Pointless Celebrities (2010) s11e13 Episode Script
Presenters
APPLAUSE Thank you very much indeed.
Hello, I am Alexander Armstrong, and a very warm welcome to this presenters' edition of Pointless Celebrities, the quiz where the more obscure your knowledge, the better your chances of winning.
Let's meet this evening's Pointless Celebrities.
And couple number one.
I'm Katie Derham.
I'm a Radio 3 presenter.
I present for the BBC Proms.
I may have been spotted doing a bit of dancing from time to time, but I am most happy when I'm interviewing you, Xander.
I'm Trisha Goddard, otherwise known as Trisha, talk show host.
I like to be on the other side of interviewing.
APPLAUSE And couple number two.
Hi there.
I'm Toby Tarrant.
I'm a radio presenter when you're fast asleep, basically.
I'm Johnny Vaughan.
I'm a radio presenter when you're on television.
APPLAUSE Couple number three.
Hello, I'm Sarah Greene, and I'm a presenter.
And I was an actress, and the reason I came on today was to try and do better than I did last time, and because I was going to be with Anne Diamond.
And I'm Anne Diamond, and I'm on because she asked me to.
No, I'm a TV presenter as well then, but we all are.
And I'm probably best known for getting up really, really, really, really early in the morning.
So, I'll fall asleep soon.
APPLAUSE And finally, couple number four.
Yes, I'm Chris Hollins, TV presenter.
Also used to get up very early in the morning.
I'll present anything, as long as it gets paid.
Hi, I'm Adam Pearson.
Actor, campaigner, presenter.
I do a lot of documentaries around food and hate crime and freak shows.
And I'm here in a desperate bid to get my mother's love.
APPLAUSE Thank you very much all of you.
A very warm welcome to Pointless.
Lovely to have you all here.
We'll get a chance to chat a bit further throughout the show of course as it goes along, so that just leaves one more person for me to introduce.
Very much the co-presenter's co-presenter, it's my Pointless friend, it's Richard.
Hiya.
Hi, everybody.
Good evening.
Good evening to you.
Good evening.
Sometimes you do shows, we call them long records, which means they take a long time.
We've got eight TV presenters here, so this may be the ultimate long record.
I suspect, not looking at anyone in specific, Johnny Vaughan, but it may be.
But we have two champions on the show.
We have two jackpot winners already.
Katie Derham took home a jackpot, as did Anne Diamond.
Never had two jackpot winners go up against each other before.
It'll be interesting to see what happens there.
No pressure on Trisha and Sarah there.
Question one is one of those ones that lots of people are desperate to see.
It's one of those questions that people ask for all the time.
Oh, that's fun.
Yes.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
Now, as today's show is a celebrity special, each of our celebrities is playing for a nominated charity.
We are therefore going to start off with an augmented jackpot of ã2,500.
There it is.
APPLAUSE Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.
So all you have to remember is this - the pair with the highest score at the end of each round will be eliminated.
So keep your scores nice and low.
Best of luck to all four pairs.
Our first category today is Can you all decide in your pairs, who's going to go first, who's going to go second? And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
OK, let's find out what the question is.
Here it comes.
We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many .
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as they could.
Richard.
Yeah, we're simply looking for the name of anyone who's played the Doctor or any official companion according to the BBC World Wide Website in Doctor Who, please.
So anyone who has played the regular Doctor, or any official companion.
Very best of luck.
Thank you very much indeed.
Now, Katie, welcome.
As we heard, you were saying that classical music has become your domain.
Yes.
But you started out in the newsroom.
I did.
I'm just thinking if I can count the fact there have been Doctor Who Proms as something that will help at this point, but I'm really not convinced that's going to be any use at all.
But, yes Yeah, because you've got the Proms is kind of your This is very much your area now.
Yes.
I mean, how does that work? How do your family feel about that, because that's your summer basically, isn't it? Luckily, they quite like coming to the Proms too, which is a bit of a bonus considering that is where I live during the school holidays.
I keep on talking to the organisers and say, "Could you not just shift it possibly to October, November?" That would be nice.
Yes, an autumn season.
An autumn Proms.
Lovely idea.
Wonderful, but do you ever miss the newsroom? The sort of cut and thrust of stuff coming in on the wire? Yes.
Yes, I think that whenever the big story breaks I think, "Oh, it'll be exciting.
There'll be a lot of people standing up "and shouting in the newsroom right now," is what I normally think.
But I have a civilised time now.
Very good.
Now, Katie.
Yes.
We've come to our Doctor Who question.
What are you going to go for? Whom are you going to go for? Um What are you up to later this evening, Richard? LAUGHTER I'm glad you asked.
I'm going to be the 14th Doctor.
I've got my audition.
Have they never asked you? To be Doctor Who? No, they've never asked me.
Oh, they should.
It's weird, it's weird, given my acting experience.
Yeah, well.
Still You'd be a good Doctor.
Oh, I'd love that.
You'd be a terrible Doctor Who, but you'd be a good doctor.
LAUGHTER Right.
Katie.
I'm going to go for Peter Davison.
Peter Davison, says Katie.
Let's see how many of 100 people said Peter Davison.
Peter Davison is right.
Still going down, Katie, still going down.
19.
Not bad at all.
APPLAUSE Gets us off to a rollicking start.
19.
Yep, Peter Davison was the fifth Doctor.
Thank you very much, Richard.
Johnny, welcome to Pointless.
Hello, Alexander, how are you? Wonderful to have you.
I'm very well thank you.
Can we just talk about the Big Breakfast? Yes.
Just go back to the Big Breakfast which I think for a lot of people was just one of those great programmes of the 1990s.
It was just a fabulous television moment.
It must I mean, was it as much fun as it looked like? Yeah, I mean, you know how this isn't live? Yeah.
It was live.
Yes.
LAUGHTER I remember coming on as a guest once or twice, and I can remember you just You did, with Ben Miller which was always brilliant.
With Ben Miller.
In the ad breaks Oh, I love Ben Miller.
Do you? Do you? Yeah, I love that guy.
He really put the Miller in Armstrong and Miller.
He really did.
But also, isn't he great to interview? He's the best interviewee.
One of those guys, really, you could just keep talking, ask him anything, nothing throws them.
And also an expert in physics.
A great mind.
Knows his way around comedy, drama.
He can carry pretty much anyone.
Fantastic.
He's got strong shoulders.
Amazing.
He's certainly been carrying I get it.
Yeah, yeah, you see.
Yup.
Hello, Xander.
Hi there, Johnny.
That's staying in.
Johnny, who would you like to go for? I think I think it was Sylvester McCoy who did it for a bit.
Didn't he, Sylvester McCoy? Sylvester McCoy, says Johnny.
Shrug from Toby.
I was going to go for one of his Hm-hm.
Don't say it.
Don't say it.
No.
Don't say it.
Who're you going to for? No! LAUGHTER Sylvester McCoy, says Johnny.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said Sylvester McCoy.
WHISPERS: It's a great shout.
It's right.
19 is the only score we have at the moment.
And at 20.
Not bad at all.
APPLAUSE Perfect grouping.
19, 20.
I've mentioned before that lovely photo, you can see it online of Sylvester McCoy.
They used to film it in Elstree and there was a fire alarm and the entire cast of Doctor Who, including Sylvester McCoy, and the entire cast of 'Allo 'Allo out in the car park all just chatting to firemen.
There's this lovely photo of it online.
It's really worth checking out.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
Anne, welcome back to Pointless.
Hello.
Lovely to have you here.
Now you were, I think it's fair to say, the first ever female anchor of that big new, as it was then, breakfast news format.
I suppose so.
There were one or two others who might be a little .
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bridling at having you say that.
You were the best though, Anne.
You were the best.
Thank you.
So there you were.
Right, you were a pioneer in television.
Pioneering, yeah.
In that sense.
So, getting up early in the morning is something that is just second nature, presumably, because you have a radio show, don't you, sort of mid-morning? Yeah.
Get up early, I'm used to it.
But I don't know whether you ever get to like it.
You're always resentful.
That's true.
Somewhere early evening when you're feeling really, really tired, and everybody else is saying let's go out for dinner, or let's go and watch a movie.
And actually all you'd rather do is just crawl under the duvet.
Yeah.
So you get used to it, but you never get to like it, I reckon.
No, that's fair enough.
Now, Anne.
Doctor Who and Doctor Who companions.
I like Doctor Who, but it's your era, isn't it? It is.
So completely.
You tend to go in and out of eras with Doctor Who.
And I think I've got an answer, that I think might be pretty obscure, because I don't think a lot of people would know it or remember it.
But I'm not terribly sure if I'm right.
But I think I am.
And I'm thinking Bonnie Langford.
Bonnie Langford.
That's earned you our first buzz from the audience.
That's lovely.
Bonnie Langford I hope that's a good sign.
I think it's a good sign.
Let's find out if it's right.
How many of our 100 people said Bonnie Langford? It's right.
It is right.
20 is our high score.
19 is our low.
And you've passed them both.
It's a Pointless answer! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Very well done indeed.
Look at that Anne.
Very well done indeed.
A Pointless answer adds ã250 to the jackpot.
Takes the total up to ã2,750, and it scores you nothing.
Anne, that's outstanding.
Well, good! See that's the form of a Pointless champion, Anne.
Very well played.
In fact, she was mainly an assistant to Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford.
Also to another Doctor, but to mainly to Sylvester McCoy.
Wow.
Thank you very much indeed.
Adam, welcome to Pointless.
How are you doing? Great to have you here.
Tell me about The Undateables.
How did that come about? It was just I was working for the company that made it at the time on another project, and the idea just floated about, and the good old Great British public seem to have taken to it.
And it's led to you, I mean you've been acting alongside Scarlett Johansson.
Yeah.
How did that? What was that? That was called Under The Skin.
It was.
I only auditioned, I only applied for a joke just to waste someone's time and apparently got the job.
And how was it? How long were you filming for? We were in Glasgow for a couple of weeks and then we did the special effects stuff here in Elstree.
With the cast of 'Allo 'Allo and? Yeah, yeah.
In the car park.
Now, then, Adam, Doctor Who.
Doctor Whos and Doctor Who's companions.
Yeah, I don't know if you've ever seen two fully grown men stare at each other in utter fear and terror.
But that is what happened.
Oh I'm going to go Christopher Eccleston.
