What's the Story

What's the Story was the last primetime game show to air on the Dumont network where a panel of well-known newspaper columnists and/or celebrities were asked to identify famous events from clues that were given by the moderator and his assistants.

Broadcast
DuMont July 25, 1951-September 23, 1955

Hosts
Walter Raney (1951) Walter Kiernan (1951-1953) Al Capp (1953) John McCaffery (1953-1955)

Gameplay
A panel of four news reporters tried to identify news stories with clues supplied by "reporters" who telephoned in their clues. Viewers who submitted ideas that were used received a prize if their story stumped the panel.

Trivia

 * In its four-year run, What's the Story was aired in eleven different time slots on every day except Mondays and Saturdays.


 * It was the last entertainment show to go off the DuMont network when it was folded in September of 1955.