- Genre
- Comedy
- Broadcast
- 1979 - 2021
- Channels
- BBC One, ITV
- Episodes
- 290 (18 series), plus 8 unaired episodes
- Starring
- Terry Wogan, Les Dawson, Paul O'Grady and Bradley Walsh
- Director
- Richard Valentine
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A comedy panel-cum-game show in which public contestants pick celebrity players to guess the missing word from a common phrase, with the hope their choice makes a point-winning combination.
- Production companies
- Also known as
- Lily Savage's Blankety Blank (Other official name)
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Thursday 18th January 1979 on BBC One at 7:55pm
- Last new broadcast
- Friday 25th December 2020 on BBC One at 7pm
- Upcoming repeats
- Series 18 Episode 1: Friday 8th October at 12:05am on BBC1
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