Sci-Fi and Fantasy Pointless Celebrities

Thank you very much indeed.

Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and a

very warm welcome to

this special sci-fi and fantasy

edition of Pointless Celebrities,

the show where the aim of the game

is to avoid the obvious and find the

obscure.

Let's meet today's Pointless

Celebrities.

And couple number one.

Hi, Alexander,

I'm Hannah Waddingham and I'm

best known for playing

Septa Unella, or the Shame Nun,

in Game Of Thrones.

Hello, I'm Gemma Whelan.

I'm best-known for playing Yara

Greyjoy in Game Of Thrones.

Couple number two.

Hello, there, yes, I'm Jeff Rawle

and I played Amos Diggory

in The Goblet of Fire.

And I'm Chris Rankin and I played

Percy Weasley

in six of the Harry Potter films.

Couple number three.

Hi, I'm David Dixon.

I played Ford Prefect in the

Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

And I am Sandra Dickinson

and I played Trillian in

Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

And I'm related through marriage to

two ex-Doctor Whos.

And, finally, couple number four.

My name's Norman Lovett, I'm a

stand-up comedian,

but I'm best-known for TV's Red

Dwarf, the sitcom,

playing the computer, Holly.

And my name's Hattie Hayridge,

I'm a stand-up comedian,

but I'm best-known for BBC's Red

Dwarf, playing the computer, Holly.

Thanks very much, all of you.

A very warm welcome to Pointless.

Lovely to have you here. We'll get

to chat to each of you throughout

the show as it goes along.

So that just leaves one more person

for me to introduce,

an intergalactic knight of justice,

defender of honour and destroyer of

evil.

And he also makes a lovely apple

crumble.

It's my Pointless friend,

it's Richard.

Hiya! Hello, everybody, good

evening.

Good evening to you, sir.

I know. It's quite exciting, isn't

it?

I know.

We've got Game Of

Thrones, we've got Harry Potter,

we've got Hitchhiker's Guide...

Look, on podium four, Red Dwarf.

We've had three people on from Red

Dwarf.

Craig Charles came on.

Yeah.

Won.

Danny John-Jules came on.

Yep.

Won.

Robert Llewellyn came on.

Won.

And we've got the two

super-computers now,

so it's an impossibility for them to

lose, surely!

No pressure, then!

Do you know, if we'd let it be known

that we had these people here,

think how many hundreds of thousands

of people we could have got together

in a convention, just on their

names alone.

The money we could have made.

Charging for all sorts of things.

I know, I know. Thank you very much

indeed, Richard.

As usual, all of today's questions

have been put to 100 people before

the show.

Our contestants here are looking for

those all-important pointless

answers.

These are answers that none of our

100 people gave.

Find one of those and we will add

250 quid to the jackpot.

Now, as today's show is a celebrity

special and each of our lovely

celebrities here is playing

for a nominated charity,

we are going to start off with

a jackpot of £2,500.

There we are.

Right, if everyone's ready,

let's play Pointless.

So, remember this, everyone.

The pair with the highest score

at the end of each round will be

eliminated.

The pair with the highest scores. So

do everything you can to keep your

scores nice and low. OK, very good.

Best of luck to all four pairs.

Our first category this evening

is...

Famous Characters.

Can you all decide in your pairs

who's going to go first,

who's going to go second?

And whoever's going first, please

step up to the podium.

OK, and the question concerns...

Cops And Robbers.

Oh, my.

Ooh.

Richard.

We are going to give you

seven descriptions now on each board

of famous characters who were either

cops or robbers.

We need you to give us the most

obscure answer you can, please.

Seven on the first board, seven on

the second,

14 in all to have a go at at home.

Good luck.

Thanks very much.

OK, so we are looking for these cops

or robbers

and here is our first board of

seven clues.

I'm going to read those all again.

Hannah. The Joanna Lumley of musical

theatre.

Had you not heard this before?

Yes, well, I've heard it once.

Yes, yes.

I'm going to take that.

That's a nice compliment, isn't it?

No, you have been in a number of,

not just a number of leading roles

in the West End,

AWARD-WINNING leading roles, Hannah,

if you please.

So when something like Game Of

..that's going to take you off stage

for a while.

Yes, and they give you absolutely no

make-up on international television.

That's hard to take.

But that's what you look like!

Horrific! But, um, yeah, when Game

Of Thrones came along, it was so

dramatically different from all the

kind of glam roles I'd played

that I was just chomping at the bit.

And you loved it, from the moment

you read it.

Oh, absolutely. She's revolting!

The character.

It kind of taps into that bit

that you've never previously...

How nice. Well, wonderful.

Now, Hannah, what would you like

to go for on our board of Cops And

Robbers?

Well, thankfully, I know

what a few of them are.

Thank the dear Lord above because my

heart was beating like a

you-know-what.

I'm going to go for...

..the bottom one, Artful Dodger.

Artful Dodger from Dickens' Oliver

Twist.

Let's see how many of our 100 said

Artful Dodger.

It's right.

Thank God.

Look at that. Down it

goes, down it goes to 49.

