Those who have access to back copies of The Paper of Record can check it for themselves... the announcement was made on 2/26/49, and Bill started hosting on WCBS Radio on 3/7/49.

At this point, I'm still uncertain as to the end date, but there's the start, in any event.

-Kevin

Hey, thanks for this, Kevin! Getting to the MSU library is tedious for something like start and end dates, and I didn't have this one. Now I wish we had more than the one episode!

Picture a guy standing in an inflatable wading pool being squirted with whipped cream by his wife. No wonder the radio version of Concentration never took off.

Well I can picture the first part, but what it makes me think of makes your second sentence seem to be a bit of a non-sequitur. :^)

-Kevin

Though I appreciate my esteemed colleague's joke, for those of you who don't know and are justifiably confused, the radio version of Beat the Clock was not a stunt show. It was a quiz, similar to 2 for the Money only with a single contestant and a finite number of answers.

Quick search shows him still doing it on 7-13-49.


--Mike