You Bet Your Life
As a kid, non-network TV very often had old syndicated programming, which even seemed ancient back in the 1960s. We could see Lassie, The Lone Ranger, My Little Margie, and (of course) I Love Lucy - but my favorite was the Groucho Marx-led game show, You Bet Your Life.
Opening to the strains of "Hooray for Captain Spaulding", Groucho and his co-host George Fenneman would ask terribly simple questions to random contestants, who hoped to win as much as $2000, which I assume was a princely sum back in the day. The main hook of the show was, of course, Groucho, and his humorous interactions with regular people. Loved it.
While the program ran on TV from 1950-1961, I think this photo dates to c. 1955: i.ebayimg.com/images/g/CrYAAOSw2KFjkXks/s-l1600.jpg
You Bet Your Life
As a kid, non-network TV very often had old syndicated programming, which even seemed ancient back in the 1960s. We could see Lassie, The Lone Ranger, My Little Margie, and (of course) I Love Lucy - but my favorite was the Groucho Marx-led game show, You Bet Your Life.
Opening to the strains of "Hooray for Captain Spaulding", Groucho and his co-host George Fenneman would ask terribly simple questions to random contestants, who hoped to win as much as $2000, which I assume was a princely sum back in the day. The main hook of the show was, of course, Groucho, and his humorous interactions with regular people. Loved it.
While the program ran on TV from 1950-1961, I think this photo dates to c. 1955: i.ebayimg.com/images/g/CrYAAOSw2KFjkXks/s-l1600.jpg