Oh.

Perfect.

A good start to our round there,

Hannah.

Not bad at all.

Yeah, real name Jack

Dawkins.

It's alluded in the novel that he is

sent to Australia

at the end of the book for thieving.

Ah.

Yeah.

Mm-hm.

His great-great-great-great

grand-daughter...

Was in Home And Away.

..is Kylie

Minogue.

Oh, right!

Thank you very much, Richard. Now,

then, Chris, welcome to Pointless.

Thank you.

You are our first Harry Potter

person on Pointless.

I am honoured.

It's very exciting indeed.

You were 16 when you got the role.

I was.

So were you a fan of the

books?

I was, yes, I was a true Harry

Potter nerd from the moment they

came out.

Really? And how did you hear

about it?

Who told you to audition?

A mate of mine, actually, that I

went to youth theatre with, rang me.

He'd seen it on the BBC

that they were doing it.

He was also ginger, a couple of

years younger than me.

In terms of competitive gingerness,

who out-gingered the other one?

Well, I got the part and he didn't,

so I guess I won.

Ha-ha! And how many rounds of

auditions did you have to do?

Only one. One and a half.

You walked in...

Pretty much.

I reckon there wasn't anyone else

ginger they could find!

Yeah.

OK, but listen, Chris, what would

you like to go for on this board?

I'm going to go for the most

obscure one that I'm surprised I

know the answer to

and then I'm hoping that nobody

else or not as many people did and

I'm going to go with the Tangled one

and go Flynn Rider.

Flynn Rider says Chris.

Sounds like a good answer, I think,

doesn't it?

Let's see how many of our 100 people

said Flynn Rider.

It's right.

Well, you passed 49 which was our

only other score and down you go to

three, if you please. Chris,

I don't think you'll be going

backstage for a while yet, Chris.

Very well done. Three for Flynn

Rider.

Very well played.

What a great start

to your Pointless career.

Yes, when they created the

character, Disney held a "hot man"

meeting,

where everyone had to pitch in who

the hottest man in the world was

and they tried to create a composite

character out of all of them.

I think it's largely based on

Ben Miller, is my understanding.

A very handsome gentleman.

He IS a handsome gentleman.

He is.

Now, David, welcome to Pointless.

Great to have you.

You were Ford Prefect in

the television version of

Hitchhiker's Guide.

Now, the radio version that preceded

it was one of those few phenomena

that actually... I don't think in my

life,

I can't think of another radio

programme that really got everybody

talking.

I deliberately blanked it.

I didn't want to know anything about

it so I came in fresh.

I read the book, obviously.

I loved that. I liked the fact that

it was like the Python humour

and all that sort of stuff

and the Goons.

I liked it and that's why I wanted

to do it.

I mean, Douglas Adams was... He's

sort of revered, I suppose.

Was he around a lot? Was he...

He was around every day.

Was he?

Yeah. He was there all the time.

He was telling us all about the

technology that we now take for

granted.

Yeah.

At the time I didn't know what he

meant when he said...

"We're going to communicate with

anyone, anywhere in the planet,

instantly."

You just thought, "Uh? Oh, wow.

That's amazing."

But that's how it is.

I'm hearing you through a Babel Fish

in my ears as we speak.

So there we are.

David, what about these cops and

robbers?

Would you like to put a name to one?

I don't know any of them apart from,

well,

I think I might go for the planner

of complex casino heists.

It probably won't get

a low score

and I think it's Danny Ocean.

Danny Ocean, says David.

Let's see how many of our 100 people

said Danny Ocean.

It's right.

49's our high score and

you pass it.

Look at that, 14 for Danny Ocean.

Well done.

Well played, David.

That's a terrific answer. Yes, over

the two Ocean's 11 films, which,

one with Sinatra, one with Clooney,

eight different casinos get robbed.

That is, come on, guys...

Mm.

I would beef up security a little

bit.

Yeah.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

Now then, Norman, welcome to

Pointless.

Thank you.

Great to have you here.

Norman, you were Holly originally,

then someone else became Holly,

and then you came back to Holly?

Yes.

Yes.

Are you still - is there going to

be another Red Dwarf?

Yes, they're doing two new series,

11 and 12.

I think the 11th one goes out...

some time.

Some time?

Well, that's good.

You're like a regular

Radio Times, Norman!

And 12 goes out...

Some time after that?

A year later.

Yeah, yeah.

I was talking about conventions

earlier.

Surely Red Dwarf, that must have

conventions for ever.

There's such huge...

Yeah.

Huge fandom.

I did a lot last year

and a lot this year.

And before that I used to do about

two a year

but now it's just gone mad.

They're very popular.

But I like seeing all the costumes.

I enjoy that.

And I'm quite gregarious - I like

talking to people, but

it can wear you out mentally.

I was talking to Hattie earlier

about it, and was saying,

if you're doing Saturday and Sunday,

then on the Monday

I just...have my dressing gown on

all day...

Really? Just exhausted.

..until Pointless comes on at 5:15,

and do nothing, you know,

just to get over it, because it's

very tiring.

