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1. DO YOU TRUST YOUR WIFE? This 1956 show stars Edgar Bergen and his famous dummies. Couples predict how much they know about each other. Sponsored by L&M Cigarettes.
2. THE PRICE IS RIGHT (1957). Bill Cullen hosts the original version of this top game show. Complete with commercials.
3. PLAY YOUR HUNCH with Merv Griffin from 1960. Who's telling the truth: X, Y, or Z? Play along with the contestants. Complete with Sealtest Dairy commercials.
1. PEOPLE ARE FUNNY (1958). Art Linkletter gets his contestants involved in the craziest stunts!
2. CONCENTRATION (1968). Hugh Downs hosts this game of puzzles and prizes.
3. I'VE GOT A SECRET (1967). Host Steve Allen gives clues to a panel of celebrities, who try to determine guests' secrets. Pearl Bailey guests; complete with comm.
1. THE PRICE IS RIGHT (1957). Another classic episode from this vintage series, complete with original commercials.
2. TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES (1966). Bob Barker hosts the fun and laughs in this popular stunt show; a color kinescope.
3. THE FACE IS FAMILIAR (1966). This game show scrambles the faces of celebrities. June Lockhart and Bob Crane are the team captains. Complete with orig. comm.
4. PDQ (1965). Dennis James hosts this, the original pilot to the successful game show of the 1960s. Teams try to guess phrases from seeing a few letters at a time.
1. BRIDE AND GROOM (1957). In what had to have been the corniest show in TV history, two people actually tie the knot on the air in front of not only their families, but millions of viewers. The couple shares their innermost secrets with America, then they receive a fabulous array of meaningless prizes for doing so! It's camp at its very best; complete with commercials.
2. BEAT THE CLOCK (1953). An extremely RARE kinescope of the classic stunt show of the early 1950s, hosted of course by Bud Collyer and his assistant, Roxanne. Sponsored by Sylvania.
1. BEAT THE CLOCK (1956). Here's another zany half hour of hilarious stunts, complete with original Hazel Bishop commercials.
2. THE $64,000 QUESTION (1956). Hosted by Hal March, here's a great sampling of one of TV's biggest ratings champs. This episode contains original Revlon commercials. Everything's here: the nervous contestants, isolation booth, and famous "think" music.
3. QUEEN FOR A DAY (1963). We've uncovered one of the few surviving kinescopes of this classic daytime show, hosted by Jack Bailey, and sponsored by Pepsodent Toothpaste. A real collector's item!
1. THE $64,000 CHALLENGE (1956). This spinoff of "The $64,000 Question" is hosted by Sonny Fox. All the contestants on the show were previous winners of the former series. This episode contains original commercials.
2. DOLLAR A SECOND (1955). Jan Murray hosts this famous game show of the fifties, in which contestants win money for every second they appear on the show. Commercials, too!
3. PLACE THE FACE (1954). Bill Cullen hosts this interesting game show, in which contestants try to recognize faces from their past. Xavier Cugat is a guest. Complete with original commercials.
4. TWO FOR THE MONEY (1957). Humorist Sam Levinson hosts this game show that is almost identical to "You Bet Your Life". His announcer is Ed McMahon, fresh from local hosting duties in Philadelphia. An interview reveals this is McMahon's first big break on a network show; complete with original commercials.
1. STRIKE IT RICH (1951). Warren Hull emcees this famous program in which contestants desperately in need of something to help them survive in the world compete for the privilege of getting that something. If they fail, and the producers decide they should have what they came in for, they let them win anyway! Fab commercials are included.
2. THE NAME'S THE SAME (1955). Dennis James hosts this panel show, another game similar to "What's My Line?". The panel tries to guess contestants' names which are identical to those of famous people. Panelists include Gene Rayburn, Joan Alexander, Roger Price, and Bess Myerson. Sponsored by the Ralston Purina Company.
3. BRIDE AND GROOM (1953). Here's another episode (a 15-minute version) of the program that marries people on the air, then jets them off to a fabulous honeymoon. This show features an elderly Jewish couple in their 70s who are remarrying after each had previously been married for nearly 50 years! General Mills commercials are included.
4. CHANCE OF A LIFETIME (1955). Here's Dennis James again, hosting the ultimate talent contest the winner gets $1000 cash, plus a booking at the Versailles Hotel in Miami Beach. Sponsored by Bromo Seltzer, which is convenient because viewers needed it after stomaching this!
1. CHANCE OF A LIFETIME (1955), with host Dennis James. It's "Star Search" of the 1950s once again, as the audience decides who wins. Complete with comm.
2. BINGO AT HOME (1955). Here's a lesson in really bad TV. Monty Hall hosts this unbelievably awful game show where viewiers compete against a bunch of frumps in the studio audience. Complete with commercials, but this is only the first half of a 60-minute (!) show. Believe us, 30 minutes is enough!
3. TIC TAC DOUGH (1957). A RARE kinescope from the nighttime version of the original game. Were the contestants briefed? You be the judge; they're unusually smart. Jay Jackson hosts. (Note: Missing comm. and titles; game is complete.)
4. TO TELL THE TRUTH (1958). Here's a live kinescope of the popular game show hosted by Bud Collyer, and complete with original commercials.
1. PANTOMIME QUIZ (1955), complete with original commercials. Mike Stokey hosts this classic game of TV charades. Celebrity guests include Hans Conried and Jerry Lester. It's amazing how rude and nasty Stokey is to the teams, constantly telling them to shut up so he could talk, and he even goes so far as to cut Lester off during his allotted time. Stokey's one mean dude!
2. PASS THE LINE (1954). If you thought "Bingo at Home" in Volume VIII was bad, then you ain't seen nothing yet! This show actually looks like it was shot in someone's kitchen! A professional artist draws something, then a panel of celebrities (including a very young Jonathan Winters) tries to duplicate it.
3. DO YOU TRUST YOUR WIFE? (1956). A classic episode of the game show starring Edgar Bergen, and complete with original commercials.
4. PEOPLE ARE FUNNY (1957). Another hilarious episode with Art Linkletter as your host, complete with original commercials.
SHOWS 3 AND 4 ARE FROM THE MICHAEL HALPRIN COLLECTION
1. OKAY, MOTHER! (1947). Most likely one of the earliest-surviving records of a TV game show, and from the Dumont Network, no less. Dennis James is the host, who poses interesting questions to women in the studio audience. Complete with commercials.
2. QUICK AS A FLASH (1952). Hosted by Bill Cullen, this game show has two teams trying to identify famous events from seeing bits of film clips. Boris Karloff and Wendy Barrie are the celebrity guests.
3. DO YOU TRUST YOUR WIFE? (1958), an early daytime episode, with Johnny Carson as the host in the pre-Ed MacMahon days. With comm.
4 QUEEN FOR A DAY (1960). Don't ask us how, but we did it - we found another RARE RARE RARE episode, with Jack Bailey, and original comm.
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