| Hosts | |
| Fred Robbins (Daytime, 1958–February 1959) Jack Linkletter (Primetime) Dennis James (February–June 1959) | |
| Announcer | |
| Jerry Damon | |
| Broadcast (NBC) | |
 Primetime: 6/30/1958 – 9/29/1958 | |
| Packagers | |
| Rainbow/Joe Cates Productions | |
Haggis Baggis was the picture & word game show where contestants raced to win a choice of two different prize packages.
Gameplay[]
Two contestants faced a game board with five categories & five letters. They surrounded the sides of a hidden picture of a famous face. The host announced a category and one of the letters, afterwhich the player in control had to come up with a word or phrase that fit the category and started with that letter. For each acceptable answer given, a piece of the picture connected to the category & letter was revealed. When a signal sounded after each contestant had played two combinations, the game continued with the player choosing a category, then a letter, and finally an answer which fit both criteria. As soon as a player thought he/she could identify the celebrity, he/she would press his/her lock-out device, and then offer a guess. If the player correctly identified the celebrity, he/she won the game and became the champion; otherwise, the opponent automatically won by default.
After the game, each contestant secretly selected which prizes they wanted to win; they were dubbed "Haggis" (luxury prizes) & "Baggis" (utilitarian prizes). The winner chose first, followed by the runner-up. If their choices didn't match, both contestants won their chosen prizes; if they did match, however, only the winner got the selected prizes.
Champions stayed on the show until they were defeated.
Trivia[]
The format of picking a category, picking a letter, and giving an answer came back as a bonus game on the failed Bob Stewart pilot Get Rich Quick! and as part of the main game on the failed Reg Grundy pilot Matchmates. It also came back as a board game in 1967 called Facts in Five.
Ticket[]
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Unreleased Merchandise[]
A board game version of the show was supposed to be released by Lowell in 1959 but it never got released at all (possibly due to the fact that the show got cancelled that year).
Music[]
Murray Ross
Studio[]
Ziegfeld Theater, New York City, NY
YouTube Videos[]
A full Dennis James episode from February 18, 1959