1 9 7 3 – 1 9 7 6 (USA) 4270 x 30 minute episodes “Keep your eye on this spot! You are about to see…
Browsing: Game Shows
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1 9 5 5 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) Before the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s, The $64,000 Question was a high-stakes, nail-biting, ratings-topping game…
1 9 9 7 – 2 0 0 1 (UK) 1,030 x 30 minute episodes This cheap and cheerful computer-generated quiz show from Channel 5…
1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 7 (UK) 180 x 60 minute episodes Ted Rogers and Dusty Bin (a robotic dustbin with a face…
1 9 6 0 – 1 9 6 1 (USA) 138 x 30 minute episodes This early ABC game show was broadcast live from Hollywood and…
1 9 6 1 – 1 9 6 2 (UK) 26 x 25 minute episodes “Right answers win letters. Letters build words. Words win cash…
1 9 8 0 – 1 9 8 6 (UK) Three people are stranded on a planet on the far side of the galaxy. In order…
1 9 8 7 – 1 9 9 3 (UK) All Clued Up was a Sunday tea-time classic, hosted by ”Diddy” David Hamilton. It was a real…
1 9 7 6 – 1 9 7 8 (Australia) Based on the British show It’s a Knockout, Almost Anything Goes featured teams competing against each other…
1 9 7 5 – 1 9 7 6 (USA) Based on the successful UK series It’s A Knockout, this short-lived show featured three teams each week (each…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 5 9 (UK) 114 x 30 minute episodes Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? debuted on 23 October 1952 and presented distinguished…
1 9 5 3 (USA) 30 minute episodes Well-known cartoonist and humorist Al Capp (the creator of the Li’l Abner comic strip) hosted this CBS summer…
1 9 5 2 (USA) An NBC summer series that ran from 6 July 1952 to 24 August 1952. Celebrity sports panellists attempted to identify well-known athletes from…
1 9 6 7 – 1 9 8 4 (UK) 20 minute episodes Open to families of four (quite often teachers and their egg-headed offspring), Ask The…
1 9 6 8 (UK) 8 x 30 minute episodes This LWT production featured a quiz devised by Bamber Gascoigne of University Challenge fame and hosted…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 5 (UK) 30 minute episodes Beginning on 31 July 1983, Peter Purves (ex-Blue Peter) hosted this evening panel…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 5 3 (USA) 30 minute episodes Bert Parks – billed as “the keeper of the Horn of Plenty”…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 6 1 (USA) The very active game show Beat The Clock began on CBS radio in 1949 and transferred to television…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) 1 9 6 2 (USA) 30 minute episodes Male contestants had to answer three questions correctly to…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 5 7 (USA) 30 minute episodes This live nighttime game show from NBC aired from 8 October 1955 to…