Have to admit, I didn't watch the special because I was more interested in the conclusion of the regular season in baseball. And complete eps or sizable samples of the shows exist on YouTube already. Buzzr has posted some of the footage themselves, like this chunk of What's Going On (1954).
My cynical self couldn't help noticing that Revlon sponsored What's Going On. In case you didn't know, Revlon would get in all sorts of trouble for rigging (or at least corruptly influencing) $64,000 Question later in the decade.
I assume the celeb panel show What's Going On was on the up-and-up. It's hard to believe that Buzzr would air a show that was known to have been rigged.
Buzzr has gone away from black-and-white shows in recent times in an effort to freshen their schedule and demos a bit. I'm not sure how successful the demo chase will ever prove for an oldies game show network. Game shows usually skew old to begin with, and old game shows skew older than Methuselah's elder brother.
In an interview with Saturday Evening Post - a really old publication, you may notice - Buzzr general manager Mark Deetjen noted how the diginet has cut out the black-and-white stuff...
"We've been pleasantly surprised that there is a small but growing audience of 18- to 35-year-old men watching our channel." One possible explanation for this is "a move away from shows from the '50s and '60s and more into the '80s and '90s - for example, Sale of the Century and Supermarket Sweep - which made us a little bit more appealing to a younger audience."
Good luck on getting those younger viewers, Mark. But for at least a few hours today, Buzzr brought back some efforts in black and white.
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