But I do enjoy that, I do enjoy it.

Now, Norman, this board is all

yours,

if you want to go through it and

fill in all the blanks for us.

Well, I'd like to apologise now to

Hattie

for how many I'm going to get.

It's going to be hard.

Alter ego of Selina Kyle,

just...we'll see.

I'd have to make up a name.

I don't know what it is.

Folk hero, Robin Hood.

Detective in Life On Mars,

I did watch that but I can't...

ST?

Steve Tompkins?

I don't know, I don't know.

And then the detective played by

Peter Falk, yes, Columbo.

It's a matter of between Columbo and

Robin Hood and I think they are both

going to be pretty high.

I'm going to go for Columbo.

Columbo, says Norman.

Let's see how many of our 100 people

said Columbo.

Move.

It's right.

69 for Columbo.

Great news for podium one.

69 for Columbo.

You made absolutely the right choice

of the two you knew, Norman.

Would have scored lots more for

Robin Hood.

Would have scored you 84.

Oh, good.

So, good decision.

That's helped a bit.

Given Hattie a fighting chance

there.

You do know the top one, I'm sure.

The top one is...

Catwoman.

Catwoman, yeah.

She would have scored 52.

And the final answer, the

detective played by John Sim?

I can't remember what he was called.

It is Steve Tompkins.

It's not really, it's not really!

It's not. It is Sam Tyler.

Sam Tyler. Would have scored you

four points.

So, the best answer on that board is

Flynn Rider, well played.

Very good indeed, Chris.

We're halfway through the round.

Let's take a quick look at those

scores.

Three, the best score of that pass.

Well done. Jeff, looking

very strong.

14, not bad either.

David and Sandra, well done.

49 is where we find Hannah and

Gemma.

And then 69 is where Norman and

Hattie are.

You're not that far ahead, Hattie.

But a nice low score from you.

Good luck with that. We are going to

come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step

up to the podium?

OK, well, let's put seven more clues

up on the board

and here they all are.

We have got these cops and

robbers...

I'm going to read those all again.

Hattie, welcome to Pointless.

Lovely to have you here.

Thank you.

So, when you went up for Holly,

you knew that Norman had just

vacated the role.

What were you... What were you

expecting?

We'd both been in the last episode

of series two.

You were Hilly, weren't you?

Yeah.

You were sort of... You were

the parallel universe version.

We fell madly in love.

Aw!

And then, um,

Norman had a sex change.

That's right.

And Hattie, are you...

Are you doing stand-up, still?

Yeah.

Do you still...

Are you touring?

Yeah, on a

going-there-and-coming-back

sort of basis. Not touring with the

big poster.

No.

But going there and coming back.

And coming back. I know exactly what

you mean.

Not considered touring, but...

Doesn't Hattie's dress match the

fuchsia colouring of the studio?

Well, I took this into account.

I'm a regular fan of this.

So I took it into account.

I like the way you've chosen a

colour that goes with Round One,

Hattie.

Yes.

Because we're definitely in Round

One.

Yeah. You are.

I tell you what, you are our

high-scorers at the moment.

Yeah.

So you know what we need from

you at this stage.

Yeah.

Erm...

I'm going to go with Helen Mirren,

Jane Tennison.

Jane Tennison, says Hattie.

I hope.

There's going to be no

red line for you, I'm afraid,

because you are the high-scorers.

But let's see how far down the

column we can with Jane Tennison.

It's right.

Look at that. 25 for Jane Tennison.

Very well done indeed,

taking your total up to 94.

Well played, Hattie.

Yeah, in the series created

by Lynda La Plante.

Thank you very much, Richard.

Sandra...

Yes.

Welcome to Pointless.

Thank you.

Trillian, you were.

Yes.

Trillian you were in

Hitchhiker's Guide.

I've had a lot to do with sci-fi

over the years.

Haven't you?

I have.

Talk to us about the Doctor Whos.

Well, one of them is no longer by

marriage

but it was lovely while it

lasted.

And the other one is father

to all my grandchildren.

My daughter is a time lady.

Is a time lady, and she's married

to David Tennant.

Yes.

Yes. So I'm well connected in the

sci-fi world.

You REALLY are.

And I was also in

the Tomorrow People.

And Superman III. And Supergirl.

And it probably has something to do

with my voice.

But maybe not, I don't know.

It's a lovely voice.

Thank you.

Sandra, how are you

feeling about our board?

Such a good answer from David in the

first pass.

You are in very, very...

I know. I know the answer to four.

One of them's gone.

I'm going to go for the last one.

The P is for Parker.

The P is for Parker.

OK. You're in the new version.

I play Grandma Tracy in the new

series.

So you do.

With a deeper voice.

Wonderful. There is your red line,

Sandra.

If you can get below that red line,

you are through to the next round.

Let's see how many of our 100 people

said Parker.

It IS Parker. You are through.

52 for Parker.

Very, very well done indeed.

That takes your total up to 66.

Yes, his full name is Aloysius

Parker.

It's never occurred to me the joke,

that he's a chauffeur called Parker.

