Cash and Carry (game show)

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Cash and Carry
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Genre Game Show
Created byArt Stark
Presented by Dennis James
Country of originUnited States
Production
Running time24-26 minutes
Production companyCarr-Stark Productions
Original release
Network DuMont
ReleaseJune 20, 1946 (1946-06-20) –
July 1, 1947 (1947-07-01)

Cash and Carry is an American television game show hosted by Dennis James [1] that ran on the then-both affiliates of the DuMont Television Network from June 20, 1946, to July 1, 1947. This made it not only the sole program aired on Thursday nights by the network (although it moved to Tuesday nights in April), but also the first "network" television game show (all previous television games and quizzes were aired on only one station).

Contents

This series was sponsored by Libby's Foods, and produced by Art Stark, later producer of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from 1962 to 1969. The show was set in a supermarket, with contestants taking cans, which had questions for them to answer, off the shelves.

Format

In his book, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television, David Weinstein described Cash and Carry as an "early television adaptation of Truth or Consequences". [2] James asked contestants questions attached to cans of the sponsor's products, with correct answers worth $5, $10, or $15. Other tasks were stunts, such as a husband and wife having to work together for a common goal (such as the wife, blindfolded, having to feed her husband).

Home viewers could call in during the show to guess what was hidden under a barrel. [3]

Episode status

No episodes are known to exist, as almost all television broadcasts from the first year of United States network television are lost due to a lack of means to preserve such content. The known exceptions are a few episodes of Kraft Television Theatre from early 1947 which were made to test the kinescope process which allowed television series to be preserved.

Even after the kinescope process was created, many shows were still not regularly preserved until the late 1960s.

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References

  1. ↑ Timberg, Bernard M.; Erler, Robert J. (2010). Television Talk: A History of the TV Talk Show. University of Texas Press. p. 244. ISBN   9780292773660 . Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  2. ↑ Weinstein, David (2006). The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television. Temple University Press. p. 59. ISBN   9781592134991 . Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  3. ↑ "Second Viewing". Billboard. July 20, 1946. p. 16.
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