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Re: Various JAM questions....

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Dean BedfordNov 28, 2007
 

 
On Thursday, November 29, 2007, at 02:01 AM, stevenwickham wrote:

> Now... some questions I have been pondering over lately...
>
> Was Barbara Blake the only black contestant to have appeared on the
> show?

Adding to Emile's comment, Craig Charles appeared on the TV versions if
we include those. But yeah it's an omission isn't it. We've had no Asian
people either. Maybe the current producer will remedy this as she is,
I'm assuming, of Indian descent.

>
> In series 2 when there were just 3 panellists and a chairperson - how
> was the stage laid out? When there are 4 panellists it is Nick in the
> middle and 2 players either side... but did they have a desk with 3
> players and Nick facing or what??!!!!

I don't know for certain, but on the TV pilot that included three
panellists, they had them seated in a row at an angle to Nicholas and
ian Messiter. Which would make sense to me rather than having two on one
side and one on the other.

>
>
> Whatever happened to Aimi McDonald? (I have said on a previous post
> that I cannot bear her squeaky, giggling, coy performance that always
> left Nick drooling and favouring her at the expense of the game and
> usually to the other players annoyance.)

She's still active on the stage. This is her CV at her agent's web site
http://www.maddengroup.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/bar/details/aimimcd.htm. A
friend wrote to her three or four years ago and she said she'd love to
do JAM again "but you have to be asked". Her favourites to work with
were Kenneth and Peter Jones.

>
> Which guests appearnces do you think didn't work? For me it would be
> Fenella Fielding and Joan Turner for the women and Warren Mitchell,
> and surprisingly Willie Rushton for the men.

John Baddeley (1984), Lucy Bartlett (1968-9), Ian Carmichael (1973),
Alun Cochrane (2007), John Fortune (1994), Annabel Giles (2000), Gerry
Kelly (1998), Jacqueline MacKenzie (1970), Owen O'Neill (2005-6), Kate
Robbins (2006), Simon Williams (2000), Gary Wilmot (1999), Toni Arthur
(1985), Carol Binstead (1967), Barbara Blake (1968), Rhod Gilbert
(2005), Deanne Hart (1970), Carolyn Marshall (1995)

 
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