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- Emmy-winning Los Angeles show in which Regis Philbin discussed current issues with popular celebrities.
- Vin Scully, the Dodger sportscaster hosts a daily conversation and entertainment show with the H.B. Barnum Orchestra. Produced by "Laugh In" producer Paul Keyes, the CBS series was an attempt to take on the highly successful "The Mike Douglas Show".
- This weekday morning show deals with the lighter side and the darker side of professional show business. The Game begins with the Host (Larry Blyden) and these 3 stars and/or occasionally 1 star on film on location to play the game in 3 topics. 1. Early Start, 2. Awareness and 3. Success in Fame. 1 star will play for the viewer of an NBC-TV station with a postcard will be reading in the end of the show. Each 1 of the 3 topics will read a question and that'll be answered by 1 of the 3 stars and the remaining 2 stars will be answered to an question correctly wins $25 for the home viewer and the star with the highest dollar amount will win an all expensive-paid trip anywhere around-the-world.
- Comely Dagmar hosted a entertainment program for servicemen that featured songs, interviews, and dances. The highlight was the staging of plays often using the enlisted men in the audience in various parts.
- Summer replacement show for "Arthur Godfrey and His Friends". It was a variety series. Frankie Laine sang songs, and had a wide range of guest performers.
- This game consisted of two teams of two players each. One player would be at a game board while their teammate would be in a soundproof booth. The person at the game board communicated a word or phrase to their teammate in the booth using three letters at first and added a letter every five seconds until the word or phrase was identified. The team using fewer letters won the game. Normally there was a "Home Team" consisting of two celebrities and a "Challengers Team" of one celebrity and a contestant. A tie score was considered a win for the contestant, who would win prizes for each game won by the Challengers Team. In other words, if the Challengers won a game, the contestant would win a prize. Each show included a P. D. Q. Special, a three-game match with special prizes awarded to the contestant if the Challengers won two out of the three games. A Bonus Round was held at the end of the show, with the contestant being asked to identify ten words, one at a time in five seconds or less, with only three letters per word to work with. If the contestant could successfully identify all ten words, they would win an automobile. If not, they were awarded a dollar amount redeemable for merchandise from the Spiegel Catalog. The jackpot total was either $250 or, if the Challengers used fewer letters than the Home Team over the course of the show, $500.
- This is the remake of the 1965 NBC-TV Game Show "I'LL BET". "IT'S YOUR BET" features 2 star couples were married, engaged & dating (family pairs included) will face each other to answer questions that had been asked by the host. The Questions are General Knowledge, Personal, Educational, et al are used to bet on the points what they play for their own total (Starting at 100 Points and bet between 25 and 100 points). The 1st star couple reach 300 points wins the game and play the "Preference Round" to win prizes for their audience member and each spouse, fiance/fiancee, dating partner or member of the family pair will read 1 question and was shown 3 answers on the board that determined to the spouse (and other martial partners) will predict the actual answer to one of the loving mates. If their right, The audience member win prizes or If their wrong, The audience member will lose the prizes giving the consolation prize of $100.
- A "Which celebrity said this?" type of game.
- Singer John Gary was the star and the host of this summer variety show that was filling in during the summer of 1966 for the Danny Kaye Show. It was a balanced mix of Music and Comedy. Two years later it returned with fresh episodes for Syndication.
- Rules (Format 1: March 31, 1969-January 2, 1970) The Game has 3 Celebrity/Star couples who were involved in all 4 questions throughout the show. (i.e.: "How many chicken legs could a college football team eat during the show?") to answer this/that question, The Celebrity/Star Couples are writing down their answers by the numbers where they averaged the answer numbers and selected only 1 studio audience player by the announcer John Harlan by choosing 1 of the 3 couples correctly and he/she wins $100 and in September 1969, The Studio Audience Member will win merchandise prizes. (Format 2: January 5-July 31, 1970) The Studio Audience Member can choose the answer 4 times in 4 questions, He or She wins a new car. When he/she choose the wrong couple with the wrong answer, he/she loses a turn and it leads to choosing another studio audience member to choose the right answer.
