"Truth or Consequences" - Circa March 1955 (1955)
1955 · Television · 29 min
Synopsis
An episode of the long-running game show Truth or Consequences, hosted by Jack Bailey, with its original live advertising for Old Gold filtered cigarettes.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 29 minutes
- Collection
- 1950s Classic TV, Classic TV
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- 1950s
- 50s
- Fifties
- Game show
- Early Television
- Jack Bailey
- Truth or Consequences
- 1956
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · A Highlight Of Golden Age Television Decade · Thomas E Dewey · 2022-11-15
Truth or Consequences was a radio show and became a television series in the early 1950s. As all television shows were in black-and-white at the time (this being the Eisenhower presidency), and smoking cigarettes and pipes was seen as a requirement for adult livelihoods, broadcasting regulations were lenient and that is why the advertisements for cigarettes were shown on television shows such as Truth or Consequences. Nowadays, of course, cigarettes and pipes would not be advertised.