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Rare Game Show Collection

This collection is filled with sample episodes of some great quiz programs -- including many rare episodes.

Rare Game Show

45 old time radio show recordings
(total playtime 20 hours, 3315 min)
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Old time radio quiz and game shows were never considered a big priority for the networks, although they were very popular with both sponsors and listeners.

Sponsors loved the quiz shows because the format had great potential for forms of product placement and gave a lot of advertising power for a low budget. Audiences loved them because they were filled with spontaneous fun , following the on-air contestants as well as playing along. Censors were a little more ambivalent; because radio game shows were both live and unscripted, giving the censors relatively little control over them.

Mel Blanc

The radio game show has evolved into the explosion of competition based reality TV shows that began cropping up after 2000, such as Survivor, America's Top Model, The Apprentice and the Big Brother franchise. The original radio quiz shows were a lot more innocent, but a lot more fun!

The Rare Game Show Collection is filled with sample episodes of some great quiz programs -- including many rare episodes. The collection will give you a great introduction to this fun type of old time radio entertainment.

Are You a Genius was a rare type of quiz show all by itself; there were no on-air contestants or sponsors. The show was produced as entertainment for Troops overseas by AFRS, featuring Mel Blanc , voice of Warner Bros. Looney Tunes, in a one man show asking trivia questions.

On Beat the Band contestants would send in musical questions trying to stump the members of the Ted Weems Orchestra.

The Better Half was a "Battle of the Sexes" show pitting husbands and wives against each other in a question and answer format.

Clifoton Fadiman - Information Please

On Can You Top This the audience sent in jokes, and it was up to the panel members to each come up with a funnier joke on the same topic, creating a great treasure of laughter.

Guess Who? gave Happy Feldman the chance to interact with "ordinary people" who would listen to audio clips of famous people and Guess Who they were listening to.

Information Please again featured questions sent in by listeners, this time with a panel drawn from New York's literary community, who often gave very intelligent and entertaining answers. Although Information Please never seemed to put on airs, it did lead to its exact opposite coming to the air on It Pays to Be Ignorant; the panel here was far from the intelligentsia, it is debatable if they could even tie their own shoelaces! All of which lead to great frustration for the host and good Fun for listeners.

Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge may have been more about hot jazz than getting the questions right or wrong, but audiences loved it.

Mind Your Manners host Allen Ludden led a discussion with "typical teenagers" on typical teenage problems and issues.

Art Linkletter hosted People Are Funny which set up outrageous pranks and then broadcast how unwitting participants reacted to them.

Quiz Kids advertisement

Queen for a Day called on typical house wives to tell their stories--the more tears the better. The teller of the inning story was showered with glamorous gifts and usually given the assistance needed to solve their problems.

Fast answers on a variety of subjects was the Key to winning Quick as a Flash .

Quiz Kids used a rotating panel of Children who were selected for their intelligence as well as their personalities. Kids not only say the darndest things, sometimes they answer questions that would stump most adults!

People who had missed their great chance at true love were able to try again to make it work when brought back together with their old loves on Second Chance.

Take It or Leave It contestants were asked increasingly difficult questions. If they gave a correct answer, they could take the prize money, or try for a new question and a bigger prize.

Vox PopContestants were given an almost impossible question on Truth or Consequences. When they failed to answer the question correctly, they would face the consequence, the most outrageous and embarrassing stunt the show's writers could come up with!

Twenty Questions was a radio version of the popular parlor game that almost every family has played, but on the radio we got the hear the Van Deventer family play and interact.

Vox Pop took their microphones and their questions to various location to hear "the voice of the people".

The featured guest on Which is Which was hidden from the studio audience behind a curtain. The audience then would have to guess whether the guest was an actual celebrity or a clever impersonator.

Finally, perhaps the funniest game show on radio, You Bet Your Life gave Groucho Marx a chance to play the character loved by generations, sharing his own brand of warm-hearted cynicism.

