Episode 8 Pointless

APPLAUSE

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

and welcome to Pointless,

the quiz show where obvious answers mean nothing

and obscure answers mean everything.

Let's meet today's players.

First, we welcome back Melika and Melissa,

you were on the show last time, everyone gets two chances,

to reach the Pointless final and this is your second chance.

Remind us what happened?

We got through to the head-to-head and we got a question on wine,

which wasn't brilliant for us.

Wine, yes, that was quite a tough one, wasn't it?

-Prefer soft drinks this time.

-OK, remind us how you two know each other.

We've been going to the same school for about seven years,

became friends there.

Have you been a team before, have you worked together on...?

One school sports day, we did a three-legged race.

We were getting to the end and her shoe came off

so I was basically dragging her the rest of the way.

I wanted to go and collect my shoe but she dragged me across the finish line.

-Did you still win?

-Third.

-Third?

-Yeah.

-Not bad.

-Not bad.

After we fell over the line.

With Melissa attached. Fantastic.

I hope you do better than third this afternoon.

-It's great to have you back on the show.

-Thank you very much.

-Thank you.

Next we welcome, Kate and Vivienne.

You are our second pair. How do you two know each other?

Kate's my youngest of three children.

Youngest of three?

-Where have you come from, Kate?

-Liverpool.

-Liverpool.

What are you hoping is going to come up this afternoon?

Countries, currencies, languages, I quite like.

Are you widely travelled?

Yes, not so much nowadays but I worked in travel for a long time.

I was a flight attendant. I've lived abroad, worked in the industry.

That's pretty good Pointless training, I'd have thought,

that will cover a lot of bases.

Vivienne, what do you do?

I'm semi-retired, I'm a grandma as well.

-Lovely, how many grandchildren have you got?

-Five.

-Very good.

Welcome to the show, Kate and Vivienne,

it's lovely to have you here.

Next, we welcome back Jane and Andrew.

You were on the show last time, remind us what happened to you?

Unfortunately, poets came up and...

-They will.

-I didn't do a good job.

-What was it, Jane?

What did it for you?

I don't know the poets, I don't know their first names.

-It was Wordsworth, wasn't it? Yeah.

-Yeah.

-That's right. We had John Wordsworth, didn't we?

-Yes.

Now, Andrew, we discovered last time you are the Mayor of Pembroke Dock.

That's right, yes.

I like this dress-down look, Andrew.

He arrives in full chains, with a Pembroke Dock flag.

He came in a limo, Andrew, didn't he?

Oh, yes, driven by Jane.

Got four bodyguards backstage.

What are you hoping is going to come up?

Obviously, we've done poet's first names? That's not going to come back.

Oh, Star Trek, sports.

-It was Star Trek that brought you together.

-Yes.

-Yes.

So it would be fitting if there was a Star Trek round.

We occasionally have them, do we?

Do we have Star Trek rounds, not really?

Yes, I am sure we have done a Star Trek round before.

-I'll let you into a little secret.

-Yeah.

-Not doing one today.

Dash.

Very best of luck, it's lovely to have you back on the show.

Let's hope we see you go all the way through to the head-to-head

and beyond maybe this afternoon.

Finally, we have got Pete and Berni, welcome to the show.

How do you to know each other?

We met in the research department of a large UK company.

-Yeah, we're husband and wife.

-Sorry.

When was this, last Friday?

What, you just ended up here? Wow.

What do you do now, are you still in research?

No, I work for a company we produce manual handling devices

for the delivery of beer, drinks, distribution.

Manual handling devices?

Well, yes.

You mean tankards?

No, no.

I should've said probably equipment.

Manual handling equipment?

The methods used for delivering beer have not changed for...

-Well, the oesophagus.

-No, before it reaches you.

When it arrives outside the pub, into the pub cellar.

There's usually a big old, really dirty old cushion thing.

-That's what we manufacture.

-The big dirty cushion?

They are not dirty when we give them to them.

They do that all by themselves.

Right. Berni, what do you do now?

I've got my own business running children's cookery parties and workshops.

Wow, do they all fight over who can lick out the bowl?

Seems to be the thing in our house.

And we make the party food as the party activity.

