Game Shows describe fixed-format shows in which contestants compete for prizes.
Game Shows
"They called them 'audience participation shows'. No one called them game shows. I had never heard the name 'game shows' until the first Concentration, with Hugh Downs as host." - Bob Barker
Click on a show title, below
- $
- $64,000 Question aka $64,000 Challenge
- 1
- 10,000 Pyramid aka 25,000 Pyramid aka 100,000 Pyramid
- C
- CBS Television Quiz
- D
- Dating Game, The
- Dotto
- E
- Eye Guess
- F
- Face Is Familiar
- Family Feud
- G
- G.E. College Bowl
- Gong Show, The
- H
- Hollywood Squares
- I
- I've Got a Secret
- J
- Jackpot
- Jeopardy!
- K
- Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge
- L
- Let’s Make a Deal
- Love Experts
- M
- Match Game
- Missus Goes A-Shopping, The
- N
- Newlywed Game, The
- P
- Pantomime Quiz
- Password
- People Are Funny
- Price is Right, The
- Q
- Queen for a Day
- T
- To Tell the Truth
- Treasure Hunt
- Truth or Consequences
- Twenty-One
- W
- What’s My Line?
- Wheel of Fortune
- Who Wants to be A Millionaire
- Y
- You Bet Your Life
Who Talked About This Genre
- Alan Alda
- Army Archerd
- Bob Barker
- Chuck Barris
- Joe Behar
- Tom Bergeron
- Allan Burns
- Gilbert Cates
- Nick Clooney
- Bill Daily
- Richard Dawson
- Bob Eubanks
- Jamie Farr
- Sonny Fox
- Charles Fox
- Fred Foy
- Melissa Gilbert
- Mary Lynn Gottfried
- Monty Hall
- Vicki Lawrence
- Charles Lisanby
- Peter Marshall
- Bob McGrath
- Jayne Meadows
- John Moffitt
- Don Pardo
- Jeff Probst
- Pat Sajak
- Jack Shea
- Fred Silverman
- Garry Simpson
- Ira Skutch
- Herbert F. Solow
- Bob Stewart
- George Sunga
- Vanna White
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Highlights
Characters & Catchphrases
Clip begins at: 24:20, Duration: 02m 10s
Herbert Stempel on the question that he "lost" to Charles Van Doren on Twenty-One, throwing the game
Clip begins at: 17:19, Duration: 03m 16s
Phyllis Diller on her television debut on Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life
Clip begins at: 22:30, Duration: 06m 18s
Fred Silverman on going up against NBC's game shows starting with scheduling Joker's Wild , Gambit and bringing back The Price is Right
Clip begins at: 12:51, Duration: 02m 14s
All Interviewee clips on this genre
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