Do You Trust Your Wife?

Broadcast
CBS - January 3, 1956 – March 26, 1957

Hosts
Edgar Bergen

Johnny Carson

Announcers
Ed Reimers

Bob LeMond

Gameplay
Married couples competed on this show, they were chosen for their unique backgrounds. After a brief chat with Bergen, the couples would try to answer four questions. The husband could attempt to answer or "trust" his wife to do so, hence the name of the show. Correct answers to the first three questions were worth, respectively, $100, $200, and $300. For the last question they could wager any of their earnings by answering a question from one of six categories ranging in value and difficulty from $100 to $600. If the couple won no money, they would answer a very easy $100 question. The couple with the most money competed with the winners from the previous week's show to name as many items as possible in a category with the couple coming up with the most answers receiving $100 a week for a year. Couples could return to the show until defeated; one couple, Erik and Helena Gude, remained on the show long enough to amass $120,800.

Trivia
The show was revived in September of the same year, but in 1958 it was renamed Who Do You Trust? due to the fact that it wanted to expand beyond just married couples.