Child Stars Pointless Celebrities

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Thank you very much indeed. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong

and a very warm welcome to this special child stars edition

of Pointless Celebrities, the show where the aim is to avoid

the obvious answers and find the obscure ones.

Let's meet today's Pointless celebrities.

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-Couple number one.

-Hello, my name is Thomas Turgoose,

most famously known for the part in This Is England

which started ten years ago and we're still doing it now.

We've got a new series due to release soon, so yeah.

Hi, I'm Tyger Drew-Honey

and I am most well-known for my role as Jake in Outnumbered

which was a long-running British sitcom

-which might be coming back for a special in the near future.

-Ooh!

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Couple number two.

Hi, my name is Lee MacDonald and I played Zammo in Grange Hill.

My name's Erkan Mustafa and I played Roland in Grange Hill.

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-Couple number three.

-Hi, I'm Michelle Gayle and when I was a child actor,

cos I'm pretty old now, I was in Grange Hill.

I'm Adam Rickitt and when I was a child actor

I was in Coronation Street.

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And finally, couple number four.

I'm Julie Dawn Cole but perhaps better known as Veruca Salt

in the original Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.

Hello, I'm Mark Lester.

I was Oliver in the 1968 musical of the same name.

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Thank you very much.

We'll find out more about you throughout the show.

So, that just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

A man with a brain which baffles medical science,

mainly because his head won't fit in the MRI machine,

it's my Pointless friend, it's Richard.

-Hiya. Evening, everybody.

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-Good evening to you, Xander.

-And to you.

-This is going to be fun, isn't it?

-I know!

-Really, really nice line-up.

Some of these people have been with us before as well.

Thomas has been with us before.

Came on with Vas Blackwood last time. Round One, wasn't it, Thomas?

You were let down slightly by your partner.

-I don't want to talk about it.

-It's not going to happen again.

Bad luck, cos we WILL be talking about it.

And podium two there, Lee and Erkan, they came on before with each other.

-Round One as well.

-Yeah.

-We were bottom of the class.

We was in the car, cab home, before the show had finished.

-Hopefully not again today.

-I often am as well, Lee, if I'm honest.

But there, on podium three, Michelle.

-She's been in a head-to-head.

-Yeah.

She had the good sense to come on with her Grange Hill headmistress.

-Yes.

-Mrs McCluskey. That's the way to do it.

But come on with Adam this time.

And Julie Dawn and Mark on that last podium as well.

It's going to be fantastic, I think.

Round One should be easy if anyone here is an actor.

Anyone who's an actor should be all right on Round One.

Thanks very much, Richard.

All of today's questions have been put to 100 people before the show.

Our contestants are looking to find

those all-important pointless answers.

Those are those answers that none of our 100 people gave.

Each time that happens, we will add £250 to the jackpot.

Now, as today's show is a celebrity special,

each of our celebrities is playing for a nominated charity.

We start off with a jackpot of £2,500. There we are.

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If everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.

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The only thing you have to remember is this -

the pair with the highest score at the end of each round

will be eliminated. That's it.

And no conferring for the first two rounds. Very best of luck.

Our first category this evening is...

Film Directors. Can you decide in your pairs who's going to go first,

who's going second. Whoever's going first, step up to the podium.

Let's find out what the question is. Here it comes.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name...

Steven Spielberg films with an S in the title. Richard.

We are looking for any feature film

made for cinema release before April 2015,

directed by Steven Spielberg, with an S in its title,

-according to IMDb. Very best of luck.

-Thank you very much indeed.

Now, Thomas, welcome back to Pointless. Ohhh!

So, Vas, last time...

I'm going to say he wasn't taking it that seriously.

-No, I don't think he was, was he?

-No, I don't think he was.

-To this day, I'll never forgive him.

-You shouldn't.

-I'm not sure Pointless will either.

-No.

Now, Thomas, last time you were here,

you were filming This Is England '90, which I think is about to come out.

It's coming out this year, isn't it?

Yeah, it's coming out later on in the year.

-It's coming out pretty soon.

-Is that going to be it? Will there be a '92?

Maybe. I honestly don't know. Hopefully.

Shane keeps his cards close to his chest.

He does, yeah, even to his closest friends,

but I mean, he loves the job as much as I do,

so hopefully, there'll be another one.

We've got a picture of you here.

Ah... LAUGHTER

-Who's that on the left?

-That's you when you're older. Yeah.

There we are. Now then, Thomas, Spielberg films with S in the title.

-Just one is all we need.

-I should really think about it.

Apocalypse Now, was that Spielberg?

Well, I'm going to have to go for that cos I've said it now.

Well, we'll discover. We shall discover, Thomas. Apocalypse Now.

Is it right? How many people said if it is?

No. I tell you what, that's got an S in though.

LAUGHTER Apocalypse Now,

but I'm afraid it is not a Spielberg film.

-Gutted.

-Scores you 100 points.

It might not be the last 100 points of the round though.

Yeah, sorry, Thomas.

Perhaps Vas wasn't the problem last time, I dunno. Perhaps...

