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	Nicholas Parsons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christopher Nicholas Parsons OBE, normally known as Nicholas Parsons (born October 10, 1923 often misquoted as 1928) is a British actor, radio and television presenter.
		Parsons made his film debut in 1947, but first became well known to TV audiences during the 1950s as the straight man to comedian Arthur Haynes and a regular on The Benny Hill Show from 1969-1974.
		Parsons attended St Paul's School and Glasgow University, and was Rector of the University of St. Andrews from 1989 to 1992.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicholas_Parsons (388 words)

	My Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Parsons was born in 1841 in Jackson Co., WV.
		Parsons was born in 1858 in Jackson Co., WV.
		Susan Parsons was born in 1869 in WV.
	www.castoconnections.com /gedcom/d101.htm (600 words)

	Nicholas Parsons -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Christopher Nicholas Parsons, normally known as Nicholas Parsons (born October 10, 1923 often misquoted as 1928) is a (The people of Great Britain) British (A theatrical performer) actor, (A communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves) radio and (Click link for more info and facts about television presenter) television presenter.
		Parsons made his film debut in 1947, but first became well known to TV audiences during the (The decade from 1950 to 1959) 1950s as the (A performer who acts as stooge to a comedian) straight man to comedian Arthur Haynes.
		Parsons has been the host of the (Click link for more info and facts about BBC Radio 4) BBC Radio 4 (Click link for more info and facts about panel game) panel game, (Click link for more info and facts about Just A Minute) Just A Minute, since its first broadcast on December 22, 1967.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ni/nicholas_parsons.htm (430 words)

	My Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Blackburn Parsons was born in 1879 in WV.
		Bolldon Parsons was born in 1873 in WV.
		Delila Parsons was born in 1877 in WV.
	www.castoconnections.com /gedcom/d99.htm (689 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Actors (Ni-Nik) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Nicholas Colasanto was an American actor and television director.
		He was born in 1924 at providence, Rhode Island and died in 1985.
		He was born in 1931 and died in 1968 of a drug overdose.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /CYNA.HTM (419 words)

	My Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Harrison Parsons was born in 1871 in WV.
		Parsons was born in Oct 1883 in Jackson Co., WV.
		Parsons was born in 1861 in Jackson Co., WV.
	www.castoconnections.com /gedcom/d100.htm (756 words)

	Family Group Sheet - John Parsons and Jane nee Lord later Trevan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Nicholas Parsons (1807-) was born 4 Jan 1807 and bapt 26 Feb 1807 at Sheviock
		Frances Trevan Parsons was born on 12 Sep 1804 and baptised at Sheviock on 18 Nov 1804.
		Mary Ann Parsons was baptised at Sheviock on Christmas day 1817, when her father John Parsons was described as a schoolmaster living at Cot and his wife's name was given as Jane.
	home.planet.nl /~treva000/families/jp_jt.htm (879 words)

	FRINGE REPORT
		Parsons started his career with 5 years as an engineer in a Clydebank shipyard, and switches to fluent Glaswegian to take joke requests from a family of 3 generations from Edinburgh's rival city.
		Parsons counters with his version of Billy Connolly, and already he and Lock are a double act.
		Parsons and Lock are off and running for a full 15 minutes, bouncing jokes off each other and questions from the audience.
	www.fringereport.com /0208nicholasparsons.shtml (798 words)

	Wandsworth Primary Care Trust NHS
		The afternoon got underway after well-known TV and radio personality Nicholas Parsons officially opened the fair, or as he put it ‘declared the fair continuing to be open’ as many people had taken advantage of arriving early.
		After the speech, Nicholas wandered around the stalls with his wife, Anne, enjoyed the strawberries, cream & pimms, talked with many of the staff who were running the stalls and then gave some time to sign autographs and have photographs taken.
		Nicholas Parsons will be appearing at the Richmond Theatre on Sunday July 14th with his one-man show “Nicholas Parsons: A Life in Comedy”.
	www.wandsworth-pct.nhs.uk /news/press_story.asp?id=79 (495 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - This Is Hertfordshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Parsons' versatility has fast become his trademark, and perhaps one of the key reasons for his enduring appeal.
		Parsons is a master of playing to an audience a skill which will no doubt be in evidence at the Wyllyotts Centre.
		Nicholas Parsons performs A Life In Comedy, at The Wyllyotts Centre, Darkes Lane, Potters Bar, on February 17 at 7.30pm.
	www.thisishertfordshire.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=36273 (677 words)

	BBC - Communicate - Chat Archive
		Nicholas Parsons Happy Hour is commonly during what is known as a happy hour which involves fun, gaiety and frivolity.
		Nicholas Parsons: I can imagine myself doing lots of things as I'm a trained engineer, keen on mending clocks and photography so there's lots of things I can turn my hand to but I've always wanted to be an entertainer.
		Nicholas Parsons: Cliff, you ask a question about that programme so you obviously watch SAle of the Century and you haven't watched anything since.
	www.bbc.co.uk /communicate/archive/nic_parsons/page1.shtml (687 words)

