Just A Minute - Series 17 Omnibus (Part Two)

Six more episodes of the seventeenth series of the BBC Radio Four comedy panel show Just A Minute, originally broadcast in early summer and autumn 1983.

0:00 - Series 17 Episode 9, 9th May 1983
Kenneth Williams, Derek Nimmo, Peter Jones, Nicholas Parsons - guest chair Clement Freud
Subjects: Making A Sausage Roll, Forewords, Roses, Marvels, Saddling A Horse, Concentration, Muscles/Mussels, Athens, Jokers, Things I Cut Out Of Magazines.

26:28 - Series 17 Episode 10, 16th May 1983
Kenneth Williams, Derek Nimmo, Peter Jones, Brian Johnston
Subjects: Telephone Answering Machines, Carpet Baggers, Variety, Great Moments, Egg On Face Occasions, Sandstorms, Keeping My Figure, Things I Make Lists Of, A Much-Needed Invention, Casablanca, Asteroids.

50:36 - Series 17 Episode 11, 24th September 1983
Kenneth Williams, Clement Freud, Peter Jones, Victoria Wood
Subjects: Going Off At The Deep End, Stewed Hippo, Getting Stuck In The Lift, The Last Time My Husband Sawed Me In Half, The Three Bears, Being Kind To The Taxman, My Favourite Sound, The Night I Forgot My Lines, Giotto, When The Car Breaks Down, Puzzles.

1:17:06 - Series 17 Episode 12, 1st October 1983
Kenneth Williams, Clement Freud, Aimi MacDonald [final], Jan Ravens
Subjects: How To Have Fun In A Public Library, What I Knew At Eighteen, Pam, Getting Away With It, Paris, An Affair I'd Like To Have Had, The Pricking Of My Thumbs, Bunglers, The Perfect Finish To The Perfect Meal.

1:44:10 - Series 17 Episode 13, 8th October 1983
Kenneth Williams, Derek Nimmo, Clement Freud, John Junkin
Subjects: Getting A Good Start, Krill, Video Games, Nine Green Bottles, Chain Letters, Spoiling The Goldfish, A Jumper, What I Never Write In My Diary, Weights.

2:11:18 - Series 17 Episode 14, 15th October 1983
Derek Nimmo, Clement Freud, Peter Jones, Nicholas Parsons [final] - guest chair Kenneth Williams
Subjects: Miller, Fun With Snails, The Blarney Stone, Calculators, The Garden Of Eden, The World's Greatest Picture, A Good Rebus, Old Ladies Who Help Me Across The Road, Power.

[GROMIT]

Peter Jones to Kenneth Williams (in the episode where Clement is chair with Nicolas and Derek engaging in one-man upship for the 100th time):"Kenneth, would you like to come out for a drink?".
Kenneth: No, No we've got to stay"! 🤣🤣

Also the episode with Kenneth as chair is a right hoot! 🤣🤣

[bobbyshaddoe]

44:06, kenneth lays praise onto Peter Jones jones, even while challenging on deviation. This is an unusual stance for him, cuz Kenneth usually is one to pounce on someone, usually Peter, when they're saying that its hard ro talk on a subject, that they sont know anything about the aubject or that they arent capable of apeaking fluently on a subject, by telling them to shut up. Which makes me wonder if ken was sincere in his praise or was just using a ploy to get the subject. What i love about this moment is rhat even peter is mystified by kens praise.

[bobbyshaddoe]

41:16, Derek immediately started as he was challenged, so it wasnt more than a second.

[bobbyshaddoe]

12:56, Nicholas at his most unoriginal, he starts complaining about his desperate situation and pulls a Kenneth Williams.and breaks down in tears while trying to lean on Kenneth, Derek calls the situation nauseating, and Nicholas says 'thats the next subject'. He cant go two seconds without some sort of pathetic and banal follow up comment.

[bobbyshaddoe]

2:19:59. Nicholas again pulling a Kenneth Williams, using his phraseology, all the way down to lackadairue.

[Omnicient.]

54:53 'Getting stuck in the lift' is on the card but most of them refer to it as 'Getting stuck in a lift' and Nicholas or anyone doesn't seem to mind or notice! 'Stuck in the lift' sounds like an Americanism as they have a habit of replacing 'a' with 'the'. Ideally the card should have read 'Getting stuck in a lift'?!

[bobbyshaddoe]

44:51, no his nose is naturally that shaped

What the hell does that have to do with the question peter asked kenneth about snffing glue? Peters question was funny enough, and nick tries to steal his thunder with yet another pathetic comment.

[bobbyshaddoe]

Aimi MacDonald's final appearance, alao sees Kenneth again at his most misogynistic, especially when challenged again for his elongations and it's not allowed, calling both Aimi and Jan a couple of sulks.

[bobbyshaddoe]

2:15:33. Nicholas once again claiming that hes generous when challenged by Clement, referencing how horrid Clement was when he was chairman, in another pathetic attempt to garner sympathy by once again playing the victim