendo rammed into every crack, but only a truly filthy-minded person would think such a thing.
Dear Mr Titchmarsh: This morning I went out to dig up some dandelions and a giant hogweed on my lawn. The filthy beast! Yours faithfully, Mrs. Trellis.
Dear Mr. Melly: Here's a great tip for removing any annoying little hairs that collect in the bath plughole - Tempt them up with a carrot and pull them out by their long floppy ears.

History

The idea for ISIHAC came when the team of the long-running I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again decided that they could no longer find time to write scripts. Instead they devised a parody of panel games, ISIHAC. The original panellists were Jo Kendall, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and John Cleese (all part of the ISIRTA team). The job of host changed week to week between Humphrey Lyttelton and Barry Cryer in the first two series, before Humphrey Lyttelton hosted on a regular basis. Graeme Garden (born February 18, 1943 in Aberdeen, Scotland) is a British comedy writer and performer. ... William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE, MA (Cantab. ... Tim Brooke-Taylor (born July 17, 1942 in Buxton, Derbyshire) is a British comic actor most well known in Britain as a member of The Goodies comedy trio, and as one of the panel members of the comedy radio show Im Sorry I Havent a Clue. ... John Cleese As Q in Die Another Day. ... Humphrey Lyttelton (b. ... Barry Cryer (born in 1935) is a writer and comedian. ...


Some early episodes of the series were wiped in the late 1970s. Following the BBC's Treasure Hunt appeal for missing material several episodes were returned in the form of off-air recordings. Wiping or junking is an economic move by TV companies in which old videotapes and kinescopes were wiped (deleted) and reused or were destroyed. ... Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution...


Notable special episodes were:

  • Everyone's Guide to Mornington Crescent (19th June 1986) (Series 12)
  • Celebrity Selections (11th January 1999) (Series 32)
  • 30th Anniversary Special (13th April 2002) (Series 38)
  • I'm Sorry I Haven't a Christmas Carol (25th December 2003) (Series 42)

A spin-off of the popular round "sound charades" is the scripted BBC Radio 4 show You'll Have Had Your Tea, with Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden starring as their often used characters, Hamish and Dougal. Charades or charade is a word guessing game. ... Hamish and Dougal are two characters from the long-running BBC Radio 4 antidote to panel games Im Sorry I Havent A Clue. ...


External links

  • The official BBC website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clue/)
  • The officially unofficial I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue web pages (http://www.isihac.co.uk/)
  • BBC7 website: listen to episodes in Real Audio or Windows Media Player (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/)
  • List of New Definitions (http://www14.brinkster.com/g0akh/New_Definitions_Page.asp)


 

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