Christopher Eccleston, says Adam.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said Christopher Eccleston.
It's right.
20's our high score, zero is our low.
26, not bad at all.
APPLAUSE Good damage limitation, there, Adam.
26 for Christopher Eccleston.
Well played, he was the ninth Doctor.
He was the first Doctor of the reboot, Christopher Eccleston, which has been so successful.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
Well, we're halfway through the round.
Let's take a quick look at the scores.
Nothing was the lowest score in that round, Anne.
Very well done indeed.
And we go up from nothing to 19, that's quite a hike, where we find Katie and Trisha.
Tiny step up to 20, Johnny and Toby.
And then up to 26, not too much of a hike there.
Chris, you are ahead.
We need a low score from you to bring you back down into line, so good luck with that.
We're going to come back down the line now.
Can the second players please step up to the podium? OK, Chris.
Welcome back to Pointless.
Now, Chris, your upbringing - you grew up in a very sporty household, your father was a great Chelsea footballer.
Yeah.
Was there any stage where you weren't contemplating a career as a sportsman? No, well, I was quite good myself.
I was quite a good cricketer, so I played a bit of pro-cricket.
And when I was at university I sort of started playing football again.
And I ended up playing sort of professional football.
But what I always imagined is that you didn't have to work very hard and that you just strolled up in a flash car.
Yeah.
Picked up your cash, played in front of hundreds and thousands and just lived the life of Riley.
I missed out on the bit, because I obviously wasn't born when my father was working very, very hard as a professional.
I thought it was all showbiz.
Turns out you had to put quite a lot of work in? I had to put effort in, imagine that! Imagine that.
And now you're doing BT Sport, where you work most of the time now.
Yes, look, I'm probably going back to my roots.
So I started out in sport, always a sports journalist and then you win a dance competition and then you do other weird and wacky stuff.
Yeah.
Now, Chris, there you are on 26.
You're the high scorers.
We need a low score from you.
I will go for slightly risky, one of my favourite ever actors, Mr Pertwee.
Mr Pert Do you want to supply a first name or are you? Well, do we need to? Yeah, very much so, yeah.
Go on, get it right! Sugar! He was my, well You delivered that so nicely.
Our old friend, Mr Pertwee! Yeah, I mean, one of my favourites.
I'm going to go for Bill.
SIGHING AND GROANING Well, I mean, I knew LAUGHTER I knew him as Bill.
ADAM: Oh, well! LAUGHTER OK, Bill Pertwee, says Chris.
Sugar! There's no red line for you cos you're the high scorers at the moment.
Bill Pertwee, how many of our 100 people said it? Oh, bad luck.
Well, there you are.
Bad luck, Chris.
Takes your total up to 126.
Brilliant, brilliant.
Obviously, I can't tell you what his real first name is just in case anyone else wants to go for it.
You've made everybody else very happy, Chris.
Enjoy.
That's the good news.
Thank you, Chris.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
Now, then, Sarah.
Welcome back to Pointless.
Thank you.
Now, Sarah, you'd sort of set your sights on an acting career.
Well, yes.
And what's worrying me slightly is a few times ago, it was in Doctor Who.
Oh, you've got to remember something.
I really should be remembering it, except that I was head to toe in clingfilm.
And that's a whole other story.
ALEXANDER LAUGHS Before we do that, tell us about Because you were called in by Biddy Baxter.
Yes.
You had caught the eye of Biddy Baxter, I don't know How did you do that? I was in a series called Swish Of The Curtain.
And the leading characters in Swish Of The Curtain were invited in to give it a plug on Blue Peter, essentially, that's what happened.
And so I was asked if I'd like to audition and all my flatmates said, "Go and audition, because we all want a badge!" And I went in and I was trying to snaffle some badges, but they did actually count them out and counted them back in again.
I'm pleased to hear that.
And then I got the job so I got a few saved up.
And never looked back.
Very good.
Now, great news for you, Sarah, thanks to Anne's fabulous answer in the first pass, and Chris's less than fabulous answer in this pass, you can dance through to Round Two.
So what are you going to go for? Well, that makes me feel I could go slightly risky.
I'd go very risky.
I think he's a companion before I was born, just about and that was Peter Purves.
Peter Purves.
Oh, Adam's nodding now! Oh, we know about Peter Purves now! No red line for you, Sarah, because you're already through.
Nice reason not to have a red line.
You're saying Peter Purves, let's see how far down the column we get with that.
Sounds like a great answer if it's right.
If it's right.
It is right! What about that? Down to two.
APPLAUSE Wow! Now that deserved to go all the way down, Sarah, but from now on, we will all remember that, Peter Purves was a Doctor Who companion.
It scores you two, takes your total up to two.
Yeah, Peter Purves was a companion to the very first Doctor whose name shall remain unspoken for the moment, but, yeah, he was a space pilot.
A space pilot from Earth.
I don't know how that works, but he was.
Not in real life.
He was an actor in real life.
Thank you very much indeed.
Now, then, Toby.
Hi, there.
Oh, Toby, we've been talking about early mornings.
You do a 4-6am.
I do the 4 till 6.
30 in the morning show.
Do you think of that as the last thing you do before going to bed or the first thing you do? I'm waking up as I go along, basically.
So the bosses like to call it the early breakfast show which is a very polite term for graveyard shift, essentially.
So I sleep a few hours before and then a few hours after and wherever I can find a nap during the day.
Like a dog.
You are putting the hardest yards in there.
And that is fantastic.
There's no doubt about that.
You know the most tedious thing that anyone can say to anyone in the creative arts who happens to have a successful parent, who also is in the creative arts, is they go, "Well, it's all nepotism, isn't it?" That's the thing, presumably.
It does help, though, I do recommend it.
To be fair It's really good.
I'd recommend it a lot.
Anyway, now, Toby, there you are on 20.
Does not matter what you score.
Yeah, so I can't explain how much I love Pointless.
I watch this show all the time and if I'd gone out first round, I would have cried.
Aw! He left me an answer machine message every day cos he couldn't get on by himself.
I was in this weird It's a really sad tale.
It was unlikely anybody would recognise me on the usual Pointless, but I wasn't famous enough for Celebrity Pointless.
So I kind of needed somebody like Johnny with his calibre to shoehorn myself onto the show, and here I am.
It's ridiculous.
You can be a regular as often as you like.
Thank you very much.
That's an open invitation to you.
Now, what are you going to go for? I am pretty sure there was an actor in it, a very good actor called Matt Smith and that sounds like a made up name if not.
No, he does exist, Matt Smith, he does exist.
And I think he was in it.
OK, there's no red line for you, because you're already through, let's see how many of our 100 people said Matt Smith.
It's right.
Big name.
Wow! Little score.
27, not bad at all, taking your total up to 47.
APPLAUSE Very good.
Yeah, he was the 11th Doctor, Matt Smith.
Thank you very much, Richard.
OK, now, Trisha, welcome.
Thank you.
Now, born in London, you had your big break in Australia.
How did that happen? I did.
I'm not quite sure.
No, I trained as a journalist and when I went to Australia, I worked for a PR company and I was working for TV shows and somebody actually doing the TV show, a newscaster, said, "You've been trained in television, why aren't you doing this job?" So I put in an application.
The closing time was midnight on a certain time and I got a friend to drive me there and put my application through the door of SBS television at about five to midnight and the rest, as they say, is history.
And how long did you stay there? I started in news and current affairs with SBS television and then I was headhunted to do a show called The 7.
30 Report which was on ABC television, like the BBC over there.
It was a nightly live news and current affairs show.
And I made history, apparently, I didn't realise I'd made history, but I was the first person of colour on Australian television in 1988.
I only found out because of the furore about it and everyone screaming about it.
Not that I cared, that's not what applied for, I was a journalist so Quite right, well done.
Now, there you are on 19.
It doesn't matter what you score here, Trisha, you're through to the next round, but a nice, low score would just be fun.
Yes, it would.
SHE LAUGHS However Oh, my gosh.
I don't think it's going to get me a low score Yeah.
.
.
but I'm going to have to say Tom Baker.
Tom Baker.
Tom Baker says Trisha.
No red line for you, you're already through, let's see how far down the column we get with Tom Baker.
It's right.
Down to 41.
41, taking your total up to 60.
APPLAUSE Well done, Trisha.
It's all you had to do.
Yeah, the fourth Doctor.
Now, I'll take you through the Doctors first.
We'll see what they scored.
And a couple of low scores.
John Hurt would have scored you four points and Paul McGann would have scored you two points.
Jodie Whittaker also scored two points.
But the other Doctors, you would have got ten points for Patrick Troughton, 14 for William Hartnell, 18 for Colin Baker, 20 for Peter Capaldi, 27 for Matt Smith, as we've seen, and Jon Pertwee - I don't know if that's a surprise to anybody - and Tom Baker scored 41 and he was equal top scorer with David Tennant who also would have scored 41.
But let's take a look at a few of the pointless answers here.
Alex Kingston was River Song alongside three Doctors.
Bernard Cribbins with David Tennant.
Bonnie Langford we've already heard.
Ian Marter who was Tom Baker.
Katy Manning, Mary Tamm who was Tom Baker.
Matthew Waterhouse who was Tom Baker and Peter Davison.
He wiped out the dinosaurs.
Matthew Waterhouse.
Did he? Yeah, he did.
We finally solved that.
Nicholas Courtney who was a Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.
And Nicola Bryant who has been on one of our Doctor Who specials who was Peter Davison and Colin Baker.
Lots of other pointless answers out there.
Very well done if you got one of those.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
We are at the end of our first round which means we have to say goodbye to one of our pairs and, Chris and Adam, I'm so sorry.
So lovely having you here.
Oh, we've just wasted you, I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry.
Ah, well.
He's gutted.
Please come back and play again.
You can come back, I won't.
In the meantime, Chris and Adam, thank you so much.
APPLAUSE But for the remaining three pairs, it's now time for Round Two.
Look at that, suddenly, mysteriously, we are down to three pairs.
At the end of this round, we're going to lose another pair as well, but best of luck to all three pairs.
Our category for Round Two is Oh, marvellous! Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second? And whoever is going first, please step up to the podium.
OK, and the question concerns OK.
Richard.
Yeah, on each board, we're going to show you six three-letter words.
Now, those words appear somewhere in the name of one UK city, but which is the city? Just have to give us a nice, obscure answer, please.