- This was a word association game similar to Password. 2 teams consisting of 1 contestant paired up with a celebrity were pitted against each other. 2 games were normally played on each show. The host would give a word to one of the teams, then the celebrity had to come up with the association recorded by the contestant prior to the show {e.g.: Cut-"SCISSORS"}. If the celebrity guessed correctly in 3 tries or less, the team earned 10 points. If not, the celebrity from the opposing team could guess once for a chance to "steal" 10 points. Otherwise, The Word Revealed with the 1st Letter and deducted by 1 point until next-to-the-last letter for 1 point until the star to buzz-in say the word. The 1st team to earn 100 points and collects $100 won the game and played a bonus round called "The BIG 5". In this round called "The BIG 5", the contestant left the stage and entered a soundproof room while the celebrity named 5 associations in each 1 of the 5 words or theme provided by the host. The celebrity would then designate 1 as the bonus word, the 1 contestant was most likely to come up with. Once this was completed, the contestant returned and had 20 seconds to come up with all 5 words with these associations earning $50 for each one. Originally, if the contestant merely named the bonus word, they would double their winnings in the bonus round up to $500 in 10 seconds. To provide a greater degree of difficulty a rule was subsequently added requiring the contestant to guess the bonus word in order to double their winnings. For the second game, the celebrities changed sides. Contestants can play until defeated or reach $1200 in cash. On December 23-27, 1968... "SNAP JUDGMENT" is formatted to "PASSWORD". Now the Game gives 10 clues to the word for 2 teams or less wins 10 points for the 1st chance and all the way the 10th and last chance clue worth 1 point. After the 5th Word, The Points are doubled. The 1st Clue worth 20 points, 2nd Clue worth 18 points, 3rd Clue worth 16 points, 4th Clue-14 points, 5th Clue-12 points, 6th Clue-10 points, 7th Clue-8 points, 8th Clue-6 points, 9th Clue-4 points and the 10th and Last Clue-2 points. 1st Team score 100 points wins $100 and play "THE NEW BIG 5" where a contestant plays for $500 for 5 words to associate in 20 seconds instead of the bonus word. Play Continues until Defeated and wins $1200.
- Debuted on CBS in 1965, and hosted by Art Linkletter, it featured Hollywood celebrities who brought unknown talent into the studio to make their television debut. A few future stars actually did make debuts during the show's run.
- Television's first late night entertainment broadcast, presented live from New York. The show featured comedy, music, and a raucous audience every weekday night.
- This show had originated on the radio in 1945 and was intended to be a serious discussion of male-female relationships. It soon degenerated into a show where women bashed men and this was carried over to the TV show. A different male appeared each week to defend the male sex, e.g., Henry Morgan, Morey Amsterdam, George Jessel, etc. The TV show began as a local show in New York City in 1947 and then moved to the NBC network in 1949.
- Primetime version of the game show; ran on NBC from January 12 to September 13, 1968 as a mid-season replacement. The first two games were the Secret Square games; one offered a trip and the other offered a car or occasionally a boat.
- Ballroom dancing, plus comedy, songs and dance contests on one of the few programs to air over all four major commercial networks. ABC premiered it on July 20, 1950 and it closed on NBC on September 6, 1960. It varied between a half-hour and one hour in length.
- The Les Crane Show, was a late-night talk show up against Johnny Carson of The Tonight Show. Les Crane was known as the bad boy of late night, bringing together controversial guests with heated discussions. Airing Monday thru Friday there were also live videotaped remotes featuring top stars.
- Daytime Music/Talk Show on NBC, Monday to Friday, 11-11:30 am, from1966-67 for 183 episodes, starring Pat Boone and featuring the Paul Smith Orchestra,
- Ellery Queen was a mystery writer who assisted his father, a detective with the New York Police Department, in solving murders. Queen's methods were arcane and intellectual rather than action oriented, and he always astounded his father by arriving at a correction solution by purely deductive reasoning.
- Comedy-variety featuring "insult humorist" Don Rickles.
