I was on the show with my brother and mother in the early months of 1960. We were flown from Iowa to California to surprise my father who had gotten a teaching job a few months earlier in California. It was quite an experience. They put us up at the famous Roosevelt Hotel before the show aired.
Bill was a very versatile host - warm on this show, witty on Musical Chairs (1955), and kept things moving on Call My Bluff and Your First Impression. Very underrated.
Margie…I remember Miss Higbee ( 1st grade )took me to her house for lunch so we could watch Grandpa Art Kealy ( from Chisholm ,Mn reunite with his sister Mary Jane Rashford ( from California). I had a ROBIN HOOD lunch box…a sandwich on homemade bread and chocolate cake with chocolate frosting wrapped in wax paper and the frosting stuck and I wanted to scrape it off with my finger and lick the wax paper…when Miss Higbee asked if I’d like a fork. 🤣 We loved this show!
Did anyone recognize the name "Stefan Hatos" in the credits? About four years later, he and some gentleman named Hall got together and create "Let's Make a Deal." ...
And Stu Phelps directed (later did You Don't Say! and Password), while Jim Critchfield was one of the writers; he also worked for Monty. On the tech side, TD was NBC Burbank veteran Les Shaw, who was probably best known as a senior video tech working many game shows and sitcoms.@@tomservo56954
@@tomservo56954 - Giving away that this (as well as the subsequent "LMAD" in its NBC years) originated from Burbank. He did introduce himself towards this show's end. The West Coast NBC announcing staff in those days would have been Mr. Niles, John Storm, Archie Presby, Frank Barton, Don Stanley, Eddy King, and Don (later Donald) Rickles (any names I missed? - Victor Bozeman didn't join until 1970, Peggy Taylor until 1973). Somewhat minimal compared with the more numerous V/O talent pool in their New York outpost at Radio City (among whom was another Wendell - Bill Wendell).
At this point in time this Hall gent was hosting a daytime show for housewives (at 1 P.M.) on WNEW-TV (Channel 5) in New York. If any kinescopes exist (as opposed to being dumped into the East River east of where their studios were - and still are, as Fox 5 WNYW - at 205 East 67th Street), it'd be a massive surprise.
I vaguely remember this show, taking into consideration in those days the networks were full of game shows. As a personal request Bill Layden did another game show involving celebrities in those days see if you can find those shows such as "Call My Bluff" and "It's Your Bet" with Jack Narz I think.
19 months old when this aired. Seems like a good and positive, even heartwarming show. Most of the game shows that came after were silly or simply appealed to their contestant's 'greed'.
What I don’t get, is that in practically every publication, “It Could Be You” is categorized as a game show. Very little “game” element; someone just gets called and they were showered with gifts. At least on “Queen for a Day,” there were 4 candidates battling it out for the most convincing sob story….
Mr. Leyden seemed to have a thing for collecting old Knights of the Round Table-era crests. At least, that's what a TV Guide article about him from its May 21, 1960 issue said.
Thursdays, 8:30pm(et), under the sponsorship of Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [Geritol, Sominex]. They also co-sponsored "THE ARTHUR MURRAY PARTY" {with Lorillard's Newport cigarettes} on Mondays.
Pharmaceuitcals, Inc. bought the J.B. Williams Company in 1957. Nabisco bought Williams in 1971- and they sold it to Smith, Kline & French in 1982 {which later became SmithKline Beecham, then GlaxoSmithKline in 2002). In 2004, they licensed the rights to their Williams products to Combe, Inc., which eventually bought the Williams company from them in 2009. Geritol was sold to Meta Pharaceutical in 2011.
That third guy was probably there with his girlfriend... then they roll out his wife! Then, after all that talk about their run down cars, that fourth couple probably thought they were getting a car. Nope... camera equipment. Then the woman who can't park..gets a TV. Strange show.
I was on the show with my brother and mother in the early months of 1960. We were flown from Iowa to California to surprise my father who had gotten a teaching job a few months earlier in California. It was quite an experience. They put us up at the famous Roosevelt Hotel before the show aired.
Bill was a very versatile host - warm on this show, witty on Musical Chairs (1955), and kept things moving on Call My Bluff and Your First Impression. Very underrated.
Margie…I remember Miss Higbee ( 1st grade )took me to her house for lunch so we could watch Grandpa Art Kealy ( from Chisholm ,Mn reunite with his sister Mary Jane Rashford ( from California). I had a ROBIN HOOD lunch box…a sandwich on homemade bread and chocolate cake with chocolate frosting wrapped in wax paper and the frosting stuck and I wanted to scrape it off with my finger and lick the wax paper…when Miss Higbee asked if I’d like a fork. 🤣 We loved this show!
Did anyone recognize the name "Stefan Hatos" in the credits? About four years later, he and some gentleman named Hall got together and create "Let's Make a Deal." ...