It's a Francis Ford Coppola film, Apocalypse Now.

-Apocalypse Now hasn't even got an S in it, has it?

-It has.

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-Has it?

-Yeah!

-That's all right then.

You were absolutely exemplary on that bit. That was perfect.

-It has, hasn't it?

-Yeah.

-Oh, OK.

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

-Erkan, welcome back.

-Thank you very much.

I have every confidence

that you're going to be in the head-to-head this time.

I'm so glad that you've got confidence.

-If not the final.

-Put the pressure on, why don't you?

Well, you know. Erkan, how nice to see you.

I was saying to someone before, that anybody aged about 40 or over

probably reckons they were at school with you.

-Yeah, people do say that to me.

-I bet they do.

They say, "Did I go to school with you?" I say, "I don't think so.

"Did you go to an all boys school? Oh, it's a girl, OK."

What do you do? You present things now, don't you?

Yeah, I basically work for a TV company

and we interview people like these greats, basically -

people that have been on TV and have got stories to tell,

be it musicians, poets, great actors,

basically, people who have got a story to tell

and they're forgotten about on our TVs.

We don't see them on TV much except UK Gold.

-So that's my passion.

-Very good.

Erkan, look, we've got a picture of you and Lee in your Grange Hill days.

Same glasses, but the hair's... I don't know where that's gone.

-The pair of you have changed hardly at all.

-No.

We have good doctors, Botox works and, yeah...

-Did you keep the blazers?

-I do, but I can't wear it any more.

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I've put on a bit of weight - just a tadge.

Now, Erkan, Steven Spielberg films.

I'm going to take a stab...at Jaws.

OK, let's see if that's right and how many of our 100 said Jaws.

-It's right.

-Yeah.

38. This is good, Erkan, this is good.

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I tell you what, when you first said that,

I thought, "Where's the S in Jaws?" Then "Oh, of course."

The author of the book, Peter Benchley,

got a bit upset because sharks were vilified after Jaws came out.

-He became a shark conservationist in the end.

-Ah, to atone.

-Yeah.

-Oh.

He could always have written a book in which, maybe,

-dolphins were the baddies.

-That's a good idea. Called Gums.

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Thanks very much indeed. Now then, Michelle.

-Yes.

-Michelle, welcome back.

-Thank you for having me back.

-Head-to-head last time.

-Yeah.

-You were in Grange Hill as well.

-I was.

How long were you in Grange Hill for?

I was in Grange Hill for about three years

but I did it previously before as an extra with these guys.

I have known them since I was 10 or 11.

We've known each other since we about...

Over 30 years we've known each other.

-Thanks for reminding everybody in the nation.

-We're old!

-Then onto EastEnders.

-Yes.

-Then onto a singing career.

-Mmm.

-Quite a successful singing career.

-Yes, I've done all right.

-I've seen the world twice.

-And you've written a book.

-You've got a novel.

-I've written three novels now as well,

so I'm working hard at the computer.

So writing is what currently occupies you.

Writing's what I concentrate on most.

-I still do acting as well but I concentrate on writing.

-Very good.

Now, how are you feeling about Spielberg films with S in?

I've got a few, but I'm going to take a chance, if Adam doesn't mind.

-Yeah, go for it.

-Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.

-Ah!

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, says Michelle.

Let's just see how far down the column we get with that.

It's right. 100 was our high score. You passed that some time ago.

38's our low score. You passed that some time ago.

17, Michelle. APPLAUSE

-There we go.

-Good answer, Michelle.

-Earned him his first Oscar nomination as well.

-Yes, thank you.

-Thank you very much indeed. Julie, welcome.

-Thank you.

How nice to see you. So, the first Willy Wonka film.

-Where did you film that?

-It was filmed in Munich in Germany.

-Oh, really?

-Yes.

But what an amazing cast, all the people involved in that.

Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Roy Kinnear.

And was Tony Newley involved?

Did he come along for any of the music stuff?

He did come along and direct some of the..

In fact, I have a demo of him singing my song,

which is a rather different interpretation.

Let's just get the picture of you and Mark up when you were child stars.

There we are. Ah...

You must have got quite hot, under the lights in that.

-I didn't like that coat. I hated it.

-No.

-But look at it.

-You've got the saint and the sinner.

-Yeah, right!

I read somewhere that you kept, rather naughtily,

-you kept the chocolate bar and the gold ticket.

-Moi? Would I do that?

-Did you really?

-I might have done.

-Have you still got them?

I still have a Scrumdiddlyumptious bar. Well, only the wrapper.

-I ate what was inside it.

-It was a real bar inside?

It was. It was Turkish delight

and I think they were made by an American chocolate company,

but since they'd been shipped over to Germany,

they were a little bit past the sell-by date.

-Well, you were doing them a service then.

-I think so.

-Now, Julie.

-Yes.

-Julie, what would you like to go for from our Spielberg films?

I'm going to go for - lots of S's in this one - Schindler's List.

Schindler's List, says Julie. Let's see if that's right

and how many of our 100 said Schindler's List.

Absolutely right.