- The show had two venues. In December 1948 to March 1949, Morey Amsterdam was the emcee at a small fictional nightclub in New York City's Times Square. Charlie the Doorman (later Newton the Waiter) and Lola the cigarette girl were also employed at the club. Between April 1949 and October 1950, the show shifted to a different network and the scene shifted to the Silver Swan Cafe with Newton and Lola still employed.
- A morning television talk show hosted by Gypsy Rose Lee
- Two teams of two players compete against each other to determine the name of a famous person. One member of the team, who knew the answer, would give clues to his or her teammate.
- A revival of the British variety show Tonight at the London Palladium, it ran from 28 October 1973 to 28 October 1974.
- Anthology series based on the short stories of O. Henry.
- Minute-long "on this day in history" shorts, used a countdown to America's bicentennial.
- John Rivers interviews different people about different subjects using her humor
- A panel of notable personalities rate the latest pop records.
- Julia Mansfield is the first woman to be elected President of the United States. In addition to dealing with the threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, spies in the cabinet, and personal attacks by a conservative religious leader, she also has to handle such personal problems as an impotent husband and a sex scandal involving her son.
- An hour of live variety, in the classic sense of television's Golden Age.
- The life and love of a young couple is told through a series of monologues, sketches, and song-and-dance routines. Each episode followed how they met and fell in love, and then their subsequent married life. Numerous guest-stars helped round out the cast.
- This was a game based on the ability to predict whether or not your teammate could answer a question correctly. Two teams consisting of a contestant paired up with a celebrity were pitted against one another. The host would ask either team member a question. Before the team member answered, their teammate would predict whether or not they could answer correctly ("Can" or "Can't") and wager a certain amout of money. If the correct answer was given and a "Can" prediction was made, or if a wrong answer was given and a "Can't" prediction made, the team earned the amount of money wagered. If a correct answer was given and a "Can't" prediction was made, or if a wrong answer was given and a "Can" prediction was made, the amount of money wagered was deducted from the team's winnings.
- Motherly Mike, ditzy but sexy Loco, and sensible Greta move to the big city to find themselves wealthy men to turn into husbands. After the first year Greta gets married with Gwen the new roommate in this syndicated series.
- Guests who have the same name as famous persons, fictional characters, or things, are quizzed by celebrity panelists who try to determine their name.
- Television's first treatment of "Charades" as played by Hollywood celebrities. The giveaway was the use of gestures that defined "film", "TV show", "book" or "song" as well as "small word (a, an, the)" and gestures for syllables, number of words, and expand or stretch.
- Evening talk show that aimed at entertaining viewers with the outrageous behavior of the host and guests.
- Perry Como was an American Singer, who got his start on NBC Radio. In 1948, Because of his popularity, The cameras were simply brought into the radio studio to televise the radio broadcast and named it The Supper Club. In 1950 Como and his Sponsors moved to CBS and named this The Perry Como Chesterfield Show.
- A game show broadcast at daytime. The show featured mystery guests, and the host provided clues concerning their identities. A panel of three celebrities then tried to guess the identity of each mystery guest. Bill Leyden served as the MC, while Dennis James served as both a regular panelist and a semi-regular host for the show.
- A semi-remake of "People Will Talk" (1963), where contestants had to determine how celebrities would answer moral-type questions.
- A few years after Perry Como left as host, "The Kraft Music Hall" was revived as a regular series from 1967-71. There was no set host during this period, and various guest hosts, usually a singer or comedian, presided on a weekly basis. There were several theme shows during "Music Hall"'s run, among them "A Taste of Funny, " hosted by Groucho Marx, "The Golden Age of TV Comedy, " hosted by Milton Berle, and "The Best of Broadway, " hosted by Henry Fonda. Frequent guest hosts included Berle, Eddy Arnold, John Davidson, and the singing team of Tony Sandler and Ralph Young. The Country Music Association Awards were first run as a special edition of the Music Hall in 1967. A victim of the general decline of weekly variety shows, "The Kraft Music Hall" was cancelled in 1971.
