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?
- Who Wants to be A Millionaire
- Y
- You Bet Your Life
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Highlights
Characters & Catchphrases (02m 10s)
Herbert Stempel on the question that he "lost" to Charles Van Doren on Twenty-One, throwing the game (03m 16s)
Phyllis Diller on her television debut on Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life (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 (02m 14s)
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