Queen For A Day 1969. Women tell their stories to win prizes and become queen in this rare game show

The all new Queen for a Day, the Cinderella show, with your host Dick Curtis. Carl King is the announcer, and Nancy Myers is the fashion commentator. This is a revival of the earlier game show Queen For A Day with host Jack Bailey. This 1969 -1970 series was aired for one season before being cancelled. Four women are picked and interviewed by the host Dick Curtis. Each contestant explains why she should be queen for a day. The audience votes on a computer card, and a giant on stage computer tallies the votes and picks the winner. The winner takes the throne, and is showered with gifts. There is a wonderful fashion show with 1970's styles, and the gifts are fun because they are so outdated today. Game Show fun . Transferred from 16mm color kinescope film. (faded and color corrected)

[@LannieLord]

I know a lady who won on the old version of this show. Her son was born with a heart condition - they said he would not live for long. She did her best with him and he lived to be about 35 years old.

[@kpyng]

I remember Dick Curtis from "The Jonathan Winters Show" on CBS...

[@centexan]

I remember when I was young, my mom wouldn't miss Queen For A Day every afternoon. It was hosted by Jack Bailey at that point.

[@kpyng]

Jack Bailey came from Hampton, Iowa, which is just down the road from where I live...

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

This revival of "QFAD" lasted but one season (1969-70) and the queen was determined by audience vote. The 1950s Jack Bailey version had an on-screen applause meter, whichever contestant received the most applause was declared queen.

[@prycerobertson4695]

This is the same Dick Curtis who played a game show host (of all things) on an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show where Laura discloses that Alan Brady is actually bald.

[@ziva1]

The episode is one of my favorites. It is called Coast to Coast Big mouth. I thought the MC looked familiar.

[@darrylh1971]

And the same Dick Curtis who was the voice of Motor Mouse in the Motor Mouse and Auto Cat cartoon segment of the 1969-1970 Hanna-Barbera Catanooga Cats cartoon series?

[@ss51-857]

OMG your right. Lol

[@fromthesidelines]

Yeah, "Johnny Patrick"- the "rat" who hosts "PAY AS YOU GO", and gets contestants to say embarrassing things about their families, friends and acquaintances. "Do you mean that Alan Brady is really *BALD???"* "No!"" "Then why does he wear a toupee?" "Well........" "That's it, ladies, the secret's out! She knows, and she SAID it!!! How about that, folks?" 😁

[@frankwafer6919]

🎥I used to watch this show all the time - while our Mom made grilled cheese for us for lunch!😮❤💯💥👍🤍!

[@kengeorgejones6855]

Thanks as always for your rarities.

[@MoviecraftInc]

My pleasure!

[@JAMESPATTERSON-mk9sr]

I wonder what the then retired Jack Bailey sitting in his Beverly Hills home watching this " new version" of his old show thought about this ?

[@HCHxxiv]

That is a good question...I'm curious about that as well. I enjoyed him.

[@KrakenMan5853]

Isn't this the same guy who was the state trooper in the Blitz-Heinhardt commercials?!!

[@seattlebeard]

Given the "lovely wardrobe" chosen by the Fashion Expert, was the Queen really a winner after all? Queen for a day, but fashion victim for a years to come.

[@tammanyfields3583]

I was just a little kiddo when this was on and I surely don't recall the idea behind the show.

[@witherblaze]

There was another version!?

[@mkl-h9465]

I would love to know what happened to these women after being on the show.

[@trainer1158]

I found the first contestant…she died in 2020.

[@dhutch457]

15 1/2 with a husband and baby and asking for a stove on television. Her parents must have been mortified!

[@ziva1]

I smell statutory rape.

[@gwenniegirl50]

I wonder if parents stepped up to help get a stove.

[@fenian123]

@@gwenniegirl50 What they needed was a car for him to get to work

[@jeanettehightower943]

Use to watch in 50 s. With art linkletter

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Jack Bailey hosted the original "Queen For A Day" during the mid 1950s (1955-64). Art Linkletter hosted "People Are Funny" (1954-61) and his self-titled "House Party" (1952-69) .

[@djs2356]

You mean Alan Brady is BALD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@phredmadsen-vallee8375]

What a horrible show! They could have granted the wishes of all of the poor girls with all the extra crap they loaded "Queen" Jody down with!!

[@MoviecraftInc]

The show does make you feel sorry for the contestants who are the "losers".

[@seattlebeard]

Drag Queen for a Day was never green-lit by the network. It featured crossdressing husbands (complete with prom corsages) whining about their lives to a television audience. A missed opportunity, if you ask me.

[@ss51-857]

Nixons silent majority.

[@jeanettelebarron3306]

Pathetic show