There'll be six on the first board, six on the second board, 12 in all to have a go at at home.
Thank you very much indeed.
So we are looking for the cities in which you would find these three-letter words.
Here's our first board of six.
Ooh, let's read those again.
Trisha.
OK, Katie, you keep him talking, I'll run.
Erm I'm going to go for "nor.
" Norwich.
You're going to say Norwich for "nor.
" Norwich.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said Norwich.
It's right.
Oh! 73 for Norwich.
APPLAUSE Don't you worry.
You might well have done something tactically very clever there.
Yeah, very familiar to you, Trisha, but get a correct answer on this round and I think that's job done.
Thank you very much indeed.
Now, then, Toby.
Yes.
It's fun! It's more fun at home, I'll be honest.
I may have to play very tactically here and be very, very boring and very obvious.
Don't do it.
I know which one you're looking at.
Yeah, but No, no, don't be that It's better than I've got no others.
No, no, you must have.
Look at the bottom one.
Look at the bottom one.
Think about it, think about it, think about it! I'm going to say Manchester and it's probably going to get 100.
You're going to say Manchester.
Whatever it gets, it's better than 100.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said Manchester.
Hey! 94, there you are.
Better than 100.
94 for Manchester.
Sorry! Yeah, Norwich is starting to look like a pretty sweet answer now, Trisha, isn't it? Oh, man! Now, then, Anne.
That board's all yours.
Do you fancy taking us through some of those answers? The trouble is, though, the more you stare at them, the more you start making up the names of cities in your head.
Yeah, I've made up two.
Erm Is there anywhere called Elfringham? Elfringham.
You never know! No, it's Listen, you'll get freedom of the place, I'm sure.
Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Elfringham.
I don't like the look of that.
Not yet.
Not yet a city.
It should be.
I'll campaign to have it made a city.
You should! That scores you 100 points but actually you're still very close to the others, it's fine.
Yeah, sorry, Anne.
Let's take a look at the rest of these.
So the second one down is the next biggest scorer.
You got that? Edinburgh.
Edinburgh.
Oh, no! Easy! Come on! That would have scored 20 points.
The one at the bottom, people don't realise it's a city, I think, maybe.
Chelmsford.
Chelmsford.
Chelmsford! 12 points for Chelmsford.
Now, elf.
Very famous city.
Famous shipbuilding city.
Belfast, yeah.
Belfast! Oh, no! Oh, my God! Belfast would have scored you four points.
Now, the last answer, made a city in 2012.
It's in Wales.
St Asaph.
Oh, that is cruel.
And it's a pointless answer so very, very well done if you said that.
Wow.
Thank you very much, we're halfway through the round.
Let's have a look at those scores.
Well, 73, look at that, the lowest score of the pass, very well done indeed.
73.
Trisha and Katie looking like a shoo-in for the head-to-head! I knew I loved Norwich for something.
94's where we find Toby and Johnny then 100 where we find Anne and Sarah.
So, yes, Sarah, we just need a nice correspondingly low score from you, might keep you in the game, so very best of luck with that.
We're going to come back down the line now.
No pressure! Can the second players please step up to the podium? OK, let's put six more three-letter words up on the board.
Each one of these can be found hidden in the name of a UK city.
I'll read them again.
Sarah.
I don't think it's going to be particularly low-scoring, but the other ones, I'm just not convinced that they are cities, they might be towns.
So Winchester.
OK, Winchester, says Sarah.
No red line for you as you're currently the high scorers.
Let's see how far down the column we get with Winchester.
It's right.
That's a good answer, look at that, 42, our best score so far, Sarah.
APPLAUSE 142 is your total.
Yeah, again, one of those ones that maybe not everyone knows is a city.
Yeah.
Thank you very much indeed.
Now, Johnny, I'm looking forward to this.
I think you will have a good answer on this board.
There's one I spotted that I think has you Yes, I've looked long and hard at them.
But I think that ice, I reckon that's Leicester.
Leicester, I knew you were going to go that one.
Let's see.
Now, you're on 94.
Ideally, you'll be scoring 47 or less.
That's what 47 looks like, that red line.
Get below that Go on! Come on, crowd! Come on! Let's clap it in.
Come on, crowd, come on! CROWD CLAPS RHYTHMICALLY OK, let's see how many of our 100 people said Leicester.
Come on, Johnny.
It is Leicester.
Come on, come on.
Down you go below the red line.
Very well done, indeed, Johnny, straight down to one! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE That scores you our lowest score of the round.
Takes your total up to 95.
Very well done indeed.
Beautifully done.
It so beautifully hidden away in the middle of Leicester isn't it? Ice.
It's a lovely answer.
Clever.
I was going to say I was chuffed with myself for getting that one, but less chuffed than you were of yourself for getting it, I have to say.
It was nice to have the crowd behind us.
We feel like the people's champions out here.
Now, then, Katie.
Right, OK, we have the moment of truth here.
You're on 73, you've got to score 68 or less.
Right.
Do you feel like talking us through that board as far as you can? So I think we've got a Liverpool, a Plymouth I think we've got a Colchester but I'm not sure if it's a city.
And a Swansea.
And I think I'm going to go Swansea.
Swansea, says Katie.
Here is your red line.
You have to get below that with Swansea.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.
It's right.
And you're through.
Very well done indeed.
Down it goes to 19, great answer.
Taking your total up to 92.
Very well played.
You were on the knife edge of going out there, though, because We'll fill the rest of these in.
Liverpool, you're absolutely right about.
Would have seen you through because it would have scored you 54 points.
If you said Plymouth, that would have knocked you out, would have scored 85 points.
But it's not Colchester.
No.
It is Lincoln.
Lincoln is the answer there.
Oh, that's good! And that would've scored two points.
And you will not be the only person who said Colchester, that's for sure.
So very well done if you said Lincoln.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
What a fabulous round that was.
So we are now at the end of it and I'm so sorry, oh, Sarah and Anne, you've gone from heroes to zeros, I'm afraid.
Absolutely! That's what happens in Pointless.
That is it! As we know.
I'm off to Elfringham.
Yes, you must, yes, quickly.
Queen of Elfringham.
Yes, I am! Thanks very much, Sarah and Anne! APPLAUSE But for our two remaining pairs, it is now time for the head-to-head.
Congratulations, Johnny and Toby, Trisha and Katie, you are now one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our jackpot which currently stands at ã2,750.
APPLAUSE So, this is the point where we have to do decide who goes through to the final to play for that jackpot and we do it by making you go head-to-head.
But the big difference is you can now confer.
You can play as a pair, chat before you give your answers.
And the first pair in this round to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot for their charities.
Best of luck to both players.
Let's play the head-to-head.
And here comes your first question and it concerns Richard.
We'll show you five pictures now of people with poodles.
We need you to name the celebrity, please.
Not the poodle, the celebrity, in the pictures you're about to see.
OK.
OK, thank you very much indeed.
Who are the people in these people with poodles pictures? I was hoping this one would come up.
Yep.
I revised this.
Funnily enough, what a coincidence.
Here they are, we have got There we are, five people with poodles.
Johnny and Toby, you're our low scores, so you will go first.
Feel free to chat.
OK.
Toby knows B and C.
I know B, C and D.
I think you say D.
Do you think? Go for it.
You're not going to hold that against me? Never.
We will go with Grace Kelly at D.
OK, D - Grace Kelly.
D - Grace Kelly, say Johnny and Toby.
Now, then, Trisha and Katie, talk us through the rest of that board if you can.
Well, Liz Taylor at C.
Yep.
And then Richard Nixon is B.
I think A is Maria Callas, but I'm not It could be Maria Callas, and we haven't got a clue who E is.
I mean who E is rather than who "he" is.
JOHNNY: It was ambiguous.
Yes.
TRISHA: Shall we go for Richard Nixon? Go for Richard Nixon.
Richard Nixon.
B - Richard Nixon.
B - Richard Nixon.
So we have D - Grace Kelly and B - Richard Nixon.
Johnny and Toby went for Grace Kelly for D, let's see if that's right, let's see how many of our 100 people said Grace Kelly.
It is Grace Kelly.
And down it goes to 22.
APPLAUSE 22 for Grace Kelly.
Meanwhile, Trisha and Katie have gone for B - Richard Nixon.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said Richard Nixon.
And it is Richard Nixon.
72, that's a big one.
APPLAUSE Well done, Johnny and Toby, after one question, you're up 1-0.
This board makes it look like they stopped making poodles after about 1970, doesn't it? B and C were far too big scorers.
That is Elizabeth Taylor, of course, she would have scored you 77.
Always worth taking a risk.
If you had said Maria Callas for A You'd have been right and it would have scored you ten points.
Ah! That must hurt! It must really hurt.
I didn't even know that! And it's the best answer on the board.
It even beats E.
Who is E? Who is 'e? Who is E? Is it David Da David Davis? No, David Who is it? David Hemming? No.
It is not, it is Billy Fury.
Billy Fury! Billy Fury.
So obvious, now.
Would have scored 13 points.
Thank you very much indeed.
OK, here comes your second question.
Trisha and Katie, you get to answer first, but you have to win this one to stay in the game.
Good luck.
Our second question is all about Richard? I'll play you five clips of songs now.
They're all instrumentals.
Can you tell us the artist behind any of these five songs, please? All UK hits.
Thank you very much indeed.
So, who were the artists behind these hits? Here's A.
SOFT JAZZY MUSIC PLAYS Here's B.
UPBEAT FUNKY MUSIC PLAYS Pop Go The Classics, isn't it? Here is C.
WILD WEST STYLE MUSIC PLAYS No, let it play.
Here is D.
SLOW CHILL-OUT MUSIC PLAYS And here is E.
UPBEAT ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS OK.
Here we go.
Trisha and Katie, you will go first.
Right.
OK.
So, Trisha has been pretty amazing on these, actually because I can sing them all, and didn't know any of the names.
Well, you're assuming I've got them right.
So we're going to go E is Axel F.
E - Axel F, say Trisha and Katie.
OK, now, Johnny and Toby, talk us through the rest of those tracks.
Well, A is Dave Brubeck and Take Five.
B, I can't remember who did it, but it's a theme on Beethoven.
It's not Roll Over Beethoven.
I don't know who it's by.
C, we think is The Shadows.
C was The Shadows.
And D D, oh, it's Moonlight something.