17 is our low score at this point. 31 is what you get for that.

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-Schindler's List.

-Another very good answer.

-He refused a salary on that film as well.

-Thank you, Richard.

We're halfway through the round.

Let's look at those scores as they stand. 17, Michelle.

The lowest score of the pass. Very well done indeed.

Then up to 31, Julie and Mark, up to 38, Erkan and Lee,

then up to 100, Thomas and Tyger.

So, Tyger, we're going to need a low score from you.

Let's hope there are some Spielberg films left with S's in.

Have you got one at this stage? All you have to say is yes or no.

Yes - good! Good luck with that.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

Now, Mark, a very warm welcome to you to Pointless.

-How old were you when you made "Oliver!"?

-I was eight years old.

-And how were you discovered for that?

-We had a series of auditions.

I was at a stage school, Corona Academy, at the time

and there was just hundreds and hundreds of auditions

and I was whittled down and whittled down and whittled down

and eventually, I got the part.

And then, you've sort of turned your back on acting.

You're now an osteopath.

I am an osteopath. I haven't turned my back on it.

I think it was one of those progressions...

-I had great fun while I was an actor.

-Yeah.

-And we kind of outgrew each other.

-Fair enough.

Do all your clients know that the hands that held the bowl

-are the very hands that...?

-Well, I hope...

Well, a few of them do,

maybe a few of them do know but don't comment,

-but it's not something I would advertise.

-No.

Do you ever wear a slightly tall peaked hat at all?

-Only on certain days.

-OK, fair enough.

Now, Mark, there you are on 31.

The high-scorers still Tyger and Thomas on 100.

-68 or less gets you through.

-Right, well, I'm hoping...

I know the director's right, but I'm hoping

the title will provide the S,

so I'm going with ET Extra-Terrestrial.

ET Extra-Terrestrial, says Mark. There's your red line.

If you get below that, you are through to the next round.

It's right. Through you go. Very well done.

-Ooh, that's god! 13.

-Well done.

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Our new lowest score of the round, in fact, Mark.

Very well done. 44 is your total. Through you go.

Great answer, Mark. A lot of people wouldn't have got that,

but it is ET The Extra-Terrestrial, not just ET. A scary one to go for

-but a very good one.

-Thank you very much, Richard.

-Now, Adam.

-Hello.

-A warm welcome to you.

You took over as Nick Tilsley. But taking over is interesting.

-I was the second incarnation. There have been three now.

-Yeah.

What's that like? This is in Coronation Street.

I'll be honest, cos I never watched it as a child, I didn't know

until I arrived and it was in the papers and ooh, I felt bad.

-Right.

-So, he's like the everlasting child.

-I'm going to hold you there because there he is.

-Ooh!

-There he is.

-And Michelle there as well.

-Matching orange.

-Look at that!

You're virtually wearing the same jacket there.

Exactly! We're matching.

-You then had a career in music as well.

-Yes.

-You had a solo career.

-I did.

-Then there was a kind of super-band you joined, wasn't there?

Yeah, in an ITV show last year - The Big Reunion, 5th Story.

It was kind of destined to not work

cos we're like five guys with not quite the sort of optimism

we had before about going out and working hard.

So, we weren't ever going to be the new One Direction.

-You didn't tour though, did you?

-No.

-No.

-We barely got to the recording booth.

-Oh, right.

-And then you dabbled in politics, briefly.

-I did, yes.

-Are you still interested in that?

-No!

-You've moved on from that.

-No, I still act and I also work in the third sector now.

-Right.

I work in charities as well as acting.

OK, well very good for you.

You're on 17 at the moment, the high-scorers still,

here on the near podium, are Thomas and Tyger.

-82 or less gets you through.

-Yeah, um, I know this one

cos my uncle was in it.

It's Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

-Oh, that's good. Who's your uncle in it?

-Bill Weston.

-He was a stuntman. He was the stunt coordinator.

-Very exciting.

-So, Indiana Jones And Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

-Yeah.

Let's see if that's right and how many of our 100 said that.

There is your red line.

Very well done indeed.

That's another great answer!

13. Look at that!

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-Very, very well done indeed. 30.

-Well played, Adam.

It's originally just called Raiders Of The Lost Ark

but they did rename it later.

-Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

-Thank you.

-It's got an S in either way.

-Either way.

It's an embarrassment of S's there.

Awful lot of S's, yeah.

-Well, look at his name - he's got so many.

-He's got lots.

Well, two, but yes, that's...

-Enough's as good as a feast, isn't it?

-Isn't it just?

-Certainly in the world of S's.

-Correct.

-There we go.

Now, Lee, welcome back. Lovely to have you here.

-Hiya.

-Now, Lee,

for heaven's sake, you had a glittering lifelong career,

had you wanted it, in television.

You'd still be a massive star now, I'm absolutely certain of that.

-And you went off to locksmithery.

-I did.

Initially, I did Grange Hill and I wanted to be a boxer

and through an accident,

I couldn't box any more. And I didn't know what to do,

so I just sort of got thrown into locksmithing

and I've got my own shop over in Wallington.

