What's it All About? (1)
Host
Brian Johnston (radio)
Nicholas Parsons (TV)
Leslie Mitchell (stand-in, TV)
John Timpson (1976)
Co-hosts
Griselda Hervey (TV version)
Regular panel (radio): Celia Johnson (first four episodes), Iris Ashley (replaced Johnson), Dulcie Gray, Lionel Gamlin, Guy Ramsey
Regular panel (TV): Kenneth Horne, Celia Johnson, Dilys Powell
Permanent panellists (1976): Sheila Hancock, Peter Jones
Broadcast
BBC Light Programme, 18 May to 21 September 1954
Associated-Rediffusion, 3 October to 26? December 1955
BBC Radio 4, 16 February to 17 May 1976
Synopsis
Listeners sent in cards telling the tale of an event that had happened to them. The panel worked out how and why.
Trivia
The first game show to move from BBC to ITV.
Despite being Nicholas Parsons' first TV hosting job, it gets all of three sentences in his autobiography. His assessment: "It had a lot of publicity, ran for thirteen weeks, but was not really successful. It was too similar to What's My Line?, and not as good."