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- A spelling bee in which contestants competed against well-known television personalities.
- Contestants must perform an embarrassing stunt if they fail to answer a question correctly.
- One of television's first game shows. The host, John Reed King, supervised activities from various New York City supermarkets with the help of his assistant, Jimmy Brown. Riddles with a "jingle", puzzles for the audience to solve and other games were played.
- A television adaptation of the then-popular radio game show "Ladies Be Seated" (1944-1950). The television version was hosted by Johnny Olson (1910-1985) and broadcast live from Schenectady, New York. It was the first attempt of the radio network Blue Network to enter the television market. The network should re-branded itself as the American Broadcasting Company (ABC),
- A 1946 television game show, hosted by Frances Scott. It was an early experiment in audience participation. The show was produced by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), but aired only at an affiliate station of the DuMont Television Network . The series only lasted for 3 episodes, from May 23 to June 6, 1946.
- Four contestants are seated behind futuristic autos as the mounting prize money was indicated by a city-to-city race across the nation, shown visually on a map, and Dennis James, the quizmaster, wore a woodsman's shirt.
- Audience members are asked a number of questions about different department store products. If they answer most of them correct and score the most points they receive five silver dollars.
- This early game show had an artist draw a picture of an unseen person from verbal clues given to him, then compare the results when the actual person came into the studio.
- A television version of the popular radio quiz in which teams based in London compete against teams based in New York.
- Contestants were asked to carry out stunts.
- A supermarket quiz show sponsored by Libby's, featuring their products. Also included a pantomime segment and a viewer phone-in segment.
- Contestants choose the town they which to travel and then try to answer enough questions to earn fare enough to reach their destination.
- Quiz show broadcast on CBS station in New York, New York featuring music, audience participation and quiz questions.
- Quiz show where actors and actresses perform skits live in front of a studio audience. Contestants from the audience stop the performances each time they think there is a flubbed line or mistake made. When a mistake was missed by the contestants the "hex voice" chimed in from offstage and froze the scene.
- Three- or four-authors tried to create stories based on props given to them.
- A celebrity charades game. Home viewers were invited to call in with their guesses.
- Members of the studio audience competed for prizes by answering questions.
- This was a combination sports/variety program aimed at teenagers. The setting was a soda shop and the program had "cheerleaders" and "students" who talked about sports, sang, danced to music from a jukebox and had quizzes. The sports was narrated by Bob Stanton, an NBC sportscaster.
- Not much is know about this game show. It possibly involved the audience at home "playing along" using a quiz paper.
- Four women, each with a sob story, vie to become "Queen for a Day."
- An unusual discussion series, in which the panelists were children.
- A panel game show featuring questions about the arts (such as music, theater, dancing, etc).
- Television's first treatment of "Charades" as played by Hollywood celebrities. The giveaway was the use of gestures that defined "film", "TV show", "book" or "song" as well as "small word (a, an, the)" and gestures for syllables, number of words, and expand or stretch.
- Viewers sent in charade suggestions for the repertory actors to act out. If the suggestion stumped the panelists, the viewer won $15.
- Sponsored by the makers of the Encyclopedia Americana, this quiz show featured questions on obscure bits of American folklore and history that had been sent in by home viewers. Originally, the contestants on the program were adults, but the show later switched to having high school students compete.
- A television quiz show in which contestants phoned-in.
- Contestants were phoned, and were asked to identify historic buildings and landmarks in New York. Correct answers resulted in the contestant getting $5 and a turkey (at least during an episode broadcast on 20 November 1947).
- An audience participation show.
- First game show ever produced by Goodson-Todman Productions, "Winner Take All" pitted two contestants against each other, answering general knowledge questions.
- A show characterized by frequent format changes. Started as a musical variety review, it migrated to a musical quiz format, then became a "new talent search". The host was "Buffalo" Bob Smith. Howdy Doody (Smith's famous puppet) made guest appearances, including the Christmas show when he sang "All I Want For Christmas in my Two Front Teeth".
- A combination mystery drama and game show broadcast live from the Old Nickerbocker Music Hall, a Gay Nineties Revue, in New York City. The program begins with a dramatization (in the pilot, "The Times Square Story") during which a crime is committed. Customers of the Old Nickerbocker then receive the opportunity to win prizes by attempting to identify the culprit. One of the first TV programs to experiment with live, remote pickups.
- A television version of the popular radio game show "Break the Bank" (1945-1955). Contestants would be asked questions for a progressively larger cash prize, and the final question was the "break the bank" question which was worth all the money in the bank. The television version debuted in 1948 on ABC, co-hosted by Bert Parks and Bud Collyer. In October 1956, a prime version of the show debuted on NBC under the title "Break the $250,000 Bank". It was permanently canceled in January 1957, featuring the actress Ethel Waters as the penultimate contestant.
- Audience participation show where monetary prizes are given to winners of contests between partipants involved in stunts based on use of the various "senses", including sense of humor, sense of balance, sense of imagination, etc.
- The contestants were selected from the studio audience and they would spin a wheel to determine which party games they would participate in.
- Quiz show with the panelists being read a quotation in the news and they had to identify the person uttering it. In addition to the panelists listed, famous people frequently appeared to join the panel.
- A quiz show where a panel of sports figures are quizzed on their knowledge of sports, via questions supplied by contestants.
- A quiz show about bridge problems which aired on Thursdays in a 15-minute time-slot.