2nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards

The opening of the 2nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards held on May 15, 1975 and broadcast on CBS to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1974). The event was hosted by Monty Hall and Stephanie Edwards. Enjoy the performance by game show host and actor, the late Bert Convy.

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• Daytime
• Emmys
• Monty
• Hall
• Stephanie
• Edwards
• Bert
• Convy
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• 1975

[gymnastix]

@scifiradioguy Convy was also the original consideration for the role of the vampire, "Barnabas Collins," on ABC-TV's daytime Gothic horror soap opera "Dark Shadows." But a Shakespearean actor from Canada named Jonathan Frid prevailed over Convy in the casting choice to portray the 175 year-old vampire. "And the rest," as the adage goes, "is history."

[gymnastix]

@scifiradioguy Bert Convy never hosted "Password Plus." The hosts of that NBC-TV daytime series were Allen Ludden, then Bill Cullen, briefly, and finally Tom Kennedy, after Ludden's death and upon Ludden's wishes for Kennedy to succeed him.

Convy hosted the next incarnation of the durable "Password" format, "SuperPassword," also on NBC.

[BusPeople]

@TimothySEnglish i.e. a Titanic presentation...

[computerwife]

this is just too weird and cheesy i think,a liitle scary,i think they were all smoking to much weed

[Wellveryinteresting]

But since about 2003 that hasn't really worked out as well as it was originally intended.

[CoolBlue71]

I wonder if that year's winners feared their category losers would push them overboard.

[dmcrra]

on a boat? what were they smokin back then>

[TimothySEnglish]

yes, and the suits got wise by thinking "Hmmm... we can boost our revenue by airing the Emmys at night rather than in the day when people are working!!!!" This way they can showcase each network's line-up and recruit new viewers.

[TimothySEnglish]

a FRIGGING BOAT!!!!