Research Catalog

Title

TV game shows / Maxene Fabe.

Author

Fabe, Maxene.

Publication

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1979.

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Details

Description

xvii, 332 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

A Dolphin book

Subject

• Television game shows > History and criticism
• Jeux télévisés

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction. Confessions of a game show addict -- pt. 1. Behind the curtain -- Contestants! -- Hosts! -- Celebrities! -- Questions! -- Sets : the things that flash and buzz! -- Prizes! -- The megaprofits! -- pt. 2. Sign in, please... : the best, the worst and the rest -- But first, there was radio -- The best TV games of the forties -- 1. Winner Take All -- 2. Pantomime Quiz -- 3. Break the Bank -- 4. Twenty Questions -- The best of the fifties -- 5. What's My Line -- 6. Beat the Clock -- 7. You Bet Your Life -- 8. I've Got a Secret -- 9. Masquerade Party -- 10. Name That Tune -- 11. Strike It Rich -- 12. The Big Payoff -- 12. This Is Your Life -- 14. Truth or Consequences -- 15 & 16. People Are Funny/House Party -- 17. To Tell the Truth -- 18. Queen for a Day -- 19. Who Do You Trust? -- 20. Treasure Hunt -- 21. The Price Is Right -- 22. G.E. College Bowl -- The scandals -- 23. The $64,000 Question -- 24. The $64,000 Challenge -- 25. Twenty-One -- Best of the sixties -- 26. Concentration -- 27. Password -- 28. Let's Make a Deal -- 29. The Dating Game -- 30. The Newlywed Game -- 31. Jeopardy! -- 32. Hollywood Squares -- Best of the seventies -- 33. Match Game -- 34. The $20,000 Pyramid -- 35. The New Treasure Hunt -- 36. The Gong Show -- 37. Family Feud -- 38. Pro-Fan -- 39. The New Price Is Right -- 40 The New High Rollers -- The ten worst game shows -- Appendix. Every game show ever... : an annotated, chronological listing.

ISBN

• 038513052X
• 9780385130523

LCCN

^^^77011390^

OCLC

4884529

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library