"Whose Line Is It Anyway?" revised episode guide
Micky DuPree
Clive Anderson: TV: "Clive Anderson Talks Back"
Josie Lawrence: TV: "Josie," "Not with a Bang"
Mike McShane: TV: "The Big One," (plus some improv show with Slattery);
film: "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves"
Paul Merton: TV: "Paul Merton: The Series."
John Sessions: TV: "John Sessions Tall Tales," "Die Fledermaus"
Tony Slattery: TV: "This Is David Harper," (plus some improv show with
McShane)
Sandi Toksvig: TV: "No.73," "The Big One"
Query: Does anyone know the name of the improv show that Tony Slattery
and Mike McShane did together?
-Micky
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WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY?
episode guide [revised April 30, 1992]
Thanks to imc\@prg.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier), who did most of the work on
the 1992 series. I just filled in a gap.
This time I've followed the popular convention of separating the U.K.
and U.S. episodes into separate series. NOTE: The American telecast
order on Comedy Central for the 1992 series was not always the same as
the U.K. broadcast order that Ian reported. I have listed the Comedy
Central order for the benefit of those Americans who may want to use
this guide to make sure they've caught all the episodes on the next go
around.
Specification format: performers in seating order, followed by the first
game and its players (specified by initials), followed by the "winner"
(specified by initials) and the style in which he or she had to read the
credits. Where the first game was "Authors," the authors chosen are
listed directly after the players. Note that there are no "winners" at
the end of compilation episodes.
SERIES 1, (c) 1988 - 13 episodes
1) Pilot
John Glover: Daniel Defoe
Jimmy Mulville: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Josie Lawrence: Jackie Collins
John Sessions: T.S. Eliot
JG: (no prize awarded)
2)
Archie Hahn: Stephen King
Josie Lawrence: Louisa M. Alcott
Paul Merton: The person who writes the Janet and John books
John Sessions: Charles Dickens
AH: an American sports commentator
3)
Archie Hahn: Truman Capote
Rory Bremner: Clive James
Jimmy Mulville: Dylan Thomas
John Sessions: James Joyce
RB: Barry Norman
4)
Stephen Fry: John le Carre
Peter Cook: Albert Goldman
Josie Lawrence: people who write articles for women's magazines
John Sessions: Ernest Hemingway
PC: New York taxicab driver
5)
Tony Slattery: William Burroughs
Betty Thomas: Mickey Spillane
Paul Merton: Barbara Cartland
John Sessions: Anthony Burgess
JS: Anthony Hopkins
6)
Josie Lawrence: Agatha Christie
Jonathan Pryce: King James Bible
Paul Merton: the do-it-yourself technical handbook
John Sessions: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
JL: an angry viewer at home
7)
Graeme Garden: J.B. Priestly
Jan Ravens: Pam Ayres
George McGrath: Dr. Roget, the thesaurus guy
John Sessions: D.H. Lawrence
JR: Paula Yates
8)
Tony Slattery: Dennis Wheatley
Jonathan Pryce: Egon Ronay
Rory McGrath: Jorge Luis Borges
John Sessions: Robert Louis Stevenson
RM: his own mother
9)
Richard Kaplan: Raymond Chandler
Griff Rhys Jones: John Milton
Paul Merton: Sunday Sport
John Sessions: Friedrich Nietzsche
GRJ & JS: Both as Griff Rhys Jones
10)
Micheal [sic] McShane: Louis L'amour
Josie Lawrence: The Brothers Grimm
Tony Slattery: Dr. Alex Comfort
John Sessions: William Faulkner
MM: James Stewart
11)
Stephen Fry: 1001 Arabian Nights
Josie Lawrence: Mary Shelley
Enn Reitel: Dashiell Hammett
John Sessions: Frank Richards
SF: an American announcer, Quinn Martin production, that sort of thing
12) Compilation
John Sessions
Stephen Fry
Archie Hahn
Josie Lawrence
Micheal [sic] McShane
Paul Merton
Johnathan [sic] Pryce
Tony Slattery
Film and Theater Styles: JL & PM
13) Compilation
John Sessions
Stephen Fry
Josie Lawrence
Rory McGrath
Micheal [sic] McShane
Jonathan Pryce
Tony Slattery
Film and Theater Styles: JL & JS
SERIES 2, (c) 1989 - 17 episodes
1)
Greg Proops: Earl Hamner, Jr.
