Synopsis
A late-March 1958 episode of Queen for a Day, the NBC weekday afternoon program in which contestants competed for prizes, with its original commercials and promos.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 43 minutes
- Collection
- 1950s Classic TV, Classic TV
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- 1950s
- 50s
- Fifties
- Queen for a Day
- Game Show
- Game Shows
- Kinescope
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Highly Entertaining · Molly McGee · 2015-04-25
This is the greatest old show. The basic premise was that all the contestants were women with sob stories trying to outdo each other with how sad their plight was. Usually these women were asking for something relatively small, but the point was the story- it had to be the saddest hard-luck story you ever heard. If the contestant was a widow, married to a military man or had many children, all the better. At the end, the most pathetic seeming contestant got to be Queen For A Day. They would not only get what they were asking for, but gifts and prizes. Some won trips to Hawaii. The show ran on…