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Blankety Blank

1979–1990BBC OneDocumentary

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A panel game with a deliberately worthless prize, and a microphone shaped like a fishing rod.

Blankety Blank opens with a main title sequence of 28 seconds.

It arrived on BBC One in 1979, when A Question of Sport, Grandstand and This Is Your Life were also on the network.

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The opening titles

Season 1

28s

The 1979 titles, panellists in triangles against the name repeated behind them.

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