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00:00MUSIC
00:22Thank you very much indeed.
00:23Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and a very warm welcome to Pointless,
00:26the show where obvious answers mean nothing
00:28and obscure answers mean everything.
00:30Let's meet today's players.
00:36And couple number one.
00:37Hi, Xander, I'm Rick, I'm from Oldham
00:39and this is my girlfriend Helen, she's from Manchester.
00:42Couple number two.
00:43Hi, I'm Avi, this is my partner Tom
00:44and we're from Nottinghamshire.
00:46Couple number three.
00:47Hello, Xander, I'm Keith and this is my son James.
00:49I'm from Shropshire and he's from London.
00:52And finally, couple number four.
00:54Hi, my name's Karen and this is my eldest son Michael
00:56and we come from County Durham.
00:57And these are today's contestants.
01:00Thank you very much indeed.
01:02All of you are very, very warm welcome to Pointless.
01:04It's lovely to have you here.
01:05That just needs one more person for me to introduce.
01:07The sharpest suit, the crispest wit and the pinkest tie
01:11in all comedy, it is my new Pointless friend, it's Tom Allen.
01:14Wow, what a very kind introduction there.
01:19I wear a pink tie to match my eyes.
01:22It's a bit red.
01:23They look fine actually.
01:24Really?
01:24Yes.
01:25Look, clear as limpid pools.
01:28Oh, that's very generous of you actually.
01:30Nice, come on.
01:31Come on.
01:32Very excited to be here, let me tell you.
01:34Yeah, as we are.
01:35Very excited.
01:35Lovely to have you here.
01:36Yeah, well I was here a few years ago when I was a contestant.
01:39Yes you were.
01:40And I won.
01:41Yes you were, you did.
01:41And I was brilliant.
01:43So, I just hope you guys can live up to my modest, modest achievements.
01:49There we are, well listen, thank you very much indeed for joining us.
01:52Huge privilege for you to have me.
01:53Now then, Eden and Mike got through to the final last time
01:57and I'm afraid they failed to take the jackpot home with them.
01:59So that remains, in fact we enhance it by adding another £1,000 to it.
02:04So today's jackpot starts off at £2,750.
02:09Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.
02:14APPLAUSE
02:16Now, at the end of every round, normal rules will apply,
02:20which means the highest scoring pair will be eliminated from the show.
02:23So keep your scores as low as you possibly can
02:24and everything will be lovely.
02:26Best of luck to everybody.
02:27Our first category today is...
02:31Words.
02:32Can you all decide in your pairs who wants to go first,
02:33who wants to go second?
02:35And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
02:41OK, and the question concerns...
02:45Ooh words.
02:47Ooh words.
02:48Ooh words.
02:49Ooh words, yes.
02:50We're going to show you seven clues to words containing the letters
02:54ooh together.
02:55We have also provided the initial letter and the number of letters
02:58in each word to make it a little bit easier.
03:01So, please tell us what these ooh words are.
03:05Thank you very much.
03:05Did I do it again?
03:06That was my first...
03:07That was so good!
03:08Because I know that Keith and James and Tom and Abby,
03:10it's their first show, it's my first show.
03:11I just wanted to get that first bit out of the way.
03:13No, you don't...
03:14Very anxious.
03:15You've acquitted yourself so well.
03:17That means more than you know.
03:18That was brilliant.
03:18I just like...
03:18I like having a desk, I like having a laptop,
03:21I feel like I've got a proper job.
03:22You have.
03:23My friend, for the next 11 shows...
03:26That's right.
03:27That job is yours.
03:28I cannot wait for that...
03:29I can't.
03:30...two weeks and one day that you've booked me for.
03:32I know.
03:34Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
03:36Now, let us reveal our first board of seven clues to ooh words.
03:40Here they come.
03:40We have cutlery used for stirring and measuring,
03:46with a standard volume of five millilitres.
03:48T-8.
03:49Body part with bones that include the tarsals and metatarsals.
03:54F-4.
03:55Edible fungus with varieties including portobello and shiitake.
04:00M-8.
04:01Night fury dragon befriended by Hiccup in the 2010 film
04:05How To Train Your Dragon.
04:07T-9.
04:09Dark red brown colour which takes its name from the French for chestnut.
04:13M-6.
04:15Australian bird of the Kingfisher family that is known for its laughing call.
04:20K-10.
04:22And the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
04:27S-9.
04:29There we are.
04:30Rick, welcome back to Pointless.
04:32I think this is your last show.
04:34It is, yeah.
04:34It has to happen, this show, Rick.
04:36It is your last chance to tell us more about yourself, Rick.
04:39I do a little bit of origami in my spare time.
04:42Do you now?
04:42Yeah, I find it very relaxing.
04:44What's the most impressive thing you've folded?
04:46I've made pentagon rolls for Helen for Valentine's Day.
04:52How beautiful.
04:53Did you make it out of pink paper or just out of the white?
04:56It's out of white paper.
04:57You can paint it later.
04:59You can.
04:59Maybe Helen already has.
05:00I don't know.
05:01I don't know.
05:01Rick, let's turn our attention to the Board of Ooze.
05:04What are you going to go for here?
05:05I'm going to go for the Night Fury dragon befriended by Hiccup in the 2010 film, which I love almost
05:13more than my children, I imagine.
05:15And that would be Toothless.
05:16Do you mean you love it more than they love it?
05:18Yes.
05:18Or you love it more than you love them.
05:23I'll leave that one open.
05:24You're going to go for Toothless.
05:25I'm going to go for Toothless.
05:26Shall we see if Toothless is right?
05:27Shall we see how many of our 100 people said Toothless?
05:34It's a very good answer, Rick.
05:36Down it goes.
05:36Look at that.
05:37Look at that.
05:38Down to ten.
05:39Superb start.
05:40Great.
05:41Great answer there.
05:42The films and TV series are all based on the series of books written by Cressida Cowell,
05:46who is the children's laureate from 2019 to 2022.
05:50Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
05:52Abby, welcome to Pointless.
05:53It's great to have you here.
05:54Tell us all about yourself.
