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Play Your Hunch (1958)

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How it feels

Contestants play a guessing game where they try to pick the correct option among several choices. The show features various hosts and early appearances from famous personalities.

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What happens

Play Your Hunch is an American game show first hosted by Merv Griffin from 1958 to 1962 and then hosted by Gene Rayburn and finally by Robert Q. Lewis until 1963. The announcers for the show were, respectively, Johnny Olson, Wayne Howell and Roger Tuttle. In 2001, Play Your Hunch was ranked #43 on TV Guide's "50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time". Play Your Hunch was a Mark Goodson–Bill Todman production. It featured one of Robert Redford's first professional acting roles, with Ted Koppel also making an early career appearance. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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