Wow! A DuMont film that did NOT wind up at the bottom of the ocean off Brooklyn.
@thisravenhasflown0108 ай бұрын
The corny organ music is the best😊
@dguy0386 Жыл бұрын
from some quick research i did, this show ran weekly from October 7th 1954 to March 31st 1955, whitch i assume means that there would have been about 26 episodes made, but this appears to be the only episode that still exists
@luisreyes19632 жыл бұрын
An extremely rare whole episode of a lost TV show from the long defunct DuMont Network. Quite the find. 🕵️♀️
@MrJoeybabe254 жыл бұрын
This is so cool, Jeff. I appreciate it very much. Your uploads are the best!
@pgh45rpms2 жыл бұрын
Fred Robbins (1919-1992) was a native of Baltimore MD, where he began his career ias a radio dj . Later Fred moved into tv in New York City as the host of game shows and variety programs. He's remembered as tv pitchman for Coca Cola, presenting the commercials on Coke Time with Eddie Fisher. The Dumont network was established in 1942 by Allen Dumont. IThe network had some excellent programs, but many of their stars, like Jackie Gleason, were lured away by competing networks. Dumony eventually went off the air in 1956.
@wmbrown6 Жыл бұрын
The two stations they owned, however, would later form the nucleus of the Fox Television Network which in some circles is today considered a linear descendent of DuMont. In the interim, the company wiped the DuMont name from its corporate nomenclature and NYC TV station call letters, changed first to Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation and then Metromedia, Inc., and finally sold all but one of its TV stations to Rupert Murdoch. (The one exception, in Boston, would go to Hearst.)
@sandratuttle9 ай бұрын
@@wmbrown6Dumont's station WDTV in Pittsburgh was sold to Westinghouse Broadcasting and became KDKA after their radio station. It is still the same call letters and owned by CBS.
@DJK-cq2uy2 ай бұрын
Fat deal
@drummingdanny8410 ай бұрын
Thirty-two years before a children's cable network created a show with the same title.
@Rlotpir19728 ай бұрын
I wonder if Dumont sued Nickelodeon.
@DrGildovideosculturaisSimoes4 жыл бұрын
At time 15’ of this TV program an interview with film star Richard Egan, known very much from his movie interpretation in Tension at Table Rock, excellent movie.
@dianer15299 ай бұрын
All of that for $3,000? You would be hard pressed to get one of those gifts for that amount today!
@lonniebishop17504 жыл бұрын
Where do you get these gems, Jeff? Please keep them coming!.
@9094nancyj2 жыл бұрын
Trip to Bermuda is a great prize!
@joshgellis32923 жыл бұрын
Jeez, $3,000 is still a good amount of cash still!
@nicoleknight94122 жыл бұрын
Probably $30- 50,000 in today's money.
@witherblaze2 жыл бұрын
$3000 in prizes, not cash.
@jamesbeer2 жыл бұрын
Considering the sorry financial state of the DuMont network!
@MrJoeybabe254 жыл бұрын
Even by 1955, the technology apparently didn't exist to put a phone caller on the air.
@robertmcglinchey33474 жыл бұрын
It did exist but a tape delay would have been the way to go.
@marksmith4828 Жыл бұрын
DuMont ran on a shoestring, competing against the big boys: CBS and NBC (ABC, another shoestring operation, was not much of a factor).
@sandratuttle9 ай бұрын
@@robertmcglinchey3347Tape delay did not exist yet.
@keithhyttinen82756 ай бұрын
It was broadcast live. They had to be careful with unknown phone callers who could say "anything". Yikes!!
@kelperdude Жыл бұрын
Very odd game. The practice of putting that soda into cans started in 1955, the same year as this broadcast. This show is very adamant about people buying that soda in the glass bottles. This essentially became a battle not about the product, but about selling the packaging.
@freddyfurrah378911 ай бұрын
Historic
@jvcomedy8 ай бұрын
Bizarre the host talks to the contestant on the phone but their voice cannot be heard. Maybe they didn't have the technology to do that back then but you'd think the host would at least relay what the person on the phone was saying but he didn't always do that.
@robmclean4352 Жыл бұрын
Not for broadcast!
@StoneyRerootkit8 ай бұрын
Not For Viewing... By Intelligent Citizens🎉😮😊
@Hevynly15 ай бұрын
Poor little Mary Ellen looks so overwhelmed.
@TimothyJones-mm9tb4 ай бұрын
That girl was not overwhelmed, she was annoyed because her parents won’t let her keep a dog in an nyc apartment. I’m reading into it, but I know that face.
@TBONE_20043 жыл бұрын
So... This is the inspiration for the Nickelodeon game show of the same name?
@marcomacias39602 жыл бұрын
yes and no, Nick did use the ''find the object in a room' bit of the show and no it is not to locate the card.
@Crimefighter10 ай бұрын
so the nickleodeon kids show was inspired by this...
@mrnasty0210610 ай бұрын
No it was not. Many later shows with the same titles as these, were entirely different (and no horror-ific/frightening soundtrack).
@ZACHERYalderton-s3h Жыл бұрын
I need the rules
@keithelster88582 жыл бұрын
Did it air on the entire (what was left of it) Dumont Network, or was it strictly a WABD local show?
@nicoleknight94122 жыл бұрын
It was on the network, but only viewers in the Tri-state area (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut) were eligible to play.
@witherblaze2 жыл бұрын
@@nicoleknight9412 From my research, it seems to only be a WABD show. Not DuMont.
@jethro1963 Жыл бұрын
WABD - Allen B. DuMont
@wmbrown6 Жыл бұрын
@@jethro1963 - Whereas, when its calls were changed on Sept. 7, 1958 to WNEW-TV = named after the highly-rated radio station, home to such personalities as Klavan & Finch and William B. Williams, which the then-DuMont Broadcasting Corporation purchased the year before. It was the second of a two-step process of wiping clean any trace of Dr. DuMont from the station that had once borne his name. The other: On June 9, the company changed its name to Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation. (On Aug. 25, less than two weeks before the TV call letters' change, WNEW-FM 102.7 first signed on.)
@sandratuttle9 ай бұрын
@@witherblazeIt was not shown in Pittsburgh.
@BabaTiggy3 жыл бұрын
Is the number still Exist
@vestibulate Жыл бұрын
@BabaTiggy Yes, the number still Exist.
@BabaTiggy Жыл бұрын
@@vestibulate wait really
@walte1536 ай бұрын
What an awful show. Stupid prizes... dopey game... and a host who gives off "creep" vibes 12:55 . The "finders" look like they were just pulled in off the street. Richard Egan couldn't wait to get out of there. The only good part was the girl who hid the "coupon" She was cute. I enjoyed watching this mess!
@antony7165 ай бұрын
This host doesn't know the definition of "personal space"