A star-packed special Christmas show of the short-lived series "Get the Message" (sort of a PASSWORD variant). PANEL: Arlene Francis & Barbara Cook vs. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. & Marty Ingels "CONTESTANTS": Joan Fontaine vs. Mitch Miller; Julia Meade vs. Orson Bean HOST: Robert Q. Lewis Many thanks to Ron Gomes for providing a copy of this show! - And now, lots of links! Ron Gomes has a YouTube channel with lots of vintage game show material (and more!): 🤍🤍youtube.com/user/rrgomes Ron also does a free-form music-and-chat podcast (Full Duplex Radio) with his daughter, which is on iTunes and also at: 🤍🤍fullduplexradiopodcast.com Please click here to subscribe to the WML channel if you haven't already you'll find the complete CBS series already posted, and you'll be able to follow along the discussions on the weekday "rerun" videos: 🤍🤍youtube.com/channel/UChPE75Fvvl1HmdAsO7Nzb8w?sub_confirmation=1 Join our Facebook group for WML great discussions, photos, etc, and great people! 🤍🤍facebook.com/groups/728471287199862/
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Boy, what a cast!
I'ts hard to believe that Joan Fontaine, considered to be a distinguished actress, Oscar winner and all, appeared on game shows. I don't remember her doing so -- I was 13 when this aired, but I wouldn't have been watching TV on Christmas Day -- but there are several appearances now available, thank you, on YouTube. This game is not exactly riveting, particularly with all the Christmas clues making the answers too easy. Lewis was also better on other shows. So funny that they had to raise hands to let the host know they were ready back in the day.
I clicked on this for two reasons, I love Arlene Francis & I wanted to check the year. I was born 4 days after this aired.
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“Get the Message” was done in the same West 58th Street theater as “The Dick Cavett Show.” The Elysee is long gone, but the firehouse across the street is still there with its attendant sirens that used to punctuate TV productions, once prompting a frustrated Cavett to say (paraphrasing), “Wouldn’t it be nice if we had an indoor studio?”
Even before the game starts, I'm smiling. It's so great to see these filmed-live and live-to-tape programs, the way TV was when I was young. If a technician had to cross behind Q, he just crouched and went for it ( A-8G_YSHvdk&t=0m32s 0:32 ). Nowadays, "portions of the show not affecting the outcome have been edited" or words to that effect, and so Alex Trebek and Pat Sajak are never shown making endearing gaffes nor do we see techies in the background. A little lack of perfection is enjoyable just because it's common to humanity.
I was curious if Ed Asner ever appeared on the television version of WML? I had heard he may have appeared on the radio version. Thank you.
Never seen this game before
According to Wikipedia, "an episode from May 1, 1964 with celebrity guests Ann Sothern, Nancy Dussault, Abe Burrows, Darryl Hickman is held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive as a 16mm kinescope recording."
Thanks for posting. I find all of these old game shows interesting, but I can see why this one didn't last too long. It's a little slow to develop. A bit of a Password knockoff
Do you have the episode of the show with Johnny Olson announcing?