BearManor Media News — schwartz

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...

Q&A with the authors of Celebrities on TV Game Shows 1950-1999 Volume 1 How did this book come about? It started with a phone call about a single game show question. That call turned into a half-hour discussion about the genre, which then led to back-and-forth e-mails about different stars appearing on game shows over the years. After a while, it occurred to us that there might be a book to be written about this. Why did you want to write a book on this particular subject? Since the rise of the Internet, a lot of information has become available...