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''Guess What?'' is an American game show broadcast on the now-defunct
DuMont Television Network The DuMont Television Network (also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont Television, simply DuMont/Du Mont, or (incorrectly) Dumont ) was one of America's pioneer commercial television networks, rivaling NBC and CBS for the distinction of being ...
in 1952.


Broadcast history

''Guess What?'' aired from July 8, 1952, to August 26, 1952.Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (2007). ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network Cable and TV Shows, 1946-Present'' (9th ed.). New York: Ballantine. p. 567. . The show was hosted by Richard Kollmar (1910-1971), husband of columnist
Dorothy Kilgallen Dorothy Mae Kilgallen (July 3, 1913 – November 8, 1965) was an American columnist, journalist, and television game show panelist. After spending two semesters at the College of New Rochelle, she started her career shortly before her 18th birth ...
from 1940 to her death in 1965, and featured guest stars such as Mark Hanna, Audrey Christie, and Quentin Reynolds.IMDB entry
/ref> Kollmar and Kilgallen also co-hosted the WOR-AM morning radio show ''Breakfast With Dorothy and Dick'' from 1945 to 1963.


Episode status

As with most DuMont network series, no episodes are known to exist. In an era when most game shows were owned by their sponsors instead of by networks that broadcast them, such might have been the case with ''Guess What''. The decision to cancel the series after a short run could have been made by a sponsor, and the decision to avoid saving kinescopes could have been, too. But the show's sponsor cannot be determined because not a single kinescope can be viewed, therefore nobody has been motivated to look for paper documents related to the series.


See also

* List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network * List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts


References


Bibliography

*David Weinstein, ''The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television'' (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) *Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) *Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows'', Third edition (New York:
Ballantine Books Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973, which in turn was acquired by Bertelsmann in 1998 and remains ...
, 1964) {{ISBN, 0-345-31864-1


External links


''Guess What?'' at IMDB
DuMont Television Network original programming 1950s American game shows 1952 American television series debuts 1952 American television series endings Lost television shows