So, we'll probably go with A.
Dave Brubeck.
Go A, yeah.
You're going to say A, Dave Brubeck.
So, we have Axel F and Dave Brubeck.
Trisha and Katie, you have gone for Axel F for E.
Let's see if that's right.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said Axel F.
Oh, no! It was Axel's theme, wasn't it? No, it's not Axel F.
That's the track.
That's the track? Now, Johnny and Toby have gone for Dave Brubeck for A.
Let's see if that's right, and let's see how many of our 100 said it.
It only has to be right for you to win the point.
It's right.
Very well done.
Get in there.
Finalists, finalists.
There we go, that's ten.
Very well done indeed.
APPLAUSE That means, Johnny and Toby, after only two questions, you are through to the final, 2-0.
Yeah, that's very unlucky.
You will not be the only people to have said Axel F for that one.
Axel F is the name of the song, named after Axel Foley, Eddie Murphy's character in Beverly Hills Cop.
And it's by Do you remember? Somebody Faltermeyer? Harold Faltermeyer.
Harold Faltermeyer? Scored seven points, so very well done if you said that at home.
B, let's have a tiny listen to it.
So, yeah, this is a disco version of Beethoven's fifth.
But who's it by? It's done by the guy who did the Family Guy theme tune, as well.
Walter Murphy.
It's Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band.
And if you got that, it's a pointless answer.
Nobody knew that.
So terrific work, well done.
C, you were absolutely right, gents.
I'm sure you knew as well, it's The Shadows.
Yep.
Apache, number one hit.
And that would have scored you 44.
And D, the one that everyone recognises It's the Beatles.
It is not the Beatles.
No! No, it's not the Beatles.
Pink Floyd? That is Fleetwood Mac.
Oh, it's Fleetwood Mac? That's Albatross by Fleetwood Mac.
Albatross.
Albatross.
It's Albatross.
And would have scored you 36 points.
Well, there we are.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
The pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round, I'm so sorry, Trisha and Katie, it is you.
We bow to worthy champions.
But you had Maria Callas.
You had it within your grasp.
I know! And we also had Dave Brubeck.
Thank you, Trisha and Katie, so much for playing.
And playing so brilliantly.
Pleasure.
You've been fantastic.
Trisha and Katie.
APPLAUSE But for Johnny and Toby, it is now time for our Pointless final.
Well, congratulations, Johnny and Toby.
You've fought off all the competition and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.
You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot for your charities.
And at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at ã2,750! Well, very, very well done indeed.
There are things you can prepare for, things you can sort of know, and I think you've done very well on the knowledge side of things.
So, very well done.
What do you want to see come up in this last round? I'd like sport.
That's it, really, isn't it? What happens in the final round, then, Toby? Just explain.
Well, you'll see, you'll see.
We're going to put four things up on the board, like this.
I'll read through them, like this.
That has now happened.
You now then agonise over which one of those you want to pick.
Oh, right.
What? I think we either go albums named after years or cheese.
And there might be something so random in cheese it's actually something we know.
I think you're mad.
Fashion all the way.
I mean, look, I'll go fashion if you want to go fashion.
OK, you want to go cheese, don't you? Well Do you want to? Cheese? Cheese.
Let's go for it.
It could be something so ridiculous.
Let's do it.
You're going to go No, no, we're going to What do you think, audience? Cheese or fashion? All those in favour of cheese, say aye? AUDIENCE: Cheese! All those in favour of fashion, say fashion? ONE MAN: Cheese! LAUGHTER Well done.
Brilliant.
I tell you what, I hope someone was taking a photograph when you're all saying cheese, then.
That would have been lovely.
What a beautiful moment.
OK, we're going to go for We've got to be a crowd pleaser.
Cheese, cheese, cheese.
OK? Cheese it is.
Richard? I mean, with respect, I'd have gone for fashion, but there it is.
Fashion, we'll go for fashion.
No, this round really is all about cheese.
We're looking for any of the following, please.
Any cheese, the name of any cheese that has its own entry on the BBC foods ingredients section.
That's essentially the 40 most well-known cheeses there are.
We're looking for any of the top 20 non-EU countries who eats the most cheese.
Those figures from 2016.
Or we're looking for any EU country that has a protected cheese, you know, there are certain things you're only allowed to name after certain places they're made.
OK.
Any EU country that has a protected designation of any cheese.
So, any of those cheeses on the BBC's ingredients section, the 40 most well-known cheeses.
The top 20 non-EU countries who consumed the most cheese in 2016.
Or any EU country that has one of those cheeses that can only be named after where it's made.
Thank you very much indeed.
As always, you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers.
All you need to win that jackpot for your charities is just one of those answers to be pointless.
Are you ready? Yeah, yeah.
Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.
There they are.
Your time started now.
Right, we can just focus on one category or I like the look of those top two.
So I reckon we guess at a couple of countries.
OK, the 20 non-EU countries? Top 20 non-EU countries.
Countries that consumed the most cheese per capita in 2016.
Can we just keep hammering them down? You pick three.
We get a minute to decide and choose three at the end.
Top 20 non-EU countries who consumed the most cheese There's millions of people in Indonesia.
So they must eat some cheese.
But this is top 20 non-EU countries.
Yeah, non-EU.
EU countries that have registered protection designation of origin How are you on your BBC food ingredients section at the top, there? What cheeses do you know? I think we really picked the wrong category.
This is way too cheesy.
Can we do fashion? What are we going to go for? Quickly.
I want to do Indonesia for top 20 non-EU countries.
Why Indonesia? Ten seconds left.
Because there's loads of people there and they must eat cheese.
OK.
Top 20 non-EU countries that consumed the most cheese per capita, we're going to go Peru.
EU countries registered designation We don't have to do one for that.
OK, time is up.
That is your minute up.
OK, let's have three answers.
I don't think we conferred many options there, Johnny.
No, we didn't.
You said Peru, I like Peru.
OK, so, we're going to go for Peru as an answer for the middle one? Yes.
OK.
Indonesia.
Indonesia, that's now official.
Go with cheese with their own entry on BBC foods ingredients section.
Cornish Yarg is a cheese.
Is it? Yeah.
OK, we'll go with that then.
You want to go with Cornish Yarg? We want to go with Cornish Yarg.
There we are.
We've got Peru, Indonesia and Cornish Yarg.
We're looking good! There's a pointless answer in there.
Of those three answers, which is your best shot at a pointless answer? Which is your best shot? What do YOU think? It's not me.
What do we think is a nice, obscure? I think Cornish Yarg is so stupid, let's get that out of the way.
Let's put Cornish Yarg last.
I hope this is pointless now.
Yeah.
We'll go with Peru first.
Peru first, then we'll put Indonesia in the middle, Cornish Yarg at the end.
Lovely.
Let's put those answers up on the board in that order.
And here they are.
We've got Peru, we've got Indonesia, and we've got Cornish Yarg.
Listen, why not? Any of these could be a pointless answer.
And why? And could win that jackpot for your nominated charities.
Johnny, what charity are you playing for? We're playing for Global's Make Some Noise, which is the in-house charity at Radio X and everyone at Global.
It's for all those people that run small charities that don't get a chance to get heard.
So we've got a national platform so that we can earn money for all those charities.
Literally, sometimes it's just a woman running it from her kitchen, it really is hands-on and it's a great charity.
We do some good stuff.
Very good indeed.
Toby, you are the same? Yeah, playing for Global's Make Some Noise as well.
Very good indeed.
APPLAUSE Well, after that, we've just got to hope Peru, Indonesia and Cornish Yarg are going to do it for them.
Three good answers on the board.
Let's hope.
I mean, listen, why not? Any of these could be pointless.
We just have to find out.
Peru was the answer you thought was probably your least likely to be pointless.
But we're looking for non-EU countries who consumed the most cheese per capita in 2016.
If this is pointless, it wins ã2,750 for your charity.
How many people said Peru? No, bad luck! Bad luck.
What does that mean, no-one said Peru? It's an incorrect answer, I'm afraid.
OK, well, your next was Indonesia.
Again, we are looking for the top 20 non-EU countries who consumed the most cheese per capita in 2016.
If nobody said Indonesia and it's right, your charity will be the richer by ã2,750.
Come on! How many people said Indonesia? Is it right? Oh, no.
Bad luck.
Bad luck.
We're putting it all on the Yarg.
Cornish Yarg! It's all on the Yarg.
Putting it on the Yarg.
We are looking for cheeses with their own entry on the BBC foods ingredients section.
Cornish Yarg is your answer.
It has to be pointless for you to win.
If it does win, your charity wins ã2,750.
Is Cornish Yarg right? How may people said it? Go on, Tobes.
Oh, no! APPLAUSE I tell you what, that was one of the most entertaining finals we've had.
Didn't I tell you we shouldn't have gone for cheese? So many things I've never seen happen on Pointless before happening this evening.
I'm afraid you didn't manage to find that all-important pointless answer.
You don't win today's jackpot.
We didn't get an answer.
That's true.
But as it's a celebrity special, we're going to donate ã500 to each celebrity pair for their charities, so there you are.
You have been absolutely fabulous.
Johnny and Toby, brilliant performance across the show.
And you both get to take home a Pointless trophy each.
So, very well done indeed.
Johnny and Toby, everyone.
Thank you very much.
APPLAUSE I'll take you through the pointless answers now.
That top category was the one where most of the answers come from.
Cornish Yarg was unlucky, actually.
I'm surprised it wasn't up there.
But here are some cheeses that were.
All of these were pointless answers and would have won you the money.
Danish blue, dolcelatte, quark, Taleggio, Fontina, Vacherin.
All of those were pointless answers.
Well done if you said any of those.
Now, guesswork really for these bottom two, to be honest.
Peru and Indonesia, just as good as any of the answers I'm going to show you now.
Thanks, Richard.
The top 20 non-EU countries, Iceland, Iran, South Korea, Turkey, Belarus, Egypt, Israel and Uruguay also pointless answers on that list.
Well done if you said any of those.
Now, the countries which have their own designated cheeses from the EU - Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Czechia, or the Czech Republic.
Very well done if you said any of those at home.
And unlucky in the studio.
But I have to say, three wrong answers, but very entertaining.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
And thanks once again to Johnny and Toby.
Fabulous having you here.
Johnny and Toby.
APPLAUSE Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.
Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.
Goodbye.
And it's goodbye from me.
