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Down You Go (1951)

Down You Go poster
Genre
panel game
Country
United States
Length
2 seasons, 7 episodes
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A panel game show where contestants answer puzzles and word games. The show was hosted by Dr. Bergen Evans and aired across multiple TV networks in the 1950s.

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What happens

Down You Go is an American television game show originally broadcast on the DuMont Television Network. The Emmy Award-nominated series ran from 1951 to 1956 as a prime time series primarily hosted by Dr. Bergen Evans. The program aired in eleven different timeslots during its five-year run. Down You Go is one of only six series — along with The Arthur Murray Party, Pantomime Quiz, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, The Ernie Kovacs Show, and The Original Amateur Hour — shown on all four major television networks of the Golden Age of Television (ABC, NBC, CBS, and DuMont). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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