Host | |
Allan Prescott | |
Artist | |
Albee Triber | |
Broadcast | |
ABC Primetime: 8/16/1948 – 3/5/1949 | |
Packager | |
Robert Brenner Productions |
Quizzing the News was a short-lived primetime game show where celebrity panelists tried to guess news events being depicted in drawings and descriptions.
Gameplay[]
The series featured three celebrity panelists trying to identify news events from verbal clues and cartoon sketches. In an audience segment, home viewers had a chance to win prizes by guessing well-known personalities whose pictures were redecorated with glasses, mustaches, etc.
Panelists[]
Arthur Q. Bryan
Ray Joseph
Mary Hunter
Milton Caniff
Robert Garland
Hope Emerson
Joan Lloyd
Taping Location[]
New York City, NY
Trivia[]
This was one of the first network shows on ABC after they began a full network operation in August 1948.