Yes, a main course, a dessert, and a baked item.

-Brilliant.

-That's clever, isn't it?

-That's like having your own balloon blowing up party.

-Yeah.

Just get all that job done as a party.

Or tidying up the last party, party.

Have a ringing your parents to get to come and collect you party.

Brilliant.

That is absolutely brilliant.

We will find out more about all of you throughout the show.

There's only one person left to introduce.

He only reads one Sunday newspaper, The Obscurer.

He's my Pointless friend, he's Richard.

Hiya, hello.

APPLAUSE

It should be a great show today, shouldn't it?

We've got great sets of contestant, two returning pairs,

Melika and Melissa did very well last time got through to the head-to-head.

Jane and Andrew tripped up on Wordsworth's first name,

William Wordsworth, in case you are writing things down at home.

We've got a good mix of questions, we've got film, music,

we've got geography, a bit of something for everyone.

So should be a cracker.

Splendid, cracker it will be.

All our questions on Pointless,

have been put to 100 people before the show

but we are looking for the obscure answers that they didn't get.

To stay in the game, with a chance of winning our jackpot, all our players need to do is

score as few points as they possibly can.

Now, obviously, what everyone is trying to do is find a pointless answer,

that's an answer that none of our 100 people gave,

and each time that happens we will add £250 to the jackpot.

Nobody won the jackpot last time so we add another £1,000 to that.

So today's jackpot starts off at £5,000.

There we are.

OK, let's play Pointless.

OK, in this first round, each one of you must give me one answer

and you cannot confer with your partner.

Whichever pair has the highest score at the end of the round

will be eliminated. Try and make sure that's not you.

If you give me an incorrect answer,

you will score the maximum of 100 points.

So, try and avoid those. OK, our first category this afternoon is...

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.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...

UK top 40 singles with the word Christmas in the title. Richard.

We're looking for any single that's reached the UK top 40

with the word Christmas in its title,

including if it's been a double A-side.

Songs which have Xmas, also allowed.

And if Christmas is part of a longer word that is also allowed.

So, any song with the word Christmas in its title

that's been a UK top 40 hit up to beginning of 2012, please.

Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, Melika and Melissa, you all drew lots before the show

and, this afternoon, you get to go first.

Melika, I think you look quite happy about this.

-Not really.

-Really?

No, I can think of a couple but I'm not sure of their actual titles.

I'm going to have to go with one, I know it's going to be really high.

-I'm going to go for White Christmas.

-White Christmas.

OK, let's see if that's a correct answer

and if it is, let's see how many people said White Christmas.

It's correct.

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-Not bad.

-Better than 100.

-Better than 100.

It's a lot better than I thought it might have been.

-I thought it was about 60 or something.

-Yeah, 35, not bad.

-Richard.

-Yeah, pretty big score.

It's been a hit a number of times, Mantovani, Bing Crosby,

all sorts of people. Written by Irving Berlin.

Kate, remember we're looking for UK top 40 songs

with Christmas in the title.

You were thrilled with this category when it came. I think. Weren't you?

Yeah, I have to confess, I love Christmas songs.

I really do love them.

At Christmas only, of course.

I'm trying to think, I'm going through my favourite ones

and they are pretty popular.

So, I'm going to go with a risky one.

And I'm going to say Christmas Wrapping.

-Christmas Wrapping.

-Ooh.

I can't think who that's by

but I'm going to hazard a guess that it's a terrible song.

It is. But I love it.

Christmas Wrapping says Kate. Let's if it's right and if it is,

let's see how many people said Christmas Wrapping.

Oh, God.

Down it goes.

-Look at that!

-APPLAUSE

Kate, that's a pointless answer and it adds £250 to today's jackpot,

takes the total up to 5,250.

Leaves your score at nothing.

How about that? A pointless answer.

Very well played, Kate. Welcome to the show. Yeah, a pointless answer.

There's lots of big, pointless answers in this round, actually.

-It might not be the last pointless answer we see.

-Wow.

Good. OK. Well, there's the gauntlet thrown down for you, Jane.

A pointless answer, plenty of them out there.

Well, I've been thinking of two so I'm hoping the one I'm going to say

is going to be the other pointless.

