Underplayed Gems

Beat the Clock (1950)

Beat the Clock poster
Genre
reality
Country
United States
Length
18 seasons, 100 episodes
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

Contestants race against a clock to finish stunts and challenges for prizes. The show has been revived multiple times over the decades.

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What happens

Beat the Clock is an American television game show. Contestants attempt to complete challenges such as physical stunts within a time limit in order to win prizes. The show was a creation of Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions. The show began on radio as Time's A-Wastin' in 1948, hosted by Bud Collyer, and changed its name to Beat the Time on January 5, 1949. The show moved to television on the CBS nighttime schedule starting on March 23, 1950. On September 16, 1957, CBS premiered an afternoon version of the show as well, which ran for a year. The nighttime show was cancelled on February 16, 1958, and the afternoon program followed on September 12, 1958. Soon, the show moved to ABC's daytime schedule, and ran from October 13, 1958 to January 27, 1961. A brief revival aired on CBS from September 17, 1979 to February 1, 1980. From 2002 to 2003, another revival which was filmed at Universal Studios Hollywood, aired on PAX TV, with Gary Kroeger hosting. In 2006, the show made up the third segment of Gameshow Marathon, a seven-part summer series that aired on CBS, with Ricki Lake as host and Rich Fields as announcer. The most recent revival aired on Universal Kids from February 6, 2018 to July 8, 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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