Author Topic: Game Show Research: The Cullen radio show"Beat the Clock" (Read 2113 times)

TwoInchQuad · « **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 · « **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!

chris319 · « **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.

TwoInchQuad · « **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

Matt Ottinger · « **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.

mmb5 · « **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!
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Quick search shows him still doing it on 7-13-49.

--Mike