05:55I'm a student at the moment at Nottingham Trent University.
05:58I study history.
05:59And are you in your final year?
06:00Yeah, I'm my third year now.
06:01Why did I know that?
06:02There was something...
06:02There was a commanding way you said that.
06:04I thought this is somebody very much on top of this course.
06:07Yeah.
06:08And what beckons after Nottingham?
06:10Well, ideally, I'd love to be an author, like historical fiction,
06:14but, you know, it's quite competitive.
06:15So maybe work in publishing or something like that.
06:17Start in publishing?
06:18Yeah.
06:19Have you done lots of writing up till now?
06:21Yeah.
06:21Yeah, my whole life I've written stories since I was like four.
06:23Well, there's no reason on earth why you shouldn't be a historical fiction writer.
06:27That'd be lovely.
06:27Abby, what about these words?
06:30So, I think the dark red-brown colour, as a big Taylor Swift fan,
06:35I believe that is probably maroon.
06:36You're going to go for maroon.
06:37Let's see how many of our 100 people said maroon.
06:42Maroon is absolutely right.
06:43Ten is our only score at the moment.
06:45And maroon goes down to 44.
06:49Maroon, you say.
06:51I don't have anything about Taylor Swift to tell you, I'm afraid, Abby,
06:54but the band Maroon 5, huge.
06:57Huge.
06:57Huge band.
06:58You can't get tickets.
07:00They have said they will never publicly reveal how they got their name
07:04as they say it is a mundane story.
07:06They have told one person, though, and that's Billy Joel.
07:08And he's sworn to keep it a secret.
07:10He's sworn.
07:10He said it was such an interesting story, but he won't tell anyone.
07:14No.
07:14He's very good like that, Billy Joel.
07:15Yeah, I tell him all my secrets, actually.
07:16I tell him all my passwords.
07:18Yes.
07:18Amazing.
07:19Thank you very much indeed.
07:21Now, James, welcome.
07:22Good to have you with us.
07:23Tell us all about yourself.
07:25I work in London as a project support officer.
07:27I help train doctors not in anything clinical, but in their
07:30mandatory training like fire safety and information governance.
07:34Oh, this is fun.
07:35These are the days they look forward to.
07:36Yeah, I'm the most loved person in the hospital.
07:39Excellent.
07:40And when you are not working, what do you like to do?
07:43Well, I'm in a sketch comedy group.
07:45This is a good thing.
07:46I've really enjoyed that.
07:47We've done the Edinburgh Fringe three or four times.
07:49Well done, you.
07:49That's brilliant.
07:50What are you called?
07:51A flamingo called Frank.
07:53Yeah, I love that.
07:54Rolls off the tongue.
07:55I love that.
07:55A flamingo called Frank.
07:56I like it.
07:57Yeah.
07:58You can tell they're going to be good.
07:59They're going to be interesting.
08:00Now, James, the board.
08:03I think I'm going to go for the top one.
08:05The cutlery used for stirring and measuring with a standard volume
08:08of five millilitres.
08:10Teaspoon.
08:11Teaspoon, says James.
08:12Yes, you have to count the letters there and think how big
08:14five millilitres is.
08:15But yes, you're right.
08:15Teaspoon.
08:16Let's see how many of our 100 people said that.
08:21Teaspoon is right.
08:22Well, 44 is our high score and you passed it.
08:2540 for Teaspoon.
08:26Well done.
08:26Mmm.
08:28Nice.
08:28Spoon-like instruments have existed for a long time, apparently.
08:32I think that's probably right.
08:34Be the first thing you design.
08:36Would it?
08:36I think so.
08:37Or you'd fashion out of a...
08:38You'd whittle.
08:39And I imagine an early spoon would just be a sort of broad stick.
08:42Broad stick.
08:43Wouldn't it?
08:43Yeah.
08:44And then people would have learnt that with a little dimple in it,
08:47you could retain things.
08:49You could measure five millilitres exactly.
08:51Exactly.
08:52Mmm.
08:52Thank you very much indeed.
08:53Now, Michael, welcome back to Pointless.
08:55Hello there.
08:56It is great to have you with us again.
08:57Tell us more about yourself.
08:58When I'm not working at the moment, what I like to do is stream
09:01games online.
09:03Yes.
09:03I'll play the games.
09:04I have my face on it as well and everyone can watch and chat
09:06with me while I...
09:07Oh, I see you stream as your player.
09:08I see what you mean.
09:09Right, so people want to watch how you do it and what your
09:12reactions are.
09:13Yeah, especially if it's a sort of a scary game, which I'm no good
09:17at.
09:17So that was one of the best ones I've had, most viewers I've had.
09:20But that's very good indeed.
09:22There we go.
09:23Now, Michael, you're the last person to have this board.
09:24If you wanted to, you could fill in all the blanks for us.
09:27Unfortunately, that's not going to happen.
09:28I have been looking at the last two and nothing's coming.
09:31But with the two that are left, it's going to have to be
09:34mushroom, edible fungus.
09:35You're going to go for mushroom.
09:37Mushroom.
09:37Shall we see how many of our 100 said mushroom?
09:4473 for mushroom, Michael.
09:47Oh, there's not mushroom in here.
09:51Fun fact about mushrooms, Michael.
09:53I'm sure you're desperate to know one.
09:54They can create their own wind by releasing water vapour that
09:58creates its own localised airstream and that allows them to
10:01spread spores.
10:02Wow.
10:03I can create my own wind.
10:07Do you create your own airstream as well?
10:10Yeah.
10:11Yeah.
10:12What a thrilling prospect for these next two and a half weeks.
10:15We have to get that.
10:16LAUGHTER
10:19So, then, shall we look at this board?
10:21See if we can work it out.
10:22So, what do you think?
10:23Second one down.
10:24That's going to be a foot.
10:25Yeah.
10:26That was straightforward to a lot of people.
10:2760 people, actually, to be precise.
10:29The next one down.
10:29That is a kookaburra.
10:31That is right.
10:3239 people said kookaburra.
10:34But a good one to go for would have been the last one.
10:37From Saskatoon.