I never worked that out.

That must be deliberate, right?

Surely.

Yeah. Thank you, Richard.

And thank you.

Pleasure.

Now, Jeff...

Hello.

Welcome.

Thank you.

I mean, well, Drop The Dead Donkey

is probably the most notable

television role you have

had to date.

Yes, I would say so.

Yes.

But Harry Potter and... It was

Goblet Of Fire you were in.

That's right. Yes, I played...

So when you are doing something

massive like Harry Potter,

which is just a huge, huge thing,

do you have any sort of great big

company meetings?

Do you have, like, a read-through

where everybody is there?

Yes, we did. We had about 500 people

around a table and big microphones.

They recorded the whole thing...

Wow!

..so that the animators could

use it at a later date.

Because they couldn't see the real

footage that was about to be shot

but they had an idea of what it was

going to look like.

Where were all your scenes?

I was in the big arena.

Famously, this scene where my son

died, Cedric Diggory died,

it was the first time that anybody

had died on Harry Potter.

And whatever happened to that actor

as well?

I know.

You know, he never sends flowers.

You know, he just... Yeah.

Now, Jeff, you're on three.

Our high-scorers are still Hattie

and Norman on 94.

90 or less gets you through.

It's basically a correct answer.

Well, I'm going to go for, um...

..Telly Savalas, who played Kojak.

Kojak, says Jeff.

Well, here is your red line.

You don't have to go very far to

cross it.

Let's see how many of our 100 people

said Kojak.

It's right and you're through.

Very well done indeed.

Down to 72. Good enough.

75 is your total.

Theo Kojak. I was in the last

ever scene of Drop The Dead Donkey.

Because the writer, Guy Jenkin,

who is a lovely fellow but he's also

very tall,

the final scene is two people

carrying out a table.

And he essentially just wanted

someone in the office who was as

tall as him.

That's right.

So I get to carry it out with him.

Thank you very much, Richard.

Gemma.

Hello.

Welcome to Pointless.

Thank you.

Great to have you.

Now, when YOU were filming Game Of

Thrones did you have any idea

at all of what a phenomenon it was

going to be?

Not a clue, no.

I joined in season two.

I knew it had been sort of popular

but only in America.

Yeah, it was terrifying.

I watched all of season one pretty

much back-to-back.

So that was before you were in it?

Yeah, I got the audition and I

thought,

I'd better have a look at what it's

about.

I was just thinking I'd watch a

little bit and I watched the whole

lot.

Very good. Excellent.

There you are on 49.

We have a game on our hands here.

We can't put this off any longer.

94 is the highest score on the far

podium there.

You have to score 44 or less.

44 or less, Gemma.

Talk us through this board.

I have an inkling about the top.

But I don't know.

Er...

I think I will go with the top one.

Javert.

Javert...

..says Gemma.

I think.

You're getting half a nod from

David.

Am I?

I think that's good.

Thank you, D, thanks very much!

It's a nervous tic. I'll take it.

Let's have a tick here.

That is

where you have to get below.

That is where you have to get below

with Javert.

Not that this means a lot to us at

all.

No, no.

Let's see how many of

our 100 people said Javert.

It's right.

You've done it! You've easily done

it.

Oh!

Good work, old bean! Good work.

61. 61 is your total.

Very well played,

Gemma. It's a great answer.

Shall we fill in the rest of this

board?

The best answer is the second

answer, the jewel thief, who is

Flambeau.

Very well done. Would have

scored you three points.

Played by Sylvester Stallone in a

series of movies.

Sorry, that was Rambo. I'm so sorry!

The tough inspector played by Clint

Eastwood?

Harry Callahan.

Harry Callahan, yeah.

That would have scored 22.

The bumbling lieutenant?

Frank Drebin.

Frank Drebin, correct.

That would have scored ten points.

There we are. Thank you very much

indeed.

At the end of our first round, we

have to say goodbye,

and the pair we say goodbye

to is Hattie and Norman.

I'm so sorry. 94.

It's not a bad score by any means.

You aren't that far ahead of the

game, but I'm afraid you are...

It is our combined IQ anyway.

It's been lovely having you on.

Thank you so much.

Thank you!

Holly one, Holly

two and Holly three.

Thanks so much. Hattie and Norman.

Thank you!

For the remaining three

pairs it's now time for Round Two.

And look - we are down to three

pairs.

It's just happened like that.

Down to three pairs.

At the end of this round another

pair will just be gone.

I know. It's awful, really.

Best of luck to all three pairs for

Round Two.

Our category for it this evening

is...

Words.

It's a Words round.

Can you decide in your pairs,

who's going to go first,

who's going to go second?

And whoever's going first, please

step up to the podium.

OK, let's find out what the question

is. Here it comes.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to

name as many...

..as they could. Words ending in

"...ach". Richard.

Yes, we're looking for any word

which has its own entry in the

British and World English section of

Oxforddictionaries.com

that ends "...ach", please.

So any word in the dictionary which

ends "...ach".

As always, no hyphenated words and

no proper nouns.

The very best of luck.

Thank you very much indeed.

