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70th Anniversary of 2 game shows this year!

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70th Anniversary of 2 game shows this year!

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the premiere of two of TV's all time favorite game shows. In the fall of 1956, Goodson-Todman Productions hired Bob Stewart as a new producer. Bob came with some new game show ideas, the first being a pricing game called The Price is Right, which premiered on NBC daytime  in November 1956.  The show became an instant hit, added a nighttime version and ran on TV until 1965 (moving to ABC in 1963 for its final years).  Seven years later, CBS revived the show with Bob Barker hosting a daytime version and Dennis...

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