I've been there 15 years. But I'm starting to do stuff now.

Now Zammo's sort of died away, getting back in.

I just finished a film called Dirty British Boys,

which is out later in the year, so the finger's back in.

You've gone back in.

Well, as I say, there's a glittering career still there.

-It's still warm, Lee.

-Absolutely.

Anyway, you're on 38.

-You want to be scoring 61 or less.

-No pressure.

Both of mine have gone. Everybody says that, but it's true!

-No pressure.

-OK...

-No pressure.

-Right, I think...

I watched the old version of this recently and the name come up

-and I'm 99% sure. I'm going to say Poltergeist.

-Poltergeist.

There's your red line, Lee.

Get below that and you are into Round Two.

-Erkan, what are we thinking?

-I hope so.

Otherwise, me and him might fall out.

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Let's see if Poltergeist is right and how many people said it.

Oh, no...

If I come back, can I bring somebody else with me?

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Listen, the round is not over yet, by any means. 138 is your total.

That's really unlucky, Lee.

He produced it and he wrote it but...

-Oh, he produced it and he wrote it!

-But he didn't direct it, I'm afraid.

-Oh, well, that don't make me feel AS bad now.

-Exactly.

I'd seen the name on the credits. I knew it was there.

It's a very, very good wrong answer.

-Yeah, exactly that.

-I'm going to do a show one time

where every single question is about finding S's in the title.

I'm going to call it The Only Way Is S's.

LAUGHTER Thanks, Richard.

Tyger, welcome to Pointless. Lovely to have you here.

It's very rarely, in fact it's never happened before that I've had

someone who's played my son on the show. It's really nice, that.

We had a good couple of years as father and son.

We did. We were a good double act, you and me.

-It was fantastic.

-You were a bit smaller.

-A little bit.

I tell you what's slightly disconcerting me

-is you went on to do Outnumbered and you played Hugh Dennis's son.

-Yeah.

It's funny how you're starting to look a bit like Hugh Dennis.

-I do get that quite a lot actually.

-It's funny. You've...

It's just happened, maybe by being on set with him.

Little bit of Claire Skinner in there as well, I think, possibly.

-Isn't that funny?

-When did Tyger play your son?

-In about 2005, maybe?

-I'm not sure.

I remember one of the days we were filming,

it was my 11th birthday

and everyone in the crew sang Happy Birthday

which was a lovely experience for one of my first ever jobs,

-so I would have been 10 or 11, so it was a good 8, 9 years ago.

-Yeah.

What are you up to now? You hinted at an Outnumbered return, possibly.

It's possible. I mean, the series is over, in terms of series,

but don't hold me to anything, but there's a possibility

that the general public might be seeing the Brockman family

for some sort of special in the future.

I really hope so. Such a wonderful show.

And a huge part you contributed to its success as well, Tyger,

so well done for that. You're not the high-scorers.

Thomas, you're not the high-scorers. We might see you in Round Two.

See, what just happened there, I didn't really expect it

and now I'm having to think

-about my tactics a bit. Um, I am going to say Jaws 2.

-Jaws 2.

Erkan is patting Lee on the shoulder.

Is that to say, "We are through, my fiend"

or is that to say, "This has been fun"?

-No, "Why didn't you think of that?"

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There is your red line.

Let's see if we can get below that with Jaws 2. Good luck, Tyger.

-Oh...Tyger!

-Told you to come again, yes!

I just presumed it was such a successful film,

I thought they wouldn't change the director.

I was thinking that as well. If it ain't broke, why? Why fix it?

Scores you 100 points.

Takes your total up to 200. Thomas, I can only apologise.

We WILL see you again, but listen... Richard.

I'm so sorry. What I thought you were going to do

is go for one of the other Indiana Jones films.

All three of those would have been good answers.

Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom would have scored 8 points,

Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade would have scored 4 points

and Indiana Jones and The Kingdon Of The Crystal Skull, 1 point.

-Second best answer on the board.

-I told you to say that!

I was thinking about going for an Indiana Jones

but I presumed that Jaws would have been... Who was it directed by?

Jeannot Szwarc, I think, the second one.

-I will remember that!

-Yeah, yeah.

I tell you what, I can see, now, him playing your son.

There's a resemblance.

There's only one pointless answer out of all of Spielberg's films.

As you can imagine, he's done lots of famous films.

That's The Sugarland Express. Very well done if you said that.

2 points for The Adventures Of Tintin,

Always, Amistad and The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

You'd have got 4 points for War Of The Worlds,

Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade and War Horse.

5 for Empire Of The Sun. Let's take a look at the top three.

We've heard two of them already.

Thanks very much indeed. So, at the end of our first round,

I'm afraid to say the pair heading home, it's the Ts on podium one.

I'm so sorry, Tyger, Thomas.

I'm sorry. Well, you'll just have to come back.

You'll just have to come back and do it again.

We WILL see you beyond first round next time, I'm sure of that.

-Let's hope, eh?

-Thanks so much. Tyger and Thomas, wonderful people,

great contestants. APPLAUSE

For the remaining three pairs, it's time for Round Two.