I'll Be Home For Christmas.

I'll Be Home For Christmas, says Jane.

Let's see if that's right

and if it is, let's see how many people said I'll Be Home For Christmas.

Ooh.

Oh, bad luck, that scores you the maximum of 100 points.

Wow, OK, so, on to you, Pete. So, remember,

we're looking for UK top 40 songs with Christmas in the title.

Right, I had one answer all along and I can't think of another one.

And it is John Lennon, Happy Christmas War Is Over.

Happy Christmas War Is Over, says Pete.

Let's see if that's right and if it is,

let's see how many people said Happy Christmas War Is Over.

It's right.

Keep going, keep going.

APPLAUSE

That's a great answer.

Happy Christmas War Is Over, Richard.

Yeah, can you believe that score?

That would be the first one I'd have voted for, I think.

But then that's just me.

It's not, we gave Alexander Armstrong 100 seconds, is it?

-That would be a very different show.

-Wouldn't it? Oh, what a dull show.

-But there we are.

-Yeah, pretty bad.

Thanks very much, Richard. We're halfway through the round,

let's take a look at the scores.

Kate and Vivienne looking fantastic on nothing.

Then, we got up to 4 where we find Pete and Berni.

Then, up to 35, Melika and Melissa.

And then all the way up to 100 where Jane and Andrew are.

So, Andrew, we need a really obscure song from you in the next pass,

if possible.

We're going to come back down the line.

Can the second players please take their places at the podium?

OK, we are looking for songs with Christmas in the title.

Berni, you are on 4,

the high-scorers are Andrew and Jane on 100.

Which means if you can score 95 or less,

you are through to the next round.

You got a good, obscure Christmas song?

I've got a couple in mind but I'm not quite sure of the titles.

So, I'm going to go with Are You Lonely This Christmas?

Are You Lonely This Christmas?

OK, here comes your red line, nice and high, look at that.

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

Are You Lonely This Christmas?

Let's see if it's right

and if it is, let's see how many people said it.

Ooh.

Unfortunately, also an incorrect answer.

It has scored you the maximum of 100 points, bad luck, Berni.

Sorry, Berni, it's Christmas carnage here.

I've got a lot of explaining to do at the end of this round.

-Right.

-But I will gladly do it.

Very good. That's a lifeline for you, Andrew. A lifeline.

The high-scorers are now Berni and Pete on 104.

If you can score 3 or less with this answer, Andrew,

you are through to the next round. So, remember,

we're looking for UK top 40 songs with Christmas in the title.

Alexander, I've gone back a bit to my childhood

and I remember Terry Scott singing

All Want For Christmas Are My Two Front Teeth.

OK, here is your red line, Andrew, very low

but if you can get below that red line

with All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth,

you are through to the next round.

Is it right? How may people said it?

Oh!

An incorrect answer which, I'm afraid,

means you score the maximum of 100 points.

You are members of the 200 club, very, very well done,

congratulations(!)

-Richard.

-Yeah, sorry, Andrew, famous song but never a UK top 40 hit.

If it's any consolation,

Pete is doing his very best not to look delighted behind you.

-He's keeping a very...

-Genuinely surprised.

-You were very good, Pete.

He kept a very straight face, there.

Right, so, Vivienne, you're on nothing.

The highest scorers are on 200,

there's no way you'll overtake them, even if you score 100 points.

Kate scored, well, a rare thing, a correct answer in this round.

And also a pointless answer.

Remember, we're looking for UK top 40 songs

with Christmas in the title.

Well, I'm going down the same route.

All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle.

All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle, well said, in that accent.

So, very best of luck. Maybe this will be a nice, low score for you.

Let's see, All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle, is it right? How many people said it?

It's right.

APPLAUSE

-One, Vivienne.

-Wasn't that lucky?

It's a cracking score, very well done.

One point takes your total up to one.

-Richard.

-Well played, Vivienne, sailing through the carnage.

A hit in 1964 for Dora Bryan, the actress, yeah.

Very well done. Now, Melissa.

The high-scorers, 200, Andrew and Jane.

There's no way you will overtake them, whatever you score.

So, why not see if you can find a really low-scoring,

possibly even a pointless answer?

