1 9 5 6 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) 1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 6 (USA) 1 9 9 0 (USA) The format of…
Browsing: Game Shows
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1 9 5 6 – 1 9 6 8 (USA) 1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 8 (USA) 1 9 8 0 – 1 9…
1 9 6 2 – 1 9 7 5 (UK) Top Of The Form began life at 7.30 pm on Saturday 1 May 1948, as a radio…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 6 0 (UK) 45 minute episodes Beginning as a radio series in 1950, Top Town was an inter-town competition, although…
1 9 8 2 – 1 9 8 9 (UK) 88 x 45 minute episodes This exhausting all-action game show – in which a contestant-controlled helicopter…
1 9 6 7 – 1 9 6 8 (USA) 30 minute episodes Debuting in December 1967, this elaborate ABC daytime game show was played on…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 7 5 (USA) The granddaddy of all TV stunt games, Truth or Consequences, began on CBS radio in…
1 9 6 7 – 1 9 6 9 (UK) 52 x 30 minute episodes This fast-paced Wednesday night quiz show from Anglia Television was…
1 9 6 0 – 1 9 6 1 (UK) Originally a radio show, Twenty Questions was introduced to TV with long-time BBC announcer Stewart McPherson as chairman.…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) This highly popular big-money quiz show based on the card game Twenty-One premiered on NBC…
1 9 5 8 (UK) 26 x 30 minute episodes Based on the American game show of the same name, the British version of Twenty-One featured two contestants…
1 9 6 2 – 1 9 8 7 (UK) 1 9 9 4 – current (UK) University Challenge is one of the UK’s most…
1 9 6 0 – 1 9 6 2 (USA) 513 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 6 2 – 1 9 6 6 (Australia) 30…
1 9 7 3 – 1 9 8 7 (UK) 112 x 30 minute episodes The BBC’s ‘Mr Athletics’, sports commentator Ron Pickering, hosted this series which…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 6 3 (UK) 1 9 7 3 – 1 9 7 4(UK) 1 9 8 4 – 1…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 6 7 (USA) 1 9 6 8 – 1 9 7 5 (USA) “Will you enter and sign…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 5 (USA) This innocuous panel show had the distinction of being the last surviving entertainment show on the…
1 9 7 5 – Current (USA) 1 9 8 8 – 2 0 0 1 (UK) 1 9 8 1 – 2 0 0 8 (Australia)…
1 9 7 2 – 1 9 7 8 (UK) 48 x 45 minute episodes Host Jon Pertwee (initially Edward Woodward) presented this highly popular,…
1 9 8 8 – 1 9 9 9 (UK) 136 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 9 8 – 2 0 0 6 (USA)…