Episode guide
Blankety Blank: Season 16
20 episodes · premiered Jan 7, 2001
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- Episode 1: Episode 1 Jan 7, 2001 Lily Savage returns with Blankety Blank after a 17-month absence from the screen - yet this time, it's with ITV. Lily welcomes five celebrities new to the quiz to usher in the change, with…
- Episode 2: Episode 2 Jan 14, 2001 Lily welcomes four celebrities brand new to the panel: Jayne Middlemiss, Billy Murray, Steve Penk and Stuart Miles. Among the contestants is Tom Roberts, a man who took part in the D-Day…
- Episode 3: Episode 3 Jan 21, 2001 It seems as if Lily's finally starting to get the show's "gentle innuendo" format, noting that questions give the temptation to say "something rude". However, it's not long before she's…
- Episode 4: Episode 4 Jan 28, 2001 Lily deals with one contestant who lives in cemeteries, and another who got married in secret without letting her family know. Meanwhile, Sherrie Hewson decides she doesn't understand the…
- Episode 5: Episode 5 Feb 4, 2001 Lily introduces another edition of the quiz show, in which contestants include a jelly wrestler, and a girl who can fit her entire fist in her mouth.
- Episode 6: Episode 6 Feb 11, 2001 Lily offers a star prize of a week's holiday in Sri Lanka, but can celebrity panellists including Leslie Grantham and Adele Silva help the contestants to win it?
- Episode 7: Episode 7 Feb 18, 2001 Lily is in a particularly jaded mood as a game threatens to "take all night", and many of the quiz elements are revealed as ones she hates.
- Episode 8: Episode 8 Feb 25, 2001 Dermot O'Leary makes his sole Blankety Blank appearance on a show full of pretend people: there's the stylised comic persona of Harry Hill, fictitious glamour model Gayle Tuesday, and, of…
- Episode 9: Episode 9 Mar 4, 2001 Kevin Woodford and Nadia Sawalha make their second appearances as panellists on the show, and are joined by four guests new to the programme - including Nadia's sister, Julia.
- Episode 10: Episode 10 Mar 11, 2001 Chaos reigns when Liz Dawn and Donald Sinden can't understand the questions, and Bradley Walsh becomes obsessed with Lily's short skirt.
- Episode 11: Episode 11 Mar 25, 2001 Lily introduces more contestants and celebrity panellists to the quiz, including the sole appearances of Troy Titus-Adams and David Easter.
- Episode 12: Episode 12 Apr 8, 2001 Sherrie Hewson is having a nightmare with her answers, while Lily admits she's "not in the mood". However, elderly contestant George is on hand to make Lily laugh against her will.
- Episode 13: Episode 13 Apr 22, 2001 Contestant Chris Keeble is in luck when he reveals one of his ambitions is to meet Gail Porter - Gail makes her sole appearance on the panel this week. Also making his only guest spot on…
- Episode 14: Episode 14 Apr 29, 2001 Giggly contestants and an emboldened panel help provide the fun in this edition of the show.
- Episode 15: Episode 15 May 6, 2001 Junior Simpson, Kerry Katona, George Layton and Debra Stephenson all make their sole appearances on the panel. Louise Jameson, who had appeared twice in the Les Dawson era, also makes her…
- Episode 16: Episode 16 May 13, 2001 Lily has laughs with some lively contestants, including a girl who claims to be a relative of Mary Tyler Moore, and the elderly Nat Shine, who brings his own sense of fun to the show.
- Episode 17: Episode 17 May 20, 2001 Making their sole appearances on the panel this episode are Fiona Dolman, Jane Cox and Derek Fowlds.
- Episode 18: Episode 18 May 27, 2001 "Let's get this over with, we're not here to enjoy ourselves." So says Lily, introducing another edition of Blankety Blank, with a star prize of a trip to St. Lucia.
- Episode 19: Episode 19 Jun 3, 2001 The penultimate episode of the series sees old hands in Roy Barraclough and June Whitfield joined by newcomers Sarah Cawood and Ed Bryne.
- Episode 20: Episode 20 Jun 10, 2001 Lily sees out the series with some unruly contestants and the sole appearances of Michael Starke and Natasha Hamilton.