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Suddenly, there were only three pairs.

And at the end of this round, there will be only two pairs.

We'll have to say goodbye to one of the pairs.

Congratulations to Adam and Mark

who each share the title of individual lowest-scorer.

Congratulations to Michelle and Adam for joint lowest-scorer

and congratulations to Erkan and Lee

for fluking it through into Round Two.

-What about that?! Whoo!

-We'll take it.

One more round to go till you can all confer. Best of luck.

Our category for Round Two this evening is...

It's Famous People.

Can you all decide who's going first, who's going second

and whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.

And the question concerns...

Famous Teachers. Richard.

On each board, we're going to show you six clues to famous people

who, at one point of their life, have been a teacher.

You need to tell us the most obscure of those.

Six on the first board, six on the second.

12 in all to have a go at home. Good luck.

We're looking for the names of these people. Here's our first board.

I'll read those all one last time.

-Erkan.

-Well, when it came up, I thought of a name

and it's gone out, so I'm not going to say that.

What I am going to say is the bottom one

-and I'm going to say Roberta Flack.

-Roberta Flack, says Erkan.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.

Good answer, Erkan. This has got head-to-head written all over it.

Look at that. Down it goes.

18. APPLAUSE

Very nice. Well played, Erkan.

She started as a music teacher, perhaps unsurprisingly.

-Mmm, now, Michelle. Michelle.

-Yes.

-How are we feeling about this board?

I was going to say Roberta Flack,

but I think I know two more,

but one's going to be hugely popular,

so I'm going to try and go for the other one.

George Orwell - Animal Farm and Homage To Catalonia.

George Orwell, says Michelle.

Let see if that's right and how many people said it.

It's right. 18 is our only score at this point.

57 for George Orwell. APPLAUSE

Animal Farm might have brought a few more people

round to that one.

Yeah, he taught at The Hawthorns School in Hayes.

-Thank you very much indeed. Now, Julie.

-Mmm.

You're the last person to have this board.

If you want, you can just waltz through it and tell us all the names.

Well, I can tell you that one,

I worked with Trudie Styler in the original series of Poldark,

so that would be either Sting or Gordon Sumner.

Bass guitarist, co-lead vocalist would be, I'm guessing, Gene Simmons

but I'm going to go for Under The Dome and Salem's Lot

-which I think is Stephen King.

-Stephen King, says Julie.

Let's see if that's right and how many people said Stephen King.

It's right.

29. Good scores all round there.

29 for Stephen King. APPLAUSE

Well played, everyone. He taught English in Maine.

Imagine having Stephen King as your English teacher.

-That would be pretty cool.

-Yeah.

You should have gone for Gene Simmons.

It's a right answer and it's a much lower score, as you'd expect.

Riskier, I know. Would have scored 6 points.

You were right to avoid Sting though.

-Not the first time that's been said.

-LAUGHTER

It would have scored you 61. And the best answer on the board,

the English author and Children's Laureate, is...

-Michael Morpurgo.

-Michael Morpurgo. Would have scored you 3 points.

-Well done if you said that.

-Thanks very much.

We're halfway through the round. Let's look at those scores.

-18, Erkan, Lee.

-Is it good enough?

-The class swots, look at that.

18 - well done, you. Then up to 29, where we find Julie and Mark.

Up to 57, Michelle and Adam.

Not wildly out in front. Actually, pretty wildly out in front there.

-Adam, we need a really low score from you.

-Yeah.

Find a nice low one in this next pass and maybe it'll keep you in the game.

Can the second players step up to the podium?

Let's put six more clues up on the board and here they come.

I'll read those one last time.

-Mark.

-Right, hmm...

This is...

I know two or three

but it's trying to figure out which will have the least scores.

Hmm, I'm going to go Mad Men

and Jon Hamm.

OK, very good indeed. There is your red line.

Let's see if that's right and how many of our 100 people said it.

It is right.

Well done, Mark.

Very well done indeed. 6, the lowest score of the round.

They're very good on that far podium.

35 is your total.

He taught drama for two years

at his old high school in Missouri, Jon Hamm.

I find it hard to tell the difference

-between Jon Hamm and Kevin Bacon.

-LAUGHTER

Well, Kevin Bacon's cured. Did I tell you?

LAUGHTER

Um, Adam.

I'm really struggling on this board.

I know some surnames but I don't know first names.

The one I'm thinking of is the illusionist.

-I'm pretty sure it's Teller.

-Teller, says Adam.

OK, you're the high-scorers, so there's no red line for you.

Let's see if it's right and how many of people said Teller.

How far down the column will you get?

-28.

-Still good.

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28 takes your total up to 85.

Well played, Adam. Only ever known by his surname, Teller.

He used to be a Latin teacher.

Mmm, there you go. Thank you, Richard.

Now, Lee. LEE LAUGHS

Lee, Lee, Lee, come on, you are THIS close to the head-to-head.

-Right.

-You're on 18.

The high-scorers, Michelle and Adam, are on 85,

so if you can score 66 or less - 66 or less...

