I've Started So I'll Finish

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Magnusson presented the long-running quiz show Mastermind from 1972 to 1997 on BBC1. His catchphrase, which one of his successors John Humphrys continued to use, was "I've started, so I'll finish". Magnusson made cameo appearances as himself, hosting Mastermind in Morecambe and Wise as well as the children's series Dizzy Heights and as Magnus Magnesium in The Goodies episode " Frankenfido". He is survived by his wife Mamie, to whom he was married for 52 years, and his four surviving children, Sally, Margaret, Anna and Jon. His elder son Siggy died in 1973. No idea – that name has disappeared.” The internet is like someone leaving the pub door open at two in the morning and you can hear everything The earliest occurrence of I’ve started, so I’ll finish used without explicit reference to BBC’s Mastermind or to Magnus Magnusson is the caption to this photograph of the participants in the Great North Run 4 of Sunday 30 th June 1985, published in The Journal ( Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England) of Monday 1 st July 1985: His work for Scotland brought him an honorary knighthood in 1989 and, in 2002, he became Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University.

The son of a lieutenant colonel and grandson of a brigadier general, Gascoigne was born in London and educated at Eton and Cambridge (“Magdalene, English Literature” would have been his tag if competing on University Challenge). Through student theatre at Cambridge he met Michael Frayn, a lifelong friend, who went on to become a comic playwright and novelist, although it was Gascoigne who had the earliest success as a writer. He scripted Share My Lettuce, a revue for young actors including Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams, which ran in London from 1957-58, giving Gascoigne a West End success in his early 20s. Switching from vegetable to fruit-related titles, Gascoigne script-edited Dig This Rhubarb, a TV sketch show, but, by then, had already moved from postgraduate comedy to interrogating students.The music (“Approaching Menace” from the BBC mood-tape library) fades, house lights dim, and the most recognisable chair in Britain awaits the first contender. On seventeen autumn and winter evenings during each of the past ten years about 10 million people have settled to watch Mastermind, spurning the muscular counter-attractions of programmes like The Professionals on the commercial channel. On December 27, something like 14 million viewers will take their postprandial pleasure in watching the finalists under interrogation. […] If I look at the question through the lens of the LAB Profile, the Reason filter has something interesting to offer.

He said: "Patients kept asking how I had got on. I was dying to tell people because it had been my goal for so long, but I had to keep quiet." Grand finale of 'Mastermind Family Bangladesh' to air tonight". The Daily Star. 10 January 2020 . Retrieved 27 December 2021. Supermind was an annual playoff between either the first four champions of Mastermind or champions of other TV quiz shows (including Mastermind) from 1976 or 1977. It ran for three years between 1976 and 1978. More wonderful contenders gunning for the ultimate quizzing prize. Specialist subjects that will delight, amaze and frankly baffle some, which is exactly how it should be. From Shakespeare's comedies to Killing Eve, British brutalist architecture to the works of Banksy.So, Myrie got to keep his job – and I may have to upgrade his Mastermind score by one point. Still, five points on the subject of yourself – not great, is it? Mastermind: The man behind 50 years of glass trophies". BBC News. 21 September 2022 . Retrieved 22 September 2022. Television Datepad – Wednesday". "Herald TV Guide", Sydney Morning Herald, 1 June 1981, p.4 . Retrieved 11 May 2020. Sometimes I feel like slipping away from it all, but after a week or two I’m ready for work again. It’s not that I’m ambitious, it’s more like Magnus Magnusson says to the contestants on ‘Mastermind’ . . . ‘ I’ve started so I’ll finish.’”

Cup Final Grandstand – BBC One London – 12 May 1979". BBC Genome Project . Retrieved 7 November 2014. Spitting Image used the Mastermind format in a sketch where a Magnus Magnusson puppet asked questions of a Jeffrey Archer puppet whose specialist subject was himself. The twist was that Archer's puppet, being incapable of answering questions about himself without exaggeration or evasion, ends the round with zero points. Teacher wins Mastermind title". BBC News. 9 January 2002. Archived from the original on 8 August 2003 . Retrieved 29 December 2018.Myrie has spoken out about representation in organisations, including his own. That is what he was talking about when he said BBC News was in a bad place. He also said diversity in the editorial hierarchy was “appalling”. The corporation has worked hard to improve the situation, he says now. He and others made representations to the previous director general, Tony Hall. It is better than it was; it is better than some other organisations. You see, the person with the Procedures preference sees chains of events, steps in a process or sequences of activity. They like to know where they are in the process and where it will end. Mastermind' soon returned to the BBC, this time on BBC Two, for a Celebrity Special broadcast in 2002. July 2003 saw the first full series of ‘Mastermind’ in six years, with a new Question Master, John Humphrys, best known as presenter of Radio Four’s 'Today' programme. Mastermind Family Bangladesh' on Duronto TV". Daily Sun. 13 October 2019 . Retrieved 27 December 2021. What is he going to bring to Mastermind? “I’d like to think I’ll bring a friendly face, that I will bring the level of weight that comes from what I do during the daylight hours and have done for the last 30 years. And also I think just a slight difference in tone, perhaps – less the idea that I am part of the problem for the contender. The problems for the contender are the spotlight, the chair, the questions; I am simply the facilitator of them.” A less combative approach, from a man who has reported from numerous war zones.