Goodbye.
APPLAUSE
Hello, I am Alexander Armstrong, and a very warm welcome to this presenters' edition of Pointless Celebrities, the quiz where the more obscure your knowledge, the better your chances of winning.
Let's meet this evening's Pointless Celebrities.
And couple number one.
I'm Katie Derham.
I'm a Radio 3 presenter.
I present for the BBC Proms.
I may have been spotted doing a bit of dancing from time to time, but I am most happy when I'm interviewing you, Xander.
I'm Trisha Goddard, otherwise known as Trisha, talk show host.
I like to be on the other side of interviewing.
APPLAUSE And couple number two.
Hi there.
I'm Toby Tarrant.
I'm a radio presenter when you're fast asleep, basically.
I'm Johnny Vaughan.
I'm a radio presenter when you're on television.
APPLAUSE Couple number three.
Hello, I'm Sarah Greene, and I'm a presenter.
And I was an actress, and the reason I came on today was to try and do better than I did last time, and because I was going to be with Anne Diamond.
And I'm Anne Diamond, and I'm on because she asked me to.
No, I'm a TV presenter as well then, but we all are.
And I'm probably best known for getting up really, really, really, really early in the morning.
So, I'll fall asleep soon.
APPLAUSE And finally, couple number four.
Yes, I'm Chris Hollins, TV presenter.
Also used to get up very early in the morning.
I'll present anything, as long as it gets paid.
Hi, I'm Adam Pearson.
Actor, campaigner, presenter.
I do a lot of documentaries around food and hate crime and freak shows.
And I'm here in a desperate bid to get my mother's love.
APPLAUSE Thank you very much all of you.
A very warm welcome to Pointless.
Lovely to have you all here.
We'll get a chance to chat a bit further throughout the show of course as it goes along, so that just leaves one more person for me to introduce.
Very much the co-presenter's co-presenter, it's my Pointless friend, it's Richard.
Hiya.
Hi, everybody.
Good evening.
Good evening to you.
Good evening.
Sometimes you do shows, we call them long records, which means they take a long time.
We've got eight TV presenters here, so this may be the ultimate long record.
I suspect, not looking at anyone in specific, Johnny Vaughan, but it may be.
But we have two champions on the show.
We have two jackpot winners already.
Katie Derham took home a jackpot, as did Anne Diamond.
Never had two jackpot winners go up against each other before.
It'll be interesting to see what happens there.
No pressure on Trisha and Sarah there.
Question one is one of those ones that lots of people are desperate to see.
It's one of those questions that people ask for all the time.
Oh, that's fun.
Yes.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
Now, as today's show is a celebrity special, each of our celebrities is playing for a nominated charity.
We are therefore going to start off with an augmented jackpot of ã2,500.
There it is.
APPLAUSE Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.
So all you have to remember is this - the pair with the highest score at the end of each round will be eliminated.
So keep your scores nice and low.
Best of luck to all four pairs.
Our first category today is Can you all decide in your pairs, who's going to go first, who's going to go second? And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
OK, let's find out what the question is.
Here it comes.
We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many .
.
as they could.
Richard.
Yeah, we're simply looking for the name of anyone who's played the Doctor or any official companion according to the BBC World Wide Website in Doctor Who, please.
So anyone who has played the regular Doctor, or any official companion.
Very best of luck.
Thank you very much indeed.
Now, Katie, welcome.
As we heard, you were saying that classical music has become your domain.
Yes.
But you started out in the newsroom.
I did.
I'm just thinking if I can count the fact there have been Doctor Who Proms as something that will help at this point, but I'm really not convinced that's going to be any use at all.
But, yes Yeah, because you've got the Proms is kind of your This is very much your area now.
Yes.
I mean, how does that work? How do your family feel about that, because that's your summer basically, isn't it? Luckily, they quite like coming to the Proms too, which is a bit of a bonus considering that is where I live during the school holidays.
I keep on talking to the organisers and say, "Could you not just shift it possibly to October, November?" That would be nice.
Yes, an autumn season.
An autumn Proms.
Lovely idea.
Wonderful, but do you ever miss the newsroom? The sort of cut and thrust of stuff coming in on the wire? Yes.
Yes, I think that whenever the big story breaks I think, "Oh, it'll be exciting.
There'll be a lot of people standing up "and shouting in the newsroom right now," is what I normally think.
But I have a civilised time now.
Very good.
Now, Katie.
Yes.
We've come to our Doctor Who question.
What are you going to go for? Whom are you going to go for? Um What are you up to later this evening, Richard? LAUGHTER I'm glad you asked.
I'm going to be the 14th Doctor.
I've got my audition.
Have they never asked you? To be Doctor Who? No, they've never asked me.
Oh, they should.
It's weird, it's weird, given my acting experience.
Yeah, well.
Still You'd be a good Doctor.
Oh, I'd love that.
You'd be a terrible Doctor Who, but you'd be a good doctor.
LAUGHTER Right.
Katie.
I'm going to go for Peter Davison.
Peter Davison, says Katie.
Let's see how many of 100 people said Peter Davison.
Peter Davison is right.
Still going down, Katie, still going down.
19.
Not bad at all.
APPLAUSE Gets us off to a rollicking start.
19.
Yep, Peter Davison was the fifth Doctor.
Thank you very much, Richard.
Johnny, welcome to Pointless.
Hello, Alexander, how are you? Wonderful to have you.
I'm very well thank you.
Can we just talk about the Big Breakfast? Yes.
Just go back to the Big Breakfast which I think for a lot of people was just one of those great programmes of the 1990s.
It was just a fabulous television moment.
It must I mean, was it as much fun as it looked like? Yeah, I mean, you know how this isn't live? Yeah.
It was live.
Yes.
LAUGHTER I remember coming on as a guest once or twice, and I can remember you just You did, with Ben Miller which was always brilliant.
With Ben Miller.
In the ad breaks Oh, I love Ben Miller.
Do you? Do you? Yeah, I love that guy.
He really put the Miller in Armstrong and Miller.
He really did.
But also, isn't he great to interview? He's the best interviewee.
One of those guys, really, you could just keep talking, ask him anything, nothing throws them.
And also an expert in physics.
A great mind.
Knows his way around comedy, drama.
He can carry pretty much anyone.
Fantastic.
He's got strong shoulders.
Amazing.
He's certainly been carrying I get it.
Yeah, yeah, you see.
Yup.
Hello, Xander.
Hi there, Johnny.
That's staying in.
Johnny, who would you like to go for? I think I think it was Sylvester McCoy who did it for a bit.
Didn't he, Sylvester McCoy? Sylvester McCoy, says Johnny.
Shrug from Toby.
I was going to go for one of his Hm-hm.
Don't say it.
Don't say it.
No.
Don't say it.
Who're you going to for? No! LAUGHTER Sylvester McCoy, says Johnny.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said Sylvester McCoy.
WHISPERS: It's a great shout.
It's right.
19 is the only score we have at the moment.
And at 20.
Not bad at all.
APPLAUSE Perfect grouping.
19, 20.
I've mentioned before that lovely photo, you can see it online of Sylvester McCoy.
They used to film it in Elstree and there was a fire alarm and the entire cast of Doctor Who, including Sylvester McCoy, and the entire cast of 'Allo 'Allo out in the car park all just chatting to firemen.
There's this lovely photo of it online.
It's really worth checking out.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
Anne, welcome back to Pointless.
Hello.
Lovely to have you here.
Now you were, I think it's fair to say, the first ever female anchor of that big new, as it was then, breakfast news format.
I suppose so.
There were one or two others who might be a little .
.
bridling at having you say that.
You were the best though, Anne.
You were the best.
Thank you.
So there you were.
Right, you were a pioneer in television.
Pioneering, yeah.
In that sense.
So, getting up early in the morning is something that is just second nature, presumably, because you have a radio show, don't you, sort of mid-morning? Yeah.
Get up early, I'm used to it.
But I don't know whether you ever get to like it.
You're always resentful.
That's true.
Somewhere early evening when you're feeling really, really tired, and everybody else is saying let's go out for dinner, or let's go and watch a movie.
And actually all you'd rather do is just crawl under the duvet.
Yeah.
So you get used to it, but you never get to like it, I reckon.
No, that's fair enough.
Now, Anne.
Doctor Who and Doctor Who companions.
I like Doctor Who, but it's your era, isn't it? It is.
So completely.
You tend to go in and out of eras with Doctor Who.
And I think I've got an answer, that I think might be pretty obscure, because I don't think a lot of people would know it or remember it.
But I'm not terribly sure if I'm right.
But I think I am.
And I'm thinking Bonnie Langford.
Bonnie Langford.
That's earned you our first buzz from the audience.
That's lovely.
Bonnie Langford I hope that's a good sign.
I think it's a good sign.
Let's find out if it's right.
How many of our 100 people said Bonnie Langford? It's right.
It is right.
20 is our high score.
19 is our low.
And you've passed them both.
It's a Pointless answer! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Very well done indeed.
Look at that Anne.
Very well done indeed.
A Pointless answer adds ã250 to the jackpot.
Takes the total up to ã2,750, and it scores you nothing.
Anne, that's outstanding.
Well, good! See that's the form of a Pointless champion, Anne.
Very well played.
In fact, she was mainly an assistant to Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford.
Also to another Doctor, but to mainly to Sylvester McCoy.
Wow.
Thank you very much indeed.
Adam, welcome to Pointless.
How are you doing? Great to have you here.
Tell me about The Undateables.
How did that come about? It was just I was working for the company that made it at the time on another project, and the idea just floated about, and the good old Great British public seem to have taken to it.
And it's led to you, I mean you've been acting alongside Scarlett Johansson.
Yeah.
How did that? What was that? That was called Under The Skin.
It was.
I only auditioned, I only applied for a joke just to waste someone's time and apparently got the job.
And how was it? How long were you filming for? We were in Glasgow for a couple of weeks and then we did the special effects stuff here in Elstree.
With the cast of 'Allo 'Allo and? Yeah, yeah.
In the car park.
Now, then, Adam, Doctor Who.
Doctor Whos and Doctor Who's companions.
Yeah, I don't know if you've ever seen two fully grown men stare at each other in utter fear and terror.
But that is what happened.
Oh I'm going to go Christopher Eccleston.
Christopher Eccleston, says Adam.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said Christopher Eccleston.
It's right.
