Before she was hosting the QI, and even before she was hosting The News Quiz, Sandi Toksvig had another quiz on the TV, in the form of The Sandwich Quiz.
How many of the contestants did you recognise?
No. 73 ran for 8 series on ITV, on Saturday mornings between 1982 and 1988. I don’t know how much of it I ever actually watched, but the theme tune has stuck with me ever since.
For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s […]
Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first […]
