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Money & Prizes. The rarest of the rare ones is You Bet Your Life, a quiz show that is little more than an excuse for Groucho Marx, in his cheerful way, to insult six contestants a night. Other unemployed funnymen have tried in vain to duplicate Groucho's success. Fred Allen just does not seem right on NBC's Judge for Yourself, and Herb Shriner on CBS's Two for the Money is far from rivaling Groucho's hold on his audience. When the wit falters, quiz shows usually try to make up for it by giving...
...appeal that Groucho generates singlehanded is most nearly duplicated by CBS's What's My Line?, which also comes alive more through its star personalities (John Daly, Arlene Francis, Steve Allen, Bennett Cerf, Dorothy Kilgallen) than through its intellectual teasing. It has spawned a great many imitators, ranging from I've Got a Secret, whose panelists have to guess secrets that contestants eagerly share with several million televiewers, to self-explanatory shows like The Name's the Same and Who Said That...
General Foods 25th Anniversary Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS & NBC). With Mary Martin, Ezio Pinza, Jack Benny, Groucho Marx, Rosemary Clooney...
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...tiresome clichés. The new show had them all: a panel of experts, guest contestants, talent acts, a big cash prize ($1,000), dancing cigarette packages (Old Golds) and a studio crowd slavishly applauding everything in sight, including the commercials. In repartee with the amateur panelists (a device Groucho Marx has used with immense success) Allen's gift for ad lib is supposed to shine forth. Shine it did on the first show, but all too briefly in the half-hour clutter of people and performance. The acts-a girl singer, a ballroom dance team and a pair...