DAYTIME TELEVISION

DAYTIME TELEVISION
Crazy #5, July 1974
w: Marv Wolfman
a: Dick Wright

Let us take a trip to before the invention of cable television, when there were only three channels (plus some places with additional syndicated ones, usually on UHF). Actually, daytime terrestrial television fifty years ago wasn't entirely different than it is now.

Dinah Shore had been a singer who in the seventies had a daytime talk show.
Spiro Agnew was Vice President until 1973 and implicated in the Watergate scandal. The other people he mentions were others involved. "Impudent snobs" was from one of the speeches he gave looking down on what his base considered the elite.

Dr. Joyce Brothers had a show called Living Easy with Dr. Joyce Brothers.
The original host of Jeopardy was Art Fleming.

The original host of Hollywood Squares was Peter Marshall. The panelists on this version are Wally Cox, Karen Valentine, Jan Murray, John Davidson, Paul Lynde, Rose Marie, Charley Weaver, Vincent Price, and Charlie Tuna. The latter was an animated spokesperson in commercials for Star-Kist Tuna.

Reruns of I Love Lucy were prevalent on daytime TV. Walter Cronkite was on in the evening. The panelists on What's My Line? are Arlene Francis, Henry Kissinger, Telly Savalas as Theo Kojak, and Dick Van Dyke.

As a bonus, we get to see what the Marvel Bullpen looked like around then.

Let's Make a Deal, hosted by Monty Hall, was known for audience members trying to outdo each other with the most outlandish costumes in the hopes of attracting enough attention to be picked to be a contestant.

Bob Eubanks hosted The Newlywed Game to see how much married couples knew about each other. Most notorious for a wife once being asked where she and her husband wife make whoopee and her responding "in the ass".

There used to be couple dozen or so daytime soaps simultaneously running, now I think there are only four. General Hospital is one of them.

Mike Douglas was another entertainer who eventually became a talk show host back when talk shows were the twilight of a full career and the domain of daytime television.