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Dotto is so hotto just at the moment that it plays on rival networks-CBS, which launched the show earlier this year, by day, and a new NBC slot at night. A "champion" and a "challenger" must solve a picture puzzle consisting initially of a spattering of dots. To connect the dots and get the picture's outlines clearer, contestants must answer questions. When the picture is guessed, e.g., the face of Napoleon, the winner is rewarded at a base-pay scale of $20 per unconnected dots. This may soar with such refinements as Double Dotto, Triple Dotto...
Haggis Baggis (NBC) is related to Dotto, and the game time-clocks its contestants against five-letter categories, e.g., a food beginning with "b," a farm product beginning with "h." The right answers disclose sections of some famous face on a screen. Like Dotto, a daytime-nighttime show, H-B's nighttime segment is emceed by 20-year-old Jack Linkletter, son of Art Linkletter, famed radio-TV master of ceremonies (People Are Funny). The show's catchy title means nothing, though the haggis is a famed and gamy Scots dish cooked in a sheep's stomach...
Lucky Partners (NBC) caters to the home bingo crowd. Under the word L-U-C-K-Y appears a series of numbers. Questions come marked L3, C5, Y7, etc., each worth that number of points. Sample stumper ("verified by the editorial research board of the Encyclopaedia Britannica"): "What famous World War II general said 'I shall return'?" Home audience participation is invited by two of TV's living dolls, always present but rarely busy (they also serve who only stand and undulate...
...imitator of NBC's successful The Price Is Right, is perhaps the most artful personification of greed among the new crop of grab-the-swag shows. Hosted by Cyclonic Ham Bert Parks in the guise of an auctioneer, the show parcels out $5,000 in cash to each of four contestants to bid for the clues they wish to buy. The clues, in the form of rhymed couplets ("Morning, noon and night, you'll find me tight") may help the player guess the identity of an object silhouetted behind a scrim curtain (in this case, an electric light...
...success of ABC as a third network, competing with NBC and CBS for sponsors,' has led to all sorts of secret deals and cut-rate shenanigans, as the TV pitchmen try to sell their big fall programs. But the shortage of the advertising dollar, argues West Coast TV Writer Carroll Carroll, one Variety contributor, is not half so serious as the shortage of talent. "There is not enough creative brainpower alive today to keep the TV monster intelligently or even satisfactorily nourished. The result is that TV has become the world's No. 1 copycat." Most...