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    45 recordings on 1 MP3 CD for just $5.00. Total playtime 20 hours, 3315 min
    45 recordings on 1 MP3 CD for just $5.00
    total playtime 20 hours, 3315 min
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    1. 45 shows – total playtime 20 hours, 55 minutes
    2. AYAG 421216 What Date Was The 1st Model T Put On The Market.mp3
    3. AYAG 421223 What Does 'the Smoking Lamp Is Lit' Mean.mp3
    4. Beat The Band 400128 First Show.mp3
    5. Beat The Band 400317 P Como, E Tanner,r Ingle.mp3
    6. Better Half 460402.mp3
    7. Better Half 460416.mp3
    8. Break The Bank 491005 The Blains.mp3
    9. Break The Bank 500201.mp3
    10. Can You Top This 420421 Restaurants.mp3
    11. Can You Top This 450815 Suitors.mp3
    12. Guess Who 450519 Arnold Farlin-Al Smith fr. MSG.mp3
    13. Guess Who 470823 Mrs. Brooks-John Barrymore.mp3
    14. Info Please 381227 William Lyon Phelps.mp3
    15. Info Please 390103 Edwin Edgar.mp3
    16. Ignorant 441013 Married Men Live Longer.mp3
    17. Ignorant 441020 Chicken Cross the Street.mp3
    18. Kay Kyser 074 Marine Base Goleta Ca Afrs 1944.mp3
    19. Kay Kyser 075 Long Beach Ca USCG Afrs 1944.mp3
    20. MYM 480522 Should I Accept An Expensive Watch.mp3
    21. MYM 490115 A Boy Who Is Shy Around Girls.mp3
    22. PAF 531013 Scare Away Tax Collector.mp3
    23. PAF 531020 Where Is Your Husband Tonight.mp3
    24. Queen for a Day 480214.mp3
    25. Queen for a Day 500213.mp3
    26. Quick as a Flash 470316.mp3
    27. Quick as a Flash 470323.mp3
    28. Quiz Kids 480718 422.mp3
    29. Quiz Kids 480725 423.mp3
    30. Raising A Husband - 451122.mp3
    31. Raising A Husband - 451220.mp3
    32. Raising A Husband - 460103.mp3
    33. Second Chance 541203 Claire.mp3
    34. Second Chance 550113 Mae Walters.mp3
    35. Take It Or Leave It 421108 W Jack Benny.mp3
    36. Take It Or Leave It 470713 Popular Broadway Songs.mp3
    37. Truth Or Consequences 471025.mp3
    38. Truth Or Consequences 471220 Christmas Show.mp3
    39. Twenty Questions 480000 Lulu McConnel.mp3
    40. Twenty Questions 480918 William Gagstein.mp3
    41. Voxpop 420112 Aviation Cadets Randolph AFB TX.mp3
    42. Voxpop 420126 Columbia Studios Hollywood CA.mp3
    43. Which is Which 441220 Maxie Rosenbloom, Nigel Bruce.mp3
    44. Which is Which 450124 Phil Silvers, Judy Canova.mp3
    45. YBYL 491221 Chair.mp3
    46. YBYL 491228 Name.mp3
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    45 recordings on 1 MP3 Collection Download for just $5.00. Total playtime 20 hours, 3315 min
    45 recordings on 1 MP3 Collection Download for just $5.00
    575 MB – total playtime 20 hours, 55 min
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    1. 45 shows – 575 MB – total playtime 20 hours, 55 minutes
    2. AYAG 421216 What Date Was The 1st Model T Put On The Market.mp3
    3. AYAG 421223 What Does 'the Smoking Lamp Is Lit' Mean.mp3
    4. Beat The Band 400128 First Show.mp3
    5. Beat The Band 400317 P Como, E Tanner,r Ingle.mp3
    6. Better Half 460402.mp3
    7. Better Half 460416.mp3
    8. Break The Bank 491005 The Blains.mp3
    9. Break The Bank 500201.mp3
    10. Can You Top This 420421 Restaurants.mp3
    11. Can You Top This 450815 Suitors.mp3
    12. Guess Who 450519 Arnold Farlin-Al Smith fr. MSG.mp3
    13. Guess Who 470823 Mrs. Brooks-John Barrymore.mp3
    14. Info Please 381227 William Lyon Phelps.mp3
    15. Info Please 390103 Edwin Edgar.mp3
    16. Ignorant 441013 Married Men Live Longer.mp3
    17. Ignorant 441020 Chicken Cross the Street.mp3
    18. Kay Kyser 074 Marine Base Goleta Ca Afrs 1944.mp3
    19. Kay Kyser 075 Long Beach Ca USCG Afrs 1944.mp3
    20. MYM 480522 Should I Accept An Expensive Watch.mp3
    21. MYM 490115 A Boy Who Is Shy Around Girls.mp3
    22. PAF 531013 Scare Away Tax Collector.mp3
    23. PAF 531020 Where Is Your Husband Tonight.mp3
    24. Queen for a Day 480214.mp3
    25. Queen for a Day 500213.mp3
    26. Quick as a Flash 470316.mp3
    27. Quick as a Flash 470323.mp3
    28. Quiz Kids 480718 422.mp3
    29. Quiz Kids 480725 423.mp3
    30. Raising A Husband - 451122.mp3
    31. Raising A Husband - 451220.mp3
    32. Raising A Husband - 460103.mp3
    33. Second Chance 541203 Claire.mp3
    34. Second Chance 550113 Mae Walters.mp3
    35. Take It Or Leave It 421108 W Jack Benny.mp3
    36. Take It Or Leave It 470713 Popular Broadway Songs.mp3
    37. Truth Or Consequences 471025.mp3
    38. Truth Or Consequences 471220 Christmas Show.mp3
    39. Twenty Questions 480000 Lulu McConnel.mp3
    40. Twenty Questions 480918 William Gagstein.mp3
    41. Voxpop 420112 Aviation Cadets Randolph AFB TX.mp3
    42. Voxpop 420126 Columbia Studios Hollywood CA.mp3
    43. Which is Which 441220 Maxie Rosenbloom, Nigel Bruce.mp3
    44. Which is Which 450124 Phil Silvers, Judy Canova.mp3
    45. YBYL 491221 Chair.mp3
    46. YBYL 491228 Name.mp3
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    45 recordings on 22 Audio CDs. Total playtime 20 hours, 55 min
    45 recordings on 22 Audio CDs
    total playtime 20 hours, 55 min

