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Four special/exta shows with different chairs?

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Clitheroe KidJan 11, 2013

You've misunderstood, texywolf.

You are perhaps thinking that, because _we_ use the expression 'regular foursome' in connection with Clement, Kenneth, Derek and Peter, that any reference by Nicholas to 'regulars' must also mean that foursome. But that ain't necessarily so.

In the beginning, the regulars were Clement, Kenneth and Andre. And when Nicholas speaks of 'the regulars' - in the anecdote you're quoting - he means those three, who, for one entire series early in the programme's history, were in every show. Those three did each substitute for Old Nick, as chairman, as Emile points out. But they weren't as good, in chairing the game, as they were as panellists. So in the end those experiments were stopped - the players had found out, by trying it, that being chairman was harder than it looked.

Basically, they were all rubbish at it, and it showed how good a chairman Nick really was. Despite the oft expressed humorous jibes, implying that it was a job anyone could do, they had found to their surprise that it actually wasn't.

In 1977, Ian Messiter subbed for Nicholas so that Nick could appear as a panellist, in an emergency, when bad weather prevented one of the contracted panellists from reaching the studio in time for the recording. Clement was trapped in Suffolk by a snowstorm, IIRC, and couldn't appear. But this was not an instance of trying out a new chairman, as on the earlier occasions, it was just purely an emergency.

> To: just-a-minute@...
> From: mochrie99@...
> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:58:58 +0000
> Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: Four special/exta shows with different chairs?
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> Apart from the three eps in series 2 where the chairperson rotated through three episodes, there have been 6 other occasions where Nicholas played as panelist and one of the other panelists became chairman. However, neither Peter nor Derek has ever appeared as chairman.
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> Of these 6 episodes, 2 were chaired by Kenneth (in 1970 and 1983), 2 by Clement(in 1970 and 1983), once by Andre Melly (in 1972) and once by Ian Messiter (in 1977).
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> Obviously, Nicholas is mis-remembering things, or they were never broadcast. Who knows, really?
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> EmileJ
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> --- In just-a-minute@..., "texywolf" wrote:
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> > Early in an interview with Ed Doolan, Nicholas Parsons mentions that there were four special / extra episodes a number of years ago, where each of the four regulars (KW, PJ, DN and CF) chaired an episode and NP was one of the contestants.
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> > I'm aware of a few very early episodes where NP did not chair (where CF, KW and Geraldine J chaired), but I cannot find any episodes where PJ and DN chaired ... ?
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