20's our high score, zero is our low.
26, not bad at all.
APPLAUSE Good damage limitation, there, Adam.
26 for Christopher Eccleston.
Well played, he was the ninth Doctor.
He was the first Doctor of the reboot, Christopher Eccleston, which has been so successful.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
Well, we're halfway through the round.
Let's take a quick look at the scores.
Nothing was the lowest score in that round, Anne.
Very well done indeed.
And we go up from nothing to 19, that's quite a hike, where we find Katie and Trisha.
Tiny step up to 20, Johnny and Toby.
And then up to 26, not too much of a hike there.
Chris, you are ahead.
We need a low score from you to bring you back down into line, so good luck with that.
We're going to come back down the line now.
Can the second players please step up to the podium? OK, Chris.
Welcome back to Pointless.
Now, Chris, your upbringing - you grew up in a very sporty household, your father was a great Chelsea footballer.
Yeah.
Was there any stage where you weren't contemplating a career as a sportsman? No, well, I was quite good myself.
I was quite a good cricketer, so I played a bit of pro-cricket.
And when I was at university I sort of started playing football again.
And I ended up playing sort of professional football.
But what I always imagined is that you didn't have to work very hard and that you just strolled up in a flash car.
Yeah.
Picked up your cash, played in front of hundreds and thousands and just lived the life of Riley.
I missed out on the bit, because I obviously wasn't born when my father was working very, very hard as a professional.
I thought it was all showbiz.
Turns out you had to put quite a lot of work in? I had to put effort in, imagine that! Imagine that.
And now you're doing BT Sport, where you work most of the time now.
Yes, look, I'm probably going back to my roots.
So I started out in sport, always a sports journalist and then you win a dance competition and then you do other weird and wacky stuff.
Yeah.
Now, Chris, there you are on 26.
You're the high scorers.
We need a low score from you.
I will go for slightly risky, one of my favourite ever actors, Mr Pertwee.
Mr Pert Do you want to supply a first name or are you? Well, do we need to? Yeah, very much so, yeah.
Go on, get it right! Sugar! He was my, well You delivered that so nicely.
Our old friend, Mr Pertwee! Yeah, I mean, one of my favourites.
I'm going to go for Bill.
SIGHING AND GROANING Well, I mean, I knew LAUGHTER I knew him as Bill.
ADAM: Oh, well! LAUGHTER OK, Bill Pertwee, says Chris.
Sugar! There's no red line for you cos you're the high scorers at the moment.
Bill Pertwee, how many of our 100 people said it? Oh, bad luck.
Well, there you are.
Bad luck, Chris.
Takes your total up to 126.
Brilliant, brilliant.
Obviously, I can't tell you what his real first name is just in case anyone else wants to go for it.
You've made everybody else very happy, Chris.
Enjoy.
That's the good news.
Thank you, Chris.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
Now, then, Sarah.
Welcome back to Pointless.
Thank you.
Now, Sarah, you'd sort of set your sights on an acting career.
Well, yes.
And what's worrying me slightly is a few times ago, it was in Doctor Who.
Oh, you've got to remember something.
I really should be remembering it, except that I was head to toe in clingfilm.
And that's a whole other story.
ALEXANDER LAUGHS Before we do that, tell us about Because you were called in by Biddy Baxter.
Yes.
You had caught the eye of Biddy Baxter, I don't know How did you do that? I was in a series called Swish Of The Curtain.
And the leading characters in Swish Of The Curtain were invited in to give it a plug on Blue Peter, essentially, that's what happened.
And so I was asked if I'd like to audition and all my flatmates said, "Go and audition, because we all want a badge!" And I went in and I was trying to snaffle some badges, but they did actually count them out and counted them back in again.
I'm pleased to hear that.
And then I got the job so I got a few saved up.
And never looked back.
Very good.
Now, great news for you, Sarah, thanks to Anne's fabulous answer in the first pass, and Chris's less than fabulous answer in this pass, you can dance through to Round Two.
So what are you going to go for? Well, that makes me feel I could go slightly risky.
I'd go very risky.
I think he's a companion before I was born, just about and that was Peter Purves.
Peter Purves.
Oh, Adam's nodding now! Oh, we know about Peter Purves now! No red line for you, Sarah, because you're already through.
Nice reason not to have a red line.
You're saying Peter Purves, let's see how far down the column we get with that.
Sounds like a great answer if it's right.
If it's right.
It is right! What about that? Down to two.
APPLAUSE Wow! Now that deserved to go all the way down, Sarah, but from now on, we will all remember that, Peter Purves was a Doctor Who companion.
It scores you two, takes your total up to two.
Yeah, Peter Purves was a companion to the very first Doctor whose name shall remain unspoken for the moment, but, yeah, he was a space pilot.
A space pilot from Earth.
I don't know how that works, but he was.
Not in real life.
He was an actor in real life.
Thank you very much indeed.
Now, then, Toby.
Hi, there.
Oh, Toby, we've been talking about early mornings.
You do a 4-6am.
I do the 4 till 6.
30 in the morning show.
Do you think of that as the last thing you do before going to bed or the first thing you do? I'm waking up as I go along, basically.
So the bosses like to call it the early breakfast show which is a very polite term for graveyard shift, essentially.
So I sleep a few hours before and then a few hours after and wherever I can find a nap during the day.
Like a dog.
You are putting the hardest yards in there.
And that is fantastic.
There's no doubt about that.
You know the most tedious thing that anyone can say to anyone in the creative arts who happens to have a successful parent, who also is in the creative arts, is they go, "Well, it's all nepotism, isn't it?" That's the thing, presumably.
It does help, though, I do recommend it.
To be fair It's really good.
I'd recommend it a lot.
Anyway, now, Toby, there you are on 20.
Does not matter what you score.
Yeah, so I can't explain how much I love Pointless.
I watch this show all the time and if I'd gone out first round, I would have cried.
Aw! He left me an answer machine message every day cos he couldn't get on by himself.
I was in this weird It's a really sad tale.
It was unlikely anybody would recognise me on the usual Pointless, but I wasn't famous enough for Celebrity Pointless.
So I kind of needed somebody like Johnny with his calibre to shoehorn myself onto the show, and here I am.
It's ridiculous.
You can be a regular as often as you like.
Thank you very much.
That's an open invitation to you.
Now, what are you going to go for? I am pretty sure there was an actor in it, a very good actor called Matt Smith and that sounds like a made up name if not.
No, he does exist, Matt Smith, he does exist.
And I think he was in it.
OK, there's no red line for you, because you're already through, let's see how many of our 100 people said Matt Smith.
It's right.
Big name.
Wow! Little score.
27, not bad at all, taking your total up to 47.
APPLAUSE Very good.
Yeah, he was the 11th Doctor, Matt Smith.
Thank you very much, Richard.
OK, now, Trisha, welcome.
Thank you.
Now, born in London, you had your big break in Australia.
How did that happen? I did.
I'm not quite sure.
No, I trained as a journalist and when I went to Australia, I worked for a PR company and I was working for TV shows and somebody actually doing the TV show, a newscaster, said, "You've been trained in television, why aren't you doing this job?" So I put in an application.
The closing time was midnight on a certain time and I got a friend to drive me there and put my application through the door of SBS television at about five to midnight and the rest, as they say, is history.
And how long did you stay there? I started in news and current affairs with SBS television and then I was headhunted to do a show called The 7.
30 Report which was on ABC television, like the BBC over there.
It was a nightly live news and current affairs show.
And I made history, apparently, I didn't realise I'd made history, but I was the first person of colour on Australian television in 1988.
I only found out because of the furore about it and everyone screaming about it.
Not that I cared, that's not what applied for, I was a journalist so Quite right, well done.
Now, there you are on 19.
It doesn't matter what you score here, Trisha, you're through to the next round, but a nice, low score would just be fun.
Yes, it would.
SHE LAUGHS However Oh, my gosh.
I don't think it's going to get me a low score Yeah.
.
.
but I'm going to have to say Tom Baker.
Tom Baker.
Tom Baker says Trisha.
No red line for you, you're already through, let's see how far down the column we get with Tom Baker.
It's right.
Down to 41.
41, taking your total up to 60.
APPLAUSE Well done, Trisha.
It's all you had to do.
Yeah, the fourth Doctor.
Now, I'll take you through the Doctors first.
We'll see what they scored.
And a couple of low scores.
John Hurt would have scored you four points and Paul McGann would have scored you two points.
Jodie Whittaker also scored two points.
But the other Doctors, you would have got ten points for Patrick Troughton, 14 for William Hartnell, 18 for Colin Baker, 20 for Peter Capaldi, 27 for Matt Smith, as we've seen, and Jon Pertwee - I don't know if that's a surprise to anybody - and Tom Baker scored 41 and he was equal top scorer with David Tennant who also would have scored 41.
But let's take a look at a few of the pointless answers here.
Alex Kingston was River Song alongside three Doctors.
Bernard Cribbins with David Tennant.
Bonnie Langford we've already heard.
Ian Marter who was Tom Baker.
Katy Manning, Mary Tamm who was Tom Baker.
Matthew Waterhouse who was Tom Baker and Peter Davison.
He wiped out the dinosaurs.
Matthew Waterhouse.
Did he? Yeah, he did.
We finally solved that.
Nicholas Courtney who was a Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.
And Nicola Bryant who has been on one of our Doctor Who specials who was Peter Davison and Colin Baker.
Lots of other pointless answers out there.
Very well done if you got one of those.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
We are at the end of our first round which means we have to say goodbye to one of our pairs and, Chris and Adam, I'm so sorry.
So lovely having you here.
Oh, we've just wasted you, I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry.
Ah, well.
He's gutted.
Please come back and play again.
You can come back, I won't.
In the meantime, Chris and Adam, thank you so much.
APPLAUSE But for the remaining three pairs, it's now time for Round Two.
Look at that, suddenly, mysteriously, we are down to three pairs.
At the end of this round, we're going to lose another pair as well, but best of luck to all three pairs.
Our category for Round Two is Oh, marvellous! Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second? And whoever is going first, please step up to the podium.
OK, and the question concerns OK.
Richard.
Yeah, on each board, we're going to show you six three-letter words.
Now, those words appear somewhere in the name of one UK city, but which is the city? Just have to give us a nice, obscure answer, please.
There'll be six on the first board, six on the second board, 12 in all to have a go at at home.
