Just a Minute of the show, all created by Messiter, include a 1952 version on South African radio, and a television version on the DuMont network in the United States. The pilot for the show was recorded in 1967, featuring Clement Freud, Derek Nimmo, Beryl Reid and Wilma Ewart as panellists. The chairman was originally planned to be Jimmy Edwards but he was unavailable on Sundays, the proposed recording dates, and was replaced by Nicholas Parsons who was originally supposed to be a panel member. Parsons did not want the job and only reluctantly took it, just for the pilot episode. After the
Just a Minute series also made available on Compact Disc. "Just A Minute: Series 79" is due for release on 7 December 2017. In 2011, five double CDs were released with each volume focusing on a "Classic" selection of each of the main regular panellists (eg. "Just A Minute: Classic Kenneth Williams", "Just A Minute: Classic Paul Merton", etc.) The five volumes were also available as a box set entitled "Just A Minute: The Classic Collection" along with a bonus CD. The "Classic Clement Freud" CD and audio download was withdrawn from sites such as Amazon and iTunes following the posthumous revelations about