Make the Connection (1955)

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Four celebrity panelists take turns asking questions to stump contestants and earn them money. The show aired on NBC in 1955 and was hosted by Jim McKay and later Gene Rayburn.

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What happens

Make the Connection is an American game show, sponsored by Borden, that ran on Thursday nights from July 7 to September 29, 1955, on NBC from 8:30 to 9 p.m. Eastern Time. Original host Jim McKay was replaced after the first four episodes by Gene Rayburn, who debuted as a game show host on August 4, 1955. The series was a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Production, and as such it had many things in common with the other panel shows developed by the company. Like What's My Line? and I've Got a Secret, there were four celebrity panelists who were each given a timed period in which to ask questions. Each panelist that was stumped earned the contestants money. Betty White made one of her earliest game show appearances as a panelist on the series (her first on national television was a few weeks earlier on What's My Line?). The regular panelists were White, Gene Klavan, Gloria DeHaven, and Eddie Bracken. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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