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Time Will Tell (TV series)

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Narrated by
  
Robert Russell

Running time
  
30 minutes

First episode date
  
27 August 1954

Presented by
  
Ernie Kovacs

Language
  
English

Country of origin
  
USA

Original network
  
DuMont

Final episode date
  
15 October 1954

Genre
  
Game show

Production company(s)
  
Adams-Davis Productions

Original release
  
August 27 – October 15, 1954

Similar
  
The Ernie Kovacs Show, Take a Good Look, Tonight Starring Steve Allen, The Tonight Show, What's My Line?

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Time Will Tell is an early American game show which aired on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network Fridays at 10:30pm ET from August 27 to October 15, 1954. The show's host, Ernie Kovacs, would go on to host many other shows on both DuMont, ABC, and NBC.

Contents

Game play involved three contestants answering questions in 90-second rounds, timed with a large hourglass.

The program, produced and distributed by the network, aired on most DuMont affiliates on Fridays at 10:30 pm Eastern Time, replacing Gamble on Love which was also hosted by Kovacs in the same time slot. After Time Will Tell ended, DuMont replaced the series with local (non-network) programming. For DuMont, Kovacs also hosted the panel show One Minute Please (July 1954-February 1955) and the late-night talk show The Ernie Kovacs Show (April 1954-April 1955).

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Episode status

DuMont, like NBC and CBS during the 1950s, probably kept at least one or two "example" episodes of each of its main game shows, though DuMont's exact policy is not known. However, DuMont's archive was destroyed after the network ceased broadcasting in 1956. Although a small number of DuMont game show episodes are known to exist in various archives, none are known to exist of either Time will Tell nor Gamble on Love.

References

Time Will Tell (TV series) Wikipedia