my mom was on this show for a week and won a 1968 gold bonneville pontiac stationwagon..they loved her so much everyone including the celebs carried her off stage on their shoulders..boy would I love to find THAT footage! her name is Gina Allen
I’m sorry to tell you this, but odds are you probably won’t see the episode ever again because back in the 60s and 70s it was a common practice to wipe episodes of TV shows. This was due to the high cost of tape. I only wish we had more episodes of PDQ, or it’s 1970s equivalent, Baffle.
The contestant missed "BOARD" in the bonus game because of mistake on the part of the show: the three letters being shown to the contestant were BDR - when they should have been BRD. That's why he was guessing words like BEDROOM. Apparently no one caught this.
It's my understanding that the pilot of "PDQ" was taped in black-and-white, but all of the episodes of the actual series itself were taped in color, even back in 1965. However, early on, some stations aired the show either on black-and-white tape or color kinescopes.
0:40- the Broadway show Dick Patterson co-starred with Carol Burnett (at the time this was taped) was "Fade Out Fade In", which REOPENED in February 1965- after Carol had been out with a neck injury and involved as a rotating hostess of "THE ENTERTAINERS" for CBS- and finally closed for good in April.
The episode I most recall had Don Rickles in the booth and they ended up GIVING all the prizes to the contestant as Don kept cutting insults for the entire show, and Dennis James couldn't stop laughing.
I have a vague recollection of a rule change instituted maybe after this pilot: You must use the first letter but NOT the first three in the opening display. I say that because Giselle used the first three letters in the first two words.
I read another episode of "PDQ" exists from October 3, 1968. Celebrities were: Stubby Kaye, Jo Ann Worley and Arte Johnson (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In). The episode is held at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
I read where Dennis James kept recordings of all his episodes from this series. But the public has only this episode and another recording to access at the UCLA archive. It is too bad because Michael Landon used to go on the show and KILL words with only one or two letters! He would blow everyone’s mind with his brilliance.
For the first round ("Humdinger"), the contestant did something that was illegal on the revised version (Baffle)-using the first three letters, which would have resulted in a 15-second penalty.
my mom was on this show for a week and won a 1968 gold bonneville pontiac stationwagon..they loved her so much everyone including the celebs carried her off stage on their shoulders..boy would I love to find THAT footage! her name is Gina Allen
Call the studio.
@@keymaninmusic she had a great time
I’m sorry to tell you this, but odds are you probably won’t see the episode ever again because back in the 60s and 70s it was a common practice to wipe episodes of TV shows. This was due to the high cost of tape.
I only wish we had more episodes of PDQ, or it’s 1970s equivalent, Baffle.
The contestant missed "BOARD" in the bonus game because of mistake on the part of the show: the three letters being shown to the contestant were BDR - when they should have been BRD. That's why he was guessing words like BEDROOM. Apparently no one caught this.
It's my understanding that the pilot of "PDQ" was taped in black-and-white, but all of the episodes of the actual series itself were taped in color, even back in 1965.
However, early on, some stations aired the show either on black-and-white tape or color kinescopes.
The late great Dennis James way before the night time version of The Price Is Right in 1972.
THE standard-bearer of television.
Dennis James was one of the first TV personalities. I think he was involved in experimental TV in 1939.
...and the late great Kenny Williams before Gambit!
He hosted several game shows,I remember one called Your First Impression.
I wonder if they caught this.
At 26:16, (BDR) is "boarder" while at 26:30, (BDR) is "board".
The 26:30 clue should likely have been (BRD).
Dennis James was one of the best game show hosts ever.This was rebooted in 1973 as Baffle and ran about a year.
NO NO ! Dennis James said, over and over " PDQ means Pretty Darn Quick ! "
I thought it was because the main sponsor was the company that made an Ovaltine type chocolate drink product named P.D.Q.
According to Wikipedia, the PDQ for this show meant "Please Draw Quickly." It only means "pretty darn quick" everywhere else.
0:40- the Broadway show Dick Patterson co-starred with Carol Burnett (at the time this was taped) was "Fade Out Fade In", which REOPENED in February 1965- after Carol had been out with a neck injury and involved as a rotating hostess of "THE ENTERTAINERS" for CBS- and finally closed for good in April.
The episode I most recall had Don Rickles in the booth and they ended up GIVING all the prizes to the contestant as Don kept cutting insults for the entire show, and Dennis James couldn't stop laughing.
I have a vague recollection of a rule change instituted maybe after this pilot: You must use the first letter but NOT the first three in the opening display. I say that because Giselle used the first three letters in the first two words.
Great fun but the 27 mins went by
pretty damn quick.
This should be brought back!
But I was left wondering who/what
Honest Abe and Soup to Nuts were.
i forget was this a network show or one of thoose syncated shows
Syndicated, 1965-69.
"PDQ" was syndicated for NBC owned television stations during its 1965-69 run. I remember watching this on Channel 4 in Washington,DC.
20:44 no explanation for the switch of teammates.
"PDQ" should stand for "Please Draw Quickly".
That is exactly what PDQ stood for.
Sadly, the 1965 pilot is the only surviving episode of PDQ.
If that is indeed true, it's very sad. I like this game.
I read another episode of "PDQ" exists from October 3, 1968. Celebrities were: Stubby Kaye, Jo Ann Worley and Arte Johnson (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In). The episode is held at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
I read where Dennis James kept recordings of all his episodes from this series. But the public has only this episode and another recording to access at the UCLA archive.
It is too bad because Michael Landon used to go on the show and KILL words with only one or two letters! He would blow everyone’s mind with his brilliance.
For the first round ("Humdinger"), the contestant did something that was illegal on the revised version (Baffle)-using the first three letters, which would have resulted in a 15-second penalty.
13:48 at the time there are two persons with a nickname Honest
Are Art and Dennis James related?
who is the announcer
Kenny Williams.
@ 13:14 get that blab outta there
If you can take this idiocy, you'll love STUMP THE STARS, one of my favorite shows, also featuring Stubby Kaye.
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Before my time.
a wwe hall of famer
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