10:38Eight people.
10:39Thank you very much, indeed.
10:40Tom, we're halfway through the round.
10:41Let's have a quick look at those scores.
10:42I can tell you straight off the bat, Rick.
10:4410.
10:45Not only the best score of the past, but it was the second best
10:47score of the entire round.
10:48You were up there with Saskatoon, practically.
10:50So, very well done, indeed.
10:51We travel from there to 40, where we find James and Keith.
10:53From there to 44, where we find Abby and Tom.
10:56And up to 73, where we find Karen and Michael.
10:58Karen, you get the new board of oohs.
11:01So, yes, choose very carefully.
11:03Good luck with that.
11:04We're going to come back down the line now.
11:05Will the second players please step up to the podium?
11:10OK.
11:11Let's put a new board of seven clues to words containing ooh in them.
11:15And here they are.
11:16We have tall grass with ringed stems that are usually hollow
11:19and used to make furniture.
11:21B.
11:226.
11:222017 Best Picture Oscar winner starring Trevante Rhodes
11:26and Mahershala Ali.
11:27M.
11:289.
11:29A protective covering in which some insect larvae spend their pupil
11:33life stage.
11:34C.
11:356.
11:35Sport, of which FIFA is an international governing body.
11:408.
11:41Military performance that shares its name with a form of permanent body art.
11:45T.
11:456.
11:46African country with the capital Yaoundé.
11:50C.
11:508.
11:518.
11:51And LGBTQ plus subculture in which the dance style voguing originated B.
11:588.
12:00There we are.
12:01Karen, welcome back to Pointless.
12:03Tell us more about yourself, Karen.
12:05Well, I live in Concert and County Durham.
12:09Fair enough.
12:09Almost on the Northumbrian border.
12:11Yes, almost.
12:12And it's in between Newcastle and Durham.
12:14Lovely.
12:14So you've got best of both worlds there.
12:15You've got the best of both worlds.
12:16We're right in the middle.
12:17Right in the middle.
12:18And you've got Washington services right there, which is also perfect.
12:21Yeah.
12:22Very nice.
12:22But it is known to have four seasons in one day.
12:25Yes.
12:26Most definitely.
12:27Yes.
12:28Very lovely, though.
12:30So.
12:30Now then, Karen, you're on 73, which means you're the high scorers.
12:33We must go for a low scorer here.
12:35What are you going to go for?
12:36I'm going for the African country with the capital as Cameroon.
12:43Cameroon, says Karen, getting a firm nod from James.
12:45Let's see how many of our 100 said Cameroon.
12:47There's no red line for you.
12:48You're the high scorers at the moment.
12:52Karen, I think this is a very good answer.
12:54We needed one.
12:57Down it goes to 28.
12:58Very good.
12:59Taking your total up to 101.
13:02Yes, Cameroon.
13:03Cameroon has the nickname Africa in miniature because of its geographical and cultural diversity.
13:09Like a little capsule, Africa.
13:11Yeah.
13:12Sort of like Durham is a miniature of County Durham.
13:15Exactly.
13:15People are nice in the North East.
13:17They're not like us down here.
13:18No.
13:19Oh, there's so much nicer up there.
13:21So much nicer.
13:21I'm from the North East.
13:22Are you?
13:22Yes.
13:23It doesn't count if you own it.
13:27Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
13:30Keith, welcome to Pointless.
13:31Lovely to have you here.
13:32Tell us all about yourself.
13:34Well, I've recently retired, having worked for a housing association for quite a number of years.
13:38And I have a very long list of jobs to do in a house that's been neglected for the last
13:4325 years.
13:43Oh, you've been busy doing other housing association houses.
13:46Absolutely.
13:46Now, finally, you can get your own house in order.
13:48Yeah.
13:49Oh, so what's top of the list?
13:50What's bottom of the list?
13:51Well, top of the list was the garage.
13:53I've discovered that I've got three of everything.
13:54Very nice.
13:55Car boot sale.
13:56Good.
13:56Absolutely.
13:57What's going to be at the bottom?
13:58What will you eventually get round to?
14:00Well, the bottom will be the top, which will be the attic.
14:02Oh, right.
14:03I'm not looking forward to that.
14:04But you might find all kinds of fun things out there.
14:06There's too much stuff already, to be honest with you, Alexander.
14:08Yeah.
14:09Yeah.
14:09Fair enough.
14:09Lovely bonfire.
14:11Keith, you're on 40.
14:1360 or less.
14:14Gets you into round two.
14:15What would you like to go for?
14:16OK.
14:16Well, there are a couple I can do, but I'm going to go for the protective covering and go for
14:20Cocoon.
14:21Cocoon, says Keith.
14:23Here is your red line.
14:24Nice and high.
14:25Shall we see if we can get you below that with Cocoon?
14:29Cocoon's right, and it gets you through.
14:32Very well done.
14:32Keith, Danny goes to 39.
14:3479, your total.
14:36Yes, the silk fabric we make often comes from the cocoons of silkworms.
14:41They have a very specific kind of moth.
14:43Larvae?
14:44Larvae.
14:45Larvae.
14:46Larvae.
14:46Larvae.
14:46Larvae.
14:47Larvae.
14:48Larvae.
14:51So, there you go.
14:52Thank you very much.
14:54Now, Tom, welcome to Pointless.
14:56It's great to have you here.
14:56Tell us all about yourself.
14:57Hi.
14:58I work as a technical consultant for a company down in London.
15:02So, we build and configure a piece of software, essentially.
15:06And when not doing that, what thrills you, Tom?
15:09We moved into the house last year, so a lot of DIY and painting, I guess.
15:14A lot of DIY and painting, which is quite satisfying.
15:17There's still loads to do, but...
15:18Yeah, well, there we are.
15:19It's exciting.
15:20Nice to have a job in progress like that.
15:22Now, 44 is your score at the moment.
15:2356 or less gets you into the next round.
15:26What would you like to go for?
15:27I think I'm going to go for the tall grass with ring stems,
15:30and that's bamboo, I think.
15:32Bamboo, says Tom.
