Not a Word
Synopsis
Not a Word presented its panels with a set of letters, and asked them to insert other letters to make a word using all of the letters, in order.
For instance, the panel might be given
- M P I B L
"That's a conteMPtIBLe set," scoffed one.
"Proper nouns, on this show, are iMPermIssiBLe," said another
"Simple plurals - those formed just by adding -s - are incoMPatIBLe with victory," noted someone else.
"Frankly, I find all this discussion iMPossIBLe," said the last.
Longest valid word wins the round.
Though not a tremendous success - the "'incomplete' word game" lasted just one series on BBC2 - the basic idea was sound. It returned two decades later as the hook of Catchword with Paul Coia.