Call My Bluff Game

 

Call My Bluff
GenrePanel show
Presented byRobin Ray(1965–66)
Joe Melia(1966–67)
Peter Wheeler(1967)
Robert Robinson(1969–88, 1994)
Bob Holness(1996–2003)
Fiona Bruce(2003–05)
Angus Deayton(2011)
StarringTeam captains
Frank Muir(1965–66, 1969–88 & 1994)
Robert Morley(1965–66)
Alan Melville(1966–67)
Michael Flanders(1966–67)
Drusilla Beyfus(1967–68)
Kenneth Horne(1967–68)
Patrick Campbell(1969–80)
Arthur Marshall(1980–88)
Joanna Lumley(1994)
Alan Coren(1996–2005)
Sandi Toksvig(1996–2003)
Rod Liddle(2003–05)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original language(s)English
No. of series25 (BBC2)
?? (BBC1)
No. of episodes542 (BBC2)
469 (BBC1)
Production
Running time30 minutes
Release
Original networkBBC Two(17 October 1965 – 16 April 1994)
BBC One(13 May 1996 – 17 July 2005)
Original release17 October 1965 –
17 July 2005
Chronology
Related showsCall My Bluff(U.S. version)

Call My Bluff is a long-running British game show between two teams of three celebrity contestants. The point of the game is for the teams to take it in turn to provide three definitions of an obscure word, only one of which is correct. The other team then has to guess which is the correct definition, the other two being 'bluffs'. It was originally hosted by Robin Ray, but it is most famously hosted by Robert Robinson. Its most prominent panellist was Frank Muir.

Examples of words used in Call My Bluff, taken from a book published in connection with the show in 1972, are Queach, Strongle, Ablewhacket, Hickboo, Jargoon, Zurf, Morepork, and Jirble. 'Queach', for instance, was defined as 'a malicious caricature', 'a cross between a quince and a peach', or 'a mini-jungle of mixed vegetation'. The first and second of those particular definitions are bluffs.

The theme music for the show was Ciccolino by Norrie Paramor.[1]

Call My Bluff Game
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Broadcast history[edit]

Call My Bluff originally aired on BBC2 from 17 October 1965 to 22 December 1988. The original host was Robin Ray.

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Robert Morley and Frank Muir captained the teams. Morley was later succeeded by Patrick Campbell, and Arthur Marshall took over upon Campbell's death. Various celebrities also stood in as team captains, including Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams and Alan Melville. The original series finished after Marshall's death, although a general change in the tone and atmosphere of broadcasting at the time may also have affected its temporary demise. The final host for this run was Robert Robinson.

The show was resurrected in 1996 after an eight-year rest (apart from one special edition on 16 April 1994 for BBC Two's thirtieth birthday, which still featured Robert Robinson, but this time with Joanna Lumley as a team captain opposite Frank Muir), now as a daytime series on BBC1. It began airing on 13 May 1996 with Alan Coren and Sandi Toksvig as the team captains and Bob Holness replacing Robinson as chairman.

In 2003, Toksvig was replaced by the journalist Rod Liddle, and newsreaderFiona Bruce took the chair. The series finished again on 17 July 2005.

Call My Bluff returned for a special during the BBC's 24 Hour Panel People in aid for Comic Relief 2011, with Alex Horne, Roisin Conaty, Russell Tovey, Tim Key, Sarah Cawood and David Walliams participating. The host was Angus Deayton.

Transmissions[edit]

BBC2[edit]

SeriesStart dateEnd dateEpisodes
117 October 1965[2]29 June 1966[3]37[3]
22 October 1966[4]14 April 1967[5]26[5]
31 October 1967[6]7 July 1968[7]39[7]
424 April 1969[8]28 May 1970[9]59[9]
514 September 1970[10]25 January 1971[11]20[11]
614 June 1971[12]7 February 1972[13]34[13]
713 November 1972[14]7 May 1973[15]26[15]
83 September 1973[16]28 January 1974[17]22[17]
930 September 1974[18]24 March 1975[19]26[19]
1029 April 1976[20]12 August 1976[21]16[21]
1129 April 1977[22]12 August 1977[23]16[23]
1222 March 1978[24]2 August 1978[25]18[25]
132 January 1979[26]15 May 1979[27]20[27]
1413 January 1980[28]30 March 1980[29]12[29]
153 July 1980[30]4 September 1980[31]10[31]
1613 February 1981[32]26 July 1981[33]20[33]
1728 January 1982[34]17 June 1982[35]20[35]
1811 April 1983[36]4 September 1983[37]20[37]
1923 January 1984[38]20 August 1984[39]29[39]
2019 October 1984[40]21 December 1984[41]10[41]
2129 October 1985[42]31 December 1985[43]10[43]
228 January 1987[44]28 May 1987[45]20[45]
2310 September 1987[46]10 December 1987[47]14[47]
2414 April 1988[48]16 June 1988[49]9[49]
2526 October 1988[50]22 December 1988[51]8[51]
One-off16 April 1994[52]1[52]

Almost all the first 263 episodes from Series 1–8 have been wiped from the BBC archives. The episodes that survived in the archives are Episode 3 of Series 2, Episodes 5 & 38 of Series 4, Episodes 3–4 of Series 5 and Episodes 15–16 of Series 8.[53]

BBC1[edit]

SeriesStart dateEnd dateEpisodes
113 May 1996[54]31 May 1996[55]14[55]
22 September 1996[56]10 January 1997[57]80[57]
31 April 1997[58]18 July 1997[59]60[59]

Book[edit]

  • Call my Bluff by Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell, published by Eyre Methuen, London, 1972.

