This short-lived evening quiz show from NBC – hosted by Art Linkletter’s son, Jack – presented contestants with a large game board consisting of 25 squares. The object was to guess the identity of the celebrity whose photograph was gradually revealed as the squares were uncovered.
The contestants picked questions corresponding to different squares and – upon answering correctly – got to see what was behind that square.
The winner (the first to correctly name the celebrity) had his choice of either of two groups of prizes – one labeled “haggis” (luxury items) and the other, “baggis” (utilitarian items). If the runner-up could guess which group the winner had taken, he got the other.
Broadcast from the Ziegfeld Theater in Manhattan, New York, Haggis Baggis was also seen on NBC daytime with host Dennis James, where it continued until June 1959.
