the pure anarchy in this episode gives me unimaginably great pleasure. all life should be like that. [update: i forgot i have now got an mp3 splitter! so i've added a very tiny clip i got from a 2002 documentary (scroll down. the corresponding portion of the transcript is italicised)
Nicholas: Clement you have three seconds on the first of a new series starting now.Clement Freud: I'd like to say...
BUZZ
Nicholas Parsons: Peter Jones has challenged.
Peter J: Hesitation. Didn't start quickly enough at all! Terribly slow!
Nicholas P: Not for you Peter, but I'm afraid not quite enough for the game. Two seconds, Clement, on the first of a new series starting now.
Clement F: And therefore I'd like to greet everyone...
BUZZ
Nicholas P: Derek Nimmo.
Derek Nimmo: I haven't challenged.
Peter Jones: It must have been a correct challenge...
Nicholas Parsons: Well someone's light came on...
Peter J: ...because you said it was two seconds and he said nothing! First of all it was three seconds...
Derek Nimmo: Well that's why I did it! I pressed my buzzer a moment ago and it didn't go on. This time I just had a little tentative one...
Peter J: Are you blaming your equipment because you're falling behind?
Derek Nimmo: My buzzer's no good! How can you start a new series with a faulty buzzer? That's what I want to know!
Kenneth Williams: A bad workman always blames his tools! Ah yes!
Peter J: Right!
Nick Parsons: Your buzzer is perfectly all right, it came on...
Derek Nimmo: My buzzer's not working!
Peter J: Now my point is...
Nick P: Yes what's your point?
Peter J: Clement had three seconds in which to make a speech...
Nicholas P: Yes.
Peter J: ...and I buzzed, "hesitation"
Nicholas P: Yes.
Peter J: ...you then said "now you've got two seconds"...
Nick Parsons: But during that second...
Peter Jones: He said nothing!
Nick Parsons:... he said something.
Peter J: What did he say? Nothing!
Nick Parsons: He did speak, he said, er, a definite phrase, the full content I can't remember, but he did speak...
Peter Jones: You're the chairman and you can't remember what the last speaker said?
Derek Nimmo: It's going to be a rotten series, I can tell you!
Peter Jones: I don't know! I think, you know, his buzzer isn't working, you can't remember! What chance have we got!
Nick P: We won't have a chance in hell if you keep up this much longer! Right, Peter, shut up! Kenneth, er, Derek...
Kenneth Williams: I haven't said anything! I think it's a disgrace! I come all the way from Great Portland Street...
Derek Nimmo: He's losing his nerve!
Nicholas P: I said...
Peter J: I'm not surprised!
Derek Nimmo: I want my buzzer to be repaired!
Kenneth Williams: Leave your buzzer out of it!