Radio Times Christmas Picture Quiz 2021

[MarilynneT]

Whose got their Christmas Radio Times for this years Picture Quiz? I've made a start and got up to 36 answers.

[andrewc]

The time I’ve spent trying to solve that anagram. And I even thought that should be on there. Thanks. I agree about Schitt’s Creek for same reason and have also wondered about that red writing.

[scotchlass]

David’s is the sign for David’s shop in Emmerdale. Don’t know about the jumper though. All the soaps clues seem to be put together.

[andrewc]

Thanks and that’s a good point about the shops

[Midnighter]

Is the word on the box of washing up items a separate clue? I'm currently struggling to find more than 45 distinct clues.

[andrewc]

No it’s part of the same clue. I think I’ve found 50 by including a black object on top of the chimney to the right of the Vigil chimney (no idea what it is), thinking the Tower Block is a clue (no better idea than The Tower), making the Paralympic and Olympic mascots separate clues and thinking that the jumper, man and starburst around the K of ASK are a clue (again no idea).

[Midnighter]

It looks like I'm the same. I thought I had fifty with the wording on the cleaning products, but if the Olympics and Paralympics are two separate clues that takes me back up to fifty.

[Midnighter]

Edit: I've just double checked and I'm on 49. The ones I'm struggling with are:

1. The tortoises
2. The black item on top of the chimney
3. The woman in blue in the centre of the picture.
4. The Volunteer pub sign.
5. The nurse. (Thought it could be Call the Midwife, but it's a different style of uniform.)
6. The striped top.
7. The flash and the object, possibly a building, at the foot of the tower.

Like others I'm sure that It's A Sin should be clued, but haven't managed to link it to anything other than the colourful life sign.

[blythebarrow]

The tortoises had me foxed for ages. It’s David Attenborough’s ‘The Mating Game’. Good luck, blythebarrow.

[jendrops]

The nurse is definitely Call The Midwife

[swyscforever]

So I have...

1. 2 people embracing in window – The Pursuit of Love
2. “Roy Family newsagents” sign – Succession
3. Police officer – Line of duty
4. “Weatherfield gazette” sign – Coronation Street
5. “WANTED” poster – The Outlaws
6. Ballroom dancers – Strictly Come Dancing
7. Crate of cleaning supplies – The Cleaner
8. 10/10 over the earth - A Perfect Planet
9. Hanging curvy tube instrument – The Serpent
10. Red, neon “Kathy’s” sign – Eastenders
11. “ASK: agence samuel kerr” sign – Call my Agent!
12. “david’s” sign - Emmerdale
13. Stripy jumper – ?
14. Nurse – Call the Midwife
15. “Care Assistant Needed” sign – Help
16. Giant doll – Squid Game
17. Knight on horseback – Dr Who
18. “Darrowby” and “Hythe” road sign - All Creatures Great and Small
19. Tennis player – US Open
20. Multi coloured “LIFE” sign – Life in Colour
21. Periscope and crew on top of chimney - Vigil
22. Man in cap peering round chimney - Lupin
23. “The Volunteer” hanging ship sign – The North Water
24. Vampire puppet on the roof – Spitting Image
25. Woman in centre in long coat – The Wheel of Time
26. Festively dressed drag queen – Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK
27. Carved “KILO” sign - Loki
28. “S. Perlmutter & Sons Ltd.” Sign – Ridley Road
29. Annotated Pie illustration – The Great British Bake Off
30. “Ding Dong!” graffiti – Glow up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star
31. Pink and white character – The Paralympics
32. White flower chalkboard sign - ?
33. Man in tiny window - Time
34. Red, green and blue tools neon sign - ?
35. Woman in shop window – Mare of East Town
36. “Chef’s specials” Union flag sign- ? (Great British Menu?)
37. Black and white character – The Olympics
38. Addidas branded football – Euro 2020
39. Man smiling in window – Black and British: a forgotten history
40. “Diddly Squat Farm Shop” sign - Clarkson’s Farm
41. “m” logo in doorway - Masterchef
42. Grey “Moordale” sweater – Sex Education
43. “It all started with a big bang” chalkboard sign – ?
44. Mating tortoises – ?
45. Partridge sat on top of clock – This Time with Alan Partridge
46. “DONALD SLOB” sign – Bloodlands
47. Woman in regency dress – Bridgerton
48. Knitted toy bee – ?

and to make up the missing 2 (or 3 if the flower sign is paired with the union flag sign) I've found

1. Heart shaped “OPEN” sign under “DONALD SLOB” sign- ?
2. “IAL BLY” partial sign under “david’s” sign– ?
3. White starburst/ house/window at bottom of towerblock– ?
4. Towerblock – ? (The Tower? But it’s not the right tower)

[blythebarrow]

Hang on! While Darrowby on the road sign relates to ‘All Creatures Great and Small’, Hythe comes from ‘Back to Life’ on Netflix. You have an extra answer!
Best wishes, blythebarrow.