Yeah, I have one in my head.

I'm not entirely sure if it's right

but if it is, I'm hoping it's going to be really low.

-Mr Blobby's Christmas.

-Mr Blobby's Christmas.

-Don't ask.

-OK.

Mr Blobby's Christmas. There's no red line for you cos you're through whatever you score.

Let's see if that's a correct answer

and if it is, let's see how many people said Mr Blobby's Christmas.

Oh, bad luck. But it doesn't matter.

An incorrect answer scores you 100 points, takes your total to 135

but you are through

to the next round so, who cares. Richard.

Yeah, OK, let's explain some of those 100 points, shall we?

It's not Mr Blobby's Christmas. Christmas In Blobbyland

was the song you were thinking of.

Jane, you said I'll Be Home For Christmas.

There's two different songs. I'll Be Home This Christmas by Shakin' Stevens

and Driving Home For Christmas by Chris Rea.

But no I'll Be Home For Christmas.

And, Berni, it's just Lonely This Christmas, number one for Mud.

But we have to accept the correct names of the songs.

Let's take a look at some of the pointless answers here.

There is Lonely This Christmas by Mud.

Another Rock And Roll Christmas was pointless.

Christmas In Smurfland was a pointless answer.

Cold As Christmas was Elton John. That was pointless.

Hey Mister Christmas and I Wish It Could Be A Wombling Christmas.

I'll Be Home This Christmas, there you go, by Shaky.

Merry Christmas Darling. Thank God It's Christmas.

Well done if you got those at home. Let's move on and pretend that round never happened.

LAUGHTER

Thank you, Richard.

At the end of the first round, our losing pair with the highest score,

it's Jane and Andrew.

Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Wordsworth and Christmas have done for you.

I thought we were going to see you all the way through to the final.

-I had high hopes for you, Andrew and Jane. What happened?

-Christmas!

LAUGHTER

-That one word, I guess.

-That's so unfair.

It's been lovely having you.

I'm sorry we haven't given you better categories to answer.

You were great contestants. Thank you so much. Jane and Andrew.

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

There's only room for two in the head-to-head so one team will leave at the end of this round.

Our category for Round Two is...

Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first and who's going to go second?

Whoever's first, step up to the podium.

OK, our question concerns...

UK cities or towns and their rivers. Richard?

We'll give you six cities and towns on each pass.

You have to tell us on which river they principally stand.

An obscure answer scores fewer points

but give us an incorrect answer and you'll score 100 points.

12 answers for you to get in all at home.

Thanks. So we are looking for the rivers

on which these UK towns or cities stand and we have got...

I'll read those again.

Newcastle, Belfast, Berwick, Maidstone, Liverpool, Middlesbrough.

There we are. There are our six towns.

Melissa, I would like the most obscure river you can think of.

It could be an obscure river

but I haven't got a clue about any of those.

I apologise in advance. I'm going to have to make one up.

Um, Berwick is on the Tweed.

-Berwick is on the Tweed. You plucked that from thin air?

-Yes.

Quite a nice ring to it!

Let's see if that's right and if it is, let's see how many people said Berwick, Tweed.

-Oh, my!

-It's absolutely right Melissa.

And 20 of our 100 people thought so too.

20 points for Berwick and the Tweed.

You must have known that somewhere.

Berwick-upon-Tweed must have been in your head.

-Maybe.

-The Tweed mainly in Scotland but the last couple of miles dip into England

-before it goes out to the North Sea.

-Indeed.

Thank you very much indeed. Now then, Vivienne.

We are looking for the rivers on which these towns or cities stand.

I was going for Berwick-on-Tweed.

Do you not know any of the others?

-There's one up there you must know.

-I'm not going to say it!

I'll go for Middlesbrough, the Tees.

Middlesbrough, the Tees.

It is a tease, isn't it, Middlesbrough?

Let's see if it's right and if it is how many people said Tees for Middlesbrough.

It's right.

APPLAUSE

That's a great answer, Vivienne.

14 for the Tees.

Again, very good answer. I think we know the one you avoided!

OK, so Pete we come to you finally.

The last person to have this board so you can talk us through all the rivers, if you like.

The two I was going to pick

were the Tweed and the Tees.

