This history jag is getting ridiculous, but on a slow-news Saturday I can't resist. Another post of mine from the GSN Classics board, this time about an ancient show with all sorts of firsts to its credit...Going back even further is this clip from Goodson-Todman's first game show, Winner Take All. Bill Cullen hosts this 1952 version, his first of many, many game show hosting gigs, but the show started in radio in 1946.
GSN has shown what's left of Winner Take All, and there's a "Game Show Network" bumper at the start of the clip. There's also a GSN anniversary logo on the clip, but I can't make it out very clearly. Could be GSN's second anniversary. It's definitely from the network's early years, with the "Winnie" figure.
Video quality of the YouTube clip is very poor but Bill is funny as ever. And thank you, Don Pardo, for announcing. Wikipedia tells you more than you'd ever want to know about the show, which was mostly wiped.
Besides the G-T and Cullen firsts, the show has historical importance for first employing a lockout buzzer system. In Producers on Producing Mark Goodson mentions Winner Take All as his first game show with Bill Todman.
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