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Major Bowes Amateur Hour, American radio's best-known talent show, was one of the most popular programs broadcast in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. It was created and hosted by Edward Bowes (1874–1946).
In the 1920s Bow
Read more…From the Singles & Doubles collection. A You Bet Your Life clone. Pretty good.
From the Singles & Doubles collection. There's no better better place to find shows that you never knew existed.
My Word! was a long-running radio panel game broadcast by the BBC on the Home Service (1956-67) and Radio 4 (1967-90). It was created by Edward J. Mason and Tony Shryane, and featured comic writers Denis Norden and Frank Muir, more famous (
Read more…In the 1940s Twenty Questions became a popular radio panel quiz show. It was first broadcast at 8pm, Saturday, February 2, 1946, on the Mutual Broadcasting System from New York's Longacre Theatre on West 48th Street. Radio listeners sent in subjects
Read more…Not a pure quiz show but close. I have two episodes. One you can hear the voice of James Thurber and the other the voice of Ogden Nash.
In the immortal words of Ogden Nash:
Candy
Is Dandy
But Liquor
Is Quicker
| You Bet Your Life | |
|---|---|
 1955-60 title card |
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| Format | Quiz show |
| Created by | John Guedel |
| Directed by | Robert Dwan, Bernie Smith |
| Presented by | Groucho Marx |
| Narrated by | George Fenneman |
| Composer(s) | Jerry Fielding (1950-52) Jack Meaki |
Double or Nothing....the clock is ticking away as contestants struggle to answer questions such as:
1. How do you tuna fish?
2. Why doesn't corn digest completely?
3. Do some people hear more than one ocean while holding a conche shell to their
Catch It and You Keep It, Performed by the legendary voiceover god Jackson Beck, Christpher Guest, Jack Marks, Jill André, Windy Craig, and others; from an idea by Benjie Aerenson.
"Catch It and You Keep It," is a game show parody in which contestants
So Wrong, It's Right - BBC
Charlie Brooker hosts the new comedy panel show celebrating one of Britain's favourite subjects - failure.
It's a game of competitive ineptitude, the aim of which is to come up with the wrongest answer to each question. In th
