World Game-Show episode

The Match Game

1962

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/......

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English   1962   25 min   Game-Show episode   2023-06-01

Password

1961

Two celebrity-contestant teams compete to guess words by giving one-word clues in this all-time classic game show....

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English   1961   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-31

You're in the Picture

1961

The four panelists put their heads through a cutout in a board. They did not know what was painted on the board and their job was to guess what it was....

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English   1961   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-31

Your Surprise Package

1961

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English   1961   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-31

Yours for a Song

1961

Contestants on this quiz show had to find missing letters to song lyrics flashed on the screen....

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English   1961   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-31

Video Village

1960

Two contestants compete in a life-sized board game, answering questions and performing stunts for cash and prizes....

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English   1960   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-30

Dough Re Mi

1960

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English   1960   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-29

About Faces

1960

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English   1960   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-30

Make That Spare

1960

Two well-known professional bowlers attempted to convert five spares with point values that increased according to difficulty. The 2-4-5-8 and 1-2-4-7 scored 25 points, the 4-5 and 1-2-7-10 scored 50 points, and the 5-7 scored 100......

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English   1960   15 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-30

Laugh Line

1959

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English   1959   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-30

Take a Good Look

1959

The contestants on this quiz show had been involved in notable news events. Films clips or recordings of the event were shown; if they were unavailable, Kovacs and the three actors would act out the event. The panelists had to gue......

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English   1959   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-30

Who Pays?

1959

Summer replacement show. Two contestants, who were employed by a celebrity, were questioned by the panelists; the object was for the panelist to guess who the celebrity was....

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English   1959   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-30

Haggis Baggis

1958

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English   1958   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-29

Haggis Baggis

1958

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English   1958   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-29

Keep Talking

1958

The regulars were divided into two teams of three players. The host would give each player a secret word and the player had to tell a story using that word. The other team then had to guess the secret word....

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English   1958   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-29

Music Bingo

1958

Contestants would listen to a song being played and when it stopped they had to run to a board and place a musical sharp or flat symbol on a Bingo board. The first person to get five in a ......

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English   1958   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-29

Anybody Can Play

1958

This quiz show was fairly simple in its concept: four contestants would try to answer questions on a variety of subjects (frequently related to entertainment) for points, with the contestant with the highest point total winning cash...

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English   1958   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-29

Play Your Hunch

1958

Players must use their intuition to answer questions....

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English   1958   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-29

Bid 'n' Buy

1958

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English   1958   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-29

The Big Game

1958

The first of many game shows hosted by popular emcee Tom Kennedy, contestants answered general knowledge questions and played a game similar to "Battleships."...

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English   1958   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-29

Brains & Brawn

1958

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English   1958   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-29

E.S.P.

1958

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English   1958   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-29

Hold That Note

1957

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English   1957   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-28

What's It For

1957

The panelists had to determine what a strange invention was designed to do after it had been demonstrated....

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English   1957   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-28

Who Do You Trust?

1956

Married pairs of contestants were asked to answer questions, the husband deciding whether he or she would answer. The original emcee Edgar Bergen was later replaced by Johnny Carson....

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English   1956   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-27

Tic Tac Dough

1956

The classic quiz show hosted by Win Elliot. In this game, the contestants are faced with a tic-tac-toe board with a different category in each square. To put their mark (X or O) in the square they want, they must first answer a qu......

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English   1956   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-28

Giant Step

1956

Talent show for young kids. Leslie Uggams was one that went on to stardom....

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English   1956   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-27

High Finance

1956

Contestants answered questions based on items that had appeared in their local newspapers, and invested their winnings based on their intuition that they would answer questions in subsequent shows correctly....

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English   1956   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-27

The Price Is Right

1956

The original version of an American icon, "The Price is Right" rewarded contestants with valuable prizes for their ability to price items....

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English   1956   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-27

Queen for a Day

1956

Four women, each with a sob story, vie to become "Queen for a Day."...

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English   1956   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-27

This Is Show Business

1956

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English   1956   N/A   Game-Show episode   2023-05-27

To Tell the Truth

1956

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. Each wrong vot......

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English   1956   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-27

Twenty-One

1956

Two contestants were placed in separate isolation booths. Each player in turn would be given a category and asked how many points, from 1 to 11, he wanted to risk. Points increased with the questions difficulty. A correct answer e......

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English   1956   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-27

You're on Your Own

1956

The contestants on this quiz show could use anything on the stage to find the answer to the question posed by the Emcee....

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English   1956   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-27

The $64, 000 Question

1955

Among the most influential of the big-money quiz shows, and the undisputed king of the genre of the 1950s, contestants answer questions in a specific field in an attempt to win $64,000....

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English   1955   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-26

The Big Surprise

1955

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English   1955   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-26

Make the Connection

1955

Short-lived panel show where a panel of four celebrities try to make the connection between two or more contestants....

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English   1955   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-26

What Do You Have in Common?

1954

Three contestants, with something in common, were brought on the stage and they had to determine what the commonality was by questioning each other....

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English   1954   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-26

What's Going on?

1954

This show lasted five weeks in late 1954. The six panelists were divided into two groups, the in's, who remained in the studio, and the out's, who went outside. The in's had to guess what the out's were doing....

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English   1954   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-26

What's in a Word

1954

Summer replacement quiz show. The panelists had to guess a rhyme based on a two-word association provided by the contestant....

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English   1954   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-26

Who's the Boss?

1954

The panelist attempted to identify a secretary's boss who was a famous person....

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English   1954   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-26

Droodles

1954

Panelists try to guess the titles of "droodles"....

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English   1954   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-26

Earn Your Vacation

1954

Contestants answered questions about geography to earn the trip of their choice. Questions were on four levels of ascending difficulty and each level represented part of the trip. If they completed all four, they won their vacation....

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English   1954   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-26

Gamble on Love

1954

A quiz program involving married couples....

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English   1954   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-26

One Minute Please

1954

The panelists were given a topic and asked to talk nonstop for one minute about the subject. The panelist who talked the most was the winner for that week....

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English   1954   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-26

Musical Chairs

1954

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English   1954   N/A   Game-Show episode   2023-05-26

People Are Funny

1954

Contestants were asked to carry out stunts....

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English   1954   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-26

The Sky's the Limit

1954

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English   1954   N/A   Game-Show episode   2023-05-26

Talent Patrol

1953

This show was a military talent show sponsored by the US Army to aid recruiting. The show, emceed by Steve Allen, featured amateurs trying to win a night on the town with a pretty actress. ......

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English   1953   60 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-25

Anyone Can Win

1953

Moderated by well-known cartoonist and humorist Al Capp, this program featured a panel of four celebrity contestants who would answer trivia questions on a variety of topics. Before the start of the show, audience members would chose...

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English   1953   30 min   Game-Show episode   2023-05-25