Blankety Blank: Season 16
Season 16 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Blankety Blank Season 15.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 16 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Jan 7, 2001
Lily Savage returns with Blankety Blank after a 17-month absence from the screen - yet this time, it's with ITV. Lily welcomes five celebrities new to the quiz to usher in the chan
Episode 2
Jan 14, 2001
Lily welcomes four celebrities brand new to the panel: Jayne Middlemiss, Billy Murray, Steve Penk and Stuart Miles. Among the contestants is Tom Roberts, a man who took part in the
Episode 3
Jan 21, 2001
It seems as if Lily's finally starting to get the show's "gentle innuendo" format, noting that questions give the temptation to say "something rude". However, it's not long before
Episode 4
Jan 28, 2001
Lily deals with one contestant who lives in cemeteries, and another who got married in secret without letting her family know. Meanwhile, Sherrie Hewson decides she doesn't underst
Episode 5
Feb 4, 2001
Lily introduces another edition of the quiz show, in which contestants include a jelly wrestler, and a girl who can fit her entire fist in her mouth.
Episode 6
Feb 11, 2001
Lily offers a star prize of a week's holiday in Sri Lanka, but can celebrity panellists including Leslie Grantham and Adele Silva help the contestants to win it?
Episode 7
Feb 18, 2001
Lily is in a particularly jaded mood as a game threatens to "take all night", and many of the quiz elements are revealed as ones she hates.
Episode 8
Feb 25, 2001
Dermot O'Leary makes his sole Blankety Blank appearance on a show full of pretend people: there's the stylised comic persona of Harry Hill, fictitious glamour model Gayle Tuesday,
Episode 9
Mar 4, 2001
Kevin Woodford and Nadia Sawalha make their second appearances as panellists on the show, and are joined by four guests new to the programme - including Nadia's sister, Julia.
Episode 10
Mar 11, 2001
Chaos reigns when Liz Dawn and Donald Sinden can't understand the questions, and Bradley Walsh becomes obsessed with Lily's short skirt.
Episode 11
Mar 25, 2001
Lily introduces more contestants and celebrity panellists to the quiz, including the sole appearances of Troy Titus-Adams and David Easter.
Episode 12
Apr 8, 2001
Sherrie Hewson is having a nightmare with her answers, while Lily admits she's "not in the mood". However, elderly contestant George is on hand to make Lily laugh against her will.
Episode 13
Apr 22, 2001
Contestant Chris Keeble is in luck when he reveals one of his ambitions is to meet Gail Porter - Gail makes her sole appearance on the panel this week. Also making his only guest s
Episode 14
Apr 29, 2001
Giggly contestants and an emboldened panel help provide the fun in this edition of the show.
Episode 15
May 6, 2001
Junior Simpson, Kerry Katona, George Layton and Debra Stephenson all make their sole appearances on the panel. Louise Jameson, who had appeared twice in the Les Dawson era, also ma
Episode 16
May 13, 2001
Lily has laughs with some lively contestants, including a girl who claims to be a relative of Mary Tyler Moore, and the elderly Nat Shine, who brings his own sense of fun to the sh
Episode 17
May 20, 2001
Making their sole appearances on the panel this episode are Fiona Dolman, Jane Cox and Derek Fowlds.
Episode 18
May 27, 2001
"Let's get this over with, we're not here to enjoy ourselves." So says Lily, introducing another edition of Blankety Blank, with a star prize of a trip to St. Lucia.
Episode 19
Jun 3, 2001
The penultimate episode of the series sees old hands in Roy Barraclough and June Whitfield joined by newcomers Sarah Cawood and Ed Bryne.
Episode 20
Jun 10, 2001
Lily sees out the series with some unruly contestants and the sole appearances of Michael Starke and Natasha Hamilton.