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Season 1
In the red corner, a team of people with unusual, eccentric or simply revolting hobbies.
In the blue corner, this week's detective panel: Tara Redmond
Catherine Elcombe Darren Traynor
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In the red corner, a team of people with unusual, eccentric or simply revolting hobbies.
In the blue corner, this week's detective panel: Tara Redmond
Catherine Elcombe Darren Traynor Stephen Mullen
Will each hobby be revealed before the end of the round? Will the panel be defeated? Will anyone really care as long as it's fun?
Johnny Ball introduces some more young people with unusual hobbies to this week's panel:
Catherine Elcombe Tara Redmond
Stephen Mullen and Darren Traynor
Etymologists may care to note
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Johnny Ball introduces some more young people with unusual hobbies to this week's panel:
Catherine Elcombe Tara Redmond
Stephen Mullen and Darren Traynor
Etymologists may care to note that this programme does not feature any argyrothecologists, dendrochronologists or acarologists, but should be of considerable interest to eaologists and morologists!
Darren Traynor Anna Kipling
Marshall Coleman and Tara Redmond attempt to work out the hobbies of this week's contestants, while Johnny tries to mislead them.
Darren Traynor Anna Kipling
Marshall Coleman and Tara Redmond attempt to work out the hobbies of this week's contestants, while Johnny tries to mislead them.
Johnny Ball chairs another round of 'find the hobby'. Can Johnny and the contestants make the clues and mimes obscure enough to confuse
Tara Redmond
Marshall Coleman Anna Kipling and
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Johnny Ball chairs another round of 'find the hobby'. Can Johnny and the contestants make the clues and mimes obscure enough to confuse
Tara Redmond
Marshall Coleman Anna Kipling and Darren Traynor or will the team solve each puzzle after less than ten nos?
First broadcast: Fri 12th Apr 1985, 16:40 on BBC One London
Johnny Ball introduces more obscure hobbies to this week's panel. Anna Kipling
Julie-Ann Steel
Valentine Nonyela and
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First broadcast: Fri 12th Apr 1985, 16:40 on BBC One London
Johnny Ball introduces more obscure hobbies to this week's panel. Anna Kipling
Julie-Ann Steel
Valentine Nonyela and Marshall Coleman And there's a special celebrity hobbyist, Roy Castle , who.... well that would be telling! And even if you knew you wouldn't believe it! All will be revealed today!!!
Johnny Ball , BBCl's own obscurantist pentadactyl, impartially tries to defeat the panel by introducing a cannoneer, a lapidarist, a near-cleidologist and even a yukky-gateauphile. Can
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Johnny Ball , BBCl's own obscurantist pentadactyl, impartially tries to defeat the panel by introducing a cannoneer, a lapidarist, a near-cleidologist and even a yukky-gateauphile. Can Anna Kipling Julie-Ann Steel
Valentine Nonyela and Marshall Coleman link hobby with hobbyist in less than ten 'nos'? And who will be the victim of this week's secret word?
There's a semi-ornithological connection between each of this week's hobbies.
Can the panel wing its way to victory? Julie-Ann Steel Alison Bettles
Stephen Mullen Darren Traynor try to
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There's a semi-ornithological connection between each of this week's hobbies.
Can the panel wing its way to victory? Julie-Ann Steel Alison Bettles
Stephen Mullen Darren Traynor try to guess the hobby while Lindsey Firth
Daniel Titcomb Alison Dynes and guest star
Duncan Goodhew try to score as many 'nos' as possible.
Johnny Ball referees another contest between the panel Julie-Ann Steel Alison Bettles
Darren Traynor and Stephen Mullen and this week's hobbyists.
Which one hopes to become a knight at
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Johnny Ball referees another contest between the panel Julie-Ann Steel Alison Bettles
Darren Traynor and Stephen Mullen and this week's hobbyists.
Which one hopes to become a knight at the age of 16? Why will another one have to wash his shirt after the recording? And why does
Sarah Greene spend her time watching the world (or some of it) go by? All will be revealed in today's Secrets Out!!!
First broadcast: Fri 10th May 1985, 16:35 on BBC One London
Chairman Johnny Ball
A duel to the death (or until someone loses!) between the panel
Catherine Elcombe Alison
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First broadcast: Fri 10th May 1985, 16:35 on BBC One London
Chairman Johnny Ball
A duel to the death (or until someone loses!) between the panel
Catherine Elcombe Alison Bettles
Stephen Mullen and Darren Traynor and this week's hobbyists.
Can you make heads for tails of these cryptic clues?
-quitecleartostart.cloudy later
-all plain sailing in the end - gives him a kick in his goodgear
- one foot above another
First broadcast: Fri 17th May 1985, 16:35 on BBC One London
Johnny Ball presides over the last game in this series in which:
Trefor Roberts sees the light; Joanne Lloyd ties herself
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First broadcast: Fri 17th May 1985, 16:35 on BBC One London
Johnny Ball presides over the last game in this series in which:
Trefor Roberts sees the light; Joanne Lloyd ties herself up in knots; Timothy Perkins pulls a few strings; but Mark Curry is a little bored!
Can Catherine Elcombe , Alison Bettles ,
Stephen Mullen and Darren Traynor sort all this out?
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