    Rare Game Show Disc A001

    1. Kay Kyser 074 Marine Base Goleta Ca Afrs 1944
    2. Kay Kyser 075 Long Beach Ca USCG Afrs 1944

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    Rare Game Show Disc A002

    1. Info Please 381227 William Lyon Phelps
    2. Info Please 390103 Edwin Edgar

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    Rare Game Show Disc A003

    1. Beat The Band 400128 First Show
    2. Beat The Band 400317 P Como, E Tanner,r Ingle

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    Rare Game Show Disc A004

    1. Voxpop 420112 Aviation Cadets Randolph AFB TX
    2. Voxpop 420126 Columbia Studios Hollywood CA

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    Rare Game Show Disc A005

    1. Can You Top This 420421 Restaurants
    2. Take It Or Leave It 421108 W Jack Benny

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    Rare Game Show Disc A006

    1. AYAG 421216 What Date Was The 1st Model T Put On The Market
    2. AYAG 421223 What Does 'the Smoking Lamp Is Lit' Mean
    3. Ignorant 441013 Married Men Live Longer

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    Rare Game Show Disc A007

    1. Ignorant 441020 Chicken Cross the Street
    2. Which is Which 441220 Maxie Rosenbloom, Nigel Bruce

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    Rare Game Show Disc A008

    1. Which is Which 450124 Phil Silvers, Judy Canova
    2. Guess Who 450519 Arnold Farlin-Al Smith fr. MSG

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    Rare Game Show Disc A009

    1. Can You Top This 450815 Suitors
    2. Raising A Husband - 451122

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    Rare Game Show Disc A010

    1. Raising A Husband - 451220
    2. Raising A Husband - 460103

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    Rare Game Show Disc A011

    1. Better Half 460402
    2. Better Half 460416

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    Rare Game Show Disc A012

    1. Quick as a Flash 470316
    2. Quick as a Flash 470323

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    Rare Game Show Disc A013

    1. Take It Or Leave It 470713 Popular Broadway Songs
    2. Guess Who 470823 Mrs. Brooks-John Barrymore

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    Rare Game Show Disc A014

    1. Truth Or Consequences 471025
    2. Truth Or Consequences 471220 Christmas Show

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    Rare Game Show Disc A015

    1. Twenty Questions 480000 Lulu McConnel
    2. Queen for a Day 480214

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    Rare Game Show Disc A016

    1. MYM 480522 Should I Accept An Expensive Watch
    2. Quiz Kids 480718 422

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    Rare Game Show Disc A017

    1. Quiz Kids 480725 423
    2. Twenty Questions 480918 William Gagstein

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    Rare Game Show Disc A018

    1. MYM 490115 A Boy Who Is Shy Around Girls
    2. Break The Bank 491005 The Blains

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    Rare Game Show Disc A019

    1. YBYL 491221 Chair
    2. YBYL 491228 Name

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    Rare Game Show Disc A020

    1. Break The Bank 500201
    2. Queen for a Day 500213

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    Rare Game Show Disc A021

    1. PAF 531013 Scare Away Tax Collector
    2. PAF 531020 Where Is Your Husband Tonight

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    Rare Game Show Disc A022

    1. Second Chance 541203 Claire
    2. Second Chance 550113 Mae Walters

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