a blow on the head and, after rejecting several offered "prizes" that are actually forms of physical abuse, receives it in the form of being hit over the head with a giant mallet. An early version of this sketch appeared in At Last the 1948 Show. For a time, after Miles' death, the sketch was not shown by the BBC, but it has since been reinstated. Also, in the Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook sketch in Monty Python's Flying Circus, a prosecutor (played by Eric Idle) plays the game with Alexander Yalt (played by Michael Palin). The prosecutor manages to gong Yalt "out" for answering a question with "yes" (although Yalt was probably unaware of playing the game in the first place). A sketch in the BBC Radio comedy series The Burkiss Way featured a "Dinosaur-Cheese Interlude", in which contestants were required to answer questions without mentioning any species of dinosaur or any variety of cheese (besides Edam, which was "made" backwards). Naturally, all the contestants did accidentally mention them. A fifth-season episode of the radio show Hancock's Half Hour (broadcast May 1958) had Tony Hancock appear on the (unnamed) show and win £4,000. The British progressive rock band Hatfield and the North named one of their songs "The Yes No Interlude". It is included in their second LP, The Rotters' Club. Also the song "Fitter Stoke has a bath" on the same LP, contains the lyrics "Michael Miles, bogey man". The 1970s radio programme I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again made frequent references to Take Your Pick! with phrases such as (in this case, apropos of a vampire rabbit and its coffin): "Stake the bunny!" "Hop in the box!" Transmissions Associated-Rediffusion Thames References External links Take Your Pick! (1955–1968) at British Film Institute Take Your Pick! (1992–1999) at British Film Institute . 1955 British television series debuts 1999 British television series endings 1950s British game shows 1960s British game shows 1990s British game shows British television series revived after cancellation English-language television shows ITV game shows Television series by Fremantle (company) Television shows produced by Associated-Rediffusion Television shows produced by Thames Television Television shows shot at Teddington Studios