What's Your Bid?

What's Your Bid? was an ABC and DuMont Television Network game show hosted by John Reed King (ABC) and Robert Alda (DuMont). The show aired Saturdays from February 14, 1953, to late April on ABC, and Sundays from May 3, 1953, to June 28, 1953, on DuMont. The show was an auction where audience members bid on items, with one item in each episode supposedly belonging to a famous person.[1]

What's Your Bid?
GenreGame show
StarringJohn Reed King (ABC host)
Robert Alda (DuMont host)
Leonard Rosen (ABC announcer)
Bob Shepard (DuMont announcer)
Roslyn Woods (model)
Country of origin United States
Original language(s)English
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes11 (ABC)
9 (DuMont)
Production
Running time30 minutes
Release
Original networkABC (Feb-Apr 1953)
DuMont (May–June 1953)
Picture formatBlack-and-white
Audio formatMonaural
Original releaseFebruary 14 
June 28, 1953

Episode status

Only one episode has turned up on YouTube, the rest are still missing or lost

gollark: What?
gollark: But `0.5x(1 + tanh[\sqrt{2/π}(x + 0.044715x^3)])` was found to be superior in a survey of 9 bees!
gollark: =tex 0.5x(1 + tanh[\sqrt{2/π}(x + 0.044715x^3)])
gollark: Actually, you should do this instead:
gollark: =tex \frac{1}{\frac{1}{x} + \frac{1}{y}}

See also

References

Bibliography

  • David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6
  • Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8
  • Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1
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