	Just A Minute radio season 20 1984 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Notes: Nicholas Parsons's 343rd appearance, Kenneth Williams's 301st appearance, Clement Freud's 282nd appearance, Peter Jones's 205th appearance, Henry Kelly's 2nd appearance, Mary Bell's first appearance blowing the whistle.
		Notes: Nicholas Parsons's 344th appearance, Kenneth Williams's 302nd appearance, Derek Nimmo's 205th appearance, Gyles Brandreth's 8th appearance, Martin Jarvis's 2nd appearance.
		Notes: Nicholas Parsons's 345th appearance, Kenneth Williams's 303rd appearance, Clement Freud's 283rd appearance, Derek Nimmo's 206th appearance, John Baddeley's 2nd and last appearance.
	www.geocities.com /deanbedford/jam20.html (691 words)

	Just A Minute radio season 16 1982 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Notes: Nicholas Parsons's 302nd appearance, Kenneth Williams's 260th appearance, Clement Freud's 259th appearance, Derek Nimmo's 182nd appearance, Peter Jones's 181st appearance, first show produced by Pete Atkin.
		Notes: Nicholas Parsons's 306th appearance, Kenneth Williams's 264th appearance, Tim Rice's 4th appearance, John Junkin's 4th appearance, Brian Johnston's first appearance.
		Notes: Nicholas Parsons's 307th appearance, Kenneth Williams's 265th appearance, Derek Nimmo's 185th appearance, Peter Jones's 184th appearance, Denise Coffey's 6th and last appearance.
	www.geocities.com /deanbedford/jam16.html (505 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - The Review - Nicholas Parsons: My Life in Comedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The cravat-loving star of stage, screen and radio has been working for 50 years, and this gig finds him most at home as a solo performer and raconteur as he talks about his life and career in his unpredictable yet fascinating profession.
		Parsons has been chairman of the popular panel game show Just A Minute since it was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1967.
		Parsons has presented three different one-man shows at the Edinburgh Festival, all of which have been well received, and his hilarious anecdotes in this show, based on his 1994 autobiography The Straight Man - My Life in Comedy, have been enjoyed all over the world.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /thereview.cfm?id=930542003 (384 words)

	Independent, The (London): THE DEBORAH ROSS INTERVIEW: Nicholas Parsons - Smooth operator
		I'm not sure why I think driving gloves, just that Nicholas Parsons seems such a driving-gloves sort of person, in the same way, say, that Bruce Forsyth seems like a monogrammed slipper sort of person, and Alan Titchmarsh seems like one of those beaded car-seats sort of people...
		Nicholas Parsons will always be a driving-gloves sort of person, whether he wears them or not, just as Bruce Forsyth will always be a monogrammed- slipper sort of person, and Esther Rantzen will always be a swagged-curtain sort of person...
		Nicholas, the son of Frederick Parsons, a Grantham GP, and his wife Nell, was always considered rather backward by his parents.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_200208/ai_n12637220 (1296 words)

	Just A Minute radio season 49 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Notes: Nicholas Parsons's 668th appearance, Clement Freud's 483rd appearance, Paul Merton's 144th appearance, Jenny Eclair's 21st appearance, Dara O'Briain's 3rd appearance.
		Notes: Nicholas Parsons's 669th appearance, Paul Merton's 145th appearance, Graham Norton's 49th appearance, Ross Noble's 24th appearance, Sue Perkins's 11th appearance.
		Notes: Nicholas Parsons's 673rd appearance, Clement Freud's 486th appearance, Tony Hawks's 74th appearance, Julian Clary's 18th appearance, Pam Ayres's 6th appearance.
	www.geocities.com /deanbedford/jam49.html (762 words)

	Sounds interview, Jan 1979
		L to R: Nicholas Parsons, Russell Harty, Bruce Forsyth, Hughie Green.
		To go where no music paper had gone before and get the goods on Nicholas Parsons, guitarist / vocalist and chief motivator of the TV Personalities.
		Nicholas Parsons presented the popular weekly quiz show, 'Sale of the Century' from 1971 - 85.
	www.televisionpersonalities.co.uk /reviews/sounds.htm (1447 words)

	Oxford University Student Union : Nicholas Parsons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Nicholas Parsons is one of the best known radio presenters.
		All are welcome to what we expect to be a relaxed and enjoyable evening when this unique talent will talk about his work, answer questions and will no doubt be full of celebrity gossip.
		Anyone who heard Nicholas at the Union in 2000 will recall that he is never shy of reminiscing on the inadequacies of his colleagues!
	www.ousu.org /main/clubsocs/politics/reform/Parsons (158 words)

	Radio: Just A Minute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Thus, Nicholas Parsons was appointed host, dealing with the verbal backchat of the likes of Clement Freud, Peter Jones, Kenneth Williams and Derek Nimmo.
		Parsons - in one of his particularly torturted analogies - said: "Colloquially, we refer to Just A Minute as JAM.
		Nicholas Parsons originally didn't want the job of chairman, preferring to be on the panel.
	www.chortle.co.uk /radio/radioshows/justminute.html (699 words)

