Thread by @je_police, So much to enjoy in this old 3-2-1 clip. It's Timothy Claypole [...]

So much to enjoy in this old 3-2-1 clip. It's Timothy Claypole off of Rentaghost doing a bit from Cabaret in primetime. The production values are really very good. Look at how in sync the dance is! And the close ups. Wonderful

But after I watched it, I became OBSESSED with the cryptic clue

The clue object was some sandpaper

"I, in going, am biased in favour /
A score plus one gives three to savour"

(for those of you who don't remember 3-2-1 it was a variety based gameshow featuring usually awful (but occasionally good, as here) turns with cryptic clues and objects, and you had to avoid DUSTY BIN)

Music hall throwback Ted Rogers used to do the 321 gesture at lightning speed which inevitably led to rude playground versions

Back to the clue

These clues were so cryptic as to overwhelm Zen masters. The Listener Crossword composer cried for twelve hours trying to solve one. They make NO SENSE.

You'd get a clue that went "yes I'm a bin, bin bin bin, I'm DUSTY BIN, I'm the bin" and it'd be a holiday in Tenerife

"I in going am biased in favour" - if you take the I out of going you get GONG. I don't know if that helps

A score plus one = 20+1 isn't it? Twenty one. Divided by three is seven. Lucky sevens? A holiday to Vegas? British gameshows had a £3,999 limit on prizes at the time. Seems doubtful.

And what's "sandpaper" got to do with that? Unless it's the sand of the desert. Hmm. No dice.

Okay let's look at biased. Is that a clue word or a noise word? Hard to tell. Maybe the key word is "savour" and "biased in favour" is just for the rhyme. What is biased? Bowls? It's a set of bowls for the lawn? With sandpaper to look after them??

Okay "three to savour". Three what. Three weeks on holiday? (which is 21 days of course). A holiday for three people? The three is throwing me here. What comes in threes?

Three degrees? Three wheels on a tricycle? Three points on a triangle? Three coins in a fountain? Three penny opera? Three two one? Three is the magic number? Three times a lady? The Holy Trinity? It's a week in the Vatican?

OK if a score plus one gives three, then the score is two. That doesn't seem to help either. Is it about golf? One over par is a bogey, you've won a locomotive? Or a nasal cleansing kit? I'm floundering

This could go on for YEARS. My descendants will work on the Staniforth Riddle in temples shaped like giant anthropomorphic dustbins

Let's look at this another way. Could it be the bin? How could this clue mean Dusty Bin?

I suppose you could be biased in favour of Dusty Bin going, since you were guaranteed of not winning the booby prize. But what does the sandpaper mean? Rough justice? Carpentry? DIY? S&M?

THE COUPLES ON 3-2-1 HAD FIVE MINUTES TO SOLVE THIS WHILE WATCHING THE BRIAN ROGERS CONNECTION DANCERS

My main theories are golf or a holiday. A set of golf clubs? Maybe a golfing holiday. I guess you get sand on a golf course don't you?

A VW Golf? Too much bunce surely given the prize limit

I HAVE NO IDEA. I'VE READ THE CLUE A MILLION TIMES AND I AM NONE THE WISER

Wait

I've found the episode on YouTube. Oh my god. It's a Showstoppers special. Songs from the shows. Marti Webb is doing I Don't Know To Love Him

(you don't care do you)

TED IS OPENING THE ENVELOPE

I'm shaking. Sawdust. WHAT

This guy looks like he might kick off if Ted gives the wrong answer. (they've rejected the sandpaper by the way. This is REJECTED. Whatever it is, they're throwing it away)