Phil Tufnell

It's 10 years since 'They Think It's All Over' ended

Can you believe that it's ten years since the last ever episode of They Think It's All Over? The sport-themed British comedy panel game was first shown in September 1995 and ran for nineteen seasons on BBC One before coming to an end in 2006 after over a decade on air.

The last in the series of this mildly galling, cash-frittering gameshow finds former cricketer and Question Of Sport team captain Phil Tufnell and comedian Susan Calman being handed a case stuffed with two million krona and a pair of tickets to Reykjavik. That's about £10,000, which surely shouldn't be too hard to get rid of, right? There are trips up a glacier, a round of midnight golf and a consultation with a local elf service. As opposed to the National Elf Service, obviously.

How Phil Tufnell spent £10,000 in 24 hours

Earlier this year, Phil Tufnell was tasked with a difficult mission. To jet to Iceland with comedian Susan Calman and blow £10,000 in 24 hours. It's a tough life, eh?

Dave Podmore is a fictional former cricketer who scrapes a shameless living in the scrubland between sport and showbiz. There are serious cricket scribes who don't find him funny. I simply adore him. The creation of Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds (who also gave birth to that peerless paradigm of the modern man of letters, Ed Reardon), his adventures mirror life closely enough for laughter, sharply enough to register. Here's how he narrowly missed out to real life former cricketer Phil Tufnell in getting onto Strictly Come Dancing.