Celebrity charade-style show of the late 50's or early 60's
Stephen Diamond
Does anyone remember a celebrity charade-style show that used to air on NET
(now PBS), I believe, back around 1960? The game was pretty close to
ordinary team charades, and one of the regulars was Sebastian Cabot. That's
all that I can remember about it. I'd really appreciate knowing the name of
the show and any other particulars that can be recalled. It's giving me
sleepless nights trying to remember.
Thanks.
Steve Diamond st...@virtues.com
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James L.
I'm just taking a wild guess: Pantomime Quiz?
MJsaints
Previously on a.t.g-s, James L. responded to a poster who was describing a
charades show by saying:
>I'm just taking a wild guess: Pantomime Quiz?
Closer than you think.
What our friend was describing was not on "educational television." It
was "Stump the Stars," Mike Stookey's update of the perennial summer
replacement of early TV "Pantomime Quiz." It ran one year in regular
prime time on CBS. And Sebastian Cabot was a regular on the show.
Mark Jeffries--from darkest Uptown, Chicago
call...@aol.com
In article <01bc1add$e121baf0$a7190fc6@stephen-d>, "Stephen Diamond" <s...@tucsonpo.jewelway.com> writes:
>Does anyone remember a celebrity charade-style show that used to air on NET
>(now PBS), I believe, back around 1960? The game was pretty close to
>ordinary team charades, and one of the regulars was Sebastian Cabot.
Depending on the era, "Pantomime Quiz" (50s) or "Stump the Stars" (60s). Never saw it, though... my pantomime references are "Showoffs" and "Celebrity Charades."
-- Curt Alliaume
Matt Ottinger
In article <19970215235...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
One possible explanation for the confusion over PBS (which of course wasn't
even PBS in the early sixties) is that an episode of either "Stump the
Stars" or, more likely, "Pantomime Quiz" may have turned up years later on
PBS as part of the "Golden Age of Television" package, or something similar,
and he may have two similar but rival memories battling it out in his mind.
At least he knows the title(s) now.
--Matt
otti...@sojourn.com
barm...@earthlink.net
In article <5evqc1$gv0$1...@denws01.mw.highway1.com>,
otti...@sojourn.com (Matt Ottinger) wrote:
>
>>What our friend was describing was not on "educational television." It
>>was "Stump the Stars," Mike Stookey's update of the perennial summer
>>replacement of early TV "Pantomime Quiz." It ran one year in regular
>>prime time on CBS. And Sebastian Cabot was a regular on the show.
>
> One possible explanation for the confusion over PBS (which of course wasn't
> even PBS in the early sixties) is that an episode of either "Stump the
> Stars" or, more likely, "Pantomime Quiz" may have turned up years later on
> PBS as part of the "Golden Age of Television" package, or something similar,
> and he may have two similar but rival memories battling it out in his mind.
>
> otti...@sojourn.com
I never saw the episode of "Golden Age" that you refer to, but I'll bet it
did have a segment on "Pantomine Quiz". Our family enjoyed that show when
I was growing up. In addition to Sebastian Cabot, regulars included Hans
Conried, Stubby Kaye, Vincent Price, Carol Brunett, and Dick Van Dyke.
I also remember Ross Martin, Rose Marie, Beverly Garland, and Orson Bean
being outstanding players.
They had some pretty difficult charades for the teams to solve... all in
a two-minute time limit. One of my all-time favorite jokes was one of
Mike Stokie's "Stumpers":
'They crossed 50 female pigs with 50 male deer and got 100 sows and
bucks.'
The teams had to say every word in the stumper, in order, within the two
minute period. Our family still uses the "Stump the Stars" conventions
for playing charades, even though no one else remembers them.
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