Michael Aspel

**Michael Aspel** (b. 12 January 1933) is a British former broadcaster and host of a number of programmes including *Crackerjack*, *Ask Aspel*, *Aspel & Company*, *Give Us a Clue*, *This is Your Life* and *Antiques Roadshow*.

## TV shows

from 01-01-1964 only

* *Town and Around* - A daily presentation of news and views from London and the South-East (1964- )
* *Come Dancing* (compere, 1964-1967)
* *The International Ballroom Championships of 1964* (commentator, 1964)
* *Miss World* (compère, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974)
* *Miss England* (compère, 1965, 1966, 1970)
* *News Review* - with a commentary that can be seen as well as heard. (1966)
* *Welcome Christmas* (host, 1966)
* *The News* (late evening spot, 1967-1968)
* *Call My Bluff* (contestant, 1968)
* *Sixth Sense* - "a new competitive series in which sixth-formers are given the chance to air their views or investigate any topic that concerns them." (host, 1968)
* *The Monday Show (*1968)
* *Moon Clue Game* (contestant, 1968)
* *The G.P.O. Personality Girl of 1968* (1968)
* *Miss United Kingdom* (1968, 1969, 1970, 1971)
* *Crackerjack* (from 13 Sept. 1968 - 1971), *Crackerjack 72, Crackerjack 73, Crackerjack* (1974-
* *The Royal Variety Performance* (commentator, 1968, 1970)
* *The Best in Television* (commentator, 1969)
* *A Song for Europe* (host, 1969 & 1976)
* *The Movies* (host, from May-Sep. 1969)
* *The G.P.O. Personality Girl of 1969* (host, July 1969) - *The Post Office Personality Girl of 1970* (host, Sept. 1970)
* *The Evacuees* (appearance, 31 August 1969)
* *The Variety Club Awards* (host, 1970)
* *Cinema* series (from 01 May 1970-1971)
* *Ask Aspel* (host, from 18 September 1970 - July 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 )
* *Ace of Clubs* (host, 1970)
* *Christmas Crackers* (presenter, 1970) "The first complete Mickey Mouse cartoon on British television in colour - Pluto's Christmas Tree"
* *Wide World of Entertainment* (presenter, 1970)
* *The Variety Club Awards* (host, 1971)
* *Aspel's Christmas Crackers* (presenter, 1971)
* *The Goodies* (special episode for Montreux 72, 1972, one episode Feb. 1975, one ep. Dec. 1976)
* *Dick Whittington* (Christmas panto, special guest as The Vizier, Christmas Day 1972)
* *A Stocking Full of Stars* (presenter, Christmas Day 1973 & 1974)
* *The Movie Quiz* (chairman, 1974)
* *Aspel and Company* (from Sept. 1974 - Tues. & Friday afternoons)
* *Aladdin* (Christmas Eve 1974)
* *Quest* - "A family phone-in quiz" (1975)
* *Remember, Remember* - "a programme specially designed to show children how firework accidents are caused." (Oct. 1975)
* *Eurovision Song Contest Preview* (host, two shows: 21 & 28 March 1976)
* *Eurovision Song Contest* (commentator, 1976)
* *It's a Celebrity Knockout!* (contestant, 1976)
* *Multi-Coloured Swap Shop* (guest, 1976)
* *The Big Time* (guest as Miss World 'expert', 1977)
* *The Morecambe and Wise Show* (guest, Christmas Day 1977)
* *The Nation Celebrated* (narrator, New Year's Day 1978)
* *Star Signs* - "a new entertainment based on astrology and other methods of prediction, such as palmistry and the tarot" (host, 6 eps. 1979)
* *This Is Your Life* ('victim', 14 May 1980 - ITV)
* *Seeing Stars* (guest as 'Capricorn', 1980)
* *So You Think You're Safe at Home?* (guest with wife Elizabeth Power, 1981
* *This Is Your Life* (ITV, host, from 19 September 1988 - first 'victim' Phil Collins)
* *This Is Your Life* (host, returning to BBC One from 1994 until 12 June 2003 - last victim Simon Cowell)
	+ 15 January 2000, *The Night of 1000 Lives*
* *Antiques Roadshow* - tbc

## External links

* Wikipedia
* bigredbook.info