Favorite TV game show?

[Ptah]

Beat The Reaper!

[bobbieinok]

1. What's My Line?

[ailsagirl]

25. I absolutely LOVE WML

Still entertaining and funny as ever-- after 50 some years!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. You Bet Your Life

[peekaloo]

3. It airs on Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!

[Va Lefty]

4. Used to love the old Match Game hosted by Gene Rayburn

Richard Dawson was the epitome of cool!

[The Figment]

5. The old "Let's Make a Deal " with Monty Hall. nt

[jmowreader]

6. Let's Make a Dope Deal was always fun

[Ron Obvious]

7. I was always a fan of Asshole, Jackoff, Scumbag

Hosted by George Carlin.

[mikeargo]

8. Jeopardy

Been watching since Art Fleming was the host.

[Dulcinea]

20. Same here.

But I only remember Alex Trebek.

[UTUSN]

9. The Match Game

[Archae]

10. 70's Hollywood Squares!

Paul Lynde was a howler.

[malthaussen]

17. Seconded.

All of the regulars and semi-regulars were fun.

-- Mal

[llmart]

31. My all time favorite.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. When I was a kid (late '50s) I used to watch "Queen for a Day."

They'd have several women talk about their personal hardships, and the one with the saddest story (as decided by the audience's response on the Applause-o-Meter) would win the grand prize - usually an appliance of some kind, or a wheelchair or an iron lung - and because she was Queen for a Day they'd drape a robe around her and give her some roses. The other contestants would also get some stuff. The stories were so sad, and I'd watch the show and cry, but I was fascinated by it as a 9-year-old. Now I think it was cynical and exploitive but you don't notice those things when you're a kid.

[NanceGreggs]

14. I remember it well.

I spent a lot of time with my maternal grandmother when I was a kid, and she watched that show religiously. She would be teary-eyed by the first commercial, and would lapse into moans and chest-clutching by the second.

Even as a kid, I always felt there was something "off" about it, something mean-spirited about the way they let these women tell their tragic tales - and then tell them that they only rated being runners-up.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. Yeah, I always felt sad for the women who didn't win.

It was a weird show.

[llmart]

30. I remember that show fondly.

I used to think that it would be wonderful if my mother would go on there and be chosen. We were rather poor and my mother never got anything new.

Wasn't there also a show where someone would get married?

[Boomerproud]

12. Jeopardy, Price Is Right, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, 100,000 Pyramid

and that silly one with the Whammy (Press Your Luck?).

[Iggo]

13. Match Game. Password. Hollywood Squares.

Anything where the game was secondary to the celebs cracking jokes.

[NanceGreggs]

15. A real oldie ...

… a show called “Keep Talking” from 1960. The show featured two teams of celebs, each player having to keep talking by adding to a story before passing the mic to a teammate – the trick being that one of them had to incorporate a pre-written “funny line” into the story. The other team then had to identify which line was the scripted one.

Sounds easy, but the competing celebs (e.g. Carl Reiner, Morey Amsterdam, Peggy Cass, Pat Carroll, Joey Bishop, Johnny Carson, Louie Nye, Orson Bean, Elaine May) were known for their ability to ad-lib incredibly funny lines on the spot – and the competing team was often stumped trying to determine which line was the “scripted” one among all of the incredibly funny stuff the players spontaneously came up with.

I’ve been enthralled with stand-up comics since I was very young – and that show was a chance to watch real artists honing their individual comedic skills as they “played” the game. It was akin to watching the best musicians of the day getting together to jam, playing off each other’s sudden bursts of inspiration.

[Alpeduez21]

16. Cash Cab and Family Fued (any host)

[malthaussen]

18. Stump the Stars

Watched it religiously in 1969. Roger C. Carmel, Deanna Lund, and Dick Patterson made up the "home team" of celebrities playing charades against a team of various guest stars. That version lasted only the one year, but it is the one I remember best. It was friggin' hilarious.

-- Mal

[CTyankee]

19. We get an hour (2 segments) of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" each weekday which we watch

and then Jeopardy at 7 pm weekdays. I love them.

[red dog 1]

22. [From "Beat the Reaper"] "According to my careful prognosis, you have, the Plague."

Immediately after that, in whispers. "The Plague?" "The Plague?" "The Plague?"

I liked the game show "Concentration"..as well as "You Bet Your Life"

[sakabatou]

23. Ninja Warrior/Sasuke

[Stuart G]

24. Here is one you probably never heard of...."Dollar a Scond".

First episode date: September 20, 1953
Final episode date: September 28, 1957

Presented by: Jan Murray

[lapfog_1]

26. "Catch It and You Keep It!"

National Lampoon how... early 1970s

https://www.pandora.com/artist/national-lampoon/american-comedy-box-set-volume-1/catch-it-and-you-keep-it/TRvjhZxvbhmdw2V

[kairos12]

27. Password.

[dembotoz]

28. The new treasure hunt was delightful and stupid

[PassingFair]

29. I really liked the "10,000 Pyramid"

...when I was a kid. That, and one where two contestants watched an old movie clip and then had to remember details like “What was in the bowl on the counter? Or “How many shots were fired?” I THINK it was a Canadian show called Eye Spy, but I really can’t remember...