I'm not sure...

I know Belfast. I just can't think of it.

I'm just going to have to go for an obvious one

and say the Tyne for Newcastle because I just think

that will probably score slightly less than the Mersey for Liverpool.

OK. Maidstone you're not even going to have a crack at?

No. I'm from the North, you see.

OK, you say the Tyne for Newcastle.

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

Mm! 71.

71 for the Tyne.

Big score, Pete, but if those other two have been taken it's difficult.

It's in the lyrics of three top-five singles, the Tyne. Do you know any?

Well, Lindisfarne.

Actually, no, not in the top five. Top five obviously Gazza.

-With Fog On The Tyne.

-Something by Alan Price or The Animals?

-Shall I tell you?

-Mm.

It's Oliver's Army by Elvis Costello and Driving In My Car by Madness.

It was made in a factory by the Tyne.

What a lovely, lovely fact!

-Like that?

-Yeah! Like that very much.

Vivienne, you avoided telling us the river on which Liverpool stands.

-It's the Mersey, of course. It would only have scored 59.

-Wow.

-Which I think is extraordinarily low.

-So Tyne beats Mersey?

The other two were the best two answers on the board.

Maidstone stands on the Medway, which would have scored 5. Well done if you said that.

Belfast stands on the Lagan,

which would have scored 1 point.

That's the best answer. Well done if you said Lagan at home.

Thank you, Richard. Let's take a look at the scores.

Halfway through the round.

14, a great score from Vivienne and Kate. Looking very strong.

Then up to 20, Melissa and Melika, likewise very strong.

Pete and Berni, that was bad luck.

71. Berni, you're going to have to find a really nice, obscure river.

Can the second players please take their places at the podium?

OK, we're going to put six more towns and cities on the board

and here we are...

We have got London, Worcester, Norwich, Glasgow, Derby and Leeds.

I'll read those one more time.

There are the towns or cities.

We want the rivers on which they stand.

Try and find the one that the fewest of our 100 people knew.

You're the highest scorers, Berni, on 71,

so let's have a really obscure river from you.

Geography is my worst subject,

so I'm going to go Derby,

the River Trent.

Derby, Trent. Says Berni. Pete, what do you think?

LAUGHTER

He said...

Fine!

Let's see if Derby, Trent, is right

and if it is how many people knew that answer?

I'm afraid that's incorrect,

which means you score the maximum 100 points

which takes your total up to an unassailable 171. Richard?

Sorry. Derby not on the Trent.

You might be confused with Terence Trent D'Arby, possibly!

I'll give you the actual answer at the end of the round

in case the other pairs want to have a go at it.

Kate, you're on 14. Doesn't matter what you score.

You're through to the next round whatever. You'll never overtake

the score of Berni and Pete.

Bearing which in mind, why not have some fun with this board?

OK.

Sorry, not the whole board!

Pick one and Melika will have some fun as well.

Well, I have a very poor knowledge of UK rivers, I'm ashamed to admit,

but I'll think of one that I know

which is the Severn

and I'll guess at...Norwich.

OK, you're going to give the Severn to Norwich.

Gratefully received, I'm sure!

Ooh!

Let's see if that's right

and if it is let's see how many people said Severn, Norwich.

Bad luck. Bad luck.

I'm afraid that's incorrect, meaning you score the maximum 100 points

which takes you to 114 but you're in the head-to-head whatever.

Yes, a long river, the Severn, but it's not that long!

LAUGHTER

Now then, Melika. You can clean up.

-Do you know your rivers well?

-No.

The only one on that board is London, the Thames.

I'm not going for that. It probably got 97.

I'll make up a river and say

Norwich, the Norrie.

The Norrie! Why not?

LAUGHTER

The Norrie. Is that right and how many people said it?

No red line for you, you're through whatever happens. The Norrie.

CHUCKLING

Oh, bad luck! Bad luck. Incorrect.

Scores you 100 points and takes your total up to 120

but you're through.

-300 points in that round.

-Yep!

That's pretty good going. A completely blank board.

Not a single correct answer on it.

I can't believe the Norrie wasn't right!

I bet there is a River Norrie.

-I bet there is.

-You reckon?