Always tough going first.

Now, Gemma.

What would you like to go for?

Encroach?

AUDIENCE MEMBERS:

Ooh!

Exactly. Exactly! You hear what that

is?

That doesn't happen every day,

Gemma.

That is exciting.

Let's see how many of our 100 people

said encroach.

It's an answer, at least.

Pointless.

It's a good answer.

Look at that.

Down to two, Gemma, what about that?

What about that?!

Wow.

Two for encroach.

Do you know what, they are not like

that on Game Of Thrones, those two,

are they?

I have to say it is a terrific

answer, yeah.

To invade, to go into someone

else's territory, to encroach.

What about that? What about that?!

No pressure on you, Jeff.

No. I'll look a fool, now.

I'm going to go for...broach.

Broach, says Jeff.

Let's see how many of our 100 people

said broach.

It's right.

Ten for broach.

Very nicely done, Jeff. Obviously to

raise a difficult issue

rather than

a piece of jewellery.

Yes.

That's spelled differently.

Different spelling, yes. Thank you.

David, what would you like to go

for?

I think I'm going to nick that one.

I think I'm going to go for coach.

Coach, says David.

Let's see how many of our 100 people

said coach.

Oh, my word!

17 for coach.

Yes, coach, as in coach. It can mean

a number of things.

Got it.

To coach can mean to train, which is

weird, when you think about it.

Because coach and trains are

different things

but TO coach and TO train are the

same thing.

So what's that all about?

What is that all about?

Do you know what I mean?

It's a

beautiful world, ours, isn't it?

Well, I don't know. I think somebody

at the dictionary should

get their act together because that

is confusing.

Thank you very much, Richard.

Thank you.

We're halfway through the round.

Better have a look at those scores.

Two, Gemma.

Hmph! Just brilliant,

just brilliant.

Ten is Jeff and Chris.

17 is David and Sandra.

I mean, they're all very close,

score-wise,

but, Sandra, you are ahead,

so we just have to address that.

Best of luck with that. We're going

to come back down the line now.

Could the second players please

step up to the podium?

So, Sandra, we are looking for words

ending A-C-H.

Oh, you're still looking for

those? Oh, OK.

OK, cockroach.

Cockroach, says Sandra.

No red line for you because you're

the highest scorers,

but let's see how many of our 100

people said cockroach.

Five for cockroach,

takes your total up to 22.

That's a terrific answer,

Sandra, very well played.

Yes, cockroach. A cockroach can

survive without its head for over a

week.

So annoying. That's just...

And they can freeze and...

Oh, yeah, they can do all sorts of

things. They do, yeah.

Can't play the violin, though,

that's the one thing,

that's the one thing.

Thank you. Now, Chris.

Yeah.

What would you like?

You're on ten. The high score is 22.

11 is your target.

11.

I'm going to play it slightly

safe and go preach.

Preach. Here is your red line.

If you get below this red line

with preach you're through to the

next round.

How many people said preach?

Come on, come on, come on, come on,

come on!

Oh, 14 for preach.

Takes your total up to 24.

It's not a bad answer.

Yeah. Preach.

It's a vicar's favourite fruit.

Thank you very much indeed.

Hannah.

Hello.

You're on two, which

means if you can score 19 or less,

you're home and dry.

I'm going to say breach.

There is your red line. Get below

that red line and you are through.

Let's see how many of our 100 people

said breach.

Oooh!

22! Oh, this is exciting.

This is exciting. It means...

That takes you to 24.

You are on 24.

What now?

We have a lockdown

scenario.

The tied pairs now have to give me

one more answer each.

You're allowed to confer for this.

Oh, good.

You can confer.

Yeah.

OK, Hannah and Gemma, what are

you going to say?

BOTH:

Stomach.

OK, Chris and Jeff, what are you

going to say?

Impeach.

Impeach.

Stomach and impeach.

Hannah and Gemma...

I don't actually

want to watch.

We're going to do stomach first.

Let's see how many of our 100 people

said stomach.

This is stomach. Down it goes.

Still going down.

OK.

Oh.

That's cool. Saying that.

Taking your total up to 46.

46.

Now then, Chris and Jeff have gone

for impeach.

Ideally, you would score 21 or less

with this.

That is your red line.

Impeach, let's see if it's right,

let's see how many of our 100 people

said it.

It's right.

Oh, God.

You've done it.

Yes!

Six.

Yes!

Six takes your total up to 30.

Very well played. I'll give you a

couple of answers

that could've beaten six points that

would've seen you through.

You could have had

overreach for four.

Detach for four.

Approach for four.

Something else you'd have in your

stomach.

Spinach. That would have scored you

four points.

Outreach for three.

For one point, stagecoach.

That would have been a nice one.

Let's take a look at the pointless

answers now. There's quite a few of

them.

The first three are all from Gaelic.

There's bealach, which is a mountain

pass.

A clarsach, which is a harp.

And a currach, which is a...

You're a coracle.

Thank

you, you're a clarsach!

Very kind. Let's take a look at a

couple more.

People would have got one of these.

