18 INTROS TO PRIME-TIME GAME SHOWS OF THE 50s
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- It Pays to Be Ignorant, It's News to Me, 20 Questions, Who Said That?, Place the Face, Judge for Yourself, The Big Surprise, Make the Connection, The Name's the Same, Two for the Money, Penny to a Million, High Finance, Big Game, Giant Step, Hold That Note, Music Bingo, Anybody Can Play, Laugh Line.
This is kinescope GOLD! Many of these I’ve NEVER seen before and the 50s was my first decade. I think the dancing cigarette packs crack me up the most. Some of the animated graphics openings are intricate. Some of the ‘celebs’ shown I don’t recognize. Thanks for sharing!
I grew up in Italy but I love the 50s in USA 🇺🇸... a truly golden age
And who knew Johnny Gilbert would still be on the air today as the announcer on "Jeopardy!"?
Can't believe these shows were actually on TV.
Mike Wallace! A million years before "60 Minutes"!
It Pays to be Ignorant would be a fitting symbol for todays age
Those cigarette commercials were mainstay of early television.
Mike Wallace as a game show host! That is funny.
You do an excellent job on these. Thanks so much!
Thank you many times over for the brief introduction of Music Bingo. This is how I will always remember Johnny Gilbert.
(Don't figure out my age, LOLOLOLOLOL).
"IT PAYS TO BE IGNORANT" (1951 summer replacement for Groucho's "YOU BET YOUR LIFE", adapted from the radio show); "IT'S NEWS TO ME", another great 1952 Goodson-Todman summer panel show, focusing on current events; "20 QUESTIONS" (1952, also heard on radio); "WHO SAID THAT?" (1953); "PLACE THE FACE" (1954); "JUDGE FOR YOURSELF" (1954 Goodman-Todman musical game show; Don Pardo, NBC announcer- Dennis James for Old Gold {"'For a Treat Instead Of A Treatment', light up an OLD GOLD...") ....
Dennis James : “Okay? Okay.”
All of your comments are always full of BULLSH*T!
"GIANT STEP" (again, from the producer of "THE $64,000 QUESTION", CBS/1956); 'HOLD THAT NOTE" {"Brought to you by the makers of Lanolin Plus cosmetics...."} (NBC/1957); "MUSIC BINGO" (NBC/1958); "ANYBODY CAN PLAY" (ABC/1958); "LAUGH LINE (NBC/1959).
Beads O' Bleach. Boy! I'd forgotten about that one, RwDt09!
Purex also co-sponsored "Perry Mason" in its 1957-58 debut season. The closing credits featured SweetHeart soap, New Blue Dutch Cleanser, Trend detergent and Beads-O'-Bleach
Oh, my goodness, Bill Cullen and Gene Rayburn were young!
PURE gas stations are still doing business in the Southern United States.
Wonderfully imaginative visual gimmicks in many of these openings!
Now I know why my Dad said "What is this, 20 questions?"
Amazing how some of the hosts of these shows got around...Dennis James, Bill Cullen, Tom Kennedy (all still active in the mid-70s). And who knew Fenneman did something besides being Groucho's straight man on YOU BET YOUR LIFE?
Don't forget Gene Rayburn.
George Fenneman also hosted a game show called "Your Surprise Package" on CBS in 1961-1962, but it was a daytime show, not a prime-time show
Surreal
No Alaska or Hawaii back then. 48 states when I was a kid.
Fred Allen was also on What's My Line.
At 1:45: John Daly - moonlighting from "What's My Line?" At 4:00: Bill Cullen, who hosted a LOT of games shows on early TV, especially the first version of "The Price is Right" At 4:49: The announcer sounds like Don Pardo, the first announcer for "Jeopardy!" in the 60s and the first one for "SNL." At 5:57: Mike Wallace, later the hard-hitting reporter on "60 Minutes." At 6:19: Boy! "Make the Connection" has Betty White (The Mary Tyler Moore Show), Gene Rayburn (the Match Game), and the great Buster Keaton In various game shows, Tom Kennedy and Dennis James were all over TV in the 50s and 60s. Bert Parks did games shows, but more famously, the Miss America Pageant At 14:11 - George Fenneman got his own game show after assisting Groucho Marx on HIS game show "You Bet Your Life" At 14:49 - and a shcck to ME - Dick Van Dyke, a game show host??
Every bit of what you wrote out is WRONG!
Pure is still a gas station conglomerate in the Southern United States.
Some of these game shows must have been short-lived.
I’ve watched a number of episodes of “The Name’s The Same” on GSN. It is a very entertaining panel show. The show had contestants that had the same name as famous people in history, or famous celebrities, such as “George Washington” or “Marilyn Monroe”, or sometimes the same as famous places, things, or actions (example: Will Kiss). At the end of the program, a famous celebrity would appear to have the panel guess who they would like to be, or a secret wish that the person had. The celebrity’s earnings on the show would go to charity. The show aired on ABC from 1951 to 1954, and returned for one final season in 1955.
"THE BIG SURPRISE" (from the people behind "THE $64,000 QUESTION", 1957); "MAKE THE CONNECTION" (summer 1955 Goodson-Todman panel show, on NBC); "THE NAME'S THE SAME" (ABC/1955- ANOTHER great Goodson-Todman panel show!); "TWO FOR THE MONEY" (CBS/1954, following "THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW" on Saturday nights; a Goodson-Todman production!); 'PENNY TO A MILLION" (ABC/summer 1955- Jay Stewart, announcer); "HIGH FINANCE" (CBS/1956, right after "GUNSMOKE" on Saturday nights); "BIG GAME" (NBC/1958)....
Now I know how to make a peach cordial!
thanks
My favorite was “Pull my finger”
Who sponsored it, Geritol? 😆
Well knock me over with a feather! Never knew Dick van Dyke m.c.'d his own game show!!
The announcer on Penny to a Million sounds like Jay Stewart
That must have been before the game show scandals of the late 1950s, because Bert Parks was the host.
my personal favorite is Who said that
Didn't John Charles Daly also host The Name's the Same?
No, he did not host the show. “The Name’s The Same” was hosted by Robert Q. Lewis, and during the show’s final season, was hosted at times by Dennis James, radio comedians Bob and Ray, and Clifton Fadiman.
Which game show of the 50's is your favorite
None of them, especially the one sponsored by Old Gold coffin nails. ⚰️
@@luisreyes1963 None of them is not a answer you need to pick one
Well, I try.
whoever tom kennedy was i sure miss him.
I saw Tom first on “You Don’t Say”. I didn’t know that emcees Tom Kennedy and Jack Narz ( Seven Keys ) we’re brothers!
@@fgrady1 Even funnier is that Jack Narz was the narrator for "Life with Elizabeth" with Betty White, and Tom Kennedy was the announcer for her next comedy series, "A Date with the Angels." And Bill Cullen married their sister and thus was Tom and Jack's brother-in-law! Talk about six degrees of separation!
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Which 1 show is your favorite
Which host is your favorite
Which host is your favorite in 50's
Definitely not Herb Shriner...😴