Somewhere in the universe.

Let's clear up Berni's wrong answer first.

You're from nearby, aren't you? Nottingham?

-Pete, do you know what Derby is on?

-The Derwent.

-Well done.

It's a tributary of the Trent,

but it's the Derwent.

Very well done if you said Derwent at home. It scores one.

Pete, maybe if your roles had been reversed, you would have found your way through.

It's the best answer on the board.

The worst answer on the board is London.

That would have scored you 99 points.

99 points, ironically, would have been the best answer anyone gave in this round!

LAUGHTER

Glasgow is on the Clyde. that would have scored 24 points.

Now the Severn. Norwich isn't on the Severn.

It's way over the other end of the country but Worcester is.

That would have scored 6.

Leeds is on the River Aire for 13.

And Norwich, it's not on the Norrie,

but also with the joint best answer on the board it's on the Wensum,

which would have scored you one point.

There we are. Thanks very much, Richard.

At the end of Round Two,

the losing pair with the highest score, Pete and Berni.

Richard made a good point there.

It's all the tactics. Had you been playing the other way round...

It would have made a big difference.

Colossal, and you would be in the head-to-head.

These are the things you've got to remember when we see you next time.

Anything else you've learned that you can bring back next time?

Hopefully we won't get another question on rivers.

Yeah. We've all performed appallingly at this round.

-It's not been good.

-Myself included. I didn't know any. Wensum?!

-I tell you what they should rename the Wensum.

-What?

-The Norrie!

-That's a great name for a river.

-Imagine if you were called Norwich-upon-Norrie!

LAUGHTER

Pete and Berni, next time I'm sure you will be better served by our categories

and I hope we'll see you get to the final. It's been lovely. Berni and Pete.

APPLAUSE

For the remaining two pairs, things are about to get more exciting as we enter the head-to-head.

Well, congratulations, Kate and Vivienne, Melika and Melissa.

only one round away from the final

and a chance to play for the jackpot, which stands at £5,250.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Only one pair can play for that money and to decide which pair that's going to be,

you are now going to go head-to-head.

For each question you will be shown five options.

Each pair needs to give just one answer.

You are now allowed to confer.

All you have to do is score less than the other pair and you win that question.

The first pair to win two questions will be playing for the jackpot. Let's play head-to-head.

APPLAUSE

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

Richard?

We show you a still from five films starring Matt Damon.

You tell us the name of the film. The most obscure one will win the point. Best of luck.

Thanks very much.

Here come our five stills from Matt Damon films and we have got...

OK. Five Matt Damon films.

Kate and Vivienne,

you played best throughout the show so far so you get to go first.

You want to pick the Matt Damon film

that you think the fewest people

recognised from those stills.

-OK, we're going to go for B.

-Yep?

And that, we believe,

is Good Will Hunting.

Good Will Hunting you are saying for B.

OK, Melika and Melissa.

We think C is The Bourne Identity

but we also think B might be Dogma

so we're not sure.

Shall we go for B? B, Dogma.

OK, you're going to contradict Kate and Vivienne.

You're going to say Dogma for B.

Very exciting.

We're going to learn something on the very first reveal,

on the first score.

Kate and Vivienne have said B, Good Will Hunting.

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

If it is right, I guess we will know the answer to your question.

It is Good Will Hunting!

That's all we really need to know.

And it goes down to 13!

APPLAUSE

Very well done, Kate and Vivienne.

That means after one question, Kate and Vivienne are up 1-0. Richard?

Yes, Good Will Hunting. He co-wrote the screenplay, for which he won an Oscar.

Let's look at all five.

A was Invictus.

It would only have scored 8 points.

B we've already seen was Good Will Hunting.

C, you should have gone with it.

The Bourne Identity, quite right.

It would have scored 11 points so it would have put you into the lead.

D a bit harder. A pointless answer, in fact.

The Legend Of Bagger Vance that he made with Will Smith.

Pointless answer there.

E, slightly more recent, True Grit,

the Coen brothers' remake.

That would have scored 3 points

so all very low scoring.

Well done if you got those.

Thanks very much, Richard. Here is your second question

and it concerns...

-Richard?

-Yeah, good luck here, everybody.

