The Big Payoff

The Big Payoff

Infobox Television
show_name = The Big Payoff


caption = The Big Payoff title card
format = game show
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runtime = 30 minutes
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starring = Randy Merriman, Bob Paige, Bert Parks, Bess Myerson
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country = USA
language = English
network = NBC/CBS
first_aired = 31 December 1951
last_aired = 16 October 1959 (network), 1962 (syndicated)
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"The Big Payoff" was a daytime and primetime game show that premiered on NBC in 1951, and ended its network run on CBS in 1959. It had a brief syndication revival in 1962 [Big Payoff To Return, Oakland Tribune, Sept. 9, 1962, p. 5-TV] . Contestants were selected from men who mailed in letters explaining why the women in their lives deserved prizes. The men were asked four questions (delivered on a silver tray by Question Girl Susan Sayers) in order to win prizes like a mink coat or a vacation. Late in the network run, the format changed to three competing couples. For the 1962 revival, there were only two couples.

The theme song was "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody" by Irving Berlin, and the sponsor was Revlon.

Full Cast

*Hosts - Randy Merriman (1951-1953), Bert Parks (1953-1957 and 1959), Bob Paige (1957-1959 and 1962)
*Hostess - Bess Myerson
*Announcers - Ralph Paul, Mort Laurence
*Models - Susan Sayers, Pat Conlon, Nancy Walters, Marion James, Pat Conway, Fran Miller
*Singers - Betty Ann Grove, Denise Lor, Judy Lynn

References

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043178 "The Big Payoff" at IMDB]


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