International versions[edit]

CountryLocal NameHostNetworkYear Aired
AustraliaWould You Believe?Peter LazarAustralian Broadcasting Company1970–1974
DenmarkFup eller FaktaOtto Leisner
Erling Bundgaard
Zita Boye-Møller		Danmarks Radio1966–1991
FinlandKuutamοllaSanteri KinnunenMTV32001–2004
United StatesCall My BluffBill LeydenNBCMarch 29 – September 24, 1965

References in other works[edit]

  • On the musical episode of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Donna Henshaw and Janet Keogh (played by Natalie Casey and Sheridan Smith) sang:
Smith: 'Skankarific's not a word!'
Casey: 'It means terrifically skankified, it was on Call My Bluff'
  • An episode of the early-'80s LWT sketch-comedy series End of Part One parodied the show as Scrape My Barrel, where panelists had to figure out the meaning of the word working class.
  • In the 'Europe' episode of QI (series E), a segment was featured entitled 'Call My Euro Bluff', featuring stories about laws in the EU. The panel then had to decide whether each story was true or a 'bløff' (Stephen Fry pronounced it 'blerff').
  • The show (and in particular its host, Robert Robinson) was the subject of a sketch by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in the second series of A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
  • In the Doctor Who episode 'Bad Wolf' Call My Bluff is mentioned as one of the games hosted in the game station.
  • In May 2014 the quirks of the show were lampooned by Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse in BBC Two's satirical Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos, where the show was given the name 'Speech Impediment' and the word chosen for the panel was paedophile.[60]

See also[edit]

  • Wordplay (a US game show that aired on NBC from 1986–1987)

References[edit]

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  2. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 17 October 1965'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  3. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 29 June 1966'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  4. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 2 October 1966'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  5. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 14 April 1967'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  6. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 1 October 1967'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  7. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 7 July 1968'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  8. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 24 April 1969'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  9. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 28 May 1970'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  10. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 14 September 1970'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  11. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 25 January 1971'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  12. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 14 June 1971'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  13. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 7 February 1972'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  14. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 13 November 1972'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  15. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 7 May 1973'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  16. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 3 September 1973'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  17. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 28 January 1974'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  18. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 30 September 1974'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  19. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 24 March 1975'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  20. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 29 April 1976'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  21. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 12 August 1976'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
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  23. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 12 August 1977'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  24. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 22 March 1978'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  25. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 2 August 1978'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  26. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 2 January 1979'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  27. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 15 May 1979'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  28. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 13 January 1980'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
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  32. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 13 February 1981'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  33. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 26 July 1981'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  34. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 28 January 1982'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  35. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 17 June 1982'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  36. ^'Evening Times'. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
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  39. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 21 December 1984'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  40. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 19 October 1984'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  41. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 21 December 1984'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  42. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 29 October 1985'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  43. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 31 December 1985'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  44. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 8 January 1987'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
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  46. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 10 September 1987'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
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  48. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 14 April 1988'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  49. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 16 June 1988'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  50. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 26 October 1988'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  51. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 22 December 1988'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  52. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC Two England - 16 April 1994'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  53. ^'Lost UK TV Shows Search Engine'. Lostshows.com. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
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  55. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC One London - 31 May 1996'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  56. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC One London - 2 September 1996'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  57. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC One London - 10 January 1997'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  58. ^'Call My Bluff - BBC One London - 1 April 1997'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  59. ^ ab'Call My Bluff - BBC One London - 18 July 1997'. BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  60. ^'Harry And Paul's Story Of The 2s press clippings'. British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 12 June 2019.

Call My Bluff Board Game

External links[edit]

Call My Bluff Vocabulary Game

  • Call My Bluff (1965–1988) on IMDb
  • Call My Bluff (1996–2005) on IMDb
  • Call My Bluff at BFI
  • Call My Bluff at UKGameshows.com
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Call My Bluff Party Game

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byMilton Bradley (1965)
2 to 6
10+
1 hour
Designers
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Description

This game is very similar to Balderdash but doesn't use a board. Each player has six betting cards. Three cards with values from 5 - 15 labeled 'True' and four cards with values labeled from 5 - 20 'Bluff'.

A card is selected and four definitions are read out loud. Three definitions are listed and the active player makes up the fourth.

Players then place a bet based on one of the definitions. The players whom have correctly predicted the result get the points they have bet. The incorrect bets are given to the active player. The first player to score 250 pts wins.

This game has lots of cards. 672 bluff cards are included and each card has two words.

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