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 entitled "Just A Minute 2" followed in 1996. "Just A Minute 3" in 1999 saw the start of regular annual releases featuring 4 of the best episodes from the previous year. After "Just A Minute 8" in 2004, the following year's release was titled "Just A Minute: The Best Of 2005" and an end-of-year collection has been released every year since with "Just A Minute: The Best Of 2017" due for release on 2 November. In 2004, the BBC began a separate annual series of double CD releases collecting older episodes covering the shows first 30 years entitled "Just A