Cash and Carry

Cash and Carry is an American television game show that aired on the then-both affiliates of the DuMont Television Network. This show was taped in a supermarket and may have been a prototype for Supermarket Sweep.

Broadcast
DuMont - June 20, 1946–July 1, 1947

Packager
Carr-Stark Productions

Host
Dennis James

Sponsor
Libby's Foods

Gameplay
Dennis James asked contestants questions attached to cans of the sponsor's products, with correct answers worth anywhere from $5 to $25. Other tasks were stunts, such as a husband and wife having to work together for a common goal (such as the wife, blindfolded, having to feed her husband).

Home viewers could call in during the show to guess what was hidden under a barrel.

Episode status
No episodes are known to exist, as almost all television broadcasts from the first year of United States network television are lost due to a lack of means to preserve such content. The known exceptions are a few episodes of Kraft Television Theatre from early 1947 which were made to test the kinescope process which allowed television series to be preserved.

Even after the kinescope process was created, many shows were still not regularly preserved until the late 1960s.

Trivia

 * This was the first ever game show to air on network television. Prior to this, all quiz shows aired on a single local TV station.
 * This was also Dennis James' first game show.