Two teams (Muir and another versus Norden and another) would be asked to play a series of word games devised by Mason. The games would vary from simple quizzes to more challenging trials; each episode featured a final round in which Muir and Norden were each challenged to create a story that would end with a pun of a given phrase. (Many of the stories were later collected in a series of books.)
The host of the show was originally Jack Longland, who was succeeded by John Julius Norwich[?] and then Michael O'Donnell[?]. The two additional contestants were initially film critic E. Arnot Robertson[?] and journalist Nancy Spain[?]; later contestants included film critic and Greek scholar Dilys Powell, journalist Anne Scott-James[?], and writer and historian Antonia Fraser.
The show, which ended in 1990, is still rerun in the United States and Australia. A companion program, My Music, ran from 1967 to 1993.
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