	Edinburgh Festivals - Nicholas Parsons as W S Gilbert 'A Great Victorian' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Nicholas Parsons as W S Gilbert 'A Great Victorian'
		FROM the front, Nicholas Parsons’s stick-on sideburns look as real as the moustache he sports.
		Once you’ve got past the shock, Parsons makes a fine Gilbert, stiff but warm, and charming despite the odd burst of anger.
	www.edinburgh-festivals.com /reviews.cfm?id=879972003&genre=Theatre (212 words)

	Nicholas Parsons - Speakers Biography - Celebrity Speakers Limited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Nicholas is also the chairman of BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute, which has been on the air for 35 years.
		Moreover, Nicholas has starred in numerous films, including Don't Raise the Bridge Lower the River with Jerry Lewis and Spy Story.
		Having written for, appeared with and hosted over some of the finest comedians and after dinner speakers, Nicholas performs a truly polished but uproarious speech.
	www.speakers.co.uk /speaker/NICPAR (275 words)

	Just a Minute
		To this, he added a rule preventing players deviating from the subject presented by the show's chairman, as well as a scoring system based on panelists' correct and incorrect challenges.
		The long-suffering but good-natured host of Just a Minute was (and still is, as of 2004) Nicholas Parsons.
		Until 1989, Ian Messiter sat quietly on the stage with a stopwatch and blew a whistle when the speaker's minute was up.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/j/ju/just_a_minute.html (413 words)

	Sale of the Century - UKGameshows
		Sure, it didn't clock up the 25 years of, say, the original version of Mastermind but we'd rather have Nicholas Parsons than Magnus Magnusson any day.
		Rather more meek offerings were on Sale in the version best known to most people in the UK, hosted by Nicholas Parsons.
		To those reading this outside the UK, Parsons is one of those characters who you don't readily associate with being a babe magnet but, judging from the pictures shown here, in the 1970s he must have been quite a catch.
	www.ukgameshows.com /index.php/Sale_of_the_Century (947 words)

	BBC Radio 4 - Just a Minute
		Nicholas Parsons hosts the devious panel game. Remember the rules: no hesitation, repetition or deviation.
		Just a Minute was devised by the late Ian Messiter who came up with the idea on the top of a number 13 bus. He suddenly remembered being given the horrible task of speaking for one minute without hesitation or deviation by one of his school masters.
		Thirty-five years later, Chairman Nicholas Parsons continues to attempt - and mostly succeed - in keeping control over a roll-call of celebrity contenders attempting to talk on a subject for sixty seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/comedy/justaminute.shtml (226 words)

	JAM:PJones,PMerton,SFry,MMcErlane
		I know Nicholas Parsons when he started out gave very good impressions, that was indeed his trade, his business.
		I had the most extraordinary dream last night about Nicholas Parsons dressed in a loin cloth, dragging me round the cave by my hair...
		From them, from the panelists, from me Nicholas Parsons, thank you for tuning in, be with us the next time we play Just A Minute.
	deanbedford.tripod.com /jam99.html (4066 words)

	Reverend Green Actors: Robin Nedwell, Derek Nimmo, Richard Wilson, Christopher Biggins and Nicholas Parsons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Despite this though, he was entertaining to watch - as were the rest of the troupe - it's just when you compare this series to its predecessors, you wonder why they felt the need to spoil a perfectly good thing.
		Nicholas Parsons has a long career, spanning from the 1940's to the present day.
		Although a lot of his success has been presenting various quiz shows such as "Just A Minute" - which has been on air for over thirty years - he was a regular face on "The Benny Hill Show" and has much success on stage as the Narrator of "The Rocky Horror Show".
	www.cluedofan.com /guide/reverendgreen.htm (845 words)

	Junk food, Nicholas Parsons and the death of deference from Observer Blog
		Junk food, Nicholas Parsons and the death of deference from Observer Blog
		Junk food, Nicholas Parsons and the death of deference
		Will not recover quickly from watching Margaret Thatcher deep in conversation with Nicholas Parsons from Sale of the Century.
	blogs.guardian.co.uk /observer/archives/2005/05/06/junk_food_nicholas_parsons_and_the_death_of_deference.html (1282 words)

	durham21 \| going out \| An audience with Nicholas Parsons (oh...and Westlife)
		Parsons, introducing various acts such as standup Les Dennis (our survey said..), ventriloquist Paul Zerdin (puppet molester), thesp Simon Callow (snuffed it in Four Weddings) and the classic Bonnie Langford (loud) who sang numbers from Cats and other musicals.
		After the interval, Tarquin and Felicity of the classical strings Palatinate Ensemble did little to quash the Durham student stereotype with their ball dresses and tuxes, bless em.
		But i'll let u off seeing as you nearly got it on with nicholas parsons.
	www.durham21.co.uk /archive/archive.asp?ID=735 (773 words)

	BBC News \| TV AND RADIO \| Parsons toasts a 'comic icon'
		He told the BBC his memories of the comedian, who has died aged 83.
		Nicholas Parsons paid tribute to Spike Milligan's inventiveness
		It was surreal, different and amazing and he created a whole new attitude towards humour.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/entertainment/tv_and_radio/newsid_1844000/1844568.stm (440 words)

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