Reproach, a pointless answer,

reteach, and slowcoach.

How about that for a pointless

answer?

That's good.

That'd be a nice one.

Let's take a look at the top three

scorers, the ones that most of our

100 people said

when we asked them online.

Thank you very much indeed.

So, at the end of our second round,

the pair we have to say goodbye to,

Hannah and Gemma...

Oh, no!

I can't bear it, it's you.

I'm so sorry. Ah!

Yeah. I don't know what to say.

I'm too gutted to talk.

Yeah, we are. We're a bit shocked.

Hannah and Gemma, it's been lovely

having you. Come and play again.

Thank you very much.

Hannah and

Gemma, wonderful.

Thank you.

But for Sandra and David, Chris and

Jeff, it's now time for our

head-to-head.

Congratulations, Sandra and David,

Chris and Jeff.

You're now one step closer to the

final

and a chance to play for our

jackpot,

which currently stands at

£2,500.

AUDIENCE:

Ooooh!

So this is the round where we

decide who goes through to the

final to play for that jackpot.

And we do it by making you go

head-to-head.

But the difference is, you're now

allowed to play as a team.

You can confer before you give your

answers

and the first player to win two

questions will be playing for that

jackpot.

Well, this is exciting.

It's Hitchhiker's Guide

versus Harry Potter.

Best of luck to both pairs.

Let's play the head-to-head.

Here comes your first question and

it concerns...

Richard.

We'll show you five

pictures now of

the casts of UK and US sitcoms. Can

you identify the sitcoms, please?

OK, so let's reveal our cast

pictures and here they come.

We have got...

There we go. Five sitcoms.

Now, Sandra and David, you are our

low scorers so you will go first.

Feel free to confer.

We're going to go for A.

A.

And what would you like to say for

A?

Cheers!

Cheers to you!

There we are. Cheers, say Sandra and

David.

Now, Chris and Jeff, that board's

all yours.

Would you like to talk us through

it?

Not especially.

Well, E is Only Fools And Horses.

Yeah, obviously.

B and C, we have...

We're not sure.

We think they're

American, probably.

Not the foggiest idea.

Which leaves D, which we think is

How I Met Your Mother.

How I Met Your Mother for D.

So, Sandra and David are saying

Cheers for A.

Let's see how many of our 100 people

said Cheers for A.

It is Cheers.

And it scores 55.

Not bad. Now, Chris and Jeff have

gone for How I Met Your Mother,

which they are saying is D.

Let's see how many of our 100 people

said How I Met Your Mother.

It is How I Met Your Mother.

And it wins you the point. Very well

done, indeed. Down you go to 30.

Very well played.

After one question, Chris and Jeff,

you are up 1-0.

That's very good work.

Now, B, it really does look like an

American sitcom, you're quite right.

But it's not.

It's not.

No, it's Coupling.

It's Coupling. Yeah, absolutely.

With Jack Davenport,

Sarah Alexander,

all sorts of people in

there. Four points for that.

Now, C is another wonderful American

sitcom.

Arrested Development.

Arrested Development.

Would have scored you ten points.

And what do you think E scored?

95.

I would think this is about as close

to 100 as you could get.

88. 88.

Thanks very much, Richard, so here

comes your second question.

Chris and Jeff, you get to answer it

first but, Sandra and David,

you have to win this one to stay in

the game, so good luck.

Our second question this evening is

all about...

Richard.

We're going to play you

five clips now of songs,

all of which have the word "bad" in

their title.

Can you identify any of the artists

you're about to hear?

OK. Let's have a listen to these

five clips and we start with A.

# Shot through the heart

# And you're to blame

# You give love a bad name

Bad name

# I play my part

and you play your game

# You give love a bad name

Bad name

# You give love

# A bad name... #

Here is B.

# Bad boys stick together,

never sad boys

# Do-do-do do-do, whoo, whoo!

# Good guys, they made

rules for fools, so get wise

# Do-do-do do-do, do do-do... #

Here is C.

# Cos you had a bad day,

you're taking one down

# You sing a sad song just to turn

it around

# You say you don't know

# You tell me don't lie

# You work at a smile, and you go

for a ride

# You had a bad day... #

Here is D.

# I'm bad, I'm bad

You know it, really bad

# You know I'm bad, I'm bad

You know it, really bad

# You know I'm bad, I'm bad

You know it, really bad

# And the whole world has to answer

right now

# Just to tell you once again

Who's bad?... #

Here is E.

# It's official, I survived what

I been through

# Y'all got drama,

"The Saga Continues..."

# We ain't goin' nowhere,

# We ain't going nowhere

# We can't be stopped now

cos it's Bad Boy for life

# We ain't goin' nowhere,

# We ain't going nowhere... #

OK. There we are.

Now then, Chris and Jeff, you will

go first.

Well, we're going to play a little

bit safe,

but we hope we're going to be good

with A, Bon Jovi.

A, Bon Jovi, said Chris and Jeff.

A, Bon Jovi. Now, Sandra and David.

We don't actually know any of 'em.

Except...

Except the most obvious

one.

