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gleason commercial commercial Bill Gleason did for the Jerry Gleason car dealerships. This ran on "The Sportswriters on TV" in the Chicago area. Tags: commercial Bill Gleason |
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Final Jeopardy from 1974 The synchronization is way off on this one unfortunately. The finale to the Karen-Kent-Kim game of 1974: The second part of Double Jeopardy, final Jeopardy, including the think music, an unusual result, and the credits, ending with the Griffin Productions Logo. Remember how every contestant got to keep their winnings? You can see the problem that would undo the original version- the inflation of the 1970's made the already small payout totals even punier. Jeopardy tried to counter by enacting bonuses if a single player answered all the questions in a category, then the later 1978-1979 revival had the "Super Jeopardy" concert. They didn't lick the problem until the syndicated 1984 version, which increased the payouts tenfold. Tags: Jeopardy Don Pardo Art Fleming game show 1974 Final think music |
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time to play Double Jeopardy! More of that 74 battle between Karen, Kent, and Kim. Don Pardo tells us about the obscure encyclopedia that is the consolation prize, then we have the first part of Double Jeopardy! How this tape escaped being erased is a mystery- I think it harks to the first half of 74, given Art Fleming's greeting of "Good Morning!" One could surmise its because of some Watergate related business that caused a preemption or something like that. Tags: 1974 Jeopardy Art Fleming Don Pardo |
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More Jeopardy! More from that 1974 episode of Jeopardy!. Art Fleming interviews the contestants, and we continue the round. sorry, the synchronization is off on this one. Tags: Jeopardy 1974 Art Fleming game show |
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Jeopardy with Art Fleming opening another account put this up and encouraged others to copy and post it so it doesn't disappear. The opening to the original Jeopardy with Art Fleming. I watched it whenever I could (the NBC station didn't come it too good) As a kid, I wondered if the people who finished in the red had to pay money to the producers. Today I get a kick out of the old board with all the abbreviations. Art Fleming was one of the very best game show hosts. His sincerity comes through as he urges contestants to get out of the minus side and also catch his enthusiasm at correct answers (though we don't here him use his catch phrase "Right you are!". Also note his comments as he asks us to watch the commercial...then smiles and says "Good". I felt obligated to watch the commercial, even if it was for some mystery product like Doan's Pills or Adolph's Meat Tenderizer. Tags: Jeopardy Don Pardo Art Fleming game show |
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Waldo Wigglesworth comes up with a plan Somebody requested the sound effect that was used on Hoppity Hooper whenever Waldo Wigglesworth thought up one of his get-rich schemes. Here it is, sorry about the video quality. Its the same sound Jay Ward used for factory machinery Tags: Hoppity Hooper Waldo idea sound effect |
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Queen for A Day- the selection and ending. This is the part the show I remember- the applause meter decides the winner, who gets showered with lots of gifts while the other three contestants disappear. And I remember Jack Bailey's tag line of making every woman in America Queen for every day of the year. I also remember Cleveland Amory, then the critic for TV Guide, hated this show with a passion. Whenever he was asked to name the worst show in TV history, he would invariably list QFAD at #1, with "Playboy After Dark" a close #2. Tags: queen for day 1960 jack Bailey |
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Queen for a Day- 4th contestant This lady has no chance, and she seems to know it. I think it's pretty obvious which woman is going to be selected Queen Tags: 1960 Queen for Day Jack Bailey |
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Queen for a Day- 3rd Contestant Back to the bathos. Tags: Queen for day 1960 Jack Bailey |
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Queen for a Day- Fashion Show We'll get to the other two contestants later, now its time for a fashion show! Jeanne Cagney (James Cagney's sister) does the commentary. Product plugs abound. Tags: queen for day 1960 ABC Jack Bailey Jeanne Cagney |
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Queen for A Day- 2nd contestant Jack Bailey interviews the second hopeful. In the show's heyday hundreds of ladies each day would fill out a list in hopes of getting on the show. Tags: 1960 queen for day Jack Bailey ABC |
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would YOU like to be Queen for a Day? This is also from the Internet Archive. 60's Daytime TV: After To Tell the Truth ended, CBS went back to soaps with the Edge of Night. That was my cue to change the channel. If the NBC station came clearly enough (and that didn't occur too often) I would watch You Don't Say! (a Password ripoff). Otherwise it was either the syndicated show Divorce Court, or ABC's Queen For A Day, where four women would compete to see which one had the more miserable existence. Seriously, that's how the show worked. Here is the opening to the show with the ingratiating Jack Bailey, following by his interview of the first contestant. Mr. Bailey controls the interview, presumably to prevent the thing from degenerating into a female version of the 4 Yorkshiremen sketch. QFAD was a very popular show which ran for 8 years between 1956-1964, and started on radio in the 40's. Why would I watch this? Simple- in 1963-1964 the show used as its theme a rousing version of "Hey Look Me Over", which I really enjoyed. So I watched it for the closing credits. This show is from 1960, and the theme is Pomp and Circumstance- not as enjoyable. Tags: 1960 Queen for Day jack Bailey game show ABC |
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Coffee for Dummies An old ad for coffee. Not for a particular brand of coffee, just coffee. And it explains how to brew a good cup of coffee. Apparently back in the late 50's there was a crisis where people were using unclean containers... Put out by the Pan American Coffee Bureau to encourage people to drink more coffee. Sort of like having OPEC running ads asking you to use more gas. Tags: commercial 1959 coffee how to make |