Josie Lawrence: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tony Slattery: air hostess training manual
Mike McShane: The Rosetta Stone
GP: Elvis Costello
2)
Archie Hahn: Mickey Spillane
Josie Lawrence: Lewis Carroll
Tony Slattery: mistranslator of European pornography
John Sessions: the Liverpool Poets
TS: "Night Thoughts"
3)
Ron West: William Goldman
Griff Rhys Jones: Edward Lear
Paul Merton: Nostradamus
John Sessions: Philip Larkin
GRJ: Frankie Howard
4)
Greg Proops: the Cherokee oral tradition
Josie Lawrence: D.H. Lawrence
Paul Rider: Ted Hughes
Mike McShane: a Hollywood gossip columnist
MM: Brian Blessed
5)
Ryan Stiles: Cosmopolitan Magazine
Sandi Toksvig: Ed McBain
Tony Slattery: Sunday color supplement gadget catalog
John Sessions: Virginia Wolfe
TS: David Attenborough
6)
Ron West: DC Comics
Jimmy Mulville: Sigmund Freud
Paul Merton: Edgar Allan Poe
John Sessions: The Diaries of Andy Warhol
RW: somebody on Death Row
7)
Ryan Stiles
Josie Lawrence
Neil Mullarkey
Mike McShane
Film and Theater Styles: JL & NM
RS: Clint Eastwood
8)
Archie Hahn: Alice Walker
Jonathan Pryce: Noel Coward's diaries
Paul Merton: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
John Sessions: Lord of the Rings/Tolkien
AH: an American gangster movie
9)
Lee Simpson: T.E. Lawrence
Jan Ravens: The Duchess of York
Tony Slattery: a package holiday brochure
Mike McShane: Joseph Wambaugh
LS: Shakespearean
10)
Josie Lawrence
Arthur Smith
Sandi Toksvig
Mike McShane
Film and Theater Styles: JL & AS
AS: Sidney James
11)
Mike McShane: Dr. Seuss
Chris Langham: Jack London (in big print for the older reader)
Sandi Toksvig: Joy Francis
John Sessions: Alan Bennett
MM: in as many foreign accents as possible
12)
Greg Proops
Josie Lawrence
Tony Slattery
John Sessions
Film and Theater Styles: JL & GP
JL: a schoolmarm
13)
Ron West: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Sandi Toksvig: Enid Blyton
Tony Slattery: The Marquis de Sade
Rory McGrath: Desmond Morris
ST: Mae West
14)
Josie Lawrence: nursery rhymes
Paul Merton: Yakoshimo Okomo
Tony Slattery: ITV continuity announcements
Mike McShane: Mark Twain
MM: as though he's just won an Oscar
15) Compilation
Josie Lawrence
Mike McShane
Paul Merton
Neil Mullarkey
Greg Proops
John Sessions
Tony Slattery
Arthur Smith
Ryan Stiles
Sandi Toksvig
Film and Theater Styles: ST & MM
16) Compilation
Archie Hahn
Josie Lawrence
Mike McShane
Paul Merton
Greg Proops
Jonathan Pryce
John Sessions
Tony Slattery
Arthur Smith
Ryan Stiles
Sandi Toksvig
Film and Theater Styles: RS & ST
17) Christmas Edition [approx. 45 min. w/ comm.]
Greg Proops: C. Clement Moore
Josie Lawrence
Paul Merton
Sandi Toksvig: Jane Asher's Book of Party Cakes
Tony Slattery: a child's letter to Santa
Mike McShane: Robert Heinlein
Everyone: Christmas carolers
SERIES 3, (c) 1991 "In America" - 8 episodes
1)
Mike McShane: Lewis and Clark
Mark Cohen: Mario Puzo
Greg Proops: Millie the White House Dog
John Sessions: Ernest Hemingway
JS: Sean Connery
2)
Christopher Smith: sports figure reminiscences
Sandi Toksvig: Agatha Christie
Jim Meskimen: Tom Clancy
Mike McShane: Edgar Rice Burroughs
JM: Popeye
3)
John Sessions
Archie Hahn
Ryan Stiles
Mike McShane
Film and Theater Styles: JS & AH
JS: Phil Silvers
4)
Josie Lawrence
Greg Proops
Sandi Toksvig
Mike McShane
March: everyone
GP: The most stupid person in the world
5)
Josie Lawrence
Ryan Stiles
Christopher Smith
Jim Meskimen
Film and Theater Styles: JL & RS
RS: a bad Shakespearean actor
6)
Josie Lawrence
Ryan Stiles
Colin Mochrie
Mike McShane
Film and Theater Styles: JL & MM
RS: model from a fashion magazine
7)
Greg Proops
George McGrath
Ryan Stiles
Mike McShane
Storytellers: everyone
Everyone: a group of tourists to New York
8) Compilation
Josie Lawrence
George McGrath: the Bible