[swyscforever]

Brilliant!! thank you :)

[andrewc]

Thanks for Call the Midwife as I’d also thought it was the wrong uniform but haven’t watched recently. And thanks for Hythe. Agree with Great British Menu. Thought Big Bang was Universe. Re tower block, we could do with someone recognising the street scene. They’re usually based on a real place which would tell us whether the tower block is a clue. The starburst and jumper look more like clues but could be combined or part of other clues.

[andrewc]

Oh and I went for a house through time for David olusoga but only because he’s in a house

[Midnighter]

Looking at the picture again there seems to be something in the window below The Volunteer sign... or is it my old eyes playing up?

[Amberlmoran_]

My list so far:
1. Strictly Come Dancing (large picture of dancers on left of image)
2. Coronation Street (Weatherfield sign)
3. Eastenders (Kathy’s sign)
4. Line of Duty (policeman left hand side)
5. All creatures great and small (Darrowby sign)
6. Bridgerton (girl in long pale blue dress on right side)
7. The Big Bang Theory ? (Blackboard ‘it all started with a big bang’)
8. The repair shop (neon tools in window)
9. Masterchef (m symbol on doorframe)
10. The Great British Sewing Bee (knitted bee on right side)
11. The cleaner (cleaning bottles on left side)
12. Call the Midwife (the Nurse)
13. Clarkson’s Farm (Diddly Squat Farm Shop sign)
14. Help (bright sky care homes sign)
15. Succession (Roy Family Newsagents sign)
16. Mare of Easttown (woman in window by the neon tools)
17. Call my Agent (ASK agence Samuel Kerr sign)
18. The Great British Bake off (pie picture above ‘ding dong’)
19. US open (tennis player)
20. Euro 2021 (adidas football)
21. 2021 Tokyo olympics (little black and white character above the football)
22. 2021 summer paralympics (the other pink and grey character)
23. Sex Education (the moordale top in the window)
24. Rupaul’s drag Race (the character in long red dress)
25. The Mating Game (2 tortoises)
26. Spitting Image (the scary character between the 2 chimneys on the roof)
27. A perfect planet (10/10 planet)
28. Doctor Who (character on the white horse by the Nurse)
29. The Tower ? (The tower by the doll)
30. Lupin (the man with the flat cap next to the chimney)
31. The outlaws (the wanted sign in the left side by the policeman)
32. Squid Game(the giant doll)
33. The white lotus (the blackboard with the flower on)
34. Loki (anagram of Kilo)
35. Time (man behind the small window, very top right side)
36. Vigil (top of the chimney)
37. The Serpent (the instrument next to the tower)
38. Emmerdale (red David’s sign)
39. The pursuit of love (2 characters in embrace on top left side)
40. The north water (the sign with the volunteer ship)
41. Bloodlands (anagram of Donald Slob)
42. The wheel of time (lady at front in blue coat)
43. Glow Up (Ding dong! Writing)
44. Great British menu (Union Jack board)
45. Black and British: a forgotten history (man with glasses in window above diddly squat sign)
46. This time with Alan partridge (bird on top of clock)
47. Ridley Road (fabric sign)
48. Back to Life (Hythe sign)
49. Attenborough’s Life in colour (colourful ‘life’)

[Jujubee]

I think you might have missed Shetland. The blob in the wall below kilo and right of tree is in the shape of the Shetland isles. I takes a scot.

[andrewc]

Shetland is brilliant. Didn’t see it tho I spent a summer washing dishes there. Three I’m not completely sure of (sewing bee, repair shop and white lotus) and one more out of the black shape on the chimney, the green shape in the window, the jumper and the starburst group.

[MarilynneT]

Good one with Shetland. I would never have seen that. Still puzzled about the high rise building, the white flower and the black shape on top of the chimney.

[ChristmasPenguin]

I have 50 without the black shape on the chimney