- A daily anthology show, featuring original material, as well as adaptations of literary classics.
- Interim version of the talk show that aired between the departure of Jack Paar and the arrival of Johnny Carson.
- Variety show hosted by Garry Moore with famous guests.
- The high-flying adventures of three sexy airline stewardesses.
- Classic showcase for stand up comedy.
- Exactly what the name implied celebrities participate in a regulation game of bowling.
- This was a local Cincinnati, Ohio talk show hosted by Bob Braun, a Cincinnati personality. Bob Braun got his start as the sidekick for Ruth Lyons, another Cincinnati legend.
- Pete Porter is an insurance salesman and the somewhat-dour straight man to his perky and beautiful but scatterbrained wife Gladys.
- The Texaco Star Theatre was one of the most popular shows in the history of television. In the first year, Milton Berle was not the permanent emcee, but once he replaced the rotation, the show soared to ratings dominance (Number One in 1950-51), NBC dominated Tuesday night, and Berle became the first great star of the new medium, "Mr. Television". The basic format was modeled after a vaudeville variety hour, spotlighting Berle's jokes, sight gags, and costumes.
- Hollywood celebrities are interviewed, often at their homes.
- Five-day-a-week syndicated update of the longtime CBS game show, wherein celebrity panelists guess occupations of the contestants.
- Daytime variety show starring Art Linkletter.
- Vicki Lawrence discuss topics with celebrities in this 1990s talk show.
- The show originated as a local New York City late night program in June 1953 and went onto the network in September 1954. Throughout the summer of 1956, Steve Allen was the only host. When Allen's prime-time series debuted in the summer of 1956, he limited his appearances on this show to Wednesday through Friday and a series of guest hosts filled in until 1 October 1956 when Ernie Kovacs took over as permanent host for the Monday and Tuesday broadcast. Kovacs had his own set of entertainers, i.e., Wendell, Hanley, Arthur and Loden. The last show was broadcast on 25 January 1957."Tonight's" first monologue was given with Steve Allen seated at the piano: "In case you're just joining us...this is Tonight...and I can't think of too much to tell you about it, except I want to give you the bad news first: this program is going to go on forever. I wouldn't call it a Spectacular....you might say it's more a Monotonious ."
- Gale Storm stars in this American sitcom about Susanna Pomery, a cruise director for an ocean liner that travels the world.
- American show featuring the popular British talk show host.
- Charming and wise Lily Ruskin lives with her daughter and son-in- law who, along with her close friend Hilda Crocker, are always trying to find suitable older marriageable companionship for her.
- Having hosted summer programs for three seasons before this, Andy Williams' program finally became a regular, year-round show. In addition to Andy, the program also featured numbers by a wide variety of performers, though still avoiding rock or other 'youth' genres. Many new performers were introduced on this show, including a singing family from Utah, The Osmonds.
- The adventures of frontier hero Jim Bowie are brought to life in this popular children's television series.
- Jackie Gleason's last weekly variety series, which alternated between regular variety hours with big name guest stars and musical remakes of old "The Honeymooners" sketches.
- Various guest hosts present a musical variety show.
- Originally airing during late-night, Tonight Starring Jack Paar was an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under the Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. After 1959, it was officially known as The Jack Paar Show.
- Originally billed as "Playhouse of the Stars" this long running anthology series was originally presented live from New York City. Irene Dunne was briefly the hostess in 1952, and the show frequently used Broadway performers in classic stories.
- When their youngest brother comes out as gay, two conservative men support him and help him navigate being openly gay in 1980s Philadelphia.
- Two agents of the U.S. Government's Project Blue Book project investigate sightings of extraterrestrials and unidentified flying objects.
- Live variety show with Jackie Gleason.
- Classic game show in which a person of some notoriety and two impostors try to match wits with a panel of four celebrities. The object of the game is to try to fool the celebrities into voting for the two impostors.
- A group of panelists try to guess a guest's secret.
- The comical exploits of the "California Bulls" (a fictional professional football team) and the organization's players.