15:33Here is your red line.
15:34Let's see if we can get you below this red line with bamboo.
15:40Bamboo is right.
15:42Gets you through.
15:43Look at that.
15:43With not too much room to spare.
15:4453, taking your total up to 97.
15:47Yeah.
15:47Be careful if you plant it in your garden, though,
15:50because the roots can go under and then can pop up in other places.
15:53Yeah, under walls and everything.
15:54Yeah, they can disrupt your buildings and everything.
15:57But it can be nice as a bit of...
15:58If you do want a bit of screening on a balcony or something,
16:00you just put them in a pot and then they're perfect.
16:02But just don't put them in the ground, is my advice.
16:04That's just amazing.
16:05You never got that from Richard, did you?
16:06No.
16:07No.
16:09Thank you very much, Indy.
16:10Tom, now, Helen, welcome back to Pointless.
16:12It's great to have you with us.
16:13Hello.
16:13For the last time.
16:14For the last time.
16:15Tell us more about yourself.
16:17Well, myself and Rick are both big football fans.
16:20I'm a little odd because I support completely different
16:22men's and women's football teams.
16:25Neither of them are the teams that Rick supports.
16:27But that's interesting.
16:28So you get to go to lots of matches or care about lots of matches.
16:31Yeah, it's nice because it creates quite a bit of rivalry between us as well
16:34a few times a year.
16:35There we are.
16:36Excellent.
16:37Now, Helen, you're on ten.
16:38Ninety or less gets you into round two.
16:41Do you want to talk us through this board?
16:42I think the sport which views an international governing body would be football.
16:46The body art, I'm pretty sure, is tattoo.
16:49I'm not sure on the bottom one about the LGBTQ plus subculture.
16:54I'm going to take a bit of a punt because I think the film was the year
16:58there was quite a bit of controversy and they announced the wrong film.
17:02So I think the correct answer is Moonlight.
17:04Moonlight.
17:05Shall we see how many of our 100 said Moonlight?
17:07Here's your red line.
17:08Nice and high.
17:11It is Moonlight and it gets you into round two.
17:14Very well done indeed, Helen.
17:17That's a great answer.
17:19Nine.
17:20In fact, it's the best score of the whole round, taking your total up to 19.
17:23Superb.
17:23Great answer there, Helen.
17:25Well done.
17:25Normally, make-up artists would apply powder to prevent the actors from
17:28looking sweaty on camera, but with this one, Barry Jenkins, the director,
17:32wanted to enhance skin tone and lighting, so oil was applied instead
17:36to make the actors look extra, extra shiny.
17:38How do you think I get this one?
17:40I was going to say.
17:42Matt Sola.
17:43Exactly.
17:44I think if they did that with me, you wouldn't be able to see me.
17:47You'd be blinded by the shininess of my big face.
17:50So, yeah.
17:51So I thought Helen took through the board there very well.
17:53There's only one you didn't get.
17:55So you're right about football.
17:56That was quite a popular one.
17:58Would have got 73.
17:58If you had gone for the next one down, the military performance that
18:01also is body art, a tattoo, that would have got you 55.
18:05But a good one to go for would have been the last one.
18:08And the answer is ballroom.
18:10And that would have got you three.
18:11Thank you very much indeed.
18:12Well, that brings us to the end of our first round.
18:13It means we have to say goodbye to our first team.
18:15And I'm sorry to say, Karen and Michael, you are that first pair
18:18we say goodbye to with a high score of 101.
18:20We'll see you next time for your third show.
18:22Next time.
18:23Don't make it count.
18:24Thank you very much.
18:24Thanks so much for playing, Karen and Michael.
18:26But for the remaining three pairs, it's now time for round two.
18:34Very well done, everybody.
18:35We cruised through round one and here we are.
18:38This is our lovely reward.
18:39Best of luck to everybody.
18:41Our category for round two today is...
18:46Can you all decide in your pairs who wants to go first,
18:48who wants to go second?
18:50And whoever is going first, please step up to the podium.
18:56OK.
18:56Let's find out what the question is.
18:57Here it comes.
18:58We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...
19:05Well, Tom.
19:08We are looking for the name of any actor
19:11who has played the Doctor in the TV show Doctor Who
19:15according to the characters page of the official website
19:17DoctorWho.tv.
19:19The page lists all the actors who have played the first Doctor
19:22up to the current incarnation, the 15th Doctor,
19:25and includes the War Doctor and the Fugitive Doctor.
19:27This is up to the end of June 2024.
19:31Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
19:32Now, Rick, come to you.
19:34I only know one, I'll be honest.
19:36I'm going to go David Tennant.
19:38David Tennant says Rick.
19:39Shall we see how many of our 100 said David Tennant?
19:43David Tennant is right.
19:4663 for David Tennant.
19:49Yes, Rick.
19:50Popular answer there.
19:51David Tennant played the 10th Doctor from 2005 to 1 January 2010
19:55and then returned as the 14th Doctor for three specials in 2023.
19:59Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
20:01Now, Tom.
20:02I think that was my only answer.
20:04So, I'm going to have to just say a name.
20:07John Tyler.
20:09What a name.
20:10John Tyler.
20:11Is that based on anyone you know?
20:13Or is it just... No.
20:14It just came up with my head.
20:16It just came up with a lesson.
20:17There's going to be a John Tyler watching right now.
20:19I don't know.
20:19Is that an exciting thing to happen?
20:21I don't know.
20:21Must be.
20:22Must be.
20:22Well done, John Tyler.
20:23Have another fish finger.
20:25How many of our 100 said John Tyler?
20:29Not John Tyler.
20:32No.
20:32No John Tyler, I'm afraid.
20:33Not on the Dot TV.
20:35No.
20:36No.
20:36Who's not?
20:37Keith.
20:38Well, I'm going to show my age because I can only remember the early doctors,
20:41so I'm going to go for the first one, William Hartnell.
20:44William Hartnell, says Keith.
20:45How many of our 100 said that?
20:47William Hartnell.
20:50William Hartnell is absolutely right.
20:55And that goes down to 18.
20:58Very well done.
