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TwoInchQuad

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Game Show Research: The Cullen radio show"Beat the Clock"
« on: July 09, 2006, 04:48:55 AM »
Those who have access to back copies of The Paper of Record can check it for themselves...  the announcement was made on 2/26/49, and Bill started hosting on WCBS Radio on 3/7/49.  

At this point,  I'm still uncertain as to the end date, but there's the start, in any event.

-Kevin

Matt Ottinger

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Game Show Research: The Cullen radio show"Beat the Clock"
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2006, 11:50:43 PM »
[quote name=\'TwoInchQuad\' post=\'123655\' date=\'Jul 9 2006, 04:48 AM\']
Those who have access to back copies of The Paper of Record can check it for themselves...  the announcement was made on 2/26/49, and Bill started hosting on WCBS Radio on 3/7/49.  

At this point,  I'm still uncertain as to the end date, but there's the start, in any event.[/quote]
Hey, thanks for this, Kevin!  Getting to the MSU library is tedious for something like start and end dates, and I didn't have this one.  Now I wish we had more than the one episode!
This has been another installment of Matt Ottinger's Masters of the Obvious.
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chris319

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Game Show Research: The Cullen radio show"Beat the Clock"
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2006, 02:55:00 AM »
[quote name=\'TwoInchQuad\' post=\'123655\' date=\'Jul 9 2006, 01:48 AM\']
Those who have access to back copies of The Paper of Record can check it for themselves...  the announcement was made on 2/26/49, and Bill started hosting on WCBS Radio on 3/7/49.  
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Picture a guy standing in an inflatable wading pool being squirted with whipped cream by his wife. No wonder the radio version of Concentration never took off.
« Last Edit: July 10, 2006, 02:56:20 AM by chris319 »

TwoInchQuad

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Game Show Research: The Cullen radio show"Beat the Clock"
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2006, 04:24:04 AM »
Well I can picture the first part, but what it makes me think of makes your second sentence seem to be a bit of a non-sequitur.   :^)

-Kevin
« Last Edit: July 10, 2006, 04:25:57 AM by TwoInchQuad »

Matt Ottinger

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Game Show Research: The Cullen radio show"Beat the Clock"
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2006, 11:01:26 AM »
Though I appreciate my esteemed colleague's joke, for those of you who don't know and are justifiably confused, the radio version of Beat the Clock was not a stunt show.  It was a quiz, similar to 2 for the Money only with a single contestant and a finite number of answers.
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mmb5

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Game Show Research: The Cullen radio show"Beat the Clock"
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2006, 12:56:16 PM »
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'123750\' date=\'Jul 9 2006, 11:50 PM\']
Hey, thanks for this, Kevin!  Getting to the MSU library is tedious for something like start and end dates, and I didn't have this one.  Now I wish we had more than the one episode!
[/quote]

Quick search shows him still doing it on 7-13-49.


--Mike
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