Babble

1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 5 (UK)
30 minute episodes

Beginning on 31 July 1983, Peter Purves (ex-Blue Peter) hosted this evening panel game show from LWT in which three guests tried to puzzle out words described to them by a celebrity panel.

Celebrity guests included William Rushton, Gyles Brandreth, Bill Oddie, Christopher Biggins, Liza Goddard, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Rula Lenska, John Junkin, Richard O’Sullivan, Lynda Bellingham, Gloria Hunniford, Barry Cryer, Melvyn Bragg, Hugh Lloyd, Graeme Garden, Roy Kinnear, Fred Dinenage, Brian Cant and Melvyn Hayes.

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