20:59The first actor to play the Doctor, so excellent knowledge there.
21:02He did it from 1963 to 1966.
21:05The first Doctor to encounter the Daleks and the Cybermen.
21:08Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
21:09We're halfway through the round.
21:10Let's have a look at those scores.
21:1118, the best score of the pass.
21:12Very well done indeed, Keith and James.
21:1463 is where we find Rick and Helen.
21:16Then 100, I'm sorry, Tom and Abby.
21:19I imagine this is one of those rounds where some people would just adore this
21:22and think, oh, this is all my Christmases come at once.
21:26I don't think I'm looking at six people at the moment who are of that opinion.
21:31Anyway, we're going to come back down the line now.
21:33Will the second players please step up to the podium?
21:38There we are, James.
21:40We are looking for actors who have stepped into the Doctor role.
21:44I think I'm going to go for Sylvester McCoy.
21:48Sylvester McCoy, says James.
21:51You get a red line and it's nice and high.
21:53Let's see where we end up with Sylvester McCoy.
21:57It's right and you are through.
22:03Down to get to 18.
22:04Very well done.
22:05It's exactly the same score as Keith,
22:07so that takes your total up to a beautiful symmetrical 36.
22:10How pleasing.
22:11Sylvester McCoy played the seventh Doctor
22:13and the role he used some of his skills with magic,
22:15juggling and playing the spoons.
22:17Don't know if they were the teaspoons.
22:19I wonder.
22:19I wonder.
22:20Those are lovely original five milliliter teaspoons.
22:22Yes, which he loves to play.
22:24There we are.
22:25Thank you very much indeed, Abby.
22:27Now, I'm afraid you're on 100.
22:28You need just to give us the best answer you possibly can
22:30to give yourself a good chance of getting through.
22:32What are you going to go for?
22:33Well, I'm just going to have to go with Shuti Gatwa,
22:36the most recent one.
22:38OK, let's see how many of our 100 people said that.
22:40Shuti Gatwa, no red line for you.
22:44Absolutely right.
22:50Down it goes to five.
22:52Very well done indeed.
22:53Fabulous score for Shuti Gatwa.
22:55Yes.
22:56Shuti, or Shuti Gatwa, as he's sometimes known,
22:59first appeared on screen as the 15th Doctor in 2023.
23:02His Doctor emerged not from a regeneration, but a bi-generation,
23:07which allowed him to split from his predecessor's body,
23:10rather than actually replacing him.
23:12You know, that sometimes happens in real life as well.
23:15Always.
23:16Yes.
23:17So, regeneration not to be confused with when a few years ago
23:19they used to just sort of put a fountain in a town square
23:21and call that regeneration.
23:23Yes.
23:24It's a different kind.
23:25It's very different.
23:25Very much so.
23:26Thank you very much.
23:28Now then, Helen, yes, this is where it counts.
23:30Do you have to score 41 or less?
23:33OK.
23:33What are we thinking?
23:35I'm thinking I've never watched an episode of Doctor Who in my life.
23:38There's one I know for absolute sure,
23:40but I don't think she would score less than 41.
23:42I think maybe Christopher Eccleston has been Doctor Who.
23:46Christopher Eccleston.
23:47Maybe.
23:48Oh, Abby and Tom.
23:49It was all looking very hopeful there for a moment or two.
23:52Oh, I'm rather giving it away.
23:53Oh, let's find out, Christopher Eccleston.
23:55Here's your red line.
23:57It's at 41.
23:59Christopher Eccleston.
23:59How many of our 100 said that?
24:03Christopher Eccleston, absolutely right.
24:06Gets you through as well.
24:08Down to 21.
24:09Taking your total up to 84.
24:12Yes.
24:13He was three points higher than Jodie Whittaker.
24:15I think you're also thinking about saying that.
24:17That's the one I was thinking of.
24:19Yeah.
24:19I think Matt Smith might have been in Doctor Who,
24:22but I don't know if he was the Doctor or...
24:23Yes, scored 27.
24:24So he would have seen you through as well.
24:25So you had good options there.
24:26There are only two pointless answers.
24:28So before we look at those,
24:30I'll give you some of the other low scorers.
24:31Paul McGann scored five.
24:34David Bradley and Joe Martin scored one.
24:37The two pointless answers are John Hurt,
24:41who was the War Doctor,
24:43and Richard Herndall,
24:44who played the first Doctor in the 1983 episode
24:47for five Doctors.
24:49Well, thank you very much indeed.
24:50We've come to the end of our second round.
24:51That means we have to say goodbye to another pair.
24:53And Abi and Tom, I'm afraid it is you we say goodbye to.
24:55We will see you next time and we look forward to it.
24:57Thanks so much for playing Abi and Tom.
25:00For the remaining two pairs though,
25:01it is now time for the head-to-head.
25:09Huge congratulations, Rick and Helen, Keith and James.
25:11You are now one step closer to the final and a chance to play for our jackpot,
25:15which currently stands at £2,750.
25:19However, we have a little window now in which we can throw some more money
25:23into that jackpot if we find some pointless answers.
25:26So, good luck.
25:26Here goes.
25:27We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many songs featuring the mandolin
25:34as they could, Tom.
25:35You are going to see six options now.
25:37Four are hit songs that feature mandolin playing.
25:40Two are scoring.
25:42Two are pointless.
25:44And then there are two red herrings.
25:46£250 in the jackpot for each pointless answer.
25:49Thank you very much indeed.
25:51So, can you find the pointless songs featuring the mandolin among these six?
25:55And we have...
26:06Does anybody know anything at this stage?
26:09Yes.
26:09Losing My Religion has definitely got mandolin in.
26:12I'll second that.
26:12Yeah.
26:13That's about as much as I know.
26:14I was going to say, I'm struggling with the other ones.
26:16In which case, Rick and Helen, would you like to nominate
26:19a possible pointless mandolin featuring song?
26:23Two and five for me.
26:25Then we go Dance Tonight.
26:26Shall we go for Dance Tonight?
26:27Is that a pointless mandolin song?
26:33It's definitely a song with a mandolin.
