Many familiar faces - Roy Kinnear, Jim Davidson, Adrienne Posta, Suzanne Dando - are back for this version. It's playing almost constantly in my head, which has kept me buoyant through work days and chores, until I can get my next fix. I certainly used to enjoy him in GUAC back in 1988 when these episodes were first airing, and so I was looking forward to his era very much. Many of my favourite moments in the 1988 series have come from simply watching Lionel leaning back in his chair and cackling at something. Given the volume of episodes on offer, I think it is justified there aren’t any special features in this set.

I can't help imagine her breathlessly racing in at the last minute, her appearance tightly sandwiched between filming the latest episodes of Three Of A Kind and A Kick Up The Eighties.

Anna Dawson apparently had no idea what a “syllable” is (she thought “Apocalypse” had ten of them, presumably thinking a syllable is a letter). When I was young, I always thought of Lionel as a bit bland and safe, but he's currently one of my favourite things about the series. According to Blair, the idea was ditched after a bloke mimed his own name rather than the title he’d been given!

The teams members were connected so there was a Carry On Team (from memory Barbara Winsor, Bernard Breslaw and Kenneth Williams, Are You Being Served Team (Molly Sugden, John Inman and Trevor Bannister), a Play Away team etc. Best of all is the wonderful moment where Ian Ogilvy falls off his chair laughing at Roy's two-fingered gesture immediately followed by signalling something very small. Being an upbeat show of a certain vintage, featuring “real” personalities, there are occasionally attitudes and language that reflect the time.The more modern BBC re-make with Tim Clark tried to introduce a lateral thinking puzzle (which he could "give clues to") but it didn't really fit in with the rest of the show. Norman Vaughan stood in for Blair for four episodes in the second series and Joyce Blair stood in for Stubbs for the 1981 Royal Wedding special. The eight episodes that are not in the collection had appearances of three celebrities with sexual abuse offences that were investigated in Operation Yewtree. You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site.