Does The Team Think? is a radio panel game broadcast originally on the BBC Light Programme (later BBC Radio 2) from 1957 to 1976, and revived, again on Radio 2, with a new cast, in 2007.
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Format
The show is a parody of Any Questions?, where audience members pose questions to an assembled panel. The questions and answers are played for laughs (in contrast to the serious political debate in Any Questions?), with the panellists improvising witty answers.
Original series 1957-1976
The idea of a parody version of Any Questions? was suggested by Jimmy Edwards in 1957. The Light Programme agreed to run a short series, which ended up running almost twenty years. The panel was chaired by McDonald Hobley. Regular panellists were Edwards, Arthur Askey and Ted Ray, with a guest fourth panellist joining them each week. [1]
2007 revival
The show was revived in 2007. It was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 and was written and hosted by Vic Reeves, and produced by Paul Russell for Open Mike Productions. The title was changed slightly, to Does the Team Think.... The first programme went out on 28 June 2007. The programme was recorded at University of London Union on 27 March, 2, 23 and 30 April 2007.
A second series was aired in 2009. The first programme from this series was aired on 17 June 2009 and featured Reeves' comedy partner Bob Mortimer, and Shooting Stars team captains Ulrika Jonsson and Jack Dee.