Mike McShane: an American greeting card author
Jim Meskimen
Colin Mochrie
Greg Proops: Zane Grey
Christopher Smith
Ryan Stiles: Tony Esposito (National Geographic)
Sandi Toksvig
SERIES 4, (c) 1991 U.K. - 9 episodes
1)
Josie Lawrence
Mark Cohen
Tony Slattery
Mike McShane
Film and Theater Styles: JL & TS
JL: Janet Street Porter
2)
Greg Proops
Sandi Toksvig
Tony Slattery
Mike McShane
Film and Theater Styles: TS & ST
GP: Woody Allen
3)
Josie Lawrence
Paul Merton
Julian Clarey
Mike McShane
Film and Theater Styles: PM & JC
PM: taxi driver
4)
Josie Lawrence: Michelin Guide to [...] Landmarks in London
Greg Proops: Jack Kerouac
Jim Sweeney: J.R.R. Tolkien
Tony Slattery: My Little Pony
TS: Auditioning for an Australian soap opera
5)
Mike McShane
Josie Lawrence
Denalda Williams
Sandi Toksvig
Film and Theater Styles (emotion option): JL & DW
ST: a headmistress
6)
Mike McShane
Sandi Toksvig
Paul Merton
Jim Sweeney
Film and Theater Styles: MM & ST
MM: 1930s radio announcer
7)
Mike McShane
Colin Mochrie
Sandi Toksvig
Tony Slattery
Film and Theater Styles: CM & ST
TS: the world's most enthusiastic person
8)
Mike McShane
Paul Merton
Steve Steen
Jim Sweeney
Film and Theater Styles: SS & JS
SS: Jimmy Saville
9) Compilation
Josie Lawrence
Mike McShane
Paul Merton
Colin Mochrie
Greg Proops
Tony Slattery
Jim Sweeney
Sandi Toksvig
Props: MM, ST, TS, & CM
SERIES 5, (c) 1992 U.K. - 6 episodes
1)
Jim Sweeney
Steve Steen
Stephen Frost
Tony Slattery
Emotion Option: JS & SS
JS: a memory man
2)
Greg Proops
Paul Merton
Ryan Stiles
Josie Lawrence
Film and Theater Styles: GP & RS
PM: Alec Guinness
3)
Jim Sweeney
Paul Merton
Steve Steen
Tony Slattery
Emotion Option: JS & SS
SS: Peter O'Sullivan (racing commentator)
4)
Jim Sweeney
Stephen Frost
Josie Lawrence
Tony Slattery
Film and Theater Styles: JS & SF
TS: a drunken Australian soap star
5)
Greg Proops
Ryan Stiles
Chip Esten
Tony Slattery
Film and Theater Styles: CE & TS
CE: an auctioneer
6) Compilation
Chip Esten
Stephen Frost
Josie Lawrence
Paul Merton: AA Handbook
Greg Proops
Tony Slattery: Alex Comfort (author of the New Joy of Sex)
Steve Steen: Jacques Cousteau
Ryan Stiles
Jim Sweeney: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
SERIES 6, (c) 1992 "In America" - 7 episodes
1)
Greg Proops
Ryan Stiles
Colin Mochrie
Brad Sherwood
Emotion Option: RS & BS
CM: someone making as many faces as possible
2)
Greg Proops
Archie Hahn
Ryan Stiles
Chip Esten
Scenes from a Hat: everyone
AH: cartoon character
3)
Ron West
Ryan Stiles
Colin Mochrie
Greg Proops
Scenes from a Hat: everyone
RS & CM: two sports commentators
4)
Sam Johnson
Jane Brucker
Ryan Stiles
Chip Esten
Scenes from a Hat: everyone
SJ: a sarcastic TV critic
5)
Jim Meskimen
Chris Smith
Ryan Stiles
Chip Esten
Film and Theater Styles: RS & CE
JM: Kevin Costner
6)
Greg Proops
Ron West
Ryan Stiles
Brad Sherwood
Emotion Options: RS & BS
GP & RS: two bickering brothers
7) Compilation
Jane Brucker
Chip Esten
Sam Johnson
Colin Mochrie
Greg Proops
Brad Sherwood
Ryan Stiles
Ron West
Film and Theater Styles: GP & CM
Maura Clark
>Query: Does anyone know the name of the improv show that Tony Slattery
>and Mike McShane did together?
Yes. It was called S & M (for Slattery and McShane, of course :-))
Maura.
David Pritchard
> Tony Slattery: TV: "This Is David Harper," (plus some improv show with
> McShane)
Plus some commercials for Canadian lager (probably brewed in the UK)
Regular spot on early "Clive Anderson Talks Back" seties
> Sandi Toksvig: TV: "No.73," "The Big One"
>
> Query: Does anyone know the name of the improv show that Tony Slattery
> and Mike McShane did together?
>
S&M
--
Dr David J. Pritchard
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University of Southampton fax (+44 703) 593045
Southampton SO9 5NH email d...@uk.ac.soton.ecs (UK)