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
Miles Jupp as an employee of MI7. He appeared in Series 4, Episode 4 of the comedy panel game "Argumental", which aired on 24 November 2011. In 2012, he appeared again on "Mock the Week". In January 2012, he won an episode of "Celebrity Mastermind". In February 2012, he appeared on BBC "Let's Dance for Sport Relief", and danced to The Prodigy's "Firestarter". In March 2012, he appeared in an episode of the specially televised "45th Anniversary" series of BBC Radio 4's "Just a Minute" quiz show, alongside Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth and Liza Tarbuck, and in July 2013, he appeared in