UKGameshows

Tall Story Club

Info Box

Host

Robert MacDermot

Kenneth Horne (1957 Christmas Special)

Broadcast

BBC-tv, pilot 10 August 1954, series 21 September 1954 to 28 December 1957

Synopsis

Panel game in which each of the four panellists in armchairs seated around a fire took turns to tell (what else?) tall stories of something from their past or a story they'd heard about, and the others would have to decide whether the story was true or false.

Inventor

Based on the US radio show of the same name.

Trivia

This was one of a series of panel game pilots broadcast in the summer of 1954. The others were: Music, Music, Music!, Ask Your Dad, Change Partners, It's a Mystery, Once Upon a Time, One of the Family and Find the Link.