Do you want me to lend you your bus fare home?" However, despite Dawson's constant jibing of the consolation prize ("Never mind love, you might have lost, but you'll never be short of something to prop your door open with now."), the chequebook and pen are now worth a great deal, as they were never commercially available and only a limited number were made. When one contestant had won nothing, Dawson rolled his eyes and asked her "I bet you wish you'd've stopped at home and watched Crossroads. Most famous was the consolation prize: the Blankety Blank chequebook and pen, which Dawson would often call "The Blankety Blank chequepen and book!" The "chequebook" consisted of a silver trophy in the shape of a chequebook. As the audience (expecting the usual cheap prizes) clapped and cheered appreciatively, Dawson waved them down with "Don't get excited-it goes to the end of the runway and back." On one memorable occasion, the 300 Blanks star prize was a trip on Concorde. Dawson drew attention to the fact that the prizes were less-than-mediocre, not pretending that the show had "fabulous prizes" as others did, but making a joke of it, such as referring to them as "fire salvaged" prizes. As a result, the poor-quality prizes became a running joke throughout the show's various runs, particularly during the Dawson era. The Independent Broadcasting Authority restricted prize values on ITV shows, and BBC-programme prizes were worth even less because the corporation felt it inappropriate to spend licence payers' money on such things. Prizes on British game shows of the 1980s seem very poor by modern standards. On Lily Savage's Blankety Blank, the player with the highest Supermatch score or winner of a tie-breaker round played the head-to-head round for an additional prize. Matching the 150-blank answer and winning the head-to-head final won the star prize. The player would then give their answer, and if they matched, they would double up their blanks for a more valuable prize. That player then chose one of the celebrities who would write down their answer to a "word BLANK" phrase. If a contestant failed to match any of the three answers, the bonus round would end.Īnother game was then played with two new players, and the one who amassed the most from the Supermatch won the game (if the two winners scored the same, it would go to "sudden death", using the same tiebreaker as in the main game).
The answers were revealed after that the most popular answer in the survey was worth 150 Blanks, the second-most popular was worth 100 Blanks, and the third-most popular was worth 50. After consulting with three celebrities on the panel for help he/she had to choose an answer. The first celebrity response to match a contestant's answer gave that contestant the victory if there is still no match (which was rare), the round would be replayed with a new question.Ī fill-in-the-blank phrase was given, and the contestant's job was to choose the most common response based on a studio audience survey. The contestants would write their answers first on a card in secret, then the celebrities were canvassed to give their answers. If the players had the same score at the end of the game, a tiebreaker was used that reversed the gameplay. Only celebrities that a contestant failed to match could play this round. The first contestant would again begin Round 2, with two new questions, unless he/she had matched everyone in the first round. The contestant received one point for each celebrity who wrote down the same answer (or reasonably similar as determined by the judges) up to a maximum of six points for matching everyone.Īfter play was completed on the first contestant's question, the host would read the statement on the other card for the second contestant and play was identical. The host would then ask each celebrity – one at a time, beginning with #1 in the upper left hand corner – to give their response.
After they had finished, the contestant was asked for his/her answer. While the contestant pondered his/her answer, the six celebrities would write their answers on index cards. A classic example: "Did you catch a glimpse of that girl on the corner? She has the world's biggest blank." Frequently, the statements were written with comedic, double entendre answers in mind.
When Les Dawson became the host, the programme did away with the A or B choice, but this was reinstated when Lily Savage became the host. The main game was played in two rounds, the first contestant was given a choice of two statements labelled either "A" or "B". The object of the game was to match the answers of as many of the six celebrity panelists as possible on fill-in-the-blank statements. Historically, the contestants were always a man and a woman or two women at no point did two men compete head-to-head.
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