Brooks & Marsh confirm air dates November 26-December 31, 1956.
They describe it as offering contestants "the opportunity to win up to
$50,000 for correctly guessing whether famous show-business personalities
could successfully perform certain stunts." Typical of the period, the
first round was relatively low ($1,500) and doubled with each round and an
incorrect guess meant the contestant took home 10% of what he or she had
won up to the miss (i.e., the second round guess was worth $3,000 if
correct and $150 if incorrect).
The only two celebrities identified by B&M were Sal Mineo (operating a
construction crane) and Rory Calhoun (performing an archery feat).
On Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 2:30:28 PM UTC-8, Mark Jeffries wrote:
>
> I remember reading about a show called "Can Do," which ran on NBC in prime
> time right before the quiz scandals. It was fronted by Jack Barry and from
> what I read was a cross between a big money quiz show and a panel game show
> (the thing had Burl Ives as a panelist, IIRC). Seems to me that it went
> off the air as the quiz scandals broke and replaced by a prime time version
> of "Concentration," which had just started in NBC daytime and with Barry
> hosting. That went off six weeks later, as Barry and Dan Enright became
> persona non grata at the network and all of their shows save the daytime
> shows ("Concentration," the allegedly unrigged daytime "Tic Tac Dough" and
> the music quiz "Dough Re Mi") were taken off the air and their names
> stricken from the credits.
>
> Mark Jeffries
> Saints Spotlight Editor
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> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 2:44 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone remember a TV show of the 1950's called Can do no can do?
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