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Seasons:
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Release Date:
25 August 1958 (USA) more
Genre:
Game-Show more
Plot:
Two contestants revealed pieces of a rebus-like puzzle by matching 15 pairs of cash amounts and prizes, then tried to solve it before the other. full summary
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Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Producer Muir Dies
 (From WENN. 28 October 2008, 9:09 AM, PDT)
Game-show Host Jack Narz Dead At 85
 (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 17 October 2008, 10:35 AM, PDT)
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Original Puzzle Game more (5 total)

Cast

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Ed McMahon ... Himself - Host (1 episode, 1969)
Paola Diva ... Herself - Model (1 episode, 1958-1973)
Wayne Howell ... Himself - Announcer (1 episode, 1969-1973)

Johnny Carson ... Himself - Guest (1 episode, 1969)
Jack Kelly ... Himself (1 episode, 1970)

Joan Rivers ... Herself (1 episode, 1970)
Bob Clayton ... Himself - Host (1 episode, 1973)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
30 min (3796 episodes)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White (1958-1966) | Color (1966-1991)
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:TV-G
Filming Locations:
KTTV/Fox Television Center - 5746 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA more
Company:
Jack Barry-Dan Enright Productions more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This was the last of NBC's black and white shows to convert to color, on 7 November 1966. It made NBC-TV the first all-color television network. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time" (2006) more
Soundtrack:
Concentration more

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Original Puzzle Game, 29 August 2007
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Author: DKOSTY from United States

Jack Berry productions came up with this in 1958. The secret to it's success through the 1960's was host Hugh Downs. Downs was such a consummate host that he went on to help ABC start the news magazine 20/20 and between those shows had a long career.

The game is played by matching the prizes on a board by turning over number tiles & remembering the prizes behind them. Spice was added by having tiles that would give your opponent a prize / take one of their prizes / or a wild card which would give you any prize chosen with it. Each time a match is made, it revealed pieces of a puzzle behind. since the winner had to solve the puzzle, it did not matter who made the most matches which makes it a little different from most games. Being the best puzzle solver was really the key to winning.

Downs made the show exciting & when he retired from it in 1969, the hosts who replaced him just never got back the original spirit he gave the show.

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