OK, if we're going for 66 - we don't want our cab going already -

I'm going to have to say Garfunkel.

OK, we do need a first name there.

Think of any name. It's 30 years' friendship, Lee. Don't ruin it!

LAUGHTER

-Oh, golly, it's... Peter.

-Peter Garfunkel?

LEE LAUGHS

-OK, let's run that up the flagpole...

-You're going to knock yourself out.

..and watch it run back down again.

There's your red line. Peter Garfunkel. Is it right?

-Oh, I'm sorry.

-It's Art! I know it's Art now.

-He did teach it.

-I'm afraid that scores you 100 points,

takes your total up to 118.

I'm sorry, Lee. Art Garfunkel was a mathematics teacher.

59 points that would have scored you,

-so it would have seen you through.

-Oh!

-Let's fill in the rest of these.

You just would have been knocked out with the bottom one.

It's Barak Obama.

Would have scored you 68. Would have been 1 point too many.

-The author best known for the Robert Langdon novels?

-Dan Brown.

Dan Brown. Would have scored 15.

-And the female author, very much more famous.

-JK Rowling.

JK Rowling, yes. 13 points for that.

So, Jon Hamm is the best answer on that board, Mark. Well played.

Thanks very much indeed.

So, at the end of our second round, the pair heading home...

You were so nearly there. The sunlit uplands of the head-to-head.

You've done twice as well

as you did last time, Lee and Erkan. LEE LAUGHS

Just come back again, please come back again.

You know how to ruin friendships, you guys.

Come on with Peter Garfunkel next time.

I've got all his albums as well at home.

It's been lovely having you on. Thanks, Lee and Erkan.

APPLAUSE

For Julie and Mark, Michelle and Adam,

it's now time for our head-to-head.

APPLAUSE

Congratulations, Julie and Mark, Michelle and Adam.

You're now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot, which currently stands at...

APPLAUSE

This is the point where we decide who goes through to the final

and plays for that jackpot. We do that by making you go head-to-head.

But you play as teams from here on in, which is great.

You can now confer before you give your answers.

First pair to win two questions will be playing for that jackpot.

Best of luck to both pairs. Let's play the head-to-head.

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OK, here is your first question and it concerns...

-My Favourite Things, Richard.

-I'll show you five pictures,

which represent one of the favourite things

from Maria's My Favourite Things song in The Sound Of Music.

Can you tell us the most obscure of these, please?

OK, let's reveal our favourite things. And here they are.

There we are. Julie and Mark, you've been our low-scorers in total,

-so you will go first, but feel free to confer.

-Which do we think?

I don't know what the first one is. I've no idea what A is.

INAUDIBLE WHISPERED DISCUSSION

-Bright copper kettles. B.

-OK, bright copper kettles, say Julie and Mark.

Bright copper kettles. B. Michelle and Adam,

do you think you can talk us through the rest of the board?

-Oh, yeah, absolutely!

-Not rightly, but we can talk.

We think D is warm woollen mittens

and we think C is crisp apple strudel.

But we don't know A and E.

I think we're going to say warm woollen mittens.

Warm woollen mittens. So, we have bright copper kettles,

we have warm woollen mittens.

Julie and Mark said bright copper kettles.

Let's see if that's right and how many people said that for B.

It's right.

33. APPLAUSE

OK, now let's see what Michelle and Adam get

for warm woollen mittens for D.

Let's see if that right and how many people said it.

It's right.

There we are. APPLAUSE

50 for warm woollen mittens which means well done, Julie and Mark.

After one question, you're up 1-0.

The best answer on the board was C, which is crisp apple strudels.

Oh, you kidder!

That would have scored you 8 points. It would have been a great answer.

-Sorry!

-Gutted!

-Now A.

-I didn't get this.

-No, no idea.

-Doorbells.

-Doorbells?

-They're not doorbells, they're buzzers.

-Hello!

-28. But it's got the D and all of those gaps

and they are things that you ring people's doors with and...

But I didn't get it.

-And E is cream-coloured ponies.

-Ah...

That would have scored you 16 points.

There you go. Thank you very much. Here comes your second question.

Michelle and Adam, you answer this first

but you have to win it to stay in the game so best of luck. It concerns...

Types Of Pasta, Richard.

We'll to show you the names of five types of pasta

but with alternate letters removed. Can you fill in the gaps?

OK, let's reveal our five types of pasta. Here they come.

I'll read those one last time.

Michelle and Adam will go first.

INAUDIBLE DISCUSSION

-OK, We'll go with the first one. Vermicelli?

-Vermicelli.

Vermicelli, say Michelle and Adam.

Now, Julie and Mark, do you fancy talking us

through the other pastas?

Last one would be spaghetti.

And then macaroni.

-Not sure about the one above that, so we... Fusilli.

-Fusilli, yeah.

-Is that the one you want to go for?

-Yes, please.

-Fusilli.

OK, we have vermicelli and we have fusilli.

Michelle and Adam went for vermicelli.

Let's see if that's right and how many people said it.

It's right, vermicelli.

And it's a good answer. Down it goes. Very good answer.

