"Blankety Blanks" (1977) TV series 1977-1979

User Rating:

9.5/10   

Seasons:

1

Genre:

Comedy | Game-Show

Tagline:

Get Ready To Match The Stars!

Plot:

Australian version of the popular American game show "Match Game 73" (1973). In this game is two contestants - one champion and one challenger...

Plot Keywords:

Non Fiction

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Carol Raye	...	Panellist (1 episode, 1977)
Stuart Wagstaff	...	Panellist (1 episode, 1977)
Jon English	...	Panellist (1 episode, 1977)
Kate Fitzpatrick	...	Panellist (1 episode, 1977)
Don Blake	...	Announcer (1 episode, 1977)
Noeline Brown	...	Panelist (1 episode, 1977)
Ugly Dave Gray	...	Panelist (1 episode, 1977)
Graham Kennedy	...	Host (1 episode, 1977)

Also Known As:

"Graham Kennedy's Blankety Blanks" (Australia) (complete title)

Runtime:

30 min (including commercials)

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Channel Ten Studios, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Company:

Reg Grundy Productions Pty. Ltd.

Trivia:

When host 'Graham Kennedy' succumbed to laryngitis, young announcer Don Blake was forced to host the show for an episode.

Quotes:

[opening to first episode]
Announcer: Get ready to match the stars! "Hollywood Seven" Jon English! "The Naked Vicar's" Noeline Brown! Ugly Dave Gray! Carol Raye! Stuart Wagstaff! Kate Fitzpatrick! As we play "Graham Kennedy's Blankety Blanks"! And now, here he is, the man with the dancing eyes - Graham Kennedy!
[Graham Kennedy enters; audience applause]
Graham Kennedy: Thank you very much. Thank you and welcome to "Blankety Blanks". One of these celebrities is sitting in the Secret Square.
[audience laughter]
Graham Kennedy: [pretending to sound somewhat surprised] Oh, it's the wrong game. I fell at the first hurdle.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Dancing with the Stars: (#4.1)" (2006)

Groundbreaking tv comedy

"Cyril said ...'OOOOHHHH, my friend Derek got his hand stuck in my (BLANK)'. Hosted by the irrepressible Grahame Kennedy, it was bawdy, rude, and occassionally hilariously funny. Kennedy himself toed a fine line between naughty and offensive, and often goaded his panelists into the same. A cavalcade of celebrities (mostly minor), attuned to comic timing and the double entendre, completed the task. Contestants didn't win much, but it didn't matter. The series was revived, with Daryl Somers as the host, but it didn't have the verve, the nerve or the wickedness of the original