We're going to go for D,

which is Michael Jackson.

D, Michael Jackson. So we have...

A - Bon Jovi. D - Michael Jackson.

Chris and Jeff said A was Bon Jovi.

Let's see if it's right, let's see

how many people said Bon Jovi.

It is Bon Jovi.

It is absolutely Bon Jovi.

There we are, 47 points.

Now then, Sandra and David, you have

been forced into a corner here.

You had to go for the only one you

knew.

Well, he's the only... He's the man,

he's the king. He's the baddest.

You've gone for Michael Jackson.

Let's see if Michael Jackson's

right for D.

Let's see how many of our 100 people

said it.

47 is what you want to beat.

It's right.

Yeah. I'm afraid, 74.

And what about that? That means,

Harry Potter, look at that.

After only two questions,

Chris and Jeff,

you're straight through to the final

2-0.

Very, very well played.

Let's fill in the rest of these,

shall we?

Let's have a tiny listen to B.

# Bad boys stick together... #

That is...?

Wham!

Wham! Early Wham!

Bad Boys, yeah.

The expression on

your face with this next song.

This next song's a very, very

familiar song.

In fact, it was the most played song

in the UK between 2003 and 2008,

and the expression on your face

trying to remember who recorded it.

Let's have a little listen.

# Cos you had a bad day... #

I can remember his first name.

Any closer to getting it?

He's called Daniel.

I can't remember his surname.

He is called Daniel.

Daniel Powter.

Daniel Powter is exactly right.

Nine points for that.

Have you just got that?

No, we knew it, but we weren't sure.

We were too scared to say it.

Too scared.

The final one.

# It's official, I survived what I

been through... #

That's Bad

Boys For Life and that's P Diddy.

P Diddy, Black Rob and Mark Curry.

Not the Mark Curry who was on Blue

Peter.

Not that one. No.

Bad Boys For Life. Three points for

that.

There we are. Thank you very much

indeed.

So the pair leaving us at the end of

the head-to-head round,

I'm so sorry, it's the Hitchhiker's

Guide pair, Sandra and David.

Such a pleasure having you here.

Thank you so much, Sandra and David,

you've been wonderful.

Thank you for having us. Thank you.

But for Chris and Jeff it is now

time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Chris and Jeff, you

have fought off all the competition

and you have won our coveted

Pointless trophy.

Brilliant.

You now have a chance to

win our Pointless jackpot for your

charities and at the end of today's

show

the jackpot is standing at £2,500.

There we are.

Look at that. Harry Potter wins.

Ah, just a supreme performance

there.

What would you like to see come up

in this last round?

Um, late 20th-century painters,

perhaps.

I don't know.

That could be good.

Theatre.

Any of these would be good.

OK, let's see what's up on the board

behind me today.

Our selection reads like this.

We have got...

Well, forget Formula 1.

Yeah.

Brothers can be good.

Brothers can be good.

You know, like it could be Marx

Brothers, it could be, you know,

brothers we would know.

Yeah, yeah.

What do you reckon?

Maybe we'll go for Brothers.

Yeah?

And it's a bit amorphous.

At least we don't know what we're

getting.

Yeah. Let's prolong the agony.

There you are, exactly.

Step into the unknown.

Thanks.

Like the devil you DON'T

know.

OK, let's see. Brothers.

Richard.

Yeah, very Best of luck.

Three very different categories

here.

Hopefully, one of them will suit

you.

We're looking for...

I know! Or we're looking for anyone

cast in two or more episodes

of Band Of Brothers, the US TV

series.

So any actor cast in that, according

to IMDb.

Or any opponent defeated by one of

the Klitschko brothers in a

professional boxing bout, please.

So, Bros UK top 40 singles,

anyone in two or more episodes of

Band Of Brothers,

or any opponents defeated

by the Klitschko brothers.

Very best of luck.

Thank you very much, indeed.

Now, as always, you've got up to one

minute to come up with three answers

and all you need to win that jackpot

is for one of those answers to be

pointless.

Yes.

Are you ready?

We're ready.

Good. Let's put

60 seconds up on the clock.

There they are. Your time

starts now.

So, over to you, Chris.

Bros. Do you know anything about

Bros?

I know them, but I can't think of...

I know their names, and that's as

good as it gets.

Any title at all?

None at all.

Rubbish, OK.

Klitschko brothers.

I've heard of them, but...

Yeah.

I wouldn't know.

Actors, then.

Yes.

Actors in Band Of Brothers.

Which was an American show.

It was HBO.

HBO series.

Spielberg, I think.

Yes.

Would we say...

Stacy Keach?

I've a feeling... Yes,

but the first name that springs to

mind on that is Damian Lewis.

Ah, yes.

Who is British, but I'm

pretty sure he was in it.

Yes, he was.

Other than that...

This is good.

..I am...pretty flummoxed.

Shall we go with that?

Yeah, we need two more, though.

And we've got ten seconds to come up

with them.

Have a guess at the UK top 40?

Two American actors.

OK, I'm afraid that is your time up,

so let's have three answers from

you.

