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85 episodes
Chosen over the decades
83
Total castaways
1980s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Keith Waterhouse on being beckoned into Alfred Hitchcock's presence to polish dialogue
Max Boyce on blanking out while reciting a poem as a child
How her husband's 'Well, then write' turned Rachel Billington into a novelist
Julia McKenzie on her first job as an understudy after only seeing the show three times
Christopher Leaver on his earliest memory of a ship's cabin flooding
Gillian Lynne on deciding to sing as well as dance after seeing South Pacific
Patricia Ruanne on hiding behind a character to overcome performance nerves
Princess Margaret on packing for a weekend at Windsor and staying five years
Arthur Askey on carving his initials on a desk Paul McCartney called a shrine
Noel Edmonds on quitting a £3,000-a-year job at 19 with nothing to fall back on