Thank you very much indeed.
So we are looking for the cities in which you would find these three-letter words.
Here's our first board of six.
Ooh, let's read those again.
Trisha.
OK, Katie, you keep him talking, I'll run.
Erm I'm going to go for "nor.
" Norwich.
You're going to say Norwich for "nor.
" Norwich.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said Norwich.
It's right.
Oh! 73 for Norwich.
APPLAUSE Don't you worry.
You might well have done something tactically very clever there.
Yeah, very familiar to you, Trisha, but get a correct answer on this round and I think that's job done.
Thank you very much indeed.
Now, then, Toby.
Yes.
It's fun! It's more fun at home, I'll be honest.
I may have to play very tactically here and be very, very boring and very obvious.
Don't do it.
I know which one you're looking at.
Yeah, but No, no, don't be that It's better than I've got no others.
No, no, you must have.
Look at the bottom one.
Look at the bottom one.
Think about it, think about it, think about it! I'm going to say Manchester and it's probably going to get 100.
You're going to say Manchester.
Whatever it gets, it's better than 100.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said Manchester.
Hey! 94, there you are.
Better than 100.
94 for Manchester.
Sorry! Yeah, Norwich is starting to look like a pretty sweet answer now, Trisha, isn't it? Oh, man! Now, then, Anne.
That board's all yours.
Do you fancy taking us through some of those answers? The trouble is, though, the more you stare at them, the more you start making up the names of cities in your head.
Yeah, I've made up two.
Erm Is there anywhere called Elfringham? Elfringham.
You never know! No, it's Listen, you'll get freedom of the place, I'm sure.
Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Elfringham.
I don't like the look of that.
Not yet.
Not yet a city.
It should be.
I'll campaign to have it made a city.
You should! That scores you 100 points but actually you're still very close to the others, it's fine.
Yeah, sorry, Anne.
Let's take a look at the rest of these.
So the second one down is the next biggest scorer.
You got that? Edinburgh.
Edinburgh.
Oh, no! Easy! Come on! That would have scored 20 points.
The one at the bottom, people don't realise it's a city, I think, maybe.
Chelmsford.
Chelmsford.
Chelmsford! 12 points for Chelmsford.
Now, elf.
Very famous city.
Famous shipbuilding city.
Belfast, yeah.
Belfast! Oh, no! Oh, my God! Belfast would have scored you four points.
Now, the last answer, made a city in 2012.
It's in Wales.
St Asaph.
Oh, that is cruel.
And it's a pointless answer so very, very well done if you said that.
Wow.
Thank you very much, we're halfway through the round.
Let's have a look at those scores.
Well, 73, look at that, the lowest score of the pass, very well done indeed.
73.
Trisha and Katie looking like a shoo-in for the head-to-head! I knew I loved Norwich for something.
94's where we find Toby and Johnny then 100 where we find Anne and Sarah.
So, yes, Sarah, we just need a nice correspondingly low score from you, might keep you in the game, so very best of luck with that.
We're going to come back down the line now.
No pressure! Can the second players please step up to the podium? OK, let's put six more three-letter words up on the board.
Each one of these can be found hidden in the name of a UK city.
I'll read them again.
Sarah.
I don't think it's going to be particularly low-scoring, but the other ones, I'm just not convinced that they are cities, they might be towns.
So Winchester.
OK, Winchester, says Sarah.
No red line for you as you're currently the high scorers.
Let's see how far down the column we get with Winchester.
It's right.
That's a good answer, look at that, 42, our best score so far, Sarah.
APPLAUSE 142 is your total.
Yeah, again, one of those ones that maybe not everyone knows is a city.
Yeah.
Thank you very much indeed.
Now, Johnny, I'm looking forward to this.
I think you will have a good answer on this board.
There's one I spotted that I think has you Yes, I've looked long and hard at them.
But I think that ice, I reckon that's Leicester.
Leicester, I knew you were going to go that one.
Let's see.
Now, you're on 94.
Ideally, you'll be scoring 47 or less.
That's what 47 looks like, that red line.
Get below that Go on! Come on, crowd! Come on! Let's clap it in.
Come on, crowd, come on! CROWD CLAPS RHYTHMICALLY OK, let's see how many of our 100 people said Leicester.
Come on, Johnny.
It is Leicester.
Come on, come on.
Down you go below the red line.
Very well done, indeed, Johnny, straight down to one! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE That scores you our lowest score of the round.
Takes your total up to 95.
Very well done indeed.
Beautifully done.
It so beautifully hidden away in the middle of Leicester isn't it? Ice.
It's a lovely answer.
Clever.
I was going to say I was chuffed with myself for getting that one, but less chuffed than you were of yourself for getting it, I have to say.
It was nice to have the crowd behind us.
We feel like the people's champions out here.
Now, then, Katie.
Right, OK, we have the moment of truth here.
You're on 73, you've got to score 68 or less.
Right.
Do you feel like talking us through that board as far as you can? So I think we've got a Liverpool, a Plymouth I think we've got a Colchester but I'm not sure if it's a city.
And a Swansea.
And I think I'm going to go Swansea.
Swansea, says Katie.
Here is your red line.
You have to get below that with Swansea.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.
It's right.
And you're through.
Very well done indeed.
Down it goes to 19, great answer.
Taking your total up to 92.
Very well played.
You were on the knife edge of going out there, though, because We'll fill the rest of these in.
Liverpool, you're absolutely right about.
Would have seen you through because it would have scored you 54 points.
If you said Plymouth, that would have knocked you out, would have scored 85 points.
But it's not Colchester.
No.
It is Lincoln.
Lincoln is the answer there.
Oh, that's good! And that would've scored two points.
And you will not be the only person who said Colchester, that's for sure.
So very well done if you said Lincoln.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
What a fabulous round that was.
So we are now at the end of it and I'm so sorry, oh, Sarah and Anne, you've gone from heroes to zeros, I'm afraid.
Absolutely! That's what happens in Pointless.
That is it! As we know.
I'm off to Elfringham.
Yes, you must, yes, quickly.
Queen of Elfringham.
Yes, I am! Thanks very much, Sarah and Anne! APPLAUSE But for our two remaining pairs, it is now time for the head-to-head.
Congratulations, Johnny and Toby, Trisha and Katie, you are now one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our jackpot which currently stands at ã2,750.
APPLAUSE So, this is the point where we have to do decide who goes through to the final to play for that jackpot and we do it by making you go head-to-head.
But the big difference is you can now confer.
You can play as a pair, chat before you give your answers.
And the first pair in this round to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot for their charities.
Best of luck to both players.
Let's play the head-to-head.
And here comes your first question and it concerns Richard.
We'll show you five pictures now of people with poodles.
We need you to name the celebrity, please.
Not the poodle, the celebrity, in the pictures you're about to see.
OK.
OK, thank you very much indeed.
Who are the people in these people with poodles pictures? I was hoping this one would come up.
Yep.
I revised this.
Funnily enough, what a coincidence.
Here they are, we have got There we are, five people with poodles.
Johnny and Toby, you're our low scores, so you will go first.
Feel free to chat.
OK.
Toby knows B and C.
I know B, C and D.
I think you say D.
Do you think? Go for it.
You're not going to hold that against me? Never.
We will go with Grace Kelly at D.
OK, D - Grace Kelly.
D - Grace Kelly, say Johnny and Toby.
Now, then, Trisha and Katie, talk us through the rest of that board if you can.
Well, Liz Taylor at C.
Yep.
And then Richard Nixon is B.
I think A is Maria Callas, but I'm not It could be Maria Callas, and we haven't got a clue who E is.
I mean who E is rather than who "he" is.
JOHNNY: It was ambiguous.
Yes.
TRISHA: Shall we go for Richard Nixon? Go for Richard Nixon.
Richard Nixon.
B - Richard Nixon.
B - Richard Nixon.
So we have D - Grace Kelly and B - Richard Nixon.
Johnny and Toby went for Grace Kelly for D, let's see if that's right, let's see how many of our 100 people said Grace Kelly.
It is Grace Kelly.
And down it goes to 22.
APPLAUSE 22 for Grace Kelly.
Meanwhile, Trisha and Katie have gone for B - Richard Nixon.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said Richard Nixon.
And it is Richard Nixon.
72, that's a big one.
APPLAUSE Well done, Johnny and Toby, after one question, you're up 1-0.
This board makes it look like they stopped making poodles after about 1970, doesn't it? B and C were far too big scorers.
That is Elizabeth Taylor, of course, she would have scored you 77.
Always worth taking a risk.
If you had said Maria Callas for A You'd have been right and it would have scored you ten points.
Ah! That must hurt! It must really hurt.
I didn't even know that! And it's the best answer on the board.
It even beats E.
Who is E? Who is 'e? Who is E? Is it David Da David Davis? No, David Who is it? David Hemming? No.
It is not, it is Billy Fury.
Billy Fury! Billy Fury.
So obvious, now.
Would have scored 13 points.
Thank you very much indeed.
OK, here comes your second question.
Trisha and Katie, you get to answer first, but you have to win this one to stay in the game.
Good luck.
Our second question is all about Richard? I'll play you five clips of songs now.
They're all instrumentals.
Can you tell us the artist behind any of these five songs, please? All UK hits.
Thank you very much indeed.
So, who were the artists behind these hits? Here's A.
SOFT JAZZY MUSIC PLAYS Here's B.
UPBEAT FUNKY MUSIC PLAYS Pop Go The Classics, isn't it? Here is C.
WILD WEST STYLE MUSIC PLAYS No, let it play.
Here is D.
SLOW CHILL-OUT MUSIC PLAYS And here is E.
UPBEAT ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS OK.
Here we go.
Trisha and Katie, you will go first.
Right.
OK.
So, Trisha has been pretty amazing on these, actually because I can sing them all, and didn't know any of the names.
Well, you're assuming I've got them right.
So we're going to go E is Axel F.
E - Axel F, say Trisha and Katie.
OK, now, Johnny and Toby, talk us through the rest of those tracks.
Well, A is Dave Brubeck and Take Five.
B, I can't remember who did it, but it's a theme on Beethoven.
It's not Roll Over Beethoven.
I don't know who it's by.
C, we think is The Shadows.
C was The Shadows.
And D D, oh, it's Moonlight something.
So, we'll probably go with A.
Dave Brubeck.
Go A, yeah.