Ivan Ditmars, also of LMAD fame, is in the credits too.
@@christopherdunne7848Wendell Niles was DEAL's original announcer/sidekick.
And Stu Phelps directed (later did You Don't Say! and Password), while Jim Critchfield was one of the writers; he also worked for Monty. On the tech side, TD was NBC Burbank veteran Les Shaw, who was probably best known as a senior video tech working many game shows and sitcoms.@@tomservo56954
@@tomservo56954 - Giving away that this (as well as the subsequent "LMAD" in its NBC years) originated from Burbank. He did introduce himself towards this show's end.
The West Coast NBC announcing staff in those days would have been Mr. Niles, John Storm, Archie Presby, Frank Barton, Don Stanley, Eddy King, and Don (later Donald) Rickles (any names I missed? - Victor Bozeman didn't join until 1970, Peggy Taylor until 1973). Somewhat minimal compared with the more numerous V/O talent pool in their New York outpost at Radio City (among whom was another Wendell - Bill Wendell).
At this point in time this Hall gent was hosting a daytime show for housewives (at 1 P.M.) on WNEW-TV (Channel 5) in New York. If any kinescopes exist (as opposed to being dumped into the East River east of where their studios were - and still are, as Fox 5 WNYW - at 205 East 67th Street), it'd be a massive surprise.
I vaguely remember this show, taking into consideration in those days the networks were full of game shows. As a personal request Bill Layden did another game show involving celebrities in those days see if you can find those shows such as "Call My Bluff" and "It's Your Bet" with Jack Narz I think.
I am wondering if more of these could be found. My great grandmother was on this show.
19 months old when this aired. Seems like a good and positive, even heartwarming show. Most of the game shows that came after were silly or simply appealed to their contestant's 'greed'.
I turned five years old the day this show aired, 3/5/59.
I wonder if they kept the camel.😮
"It Could Be You" was a cross between "Truth Or Consequences" and "This Is Your Life".
All three shows were create and produced by Ralph Edwards.
What I don’t get, is that in practically every publication, “It Could Be You” is categorized as a game show. Very little “game” element; someone just gets called and they were showered with gifts. At least on “Queen for a Day,” there were 4 candidates battling it out for the most convincing sob story….
Explains the Geritol®
I remember Bill Leyden on KFWB radio 980 in Los Angeles. Also when watching KTTV channel 11 movies, some of which he hosted.
Mr. Leyden seemed to have a thing for collecting old Knights of the Round Table-era crests. At least, that's what a TV Guide article about him from its May 21, 1960 issue said.
Thursdays, 8:30pm(et), under the sponsorship of Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [Geritol, Sominex]. They also co-sponsored "THE ARTHUR MURRAY PARTY" {with Lorillard's Newport cigarettes} on Mondays.
It was also seen on NBC-TV's daytime schedule from 1956 through 1961.
This show should be given a revival, even if it is a Summer replacement. 📺
Wasn't Geritol's parent at this point still J.B. Williams?
Pharmaceuitcals, Inc. bought the J.B. Williams Company in 1957. Nabisco bought Williams in 1971- and they sold it to Smith, Kline & French in 1982 {which later became SmithKline Beecham, then GlaxoSmithKline in 2002). In 2004, they licensed the rights to their Williams products to Combe, Inc., which eventually bought the Williams company from them in 2009. Geritol was sold to Meta Pharaceutical in 2011.
@@fromthesidelines - Ah, that'll explain everything.
This show aired two days after Lou Costello passed away.
"That's the best strawberry milkshake I ever had."
I was 13 months old on the date this aired.
A simple audience participation show from Ralph Edwards.
He died around 1970. He was only about 50.
$2,400 to rent a home for a year 😳😳😳. Our yearly rent is$15,000 and we pay less rent then most 🙏
You're lucky you're paying so little - because $2,400 in 1959 dollars is $25,000 now.
It put Spokane on the map.😅
need the rules
It's just a random presentation of prizes to those chosen from the audience.
What a shame that Romanian woman didn't get chosen. 🇷🇴
CAN I HAVE THE RULES
Geritol:The Pfizer of the Fifties.
That third guy was probably there with his girlfriend... then they roll out his wife! Then, after all that talk about their run down cars, that fourth couple probably thought they were getting a car. Nope... camera equipment. Then the woman who can't park..gets a TV. Strange show.
What an odd show...
I don't get it
Had to stop watching it because of that annoying timer at the bottom. Who cares how many minutes the show has gone!
Since Obama claimed to be 52 at a press conference on 8-4-11,I wonder if he were born in Indonesia before this show was aired.
We need to know what he did to his chef.
Sotomayor and Kagan are still on the Court.The evil that men do lives on.@@violamateo
Indonesia? I thought he was born in Bhutan.
@@kelperdude Well, consider what happened to "Chef" in South Park. That was pretty gruesome...
* Yawn *