26:39Oh, wow!
26:40One!
26:42That's a great answer.
26:43Keith and James, what would you like to go for?
26:46You're going to have to play safe, aren't we, and just go over there?
26:48Don't play safe.
26:49Never play safe.
26:50Cutting Carrots.
26:52Cutting Carrots.
26:53Cutting Carrots.
26:53That lovely song.
26:55Let's see if that is a pointless mandolin featuring song.
27:00No.
27:01Of course.
27:02Just before it went like that, I suddenly thought, ah, yes.
27:05Yes, that's a feature of a mandolin in the kitchen, isn't it?
27:08I guess.
27:09You can cut.
27:10You can...
27:11I don't know.
27:11Maybe that's not the reason why, but...
27:13No, that's exactly what it's for.
27:14That's the reason why.
27:14Do be careful if you use one of those mandolins.
27:16Yes!
27:16And very easily slice...
27:17Slice off quite a bit of finger.
27:19Dance Tonight is a Paul McCartney song.
27:21He played the mandolin himself on it.
27:23And it features very prominently in the video.
27:25I really agree with your tactics, by the way.
27:27Always play dangerous in this one,
27:29because if you were going to go for one like Losing My Religion,
27:31surely that would have scored points.
27:32Yes, it would.
27:33It would have scored five.
27:34R.E.M's Losing My Religion.
27:36Yeah, at the end, it's got that mandolin bit, isn't it?
27:38Yeah.
27:39Should we work out which one of these three is the red herring?
27:42Any thoughts?
27:43Is there a mandolin in Don't Worry Be Happy?
27:44No, at all.
27:45I'm not hearing it.
27:46Unaccompanied.
27:47Keith knows these things.
27:48He's right.
27:49Bobby McFerrin's 1988 hit is entirely a cappella.
27:53So, that would have been a bad one to go for.
27:54Well, obviously, those are both pointless.
27:56Glory Days and Iris.
27:57Absolutely right.
27:58Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls, and then Glory Days by Bruce Springsteen.
28:02The mandolin is not very prominent, but it is played by Steve Van Sant
28:06during the break.
28:07Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
28:09That brings us to the end of that little section of the show,
28:11and I'm sorry to say we didn't find any pointless answers,
28:13but, boy, have we learnt a lot about the mandolin and songs
28:16in which it does feature.
28:17Let's play the head tail.
28:24As ever, the first pair to win two questions will be playing
28:26for that jackpot, and you are now allowed to confer.
28:28Best of luck to both pairs.
28:29Here is our first question.
28:30It is all about...
28:33..side dishes, Tom.
28:35Yes, indeed.
28:36We're about to show you five images of dishes from around the world
28:40which are often served as side dishes.
28:42We will also give you the first and last letters of each word
28:45in their names.
28:46Please give us the names of these side dishes.
28:50Thank you very much indeed.
28:51Let's reveal our five side dishes, and here they are.
28:54A.
28:56A.
28:57A.
29:00B.
29:02S.
29:03G.
29:03A.
29:04O.
29:06C.
29:08E.
29:09E.
29:13D.
29:14C.
29:16W.
29:16W.
29:19And E.
29:21D.
29:22E.
29:22P.
29:23S.
29:25Mmm.
29:26There we are.
29:27Right.
29:28Now, Rick and Helen, you get to go first.
29:29A.
29:30A.
29:32Which one?
29:33Your choice.
29:34I'm going to go for edamame for C.
29:37You're going to say C.
29:38Edamame beans.
29:39Edamame.
29:40Now then, Keith and James, can you talk us through that board?
29:43I think B is Sagaloo.
29:46D is coleslaw.
29:47I think E might be dauphinoise potatoes.
29:50Oh, yes, very good.
29:51So I'm going to go for dauphinoise potatoes.
29:53I say I.
29:53We are going to go for dauphinoise potatoes.
29:56OK, dauphinoise potatoes, you are going to say.
29:58So we have edamame and dauphinoise potatoes.
30:01Rick and Helen said edamame for C.
30:04Shall we see how many of our 100 said that?
30:09Edamame is right.
30:15APPLAUSE
30:18Meanwhile, Keith and James have gone for dauphinoise potatoes.
30:22Let's see how many of our 100 said that.
30:26Absolutely right.
30:29This is going to be close.
30:31Halloween!
30:3217 for dauphinoise potatoes.
30:35Very well done.
30:36Rick and Helen, after one question, you are up 1-0.
30:38Yeah, very good answers.
30:40Both of them, as you said, coleslaw.
30:43That was answered by 65 people.
30:46B.
30:48Sagaloo.
30:49But 45 people knew that.
30:50The one to go for, though, was A.
30:53That is, of course, caponata.
30:55Caponata, of course it is.
30:55Caponata.
30:56That was a pointless answer.
30:57Have you gone for that?
30:58Caponata.
30:58Thank you very much indeed.
31:00Right.
31:01Here comes your second question.
31:02Keith and James, you get to answer it first.
31:03You've got to win it to stay in the game.
31:04So, good luck.
31:04Our second question is all about...
31:08Charles Dickens novels cut off at C or D?
31:12Tom?
31:12Yeah, we're going to show you the titles of five novels by Charles Dickens.
31:16But we've cut them off just before the first appearance of either the letter C or the letter D.
31:20Please fill in the remaining letters and tell us the titles of these novels.
31:24Thank you very much indeed.
31:25So, let's reveal our Dickens novels.
31:28And here they come.
31:29A Tale of Two.
31:31The Pi.
31:33Little.
31:35Great Expa.
31:36And The Ol.
31:38That's all I'm going to say.
31:40And Keith and James will go first.
31:47OK, well, we're going to go for the second one.
31:49We're going for the Pickwick Papers.
31:50The Pickwick Papers, say Keith and James.
31:54Now then, Rick and Helen, can you talk us through the rest of that board?
31:58Yeah, you've got A Tale of Two Cities, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations and The Old Curiosity Shop.
32:05Which of those do you think would score lowest?
32:07Little Dorrit. I've never heard of it.