- Mike Douglas, aided by a different celebrity co-host every week, interviews a variety of figures from the world of entertainment.
- This is The 1st Edition of the program. Composed of 2 Teams of 3 Members (2 In-Studio team members and 1 Star Team Captain) are writing answers to an question {e.g.: Name a part of a chicken} that'll/this'll read(ing) by the host/star (Gene Rayburn) and one(1) member of the team wrote/writes the answer {e.g.: Leg}. The 1st and 2nd Members of the team has/having the same answer is/are matched and that'll/this'll be worth 25 points (10 points-early in the run from December 31, 1962 to February 8, 1963) and the star team captain matched the same answer and that'll/this'll be worth 50 points (20 points). The 1st Team score 100 points wins the game and collect $100 and played "The Studio Audience Match." In "The Studio Audience Match", That/This has 3 Secret Survey Questions which it This/That all occurs the date this/that held/holds the 3 Questions prior to the broadcast of "The MATCH GamE". Each 1 of the 3 secret survey questions that/this has/having the all-time popular answer will be match by the same 3 members of the winning team called "THE BEST ANSWER." Each matching answer that'll/this'll determine what he or she thinking up that/this answer of their judgment is valued at in the following - 1 Person Matched worth $50, 2 People Match worth $100 and All 3 People Match includes A Star Team Captain worth $150 and the possible total of the 3 questions is worth $450 and that/this can be added to $100 and can be the perfect total of $550. The Game Continues before time's up with the sound of whistle blow and the 2 members of the team has the highest cash amount became today's winners. On the weekday of February 27-March 3, 1967 Before the show is over...There's "The Telephone Match" becomes a feature to the program. The Host reads the question {i.e.: _____ Soup} to the home viewer via telephone call and picks 1 member of the studio audience (by a number from 1 to 100+) will match the answer {i.e.: Vegetable Soup} as well the member wrote the answer and that's a match wins the share of jackpot started at $500. $100 will be added when it's a mismatch {i.e.: Alphabet Soup}.
- This was a Colgate-sponsored comedy hour that featured many notable comedians and entertainers of the era as guest stars.
- Merv Griffin invites a series of actors, actresses, writers, and directors to discuss the progressive work they have done and current culture, arts, and entertainment surrounding the numerous projects.
- Animated series featuring Jim Backus's Mr. Magoo character in half-hour adaptations of classic stories for children. Praised by both critics and educators, and well-remembered by fans, the program won a prestigious George Foster Peabody award in 1965.
- Rough-and-tumble private Investigator Harry Fox, Sr. solves crimes with the reluctant help of his son, respected San Francisco lawyer Harrison Fox, Jr.
- Mickey Mouse hosts a youth-oriented variety show featuring 'The Mouseketeers'.
- Contestants guess the correctness of celebrities' answers in order to win spaces in a tic-tac-toe game.
- Arsenio Hall hosts this hip, late-night talk show.
- Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
- Game thieves, diamond smugglers and big game hunters endanger the animals in the African bush. But Dr. Tracy and his daughter Paula defy the constant danger.
- Danny is a New York entertainer. Between his co-stars at the nightclub where he performs and his wife and kids, he has dilemmas galore, which he somehow manages to resolve and still laugh.
- The wandering adventures of an intelligent German shepherd dog.
- The classic prime time variety show most famous for its vaudeville acts and rock music performances.
- Master Sergeant Bilko, regularly helped by the soldiers at Fort Baxter's motor pool, spends little time performing his duties by constantly trying to obtain money through various get-rich-quick scams and promotions.
- Dan Tanna is a private investigator in the gambling town of Las Vegas, Nevada. Vegas can be seedy or glamorous, depending on your point of view.
- Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners methodically investigate crimes in Los Angeles.
- The five-day-a-week syndicated successor to the popular CBS game show, where two could compete to match fill-in-the-blank phrases with those of the celebrities.
- An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.
- The four aspects of a man's personality help him get through different situations in life.
- The adventures of a gentlemanly gunfighter-for-hire.
- Host Johnny Carson performs comedy routines and chats with various celebrities.