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Spot the Tune

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Host

Ken Platt (1956)

Des O'Connor (1956)

Ted Ray

Alfred Marks (1958)

Robert Morley (1958?)

Jackie Rae (1959)

Pete Murray

Billy Raymond (1961)

Pete Murray (again, 1962)

Co-hosts

Marion Ryan (singer)

Broadcast

Granada for ITV, 10 May 1956 to 1962 (210 episodes in 6 series)

Synopsis

Early musical quiz, which was later to emerge in the 1970s as Name That Tune. Contestants had to provide a song title after only hearing a few bars of music from songstress Marion Ryan backed by the Peter Knight Orchestra (or, in later series, Johnnie Gray and his Band of the Day).