We'll show you five anagrams of novels of Charles Dickens.

Work out the anagram and give us an answer.

The more obscure ones will score you fewer points and win you the point. Five to try and get at home.

OK, thank you very much.

Melika and Melissa, pay particular attention.

You have to get this to stay in the game.

Here come our five Dickens anagrams and we have got...

I'll read those one more time.

Made shirt, vitriol stew, armoured flu unit,

exasperating octet, and whizz climate turn.

OK, Melika and Melissa. You go first this time.

THEY CONFER

Which has two Zs in?

Shall just go with Great Expectations?

-We'll go for exasperating octet and Great Expectations.

-OK.

Exasperating octet and Great Expectations.

Kate and Vivienne?

Well, the only one I can see

and you can see is the bottom one,

which is whizz climate turn.

We'll go for Martin Chuzzlewit.

Martin Chuzzlewit. We have Great Expectations and Martin Chuzzlewit.

Melika and Melissa, you're first.

Great Expectations. Let's hope you win so you can stay in the game.

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

It's right.

32.

APPLAUSE

32 for Great Expectations.

Kate and Vivienne have gone for Martin Chuzzlewit.

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

Yes, you've done it!

You have done it. 20 for Martin Chuzzlewit.

APPLAUSE

Which means, I'm afraid, Melika and Melissa,

that Kate and Vivienne are through to the final, 2-0.

Let's look at all five. I'm sure some people at home got all five.

The biggest answer is vitriol stew.

-Do you know that one, Alexander?

-Oliver Twist?

Yes. Would have scored you 38 points.

Made shirt? Hard Times.

Would have scored you 4.

Anyone want to have a go at armoured flu unit?

Anybody in the audience, armoured flu unit?

-Our Mutual Friend.

-Our Mutual Friend. Absolutely right.

It would have scored 2,

so very well done if you got that at home.

Thank you very much, Richard.

The losing pair after the head-to-head I'm sorry to say is Melika and Melissa.

Head-to-head last time, head-to-head this time.

-You nearly won that point in the first question.

-Yeah.

We thought it would be higher.

The annoying thing was I knew Hard Times as well but it didn't jump out at me until you...

I'm hopeless. Anagrams, just can't do them at all. Just not at all.

And particularly with pressure on it's really hard to get.

You have done incredibly well throughout the show.

It's been lovely having you on. Thank you, Melika and Melissa.

But for Kate and Vivienne it's now time for our Pointless final.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Congratulations, Kate and Vivienne. You fought off all the competition

and have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot

and at the end of today's show the jackpot stands at £5,250.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

The rules are very simple.

To win that money, you have to find a pointless answer.

We've had one pointless answer today, from Kate.

You only have to find one more and you will go home with that money.

First, choose a category. You have a choice of five options. They are...

OK, right. Dramatists, I haven't got a clue.

Eurovision, no. Radio, hmm...

-Golf courses.

-Definitely not.

-Thespians?

It's dramatists or thespians.

Thespians, I might be able to help.

What do you think? You pick.

I think we'll go thespians.

Thespians it is, please.

Thespians it is. OK. Let's find out what the question is.

We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name

as many Peter O'Toole films as they could. Peter O'Toole films, Richard?

Any film made for cinema release

for which Peter O'Toole received an acting credit

up to the beginning of 2012.

No TV films or documentaries. Voice performances do count. Very best of luck.

OK, you have up to one minute to come up with three answers.

All you need to win that £5,250 is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

-Are you ready?

-Yes.

60 seconds on the clock and your time starts now.

-OK, I know one.

-I know one.

I'm ashamed to admit it. Supergirl.

-He was in that.

-My Favourite Year.

-My Favourite Year.

Lawrence Of Arabia is way too obvious. Think '60s.

I know.

-'70s, '80s?

-I can't think of any.

Let's think of the '80s. And less well-known ones.

-Wartime.

-Wartime ones.

-With his wife.

-Who's his wife?

The Welsh actress. Forget that.

OK, let's know what we've got. We've got Supergirl. I think that will be pretty well in.

-We've got My Favourite Year.

-My Favourite Year. We need one more.

Let's go with... Have a good think, Mum.

We've got a few more seconds yet.

