Hugh Malcolm Downs is perhaps best known for his role as co-host
of the NBC News program Today from 1962 to 1971, host of the game
show Concentration from 1958 to 1969, and anchor of the ABC News
magazine 20/20 from 1978 to 1999. Downs was the announcer and
sidekick on NBC’s Tonight Starring Jack Paar.
Art Linkletter
House Party premiered on CBS Radio January 15, 1945, and ran
weekdays at 4 p.m., three days a week, through January 10, 1947. On
December 31, 1948 the show switched to ABC Radio where it ran till
December 30, 1949. It returned to CBS Radio days later, making it’s
longest continued run from January 2, 1950 to October 13, 1967. The
audience participation show was hosted Art Linkletter. The Sponsors
included General Electric, Pillsbury, and Lever Brothers.
To Tell The Truth, a Goodson-Todman Production, premiered on CBS in
prime time as Nothing But The Truth, but the program title was changed,
To Tell The Truth, during the following week and aired in various forms
until March 15, 2002.
Bud Collyer was the show’s first host with early regular panelists that
included Johnny Carson, Polly Bergen, Jayne Meadows, Don Ameche,
Dick Van Dyke, and Ralph Bellamy. Collyer’s announcer on Beat the
Clock, Bern Bennett, was the original announcer for To Tell The
Truth in the 1950s.
Bern Bennett
Christmas Eve, 1957
Ted Mack
Geritol was introduced as an alcohol-based, iron and B vitamin tonic by
Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in August 1950 and primarily marketed as such into
the 1970s. Since 1982, the Geritol product name has been owned by the
multinational pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline and is still around today .
The game show Twenty One, hosted by Jack Barry, aired on NBC from
1956 to 1958.
