Call My Bluff: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Call My Bluff is a long-running British game show between two teams of three celebrity contestants. The point of the game is for the teams to take it in turn to provide three definitions of an obscure word, only one of which is correct. The other team then has to guess which is the correct definition, the other two being "bluffs".

Series details

• Title: Call My Bluff
• Format: Panel Show
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 1965-10-17
• Final broadcast date listed: 1977-08-12
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC Two
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 9510
• TVDB ID: 74315

Cast and credited roles

• Frank Muir — Team Captain (1965–66, 1969–88 & 1994)
• Robert Robinson — Presenter (1969–88, 1994)
• Patrick Campbell — Team Captain (1969–80)
• Robin Ray — Presenter (1965–66)
• Robert Morley — Team Captain (1965–66)
• Joe Melia — Presenter (1966–67)
• Peter Wheeler — Presenter (1967–68)
• Bob Holness — Presenter (1996–2003)
• Fiona Bruce — Presenter (2003–05)
• Angus Deayton — Presenter (2011)
• Alan Melville — Team Captain (1966–67)
• Michael Flanders — Team Captain (1966–67)

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1965-10-17; final listed air date 1966-06-29.
• Season 2: premiered 1966-10-02; final listed air date 1967-04-14.
• Season 3: premiered 1967-10-01; final listed air date 1968-07-07.
• Season 4: premiered 1969-04-24; final listed air date 1970-05-28.
• Season 5: premiered 1970-09-14; final listed air date 1971-01-25.
• Season 6: premiered 1971-06-14; final listed air date 1972-02-07.
• Season 7: premiered 1972-11-13; final listed air date 1973-05-07.
• Season 8: premiered 1973-09-03; final listed air date 1974-01-28; episode order: 22.
• Season 9: premiered 1974-09-30; final listed air date 1975-03-24.
• Season 10: premiered 1976-04-29; final listed air date 1976-08-12.
• Season 11: premiered 1977-04-29; final listed air date 1977-08-12.

Source and licence

Adapted from Call My Bluff on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.