You're going to say A, Dave Brubeck.
So, we have Axel F and Dave Brubeck.
Trisha and Katie, you have gone for Axel F for E.
Let's see if that's right.
Let's see how many of our 100 people said Axel F.
Oh, no! It was Axel's theme, wasn't it? No, it's not Axel F.
That's the track.
That's the track? Now, Johnny and Toby have gone for Dave Brubeck for A.
Let's see if that's right, and let's see how many of our 100 said it.
It only has to be right for you to win the point.
It's right.
Very well done.
Get in there.
Finalists, finalists.
There we go, that's ten.
Very well done indeed.
APPLAUSE That means, Johnny and Toby, after only two questions, you are through to the final, 2-0.
Yeah, that's very unlucky.
You will not be the only people to have said Axel F for that one.
Axel F is the name of the song, named after Axel Foley, Eddie Murphy's character in Beverly Hills Cop.
And it's by Do you remember? Somebody Faltermeyer? Harold Faltermeyer.
Harold Faltermeyer? Scored seven points, so very well done if you said that at home.
B, let's have a tiny listen to it.
So, yeah, this is a disco version of Beethoven's fifth.
But who's it by? It's done by the guy who did the Family Guy theme tune, as well.
Walter Murphy.
It's Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band.
And if you got that, it's a pointless answer.
Nobody knew that.
So terrific work, well done.
C, you were absolutely right, gents.
I'm sure you knew as well, it's The Shadows.
Yep.
Apache, number one hit.
And that would have scored you 44.
And D, the one that everyone recognises It's the Beatles.
It is not the Beatles.
No! No, it's not the Beatles.
Pink Floyd? That is Fleetwood Mac.
Oh, it's Fleetwood Mac? That's Albatross by Fleetwood Mac.
Albatross.
Albatross.
It's Albatross.
And would have scored you 36 points.
Well, there we are.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
The pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round, I'm so sorry, Trisha and Katie, it is you.
We bow to worthy champions.
But you had Maria Callas.
You had it within your grasp.
I know! And we also had Dave Brubeck.
Thank you, Trisha and Katie, so much for playing.
And playing so brilliantly.
Pleasure.
You've been fantastic.
Trisha and Katie.
APPLAUSE But for Johnny and Toby, it is now time for our Pointless final.
Well, congratulations, Johnny and Toby.
You've fought off all the competition and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.
You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot for your charities.
And at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at ã2,750! Well, very, very well done indeed.
There are things you can prepare for, things you can sort of know, and I think you've done very well on the knowledge side of things.
So, very well done.
What do you want to see come up in this last round? I'd like sport.
That's it, really, isn't it? What happens in the final round, then, Toby? Just explain.
Well, you'll see, you'll see.
We're going to put four things up on the board, like this.
I'll read through them, like this.
That has now happened.
You now then agonise over which one of those you want to pick.
Oh, right.
What? I think we either go albums named after years or cheese.
And there might be something so random in cheese it's actually something we know.
I think you're mad.
Fashion all the way.
I mean, look, I'll go fashion if you want to go fashion.
OK, you want to go cheese, don't you? Well Do you want to? Cheese? Cheese.
Let's go for it.
It could be something so ridiculous.
Let's do it.
You're going to go No, no, we're going to What do you think, audience? Cheese or fashion? All those in favour of cheese, say aye? AUDIENCE: Cheese! All those in favour of fashion, say fashion? ONE MAN: Cheese! LAUGHTER Well done.
Brilliant.
I tell you what, I hope someone was taking a photograph when you're all saying cheese, then.
That would have been lovely.
What a beautiful moment.
OK, we're going to go for We've got to be a crowd pleaser.
Cheese, cheese, cheese.
OK? Cheese it is.
Richard? I mean, with respect, I'd have gone for fashion, but there it is.
Fashion, we'll go for fashion.
No, this round really is all about cheese.
We're looking for any of the following, please.
Any cheese, the name of any cheese that has its own entry on the BBC foods ingredients section.
That's essentially the 40 most well-known cheeses there are.
We're looking for any of the top 20 non-EU countries who eats the most cheese.
Those figures from 2016.
Or we're looking for any EU country that has a protected cheese, you know, there are certain things you're only allowed to name after certain places they're made.
OK.
Any EU country that has a protected designation of any cheese.
So, any of those cheeses on the BBC's ingredients section, the 40 most well-known cheeses.
The top 20 non-EU countries who consumed the most cheese in 2016.
Or any EU country that has one of those cheeses that can only be named after where it's made.
Thank you very much indeed.
As always, you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers.
All you need to win that jackpot for your charities is just one of those answers to be pointless.
Are you ready? Yeah, yeah.
Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.
There they are.
Your time started now.
Right, we can just focus on one category or I like the look of those top two.
So I reckon we guess at a couple of countries.
OK, the 20 non-EU countries? Top 20 non-EU countries.
Countries that consumed the most cheese per capita in 2016.
Can we just keep hammering them down? You pick three.
We get a minute to decide and choose three at the end.
Top 20 non-EU countries who consumed the most cheese There's millions of people in Indonesia.
So they must eat some cheese.
But this is top 20 non-EU countries.
Yeah, non-EU.
EU countries that have registered protection designation of origin How are you on your BBC food ingredients section at the top, there? What cheeses do you know? I think we really picked the wrong category.
This is way too cheesy.
Can we do fashion? What are we going to go for? Quickly.
I want to do Indonesia for top 20 non-EU countries.
Why Indonesia? Ten seconds left.
Because there's loads of people there and they must eat cheese.
OK.
Top 20 non-EU countries that consumed the most cheese per capita, we're going to go Peru.
EU countries registered designation We don't have to do one for that.
OK, time is up.
That is your minute up.
OK, let's have three answers.
I don't think we conferred many options there, Johnny.
No, we didn't.
You said Peru, I like Peru.
OK, so, we're going to go for Peru as an answer for the middle one? Yes.
OK.
Indonesia.
Indonesia, that's now official.
Go with cheese with their own entry on BBC foods ingredients section.
Cornish Yarg is a cheese.
Is it? Yeah.
OK, we'll go with that then.
You want to go with Cornish Yarg? We want to go with Cornish Yarg.
There we are.
We've got Peru, Indonesia and Cornish Yarg.
We're looking good! There's a pointless answer in there.
Of those three answers, which is your best shot at a pointless answer? Which is your best shot? What do YOU think? It's not me.
What do we think is a nice, obscure? I think Cornish Yarg is so stupid, let's get that out of the way.
Let's put Cornish Yarg last.
I hope this is pointless now.
Yeah.
We'll go with Peru first.
Peru first, then we'll put Indonesia in the middle, Cornish Yarg at the end.
Lovely.
Let's put those answers up on the board in that order.
And here they are.
We've got Peru, we've got Indonesia, and we've got Cornish Yarg.
Listen, why not? Any of these could be a pointless answer.
And why? And could win that jackpot for your nominated charities.
Johnny, what charity are you playing for? We're playing for Global's Make Some Noise, which is the in-house charity at Radio X and everyone at Global.
It's for all those people that run small charities that don't get a chance to get heard.
So we've got a national platform so that we can earn money for all those charities.
Literally, sometimes it's just a woman running it from her kitchen, it really is hands-on and it's a great charity.
We do some good stuff.
Very good indeed.
Toby, you are the same? Yeah, playing for Global's Make Some Noise as well.
Very good indeed.
APPLAUSE Well, after that, we've just got to hope Peru, Indonesia and Cornish Yarg are going to do it for them.
Three good answers on the board.
Let's hope.
I mean, listen, why not? Any of these could be pointless.
We just have to find out.
Peru was the answer you thought was probably your least likely to be pointless.
But we're looking for non-EU countries who consumed the most cheese per capita in 2016.
If this is pointless, it wins ã2,750 for your charity.
How many people said Peru? No, bad luck! Bad luck.
What does that mean, no-one said Peru? It's an incorrect answer, I'm afraid.
OK, well, your next was Indonesia.
Again, we are looking for the top 20 non-EU countries who consumed the most cheese per capita in 2016.
If nobody said Indonesia and it's right, your charity will be the richer by ã2,750.
Come on! How many people said Indonesia? Is it right? Oh, no.
Bad luck.
Bad luck.
We're putting it all on the Yarg.
Cornish Yarg! It's all on the Yarg.
Putting it on the Yarg.
We are looking for cheeses with their own entry on the BBC foods ingredients section.
Cornish Yarg is your answer.
It has to be pointless for you to win.
If it does win, your charity wins ã2,750.
Is Cornish Yarg right? How may people said it? Go on, Tobes.
Oh, no! APPLAUSE I tell you what, that was one of the most entertaining finals we've had.
Didn't I tell you we shouldn't have gone for cheese? So many things I've never seen happen on Pointless before happening this evening.
I'm afraid you didn't manage to find that all-important pointless answer.
You don't win today's jackpot.
We didn't get an answer.
That's true.
But as it's a celebrity special, we're going to donate ã500 to each celebrity pair for their charities, so there you are.
You have been absolutely fabulous.
Johnny and Toby, brilliant performance across the show.
And you both get to take home a Pointless trophy each.
So, very well done indeed.
Johnny and Toby, everyone.
Thank you very much.
APPLAUSE I'll take you through the pointless answers now.
That top category was the one where most of the answers come from.
Cornish Yarg was unlucky, actually.
I'm surprised it wasn't up there.
But here are some cheeses that were.
All of these were pointless answers and would have won you the money.
Danish blue, dolcelatte, quark, Taleggio, Fontina, Vacherin.
All of those were pointless answers.
Well done if you said any of those.
Now, guesswork really for these bottom two, to be honest.
Peru and Indonesia, just as good as any of the answers I'm going to show you now.
Thanks, Richard.
The top 20 non-EU countries, Iceland, Iran, South Korea, Turkey, Belarus, Egypt, Israel and Uruguay also pointless answers on that list.
Well done if you said any of those.
Now, the countries which have their own designated cheeses from the EU - Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Czechia, or the Czech Republic.
Very well done if you said any of those at home.
And unlucky in the studio.
But I have to say, three wrong answers, but very entertaining.
Thank you very much indeed, Richard.
And thanks once again to Johnny and Toby.
Fabulous having you here.
Johnny and Toby.
APPLAUSE Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.
Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.
Goodbye.
And it's goodbye from me.
Goodbye.
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