1 9 8 0 (Australia) 42 x 30 minute episodes When his long-running guest stint on Blankety Blanks ended, cigar-smoking comedian Ugly Dave Gray hosted this…
Browsing: Game Shows
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1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 6 (UK) 81 x 25 minute episodes The BBC turned pop music into a game show with…
1 9 9 0 – 1 9 9 3 (UK) 25 x 45 minute episodes Based on the popular Waddingtons board game of the same name,…
1 9 6 0 – 1 9 7 2 (Australia) 25 minute episodes This long-running Aussie game show from HSV-7 – produced by Australian game show…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 7 3 (USA) 1 9 7 3 – 1 9 7 9 (USA) 1 9 5 9 – 1…
1 9 8 2 – Current (UK) Yorkshire Television purchased this French gameshow format and commissioned a series of eight shows under the title Calendar Countdown,…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 6 7 (UK) 342 x 30 minute episodes Debuting in June 1957, Criss Cross Quiz was a Granada Television…
1 9 8 5 – 1 9 9 8 (UK) 268 x 30 minute episodes Based on the US quiz shoe The Cross-Wits (1975 – 1980), this afternoon…
1 9 9 0 – 1 9 9 5 (UK) 84 x 60 minute episodes Debuting on 15 February 1990, Maze Master Richard O’Brien welcomed…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 8 6 (USA) A classic (and much-imitated) game show created by Chuck Barris, The Dating Game reflected the state of American relationships…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 6 3 (USA) 30 minute episodes Do You Trust Your Wife? was broadcast on CBS with Edgar Bergen – and…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 5 4 (USA) 1 9 5 8 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) 30 minute episodes Doctor IQ, the…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 5 7 (USA) A humiliating stunt was announced at the beginning of this primetime game show. A contestant, chosen…
1 9 9 4 – 1 9 9 5 (UK) 26 x 60 minute episodes Debuting on Saturday 12 February 1994, this phenomenally successful live travel…
1 9 6 3 – 1 9 6 4 (UK) 29 x 30 minute episodes Hosted by Canadian-born Ronan O’Casey (formerly of The Larkins), this…
1 9 9 8 – 2 0 0 1 (UK) 49 x 60 minute episodes This ITV game show featured ordinary members of the public as…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 6 0 (UK) This quiz programme, based on dot-to-dot pictures, was imported from the US. Each picture contained 50…
1 9 5 8 (USA) At the time of Dotto’s cancellation in August 1958, it was the highest-rated daytime television show in American television history.…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 5 4 (USA) A daytime television version of this familiar radio quiz ran on CBS between October 1952…
1 9 7 4 (Canada) 12 x 30 minute episodes Premiering on Monday 1 July 1974, this summer replacement for the panel quiz show, This Is…