The last show of this run, and it only seems like five days since it started. Which is no surprise, since it is just five days since it started. After the 'crib sheet' nonsense, you can't help wondering whether there will ever be another one. I hope so.
First up was Phil "Park Life" Daniels answering on Chelsea FC in the 1970s. An interesting decade for Chelsea. They began it with an FA Cup win in a replay against Leeds, and then won hardly anything else for the rest of the decade. Still they had some great and larger than life players during the time, hence questions on Chopper Harris, Peter Osgood and Alan Hudson to name 3. A damn good round which saw our boy only falter on the very last question of all, to gain 16 and no passes.
Rick Wakeman came next. Now Rick is a good old London Borough of Ealing boy , like myself. I also loved Richmal Crompton's Just William stories, which was Rick's specialist subject, so I will admit that I was rooting for him. Alas, the old prog rocker managed 10 which left him pretty much out of contention even at this early stage.
The start of Ian Lavender's round provided the finest comic moment of the series. When asked " Your name ? " Rick Wakeman shouted from the sidelines "Don't tell him, Pike !" Well, it made me laugh. It made Ian Lavender laugh a bit as well, and it did mean that he was a couple of questions into his round on Buster Keaton before he really settled to his task. 9 was actually a pretty decent score if you listened to his rather complicated and involved questions, but it meant that he was out of the running as well.
Tim Vine brought the first round to a finish, answering on Elvis Presley. Considering that he dropped 2 absolute sitters, when failing to answer 'Colonel Tom Parker' and 'Gracelands' to a couple of gimmes, he produced a very good quickfire round to score 15 and 1 pass, thus ensuring that we had a real contest in the GK rounds.
Ian Lavender became the first, and in fact only contender in this series to score more on GK than he did on his specialist round. His 12 and 2 passes took him past 20, and when we look at the results for the whole series, this is enough to give him middle of the table respectability. He finished on 21. Rick Wakeman, despite the support and encouragement emanating from my armchair, could only add 7 to his total for 17. Tim Vine rose to John Humphrys' challenge, and told about 10 jokes of varied quality in 30 seconds. Then he rose to the challenge of the GK round, and scored 13, to set the target for Phil Daniels on 28. After telling us that he has recently come to terms for being chiefly remembered for his role in "Quadrophenia", Mr. Daniels poo-poohed his chances, saying that he only knows about sport. Well, by the standards of this series at least he acquitted himself reasonably, scoring 8, but he never looked likely to overhaul Tim Vine.
Tonight's pass total was even lower than last night's with 13 only for the whole show.
The Details
| Phil Daniels | Chelsea FC in the 70s | 16 - 0 / | 8 - 3 / | 24 - 3 |
| Rick Wakeman | Just William Books | 10 - 2 / | 7 - 5 / | 17 - 7 |
| Ian Lavender | Buster Keaton Films | 9 - 0 / | 12 - 2 / | 21 - 2 |
| Tim Vine | Elvis Presley | 15 - 1 / | 13 - 0 / | 28 -1 |
Well, that's it then. With regards to the series as a whole : -
Highest overall total for the series was Philippa Gregory with 30
Highest Specialist total for the series were: -
David Harewood with 17 and 1 pass on Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy.
Sally Lindsay with 17 and no passes on the Carry On Films.
Highest General Knowledge total for the series was Philippa Gregory with 14.
Lowest overall total for the series was David Lammy with 13 and 6 passes.
Lowest Specialist total for the series was also David Lammy, with 8 points and 1 pass on The Life and Career of Muhammed Ali.
Lowest General Knowledge total for the series were : -
Toyah Wilcox
Rav Wilding
Bob Harris - all of whom scored 4 correct answers and 5 passes.
Highest Number of passes for the series was Andrew Neil with 11.
Aggregate totals - Episodes
Total Points scored -
Episode 1 - 75
Episode 2 - 93
Episode 3 - 76
Episode 4 - 83
Episode 5 - 90
Total Specialist points
Episode 1 - 47
Episode 2 - 56
Episode 3 - 53
Episode 4 - 53
Episode 5 - 50
Total General Knowledge points
Episode 1 - 28
Episode 2 - 37
Episode 3 - 23
Episode 4 - 30
Episode 5 - 40
Total Passes
Episode 1 - 22
Episode 2 - 19
Episode 3 - 34
Episode 4 - 19
Episode 5 - 13
So, looking at the above, its a toss up between episodes 2 and 5 for the best in the series, with episodes 1 and 3 being notably weaker than the others. For the record, here are the full individual results.
The Whole Series - Results
* NB Winners of individual shows are italicised and underlined
| Phillippa Gregory | 16 - 0 / | 14 - 2 / | 30 - 2 |
| Tim Vine | 15 - 1 / | 13 - 0 / | 28 - 1 |
| Sally Lindsay | 17 - 0 / | 10 - 3 / | 27 - 3 |
| Mark Chapman | 13 - 0 / | 12 - 2 / | 25 - 2 |
| Dave Myers | 12 -1 / | 12 - 1 / | 24 - 2 |
| Phil Daniels | 16 - 0 / | 8 - 3 | 24 - 3 |
| David Harewood | 17 - 1 / | 7 - 5 / | 24 - 6 |
| Jon Culshaw | 16 - 3 / | 7 - 6 / | 23 - 9 |
| Mel Smith | 16 - 0 / | 6 - 4 / | 22 - 4 |
| John Sessions | 15 - 0 / | 7 - 7 / | 22 - 7 |
| Ian Lavender | 9 - 0 / | 12 - 2 / | 21 - 2 |
| Andrew Neil | 14 - 3 / | 6 - 8 / | 20 - 11 |
| Summer Strallen | 11 - 2 / | 7 - 1 / | 18 - 3 |
| Louise Minchin | 12 - 1 / | 6 - 8 / | 18 -9 |
| Rick Wakeman | 10 - 2 / | 7 - 5 / | 17 - 7 |
| Bob Harris | 12 - 2 / | 4 - 5 / | 16 - 7 |
| Mick Hucknall | 9 - 4 / | 7 - 5 / | 16 - 9 |
| Rav Wilding | 11 - 1 / | 4 - 5 / | 15 - 6 |
| Toyah Wilcox | 10 - 3 / | 4 - 5 / | 14 - 8 / |
| David Lammy | 8 - 1 / | 5 - 5 / | 13 - 6 |
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