Blankety Blanks (1977)
- Genre
- Game Show, Comedy
- Country
- Australia
- Length
- 2 seasons, 28 episodes
- Rated
- M
- Rating
- 9.5 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This is an Australian game show from the 1970s based on the American format Match Game. The host asks celebrities to fill in blank phrases and contestants try to match their answers.
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What happens
Blankety Blanks is an Australian game show based on the American game show Match Game. It was hosted by Graham Kennedy on the 0-10 Network from 1977–1978. Blankety Blanks had a two-season run from 1977 to 1978. It was screened at a rate of five, thirty-minute episodes each week, stripped across an early evening timeslot. In Sydney and Melbourne, it was broadcast in the 7pm timeslot across both seasons. It was a ratings success, beating the flagship current affairs programs Willesee At Seven on the Seven Network and A Current Affair on the Nine Network, and on occasions achieving ratings in the low 40s. It was only after this ratings success that Network Ten revealed Kennedy was paid an unprecedented $1 million per season. In 1978, Kennedy won a TV Week Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television. When Kennedy had a bout of pneumonia, announcer Don Blake was forced to host the show for an episode. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Love Game- More like this series, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.