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
Panel show decades-long runs in the UK: "Twenty Questions" lasted until 1976, while "Just a Minute" has remained on the air with the same host since 1967. Other long-running games on radio include "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" since 1972, "The News Quiz" since 1977, "My Word!" from 1956 to 1988, and "My Music" from 1967 to 1994. The British version of "What's My Line?" may have been the first television panel show in the UK, with an original run from 1951 to 1963 and several remakes in later years. The word game "Call My Bluff" aired from 1965 to 2005,