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TV Guide's Penny to A Million Page, with TV Listings, Photos, Videos, Exclusive News and More. 1970's Game Shows: 1950's Game Shows: |
Here's an obscure
one that ran only five months, from May - September 1955.
This ABC game show,
hosted by Bill Goodwin, starts four contestants
(chosen from the studio audience) out with only one penny, and
then doubles their winnings for each right answer. In that way, it's
played similar to today's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire", except the
"million" here is one million pennies (that's $10,000).
Like so many TV
shows of the Fifties, the sponsor was a cigarette company (the networks
lost millions when TV cigarette ads were banned in 1972). Don't blame
me if you start smoking after watching these clips!
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One problem with
the 'Penny To A Million' concept: you could answer ten questions correctly
and still only have $256.00. Still, $10,000 was a LOT of money back
then.
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