We might be having to make some up

here. But that's fun.

Yes.

What are you going to go for?

We're going to stick with the cast

of Band Of Brothers.

Good.

Because that's as good as it

is going to get.

Yes.

Damian Lewis, I think, we're pretty

sure on.

Yeah.

And then do you want to name

an actor off the top of your head?

Well, I said Stacy Keach, I don't

know why.

He's a wonderful actor.

Stacy...

Let's have him. He should have been

in it.

Stacy Keach.

Yes.

OK, so we have Damian Lewis,

Stacy Keach.

I'm going to go Mark Ruffalo.

For no good reason.

Mark Ruffalo.

OK, no good reason,

but why not?

Why not? What order would you like

to put them in?

Which is your most likely to be

pointless?

Damian Lewis is most likely to be

right.

Yes.

Shall we put Damian Lewis last?

Damian Lewis, let's go last.

Let's go out in a blaze of glory.

OK, least likely?

Stacy Keach.

Stacy Keach, and then

Mark Ruffalo in the middle.

Well, let's put those answers up on

the board in that order, then,

and here they are. We have got...

Well, three...

They all sound feasible.

One of them we think might even be

right.

It is a hope.

If one of these turns

out to be pointless,

at least one of them turns out to be

pointless, and wins you that

jackpot, what charities are you

playing for? Chris, you first.

I am playing for

Brecon and District Mind,

who are local to me and lovely

people.

Very good, indeed.

Jeff, how about you?

I am playing

for Bowel Cancer Research.

Very good.

Two excellent and worthy causes

there.

Let's hope one of these answers, at

least, is pointless,

which will win that jackpot for them

to split.

Your first answer is Stacy Keach.

In all three cases here we were

looking for cast members of Band Of

Brothers.

Stacy Keach. If this is right

and it is pointless, it will win you

£2,500.

How many people said Stacy Keach?

Oh, bad luck.

I'm afraid not Stacy Keach.

So let's move swiftly on to your

next answer, which is Mark Ruffalo.

Mark Ruffalo - that's a great

answer.

I mean, who knows?

It's a great name!

Great actor.

Yeah.

All it has to be is right.

That would be nice.

If it is right, and then it goes all

the way down to zero,

you leave here with £2,500 for your

charities.

Let's see how many people said Mark

Ruffalo.

No! Not Mark Ruffalo either,

I'm afraid.

OK, everything is now riding on your

third and final answer.

We're now on firm territory here,

I think, aren't we?

Damian Lewis.

Your most confident shot at a

pointless answer.

If it is pointless, it will win

£2,500.

Let's see how many people said

Damian Lewis.

It's right. Now, your first answer,

Stacy Keach, was not right.

Mark Ruffalo, your second answer,

was also not right.

Damian Lewis, however, takes us down

through the teens.

We're still going down, down we go

to...

Oh, ten. We stick at ten.

By the way, ten is a very

respectable score.

You'd be very pleased with ten at

any normal part of Pointless.

Annoyingly, in this round, we're

only interested in pointless

answers.

I'm afraid you didn't manage to find

that pointless answer

you needed to win the jackpot.

I'm afraid you DON'T win £2,500 for

your charities,

however, as it is a celebrity

special,

we're going to donate £500 to each

celebrity pair

for their respective

charities. So there you are.

It's been fabulous having you on the

show, Chris and Jeff, really lovely.

And you get to take home a Pointless

trophy, so there we are.

Fantastic.

Amazing.

Doesn't get better.

What a lovely show it's been and a

terrific performance to get all the

way through to the final as well.

Sorry we didn't serve you up

the jackpot round that you wanted.

You'll be kicking yourself with a

lot of these Bros top 40 singles.

You'll know all of them.

Oh, no!

Let's take a look at Bros.

Eight pointless answers.

You could have had...

..Are You Mine, Madly In Love,

Silent Night and Tribe.

Very well done any Brosettes or

Broseurs who got one of those.

I think that's what they're called.

The cast now of Band Of Brothers.

Some very, very big names here.

In fact, everyone in Band Of

Brothers is a pointless answer,

apart from Damian Lewis, Dexter

Fletcher, David Schwimmer,

Simon Pegg and Colin Hanks.

Everybody else was a pointless

answer.

Now, the Klitschko brothers.

Any boxing fans would have filled

their boots with this category, I

think.

Some big names. Chris Byrd,

who beat Vitali Klitschko.

Two British fighters -

Dereck Chisora and Herbie Hide.

Also could have had Julius Francis

and Danny Williams.

Manuel Charr, a couple of other big

fighters,

Frans Botha, Ray Mercer, Shannon

Briggs.

Everybody, everybody on that entire

list, apart from David Haye,

was a pointless answer.

So, boxing fans, very well done

if you got any of those.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

And thanks so much, Chris and Jeff.

We've loved having you on the show.

Thank you so much. Chris and Jeff,

wonderful, wonderful.

Thank you.

Join us next time when we'll be

putting

more obscure knowledge to

the test on Pointless.

Meanwhile, it's goodbye from

Richard.

Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.