32:07Go for Little Dorrit.
32:09You're going to go for Little Dorrit.
32:10So, we have the Pickwick Papers and we have Little Dorrit.
32:12Keith and James went for the Pickwick Papers.
32:14Let's see how many of our 100 said that.
32:37Little Dorrit is right.
32:42Oh, is it 27 for Little Dorrit?
32:44Well done.
32:44Keith and James back in the game after two questions.
32:46It's one all.
32:47Keith and James, you did take the best answer with the Pickwick Papers.
32:51The other ones, Great Expectations, popular, a lot of people know that from the films and adaptations.
32:55That would have got 67.
32:56A Tale of Two Cities, that would have got you 66.
32:59The Old Curiosity Shop, 19.
33:01So, not a bad answer.
33:02But very, very good, Keith and James.
33:05Thank you very much indeed.
33:06Right, it all comes down to this third question.
33:08Whoever wins this goes through to the final and plays for that jackpot.
33:10Best of luck to both pairs.
33:11Our third question is all about...
33:15Pins, Tom?
33:16We're going to give you five clues to different objects which are all two words,
33:20with the second word always being pin.
33:23We just need the first word.
33:25So, we've included the first letter and number of letters in each missing word.
33:28All you have to do is give us the answers.
33:30OK, thank you very much indeed.
33:32Can you identify these types of pin?
33:34And we have...
33:36Stationary item, also called a thumbtack, used for attaching paper and card to a notice board.
33:41D, seven.
33:42American term for a hair grip, with one flat and one ridged prong.
33:47B, five.
33:49Rod, also called a wrist pin, that links the connecting rod to the piston in a combustion engine.
33:55G, seven.
33:57Bent pin with a covered clasp, traditionally used for fastening bandages or nappies.
34:03S, six.
34:04And cylindrical kitchen utensil for flattening pastry, R, seven.
34:11There we are.
34:12Rick and Helen, you get to go first this time.
34:15Can you go three?
34:16No.
34:17Not a good.
34:18B.
34:18Second one.
34:19We'll go for the American term for a hair grip, which is a bobby pin.
34:23A bobby pin.
34:25Bobby pin.
34:26Now, Keith and James, can you talk us through the rest of that board?
34:29The first one is draw pin.
34:31Drawing pin.
34:31The fourth one is a safety pin.
34:33I think, yeah.
34:33The fifth one's rolling pin.
34:35Rolling pin.
34:36Let's go for drawing.
34:37All right, we'll have to.
34:38Yeah.
34:39You're going to go for drawing.
34:40So, we have bobby pin, we have drawing pin.
34:41In the order they were given, Rick and Helen went bobby pin.
34:44How many of our 100 said that?
34:48Bobby pin is absolutely right.
34:53Down, it goes to 23.
34:57Meanwhile, Keith and James have gone for drawing pin for the top one.
35:00How many of our 100 said drawing pin?
35:03Drawing pin is right.
35:06But 23 is what it has to be.
35:0937 for drawing pin.
35:10Very well done indeed, Rick and Helen.
35:12A proper show three performance from you.
35:15After three questions, you are through to the final.
35:162-1.
35:18Hmm.
35:18Let's go through the board.
35:20Rolling pin would have got you 57.
35:22That was the last one.
35:23The penultimate one on our list is safety pin, which 51 people got.
35:27Can I have a go at the middle one?
35:28Yes, you can.
35:29Is it the goodjun pin?
35:31Yes, it is.
35:33Oh, impressive.
35:33Very impressive.
35:34How were you?
35:35Very impressive.
35:36One person got it.
35:37Maybe you were the person they are.
35:38I'm a mechanic.
35:38I weren't risking it on that.
35:40Oh, you're going to risk it.
35:41Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
35:43That brings us to the end of our head-to-head round.
35:44It means we have to say goodbye to Keith and James.
35:46We will see you again next time for show two.
35:48And look forward to it very much.
35:49Thanks so much for playing Keith and James.
35:51For Rick and Helen, though.
35:52Now time for the Pointless final.
35:58Huge congratulations, Rick and Helen.
36:00You have fought off all the competition
36:01and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.
36:11You now have a chance to win the Pointless jackpot.
36:14And at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £2,750.
36:20Well, it's been a show without any pointless answers, actually.
36:23I mean, even Gudge and Pin, which came out at the end,
36:25wouldn't have scored you a pointless answer, but we do need one now.
36:29That's what's going to help you take that jackpot.
36:30What would you like to see come up?
36:32Anything we've been revising.
36:34Capital cities, Premier League football teams.
36:36Rick's very, very good at music.
36:39OK.
36:40Four choices on the board.
36:41Today's are...
36:50What do we think?
36:55Not Greek cinema.
36:57Not rugby.
36:58I'm talking about capitals of culture just for capital cities.
37:02But capitals of culture aren't necessarily capital cities.
37:05Oh, that's true.
37:06I think queens of pop.
37:07At least there might be some music in there for you.
37:08Go for it.
37:09For me.
37:10Maybe you.
37:10We'll go for queens of pop on tour.
37:13The queens of pop on tour.
37:14Tom.
37:15Well, we are looking for any track performed live by Beyonce
37:20on the set list of her Renaissance tour
37:23at the opening concert of the UK leg of that tour,
37:27which was held at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff
37:30on the 17th of May, 2023.
37:34Or we are looking for any track performed live by Madonna
37:37on the set list of her opening concert of the Celebration Tour
37:40at London's O2, which was held on the 14th of October, 2023.
37:45Very best of luck.
37:46Thank you very much indeed.
37:47Now, as always, you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers.
37:50All you need to win that jackpot is for just one of those answers
37:52to be pointless.
37:53If you can find three pointless answers, we'll throw in a £500 bonus.
37:56Are you ready?
37:58Yes.
37:59OK, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.
38:01Your time starts now.
38:04Random Madonna.
38:06Fake Madonna.
38:07Do you know any random or vague Madonna?
38:08This used to be my playground.
38:10Probably the vaguest I could come up with.
38:12Would she have put that on tour, then?