-Wartime. Anything from the '90s?

-10 seconds left.

We'll have to go with Lawrence.

-Are you sure?

-Yes.

-What about Ladykillers? Was he in that?

-No.

-OK.

OK. There's your minute up.

-It sounds like you've got three answers.

-Well...

-We were looking for Peter O'Toole films. I now need to hear what your three answers are.

-OK.

Tricky subject but we'll go with the obvious one, Lawrence Of Arabia.

OK, Lawrence Of Arabia.

-What was the other one, Mum?

-My Favourite Year.

-My Favourite Year.

-And Supergirl.

-And Supergirl.

-Of those three, which one do you want to put last? Which is your best shot?

-I think Supergirl.

-OK, Supergirl last and I'm guessing Lawrence Of Arabia first?

-Yes.

Least likely to be pointless.

Let's put them on the board in that order..

Lawrence Of Arabia, My Favourite Year and Supergirl.

We were looking for Peter O'Toole films.

This was your least confident shot at a pointless answer.

You only have to find one, remember, to win that £5,250 jackpot.

Lawrence Of Arabia, we think it's probably right.

Let's see how many people said Lawrence Of Arabia.

Well, it's right. This for £5,250.

-Yes, 50. There we are.

-I'm surprised.

It's looking good for Supergirl, isn't it?

Unfortunately not a pointless answer

but I think we probably suspected that.

Only two more shots at today's jackpot.

What would you do with £5,250, Vivienne?

-Holiday. That's all I can think of at the moment.

-Kate, how about you?

Oh, I think a new sideboard or a nice couch or something.

-Something really dull.

-OK, very good.

You have two more chances to get that sideboard or couch.

LAUGHTER

We are looking for Peter O'Toole films.

Your second answer was My Favourite Year.

This has to be pointless if you're going to win that jackpot of £5,250.

Is it right and how many people said My Favourite Year?

Well, it's right. We went down to 50 with Lawrence Of Arabia.

Let's see how far you go with this.

My Favourite Year, down into the 20s.

If this goes all the way to zero you are leaving here with £5,250.

Oh!

APPLAUSE

I thought we had it then!

Two people thought of My Favourite Year.

So not a pointless answer but you didn't put that one last. You put Supergirl last.

When was Supergirl made?

I remember watching it when I was little

and it was a really cheesy '80s film

so I hope people have forgotten it. I thing most people will have done.

Most of all Peter O'Toole!

OK, there we are. We only have one more chance to win today's jackpot.

Everything is now riding on Supergirl.

This is your third and final answer.

This is the one you had no hesitation in putting last.

It has to be correct. It has to be a pointless answer to win the jackpot of £5,250.

Let's find out. Supergirl. Is it right? How many people said it? Good luck.

So we went down to 50 with Lawrence Of Arabia.

Then down to 2 with My Favourite Year.

It's moving in the right direction.

Supergirl into the 20s, into the teens.

If this goes down to zero you leave with £5,250!

Yes! You've done it!

That's brilliant.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Wow. Very, very well done.

Wow. New sideboard, here we come!

Congratulations. Supergirl was a pointless answer.

So you will be leaving here with the jackpot of £5,250. Well done.

Brilliant.

-Well, Supergirl.

-Absolutely brilliant, Kate and Vivienne.

That's what Pointless is all about. Watch a terrible movie in the '80s

and now it's just won you £5,250.

He's in it. Faye Dunaway is in it as well.

Helen Slater plays Supergirl, if we ever do Helen Slater films.

Let's take a look at more pointless answers,

in case you didn't get Supergirl at home.

Kidnapped was his first ever film.

King Ralph, the American comedy. Murphy's War he was in.

All of these are pointless.

Rebecca's Daughters. Supergirl, that's just won you the money.

The Savage Innocents also pointless.

The Seventh Coin. What's New Pussycat. Zulu Dawn.

All of those were pointless answers.

Well done if you said those at home.

Well done if you said Supergirl. Unfortunately you haven't won £5,250, but they have.

LAUGHTER

Well, thanks once again to our winning players,

Kate and Vivienne, who go away with today's jackpot of £5,250.

Thank you.

Join us next time. 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.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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