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Contributor of most of the tittle-tattle and digression on the British show is voluble Panelist Harding, whom the BBC once banned for seven weeks from Twenty Questions after he audibly mumbled into the mike that the show was "a silly business." Later he was officially scolded for snapping at a whisky broker on What's My Line?: "I'm tired of looking at your face." Unlike U.S. audiences, Britons win no prizes on their quiz shows. The successful challenger who manages to stump the panel is rewarded with a parchment scroll, suitable for framing and hanging...
Like many another TV panel show, Down You Go is based on an oldtime parlor game-in this case, Hangman. The panelists are faced with a board on which a number of blanks represent the letters in some well-known phrase, e.g., "second fiddle," "it's Greek to me," "bolt from the blue." Whenever a panelist suggests a letter not represented in the phrase, he goes "down," and $5 is forwarded to the viewer who suggested the phrase. If all four panelists go down, the viewer wins $25 and that granddaddy of quiz prizes, "a full...
...Actress Joan Alexander, Musician Meredith Willson. It also has a funnyman moderator (Robert Q. Lewis), and a succession of contestants, in this case individuals whose names are the same as those of living & dead celebrities (among last week's mystery contestants: Jane Russell, a Long Island saleswoman). Each panelist is allowed ten questions, pays a $25 forfeit for failing to guess the right name...