38:13I don't know, but...
38:14Beyonce, around that time, was probably...
38:17Maybe Savage was on the Renaissance tour.
38:21Maybe...
38:24Erm...
38:24I'm trying to think what she would have been doing around that time.
38:27I can only think of earlier stuff.
38:28I like up to see Beyonce as you are gay, innit?
38:30Yeah.
38:31Erm...
38:32Go Savage.
38:33Inflammation.
38:33Go on.
38:35Maybe...
38:35I don't know whether she'd have done some of her earlier tracks as well.
38:39So, maybe a random earlier track, like Naughty Girl,
38:42or, you know, something that was a bit more forgettable.
38:44I'll be honest with you, I'm going to leave this entirely on you.
38:47Erm...
38:48Madonna's...
38:48No.
38:49I don't know what I would put on for a Madonna track.
38:51So, that's...
38:52Maybe...
38:53Ten seconds left.
38:55Hung up?
38:56Yeah, possibly.
38:57Is it called Hung up?
38:59Is it called Hung up?
39:00Yeah, yeah.
39:00Hung up.
39:03OK.
39:04That is your time up.
39:05Let's have your three answers.
39:06And if you could say which category in each case.
39:08Erm...
39:08For Beyonce, I'm going to go for information and savage.
39:13In...
39:13Information.
39:14It might just be called formation.
39:16Formation.
39:16I'll go for formation.
39:18Formation.
39:18Savage.
39:19Savage.
39:19I may go for Naughty Girl.
39:22Naughty Girl.
39:22And these are all Beyonce.
39:24OK.
39:24So, we have formation, savage, naughty girl.
39:28Yeah.
39:28Of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer, do you think?
39:34Probably Naughty Girl.
39:35OK.
39:35Naughty Girl will put last.
39:36Because it's an older song and she might not have actually done it on that talk.
39:39Least likely to be pointless?
39:41Savage.
39:41Savage.
39:42Savage.
39:42And then formation goes in the middle.
39:43OK.
39:44Well, let's put those answers up on the board in that order.
39:45And here they are.
39:46We have...
39:48Savage.
39:50Formation.
39:51Naughty Girl.
39:52Well, if one of these answers turns out to be pointless, you will be leaving here with
39:55£2,750.
39:57What would you like to do with that?
39:59We will go to Florida.
40:01Helen has a friend that lives in California that she's not seen for several years.
40:06And she's discovered it's about halfway between to meet in Florida.
40:10So...
40:10That would be perfect.
40:11Well, surely one of these must be pointless and we'll win that for you.
40:14It would be really lovely if that were to happen.
40:16Savage is your first answer.
40:17In all three cases, we are looking for any Beyoncé song on the set list of the Renaissance
40:22tour.
40:23That, as I say, is for all three of these answers.
40:25Let's see how many of our 100 said Savage.
40:27Might it be pointless?
40:30Well, Savage is right.
40:32£2,750 riding on it if it goes all the way down to zero.
40:36We go down with Savage through the T's to single figure.
40:40Still going down with Savage.
40:41Still going down with Savage.
40:42You've done it!
40:42Very well done indeed.
40:45Savage was a pointless answer.
40:47You are taking home today's jackpot of £2,750.
40:51Now, I did say...
40:53I did say earlier that if you had three pointless answers, we could boost the jackpots.
40:57We'd better check the other ones.
40:58Formation is your next answer.
41:00Should we find out if that is also pointless?
41:02Because there's a £500 kicker if all three are pointless.
41:09Formation's right.
41:13Well, if this is pointless, of itself it won't do anything, but it's a useful step towards
41:19all three being pointless.
41:20And it is pointless.
41:22Very well done indeed.
41:23Well done.
41:24OK, now everything is riding on whether or not Naughty Girl, same criteria, is also a pointless answer
41:30because that will allow us to boost up your winnings to £3,250.
41:37Naughty Girl's right.
41:40She did do Naughty Girl on that set.
41:43And if this is pointless, you leave here, as I say, with £3,250.
41:48Still going down the Naughty Girl's...
41:49Look at that!
41:50Very well done indeed.
41:52Naughty Girl, another pointless answer.
41:54Which means we can add £500 to your jackpot
41:57and you are leaving here with £3,250.
42:00Amazing.
42:01Amazing.
42:02Brilliant.
42:03Tom, look what you brought to the show.
42:04Absolutely brilliant.
42:04I was going to say, what a lovely start to my time.
42:06I love my new job, my new desk job.
42:09I am absolutely thrilled.
42:10A triple pointless.
42:11Well done, Helen.
42:12Absolutely amazing.
42:13But some of the pointless answers would have been on Beyonce's renaissance tour.
42:18You could also have had alien superstar energy.
42:21Formation and Naughty Girl, obviously you said.
42:23In fact, everything was pointless apart from the following, which all did score.
42:27So that was Break My Soul, Cozy, Crazy In Love, of course.
42:31Love On Top, One Plus One, Dangerously In Love, I'm That Girl, Run The World,
42:37Brackets Girls, Cuff It, Heated and Partition.
42:40So those are the ones not to have gone with.
42:42Madonna's Celebration Tour.
42:44With that one, though, you could have had Bedtime Story,
42:46Don't Cry For Me, Argentina, Don't Tell Me and Justify My Love.
42:50Those would have been good ones.
42:51The other pointless answers were Bad Girl, Die Another Day, Erotica, Human Nature,
42:55I Will Survive, Little Star, Mother and Father and Rain.
42:58Very well done at home if you did get a pointless answer.
43:02Thank you very much indeed, Tom.
43:03And thanks once again to our winning players, Rick and Helen,
43:05who take away today's jackpot of £3,250.
43:09Brilliant.
43:11Join us next time when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.
43:14Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Tom.
43:17And it's goodbye from me.
43:18Goodbye.
43:20APPLAUSE
43:20And we'll be right back.
43:36And we'll be right back.
43:37We'll see you next time.
43:38Bye.
43:40Bye.
43:44The other day I got back to you,
43:46Steve JC.
43:46Bye now.
43:48You can be back and fake.
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