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House Party (old school) I got this off the internet archive. Between Password and To Tell the Truth was the other CBS afternoon non-soap opera: Art Linkletter's House Party. It ran from 1952 to 1970, and started on radio in 1945. Everyone remembers the show for the "Kids Say the Darndest Things" segment. This is the stuff no one remembers- the opening segment. Art comes out & talks with the audience (I love how they ooh and ahh when they find out who the guest is), and then chats with his guest. My memories of the show are few, but they include Art talking with Walter and Gracie Lantz about the creation of Woody Woodpecker; Art conducting a simple quiz game with a woman in the audience (I remember it thusly: Art would chat with the woman, to win a fur coat, the woman had to say STOP! between 30 and 35 seconds to win the coat; if she failed to do that, or failed to converse with Art, she lost). The show always ended with the kids. All that and commercials for All-Bran cereal. A fun little show that ran for years before falling out of favor with people who preferred The Doctors on NBC. Tags: Art Linkletter House Party CBS 1960's Lucy opening |
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Friends, do you suffer from occasional irregularity? I remember there being lots of ads for laxatives in the 60's: Ex-Lax, Milk of Magnesia, and this one for Haley's M-O- "The triple action laxative" Gentle and soothing- and it even comes flavored. It sounds so wonderful, I was tempted to try some- fortunately my parents refused to buy these products. Tags: 1960's commercial Haley M-O laxative |
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What's My Line- Henry J. Kaiser 9/29/1957: A famous episode for a few reasons: for the first time, John Charles Daly is absent (his job at ABC news took priority) and Bennett Cerf (for the first and only time) is your host and moderator. Second this is the show where Henry J. Kaiser (the industrialist who, in an alternative universe, was our 33rd President) is one of the mystery guests (the reason for his appearance becomes obvious at the end)- wait until the questioning gets to guest panelist Ernie Kovacs. Ernie would rather get the big laugh than "win" the game and he succeeds with what would be one of the most quoted bits in the program's history. My dad drove a Kaiser automobile- and for the record the company made an economy model called the "Henry J." Tags: whats My line 1957 Bennett Cerf Ernie Kovacs Henry Kaiser Arlene Francis Dorothy Kilgallen Cesar Romero |
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Bud reminds us to tell the truth The closing to the 1963 To Tell the Truth. Few thoughts: Bud Collyer stresses the program is on the up and up- lingering fallout from the rigged quiz show scandals of the late 50's. Over the credits Red Skelton reminds us to watch his show, which airs over "most of these stations". I thought that was strange, I didn't know there were cities with only one station that cherry-picked shows from each of the 3 networks. The most famous of these monopolies was KTBC in Austin Texas, owned by Lyndon Johnson (sorry, owned by his wife Lady Bird). Finally we learn the alternate sponsor was Heet. My uncle had a back problem and he had a bottle of that stuff in his medicine cabinet. One day out of curiosity and stupidity I dabbed a little Heet on my arm- YOW!! Tags: to tell the truth close CBS 1963 |
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To Tell the Truth segment- Rolf Harris After Password and House Party came To Tell the Truth. This is a segment of the nighttime version, brought to us by the jet-age floor wax, Aerowax (I think it later became the space-age floor wax). This is from late summer 1963, and the panel has to guess which one is the real Rolf Harris, whose Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport was a hit earlier that year. Gee, I really wonder which one is he... The classic panel: Tom Poston, Peggy Cass, Orson Bean, and Kitty Carlisle. My favorite was Orson because he used to draw little cartoons on his card when he submitted his guess. Bud Collyer hosts- he was also the voice of Superman in cartoons. At the time I thought that was so weird. Tags: 1963 to Tell the truth Bud collyer kitty carlisle orson bean peggy cass tom poston rolf harris |
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Will you sign in please? I don't remember the original What's My Line, it came on way past my bedtime. I do remember the syndicated version that aired in the 70's. But here are two openings I found interesting because (1) they featured the same panel and (2) are almost exactly 11 years apart. First is from early September 1954, under the program's original sponsor Stopette, which had a wonderful slogan. The panelists are Dorothy Kilgallen, Robert Q. Lewis (who was at the height of his TV fame at the time), Arlene Francis and Bennett Cerf. Then we see the same panel from 1965. Robert Q's career was reduced to guest hosting game shows and doing bits in American International movies. No wonder he had such a nice tan. And what does it say about WML's demographics that it's sponsored by a denture adhesive? By the way this was one of Dorothy's last shows- she died suddenly in November of that year. John Charles Daly is the host of course Tags: Whats My Line open 1954 1965 Dorothy Kilgallen Robert Lewis John Charles Daly Arlene Francis Bennett Cerf |
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Password (1966) Daytime TV in the sixties: Since the CBS stations came in clearest, we usually stuck with them (besides ABC didn't start broadcasting until about 11:00 AM). After Captain Kangaroo, it was sitcom reruns (Lucy and Mayberry) then boring soap operas. Things picked up at 2PM with Password, followed by Art Linkletter, then To Tell the Truth. Here's a snippet of Password from late November 1966 with Angie Dickinson and Frank Gorshin. Lee Vines announces, and of course Allen Ludden hosts. We see some game action, followed by Frank Gorshin struggling through a lightning round. The best Password contestant was Peter Lawford, when it was announced he was appearing, to me it was like announcing Michael Jordan was showing up to play basketball. I still remember when Lawford set the record for the quickest lightning round. And isn't Angie Dickinson beautiful? Tags: 1966 Password game show Allen Ludden Angie Dickinson Frank Gorshin |