You Don't Say!

Close to the end of the series, Rod Serling & Jaye P. Morgan play the game. Source of this episode is a color kinescope film, if you're wondering about the picture quality.

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[zekepig]

Is anyone in this clip still living?

[AdamNedeff]

Can't speak for the contestants, but Tom, Jaye P., and announcer John Harlan are still here.

[treborrekrab]

Why would they be using 'color kinescope' in the mid 60s? Color videotape was the standard at that time, and color kinescope was abandoned the minute the started using color videotape. This might be a fraud.

[AdamNedeff]

Kinescope was cheaper and the tapes were erased and re-used for other broadcasts. When the shows actually were shot and aired, it was videotaped, but on the rare occasions that daytime programming was PRESERVED for after the airing, it was usually done on kinescope.

[dallaskenn]

@treborrekrab Its videotape alright, but probably a bad print or a poorly preserved copy of what was authentic mid-60s color videotape.

[disneyfan81]

@kes1963 It's the title of a song. However, I when looked it up at Wikipedia, I wasn't able to get much info about it.

[wmlfan9]

The word "a" is not a conjunction, Rod (2:28). It's an article.

[georgef551]

This is probably where they got the idea for "WHEW!".

[Noveltooner]

Actually, several hundred videotaped episodes DO exist. Like the color 1960's CBS episodes of the daytime "Password", the NBC "You Don't Say!" went into syndicated reruns with episodes from 1966 to 1969 beginning in 1970. (They used to air in New York on WNEW-TV channel 5.) They are still apparently in storage, still looking for a syndicator and storage, and still need to be converted to digital format. I believe they are owned either by Ralph Andrews, Paramount Televesion or both.

[wb3b2b1]

I like everything about this video clip. From the frothy xylophone and harp music to seeing Rod Serling in light moments. I have looked at all the clips for this show and wish they had saved some of the episodes. I used to watch this as a kid along with Password and they both made me smarter.

[jehobden]

Networks were still reusing color videotapes and would save kinescopes because they were cheaper back then. I imagine that the kinescope was color because most tv, at least on national networks, was in color by 1969.

[altfactor]

Jaye P. Morgan, of course, is best known for being a regular panelist on the 1970s "Gong Show".