20. APPLAUSE

Now, Julie and Mark have gone for fusilli.

Let's see if that's right and how many people said that.

It's right and...

Ooh, look at that. 83.

-83 for fusilli.

-Rats!

-Which means, well done, Michelle and Adam.

You're back in the game. After two questions, it's 1-1.

There's three very big scores up there

and one score that would have won you the game

cos macaroni is a big score.

Spaghetti is a big score.

But the best answer on the board, 4 points,

it means "little wheels", rotelle. Rotelle.

Well done if you said that at home. 4 points.

Here comes your third question.

Whoever wins this goes through to the final and plays for that jackpot.

Best of luck to both pairs. It concerns...

People Who Have Married Each Other Twice.

I'll show you the names of five people

who have married the same person twice.

We'll give you the initials of the person they married.

Can you name them, please? Best of luck, both teams.

Let's reveal our board of five and here they are.

Julie and Mark will go first.

OK, we think we know three of them, but who would be the...?

INAUDIBLE DISCUSSION

-OK.

-Depends what demographic they've gone for.

-Depends how old you are, cos we're quite old.

-We're old crumblies.

Um, Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner.

Robert Wagner, say Julie and Mark. Robert Wagner.

Now, Michelle and Adam, talk us through that board.

Well, we know Marshall Mathers married Kim

-but I can't remember Kim's surname.

-No.

We're kind of thinking Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson

is probably one people won't know quite so well.

-So, we're going to say Don Johnson.

-Don Johnson.

-OK, Don Johnson.

We have Robert Wagner and Don Johnson.

Julie and Mark said Robert Wagner.

Let's if that's right and how many people said Robert Wagner.

It's right.

APPLAUSE 40.

Now then, Michelle and Adam have gone for Don Johnson.

Let's see if that's right and how many people said it.

It's right.

Ooh, look at that! 38! APPLAUSE

Oh, that was close!

Very well done indeed. Michelle and Adam, after three questions,

-you're through to the final, 2-1.

-That is about as close as it gets.

Very well played there, both teams. Let's fill in the board.

Elizabeth Taylor married Richard Burton.

That's a big scorer, as you'd expect. 71.

The other two were the best answers on the board.

We'll start with Elliott Gould.

He married Jennifer Bogart twice.

Not Juliette Binoche, then.

Not Juliette Binoche or Jacqueline Bissett.

Or anyone else you can think of with JB.

Now, Marshall Mathers did marry Kim and Kim Scott was the answer.

-6 points if you said that.

-Thanks very much indeed.

The pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round,

I'm so sorry to say, Julie and Mark, it is you.

An exemplary performance throughout the show today. Fantastic.

Nothing wrong with your answers in the head-to-head.

You were just beaten so narrowly when it came down right to the wire

in the third deciding question,

but it's been such a pleasure having you here.

Thank you so much for joining us. Julie and Mark.

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

For Michelle and Adam, it's time for our Pointless final.

APPLAUSE

Congratulations, Michelle and Adam. You've seen off all the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

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.

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Well, Michelle, you've done it.

You've gone one better than last time.

Phew! I was under pressure.

You weren't confident, going into the head-to-head.

No, I wasn't very confident, only because I felt I let Adam down

-because he said, "Crisp apple strudel".

-No.

But I played safe and I said to him that we have to trust ourselves now.

But then I thought it was "warm winter mittens",

-so I'd have got it wrong anyway.

-There you are. You've ended up here.

As you know, you get to choose your category

from the selection I put up on the board behind me.

Let's hope there's something you like the look of today.

Today's selection is this.

What about The Year 2001?

I think that or Prize Winners cos 2001 could be the film,

it could be the actual year itself,

it could be about the millennium, so there's loads of random things.

-OK, you want to go for Prize Winners?

-OK.

-I listen to the boss.

-Um, what do you reckon?

-I think you're right.

-Let's go for Prize Winners.

-OK, Prize Winners it is. Richard.

OK, best of luck. Three questions from different areas here,

so hopefully, one of them will suit you. We're looking for...

So, Mercury Prize-winning albums, Best Picture Oscars

and Booker Prize-winning novels with a single word. Very best of luck.

Thank you very much indeed.

As always, you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers.

All you need to win that jackpot for your charities

-is for just one answer to be pointless. Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Yes.

Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock. Your time starts now.

-Right, Oscar, I only know Crash.

-Yeah, but wasn't Amistad as well?

-Amistad I don't think won Best Picture.

-I'm sure it did.

-OK, no, I'm probably wrong.

-I don't think it did.

-Novels, I'm not going to be able to help.

-I don't know the Booker Prize.

Mercury Prize-winning. I keep thinking of Roni Size.

-Oh, no, it was Brown Paper Bag.

-ADAM LAUGHS

Er, One - did that win it for U2 or is the Mercury Prize that old?

-I don't think so.

-Oh, what's the Coldplay album?

-Think of some more pictures.

-Films, OK.

-Films. I only know Crash.

-Gone With The Wind, no. Um...

-Shakespeare In Love...

-Oh, Chaplin!

