Say When game show with Art James Part 1

Art James hosts "Say When", which aired between 1/2/61 and 3/26/65 on NBC. Part 1 of 2. This is a Friday episode; in part 2 Art will get tripped up telling everyone to come back tomorrow and the audience shouts out "Monday!". Wayne Howell is the announcer.

[@KCGeno]

So good to see Art James -- one of the underrated best. He and I had several very pleasant email exchanges, during the last few years of his life. Wish I could've met him.

[@AspieRunner]

I have waited years to see an episode of Say When!! Thank you for posting. I had a pleasure of meeting Art James briefly at a book signing for the second Encyclopedia Of TV Game Shows in Los Angeles back in 1995. He was very pleasant..

[@jimcooper6400]

I loved the opening guitar theme tune, I still remember it like it was yesterday

[@SMCalif1956]

Boy, does this send me back to being a five-year-old in Riverside, California. It was a variation on "The Price Is Right" but still had a nice run on its own terms. Excellent find.

[@madeleinevite]

The model Rurh in this game show Live's here in Santa Barbara beautiful as ever...

[@CoreyCoop]

My father was an Associate Producer on this show, and I was on it 4 times as a child model. Unfortunately, I've been told by reliable sources that the episodes I was on are lost.. My father recommended the guitar player (the music was done live on the show) who my mother referred to years later as "that beatnik", and never said how my father knew him.

[@markjeffries3684]

Obvious that if Goodson was going to do live music, that he would avoid the cliche daytime television organ music whenver possible (although typically, when going with organ music for the "Beat the Clock" revival G-T went with Dick Hyman, one of the world's best musicians).

[@miyoshiumeki]

My mom was on this show in 1964 and won a ton of stuff.

[@g.r.bryant2258]

I loved this show -- unfortunately, I was always at school -- junior high. I wish that they bring back this one.

[@deanomarshall2926]

Art James also went on to host the Who,What or Where game in the '70s always liked his voice!!!

[@facebook51ify]

This one is a classic! Art James will never forget this one. An arrow on his head!

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally seen in the summer of 1961 (this is a Friday show, as a promo for the "CHEVY MYSTERY SHOW", Dinah Shore's 1961 summer replacement, is seen at 14:37).

[@goldenchick85]

Wow, Lamb Chop sounded so much different back then. I'm only familiar with Lamb Chop's Play Along from the early 90s.

[@donp55]

If the major networks ever wanted to really go back into the M-F game show business, this would be a perfect pic. the value of the prizes would have to go up, plus there would be a bonus game. (An Idea: the champ would select a amount, then some real extravagant prizes would be offered. It would be the champ vs. the house, with the instructions do not go over the set amount or at least within a range. A modified working of the Australian version of the TPIR Range Game would be perfect. Hit the range and you win the prize plus a big 'ol ca$h bonus)

[@SamHodkin23]

Judging from the show promos (and Wikipedia), this edition of Say When is from either the 60-61 or 61-62 season owing to the seasons in which The Tall Man aired.

[@fredmckinney8933]

This is a show that was on before I was born, and I gotta say this was a neat show. Why has this show never been revived? TV execs oughta look into doing so, IMHO.

[@ericandy88]

The "blank check" idea was a novel one. 40 cases of chow mein dinners (roughly $7 a case), 12 in each case (about $.59 a box), comes to 480 dinners total. Provided you & your family do not burn yourself out on eating the same thing for lunch & dinner everyday, you could be set for a year on that. Not to mention this show's "blank check" was a sight better than the actual Jack Barry game show of that name, which even Art thought was crap.

[@byrd56]

At 8:55, after Mrs. Roels choose the man's watch, you could hear that one person in the audience shout something like "You'll be sorry!" As it turns out, said audience member was right.

[@alicelam3334]

Dont' remember this one. Looks like fun tho.

[@jeprice08]

8:47 - 9:05 Let this be a lesson to you: Sometimes you just can’t listen to the audience. On the other hand, I think I hear someone in the audience yell out, “You’ll be sorry!”

[@jamesnewby2062]

Would anybody else know where I can find more episodes. Grandmother appear on the show years ago and would like to see it.

[@tpir1972]

Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop, is that the first appear of those 2?

[@samaraisnt]

That dress was a fortune, jeez....

[@NikitaFilatovFan3040]

What year was this episode?

[@altfactor]

Probably 1961, given a promo for "Sunday Mystery Hour", which was a Summer replacement that year. It may have been shortly after the show went on the air, so the show may have been sustaining (no commercial sponsors)

[@NEPatriot]

I have seen the infamous peanut butter blooper from this program. And now seeing an episode of this...I have never seen a game show played more for laughs than this...especially on that misfire with the archery equipment.

[@kpyng]

I definitely remember watching "Say When" as a young child. My first exposure to Art James, whom I always liked. He handled the old "arrow through the head" gag very well. Very funny...

[@artytoons]

The gameplay could be described as "Building your own Price Is Right Showcase"...with a budget limit.