If you’re just discovering this show (like me), then you have a long journey ahead of you…and it’s a fun one. Watching some more episodes I've found myself thinking there's also less rehearsal time for the daytime version. For a show with a lot of physical movement, the frame rate isn’t too jarring, making it a pleasant watch.

A team of four male celebs face a team of four female celebs in this prizeless, just-for-fun parlour game. Liza's team featuring Maureen Lipman, Julia McKenzie and Millicent Martin suggested pure class, and they started as they meant to go on.Each character has her moment, with her own challenge to overcome, from the process of ageing and worries over children, to cheating spouses and turning to the bottle. The show’s loose demeanour leaves things open for all kinds of double entendres and unexpected moments; Actor Tony Selby’s reaction to being asked to mime the Australian TV series Chopper Squad; The unique Kenneth Williams, channelling his Just a Minute energy for all kinds of witty quips; Every time Una Stubbs plays a round; David Jason’s very verbal and physical prescience; Michael Aspel’s quick thinking. There are also a fair few unexpected matchups that make you think “who knew that person was on a show with them?

This is a Region 2 (England and Europe) DVD and will only play in Australia and New Zealand if you have a MULTI-REGION DVD player or a Region 2 DVD player. The shows on this set feature a galaxy of celebrities, comedians and actors, including: Kenneth Williams, Diana Dors, Richard O'Sullivan, Barbara Windsor, Robin Askwith, David Jason, Yootha Joyce, Mollie Sugden, Paula Wilcox, Spike Milligan, Russ Abbot, Warren Mitchell, Kenny Everett, June Whitfield, Terry Scott, Dick Emery, Maureen Lipman, Beryl Reid, Rodney Bewes, Faith Brown, Paul Eddington, John Inman, Dudley Moore, Victoria Wood, all three Goodies and two Doctors Who! The first couple of series features Blair and Stubbs each playing in teams with two other celebrities and a member of the public.They're all little changes, but ones that make it less challenging to perform and consequently less fun to watch.

They dropped the member of the public after an incident from the second show in the second series - the gentleman in Lionel's team read the wrong side of the card given to him, and thus mimed his own name!The episodes appear to have been sourced from the original master tapes and are of excellent quality. Give Us a Clue is a British televised game show version of charades which was broadcast on ITV from 1979 to 1992.