-Chaplin won.

-Chaplin won.

-And Amadeus. Did Amadeus not win?

-Yes.

I think Amadeus, Crash and Chaplin.

-Yeah.

-OK.

-Are you happy?

-Yeah.

-We're going to try.

-You're going to stick with Amadeus, Crash and Chaplin?

-Yes.

-Yes.

OK, there we are. We can stop the clock.

Of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer?

Let's go Amadeus first cos we're not sure if it won or not.

-I think it'll be Amadeus.

-Which is your most likely to be pointless?

-I think Chaplin. No, Crash, I think.

-Do you think Crash?

-I think Crash.

-OK, Crash goes last.

-Yes.

-Least likely to be pointless, Amadeus?

-Yeah.

-OK, let's put those answers up on the board in that order

and here they are.

We've got Amadeus, Chaplin and Crash. Very, very best of luck.

Three good answers up on the board. Let's hope they're all correct.

Let's hope at least one of them is pointless

and you can win that jackpot for your charities.

What charities are you playing for?

-Ectopic Pregnancy Trust, of which I am a patron.

-Very good. Adam?

I'm playing for PDSA which supplies free veterinary care

-to the most vulnerable pet owners in the country.

-Very good indeed.

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Two excellent charities there.

Let's hope at least one of these answers is pointless

so you can take that jackpot back with you to distribute among them.

Your first answer was Amadeus. In this case - in fact, all three cases,

-we were looking for one-word Oscar-winning films.

-Yes.

If it is pointless, it will win you £2,500 for your charities.

Let's see how many people said Amadeus.

-Ooh!

-It's right.

-It's right.

-You see, it's right.

If Amadeus goes all the way down to zero, you leave with that jackpot.

It's taking us down through the teens, into single figures.

It's still going down. Still going down.

-1!

-No!

-APPLAUSE

Oh! I am so angry!

One person said Amadeus.

-Whoever that one person is, I dislike you thoroughly.

-Who ARE you?

-Unfortunately not a pointless answer there.

-Oh!

So, only two more shots at today's jackpot.

We're looking for one-word Oscar-winning films.

Your second answer was Chaplin.

Let's see if it's right and if it's pointless.

If it's both of those things, you leave here with £2,500.

-Oh!

-Oh!

-Not Chaplin.

-Sorry.

-That's all right.

-It didn't win an Oscar.

So, you only have one more chance to win today's jackpot.

Everything is riding on your third and final answer which was Crash.

This was your most confident shot at pointless.

-Your least confident scored 1.

-I know.

-I thought Chaplin won.

You've got to think this is looking good, surely.

To win that jackpot, though, it has to be pointless.

For £2,500, let's see how many people said Crash.

Well, it's right.

Your first answer, Amadeus, took us all the way down to 1.

Your second answer, Chaplin, was incorrect.

Crash now taking us down into single figures.

Down it goes. Still going down...

-Oh, no!

-It's the same person! I can guarantee it!

APPLAUSE

-Argh!

-Oh, I'm so sorry.

-I am so angry.

You've rung up some complete film geek, haven't you?

LAUGHTER

-I'm afraid... That is so unfair.

-That is so mean! That is mean!

-Two 1s!

Two 1s! But you played amazingly well.

Unfortunately, you didn't manage to find

-that all-important pointless answer, though.

-No.

So, I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of £2,500.

However, as it is a celebrity special,

we're going to donate £500 to each celebrity

-to split between their charities.

-Fantastic.

APPLAUSE

It's been brilliant having you on the show. You played so well.

Very impressive, all the way through.

Needle match in the head-to-head and a very exciting finale there.

And you get to take home a Pointless trophy to show for your troubles,

-so very well done.

-Thank you.

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That is very unlucky, I have to say.

I think Crash is a more obscure answer

than a couple of the pointless answers I'm going to read you out.

It's a different one person in 100 who got Amadeus and got Crash.

-Really?

-So, you've got two people to blame, I'm afraid.

Let's take a look at the pointless answers.

Dead was by Young Fathers.

OK is Talvin Singh and Overgrown - that was James Blake.

-Now, some of these films. Braveheart is a pointless answer.

-Whoa!

-What?!

-Chicago was a pointless answer.

-You would never...

-I know.

Crash and Amadeus both better answers, I would say, than that.

Rebecca and Unforgiven.

You also could have had Cavalcade, Cimarron, Gigi,

Patton, Hamlet and Marty. All of those were pointless answers.

Well done if you got any of those at home.

Now let's look at Booker Prize-winning novels.

G by John Berger, Holiday by Stanley Middleton,

Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

and you could have had Saville by David Storey.

Very well done if you said any of those at home

and unlucky in the studio. Two 1s and another good answer in Chaplin.

Terrific work. You've been brilliant all the way through.

-Thank you so much.

-Thank you.

-Thanks, Rich.

Unfortunately we have to say goodbye to you,

but it's been wonderful having you on the show.

-Thank you so much for playing.

-Thank you.

-Thank you for having me.

APPLAUSE

Join us next time

when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.

-It's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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