What is/was your favorite game show on television? I loved Password. I hated Queen for a Day.

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[Frances]

1. Queen for a Day

Played an important role in Clarke County Alabama
I can’t remember the year but sometime after 1950, a woman from California went on Queen for a Day because she wanted to find her child who had been taken from her.
Someone in a village in Clarke County Alabama saw (or heard) the program and realized the child of the new doctor in the village was this woman’s child. The person notified Queen for a Day.
The doctor was arrested and the child was returned.
Some people in the village were upset with the person who reported the doctor because the village lost their only doctor,

[debm55]

2. TY Frances. That show was pathetic. But I am glad the mom found her child.

[Mad_Dem_X]

3. Jeopardy and Password are my favorites.

[debm55]

4. Oh I like Jeopardy--it always amazes me how smart peope are . My first love for a game show was Password. I had a home

version of the game.

[Harker]

5. Jeopardy and Password as a child.

I go back to Art Fleming and the manual game board.

Art would sometimes crack a joke, and if only one person clapped or laughed, he'd invariably say, "thank you, Mother!"

I don't use a TV for much aside from a movie screen, but I do run episodes of "You Bet Your Life" on my phone.

[debm55]

6. Thank you, Harker. Those are my two choices too.

[Harker]

7. Thanks, debm55.

The password is "fun."

[Mr.Bill]

8. I used to like What's My Line

and I've Got a Secret.

Password was also very good.

[hlthe2b]

10. I can sort of remember "What's My Line" and I think, "I Have a Secret"

My Mom really loved them.

[debm55]

21. Thank you, Mr. Bill

[calguy]

9. Concentration

I watched it every day as a kid. It's been so long ago that I can't remember what it was even about now, but I think Hugh Downs was the host.

[debm55]

22. Thank you calguy. I liked concentration too.

[CrispyQ]

31. It was like a word puzzle using images & letters

and the contestant had to guess the phrase. I liked it, too. & yes, Hugh Downs was the host.

[hlthe2b]

11. "Old school" Hollywood Squares when Paul Lynde was on...

They had great guests, but Paul Lynde just had me laughing when the camera even jumped to him.

[Polly Hennessey]

13. Same here. Loved Hollywood Squares and Paul Lynde

was perfection.

[debm55]

24. Thanks PollyHennessey. Loved Paul on Bewitched too.

[debm55]

23. Thank you hlthe2b. Hollywood Squares was great. I like how they had the stars on the show.especially Paul Lynde.

[Srkdqltr]

29. Hollywood Squares was the best. They show it on the comedy channel .

[Easterncedar]

12. What's My Line?

[debm55]

25. Thanks Easterncedar. I remember watching when I stayed at my aunts house.

[Easterncedar]

32. I watched it with my mother a few years ago.

When she was in her 90s. I found I could stream it and we had such fun together seeing it and talking over the celebrities.

It also got me interested in Dorothy Kilgallen and the sad case of her death. Curious mystery, perhaps.

[debm55]

46. Didn't it have something to do with the assassination of JFK. I believe she was a journalist.

[Easterncedar]

50. There are theories

[LoisB]

14. I used to watch Hollywood Squares just to see how outrageous Paul Lynde would be.

[debm55]

26. Me too, LoisB

[Niagara]

15. Family Feud with Richard Dawson.

Sometimes I'll play Family Feud online.

[debm55]

27. Where did you find it? TY Niagara.

[Niagara]

49. Right here my Dear Debbie!

Family Feud online: https://www.arkadium.com/games/family-feud/

[doc03]

16. This is going way back Groucho Marx was hoot on You Bet Your Life. I like

Jeopardy.

[debm55]

28. TY doc03, I guess I was too young to remember. I saw it once and a bird fell from the ceiling.Is that the game show?

[GreenWave]

34. Yep and some DeSoto car commercials.

[debm55]

45. That is the only thing I remember was the bird. Desoto, yep I was young.

[kimbutgar]

17. I liked the match game

[debm55]

44. Ty kimbutgar. So did I .

[Doc_Technical]

18. Now You See It (1974)

[debm55]

37. That's interesting. Ty Doc_Technical. Where can I find the streaming of all of the old games?

[OldBaldy1701E]

19. As many have stated, Hollywood Squares and Match Game... I used to watch them all the time. (n/t)

[debm55]

39. Thank you, OldBaldy1701E

[ificandream]

20. Video Village and Camouflage

My dad took us to see Camouflage on a trip to New York. We also went to a taping of "Who Do You Trust?" Security was not the same as it is now and we got to meet Ed McMahon very easily. Didn't meet Carson, though I recall he saw us and I think waved.

[debm55]

41. Wow, that's really neat. Ty ificandream.

[CrispyQ]

30. Let's Make a Deal

We watched it while we ate lunch in the summer. Concentration was another old fave.

[debm55]

36. I liked it better with Bob Barker. It seems tamer now.TY CrispyQ

[Diamond_Dog]

33. If I was home from school sick with a cold or flu

I would watch game shows all day long. I loved them. Concentration, Let’s Make a Deal, The Match Game, You Don’t Say, High Rollers, Hollywood Squares, I can’t remember them all. Jeopardy was on when I came home from school for lunch, my mom and I would watch it together. I just can’t get into the new game shows on TV now. Jimmy Fallon on the new Password isn’t bad. I remember when Allen Ludden and Betty White were regulars on that show. In college we never missed $10,000 Pyramid with Dick Clark. And The Gong Show was big when I went to college, too. We all learned how to do The Worm! Lol!

[debm55]

35. Ty Diamond_Dog. We must be around the same age because I remember and watched them too.

[AllaN01Bear]

38. went to a tapeing of the game show celebrity pass word .bill bixby was a guest on the panel. my fav martian and incre

ble hulk guy

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42. TY AllaN01Bear, I remember Bill Bixby.

[AllaN01Bear]

40. lets make a deal. jeapordy. wheel of fourtion . whats my line .(early tv). gracho marx.(film early tv)

[debm55]

43. All great choices , TY allaN01Bear

[Alpeduez21]

47. The Gong Show! and Remote Control

[LudwigPastorius]

48. Jeopardy and...

Concentration (I liked trying to solve the rebus)

We had the home versions of each, and of Password too.

[bucolic_frolic]

51. Hollywood Squares

[brush]

52. The Price is Right with Bob Barker.

[MiHale]

53. Press Your Luck...no whammies...no whammies!!h

Still on these days..with Elizabeth Banks.

No Whammies….No Whammies!!

[PJMcK]

54. Two weird ones

Supermarket Sweep and The Dating Game.

[malthaussen]

55. My absolute favorite was "Stump the Stars,"

... which had two teams of celebrities playing charades and could be quite funny. My memory is not quite clear on it, though, I remember Roger C. Carmel as a regular, but he was only in 3 episodes according to IMDB.

My prime-time favorite was "Hollywood Squares." Both my mother and I liked Charley Weaver the most, although of course Paul Lynde was the most consistently funny. IIRC, "Hollywood Squares" was on right after "To Tell the Truth," which we also watched regularly.

-- Mal