Shenanigans (game show)

Shenanigans
Stubby Kaye, the host of the show.
Developed by	Milton Bradley Company
Presented by	Stubby Kaye
Narrated by	Kenny Williams
Country of origin	USA
No. of episodes	39
Production
Executive producer(s)	Merrill Heatter Bob Quigley
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Heatter-Quigley Productions, in association with Four Star Television
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	September 26, 1964 – March 20, 1965 September 25 – December 18, 1965

Shenanigans was a children's television game show produced by Heatter-Quigley Productions that aired on ABC Saturday mornings from September 26, 1964 to March 20, 1965, and again from September 25 to December 18, 1965. The series began as local programming in New York City and later aired nationally on ABC. The show was similar to Video Village Junior, another program produced by Heatter-Quigley, which featured children as contestants moving about a life-sized game board.

Stubby Kaye, dubbed "the Mayor of Shenanigans", hosted the program, and Kenny Williams, known as "Kenny the Cop", was the announcer. Williams portrayed a similar role on Video Village.

Game play

Much like Video Village, children stood on a giant game board. A button was pressed that stopped a set of flashing lights with the numbers one through four, and the children advanced on the game board the corresponding number of spaces. After landing on a space, the children answered a question or performed a stunt, earning "Shenaniganzas", scrips that could be traded for items from the Top Value Stamp Catalog. Possible prizes were also suspended from the ceiling in the studio.

Most of the spaces on the game board were references to popular board games by Milton Bradley (such as Operation), who served as the show's sponsor. In 1964, a board game was published by Milton Bradley as a companion to the show.^[1]

References

↑ "Shenanigans Game at http://boardgamegeek.com". Retrieved 24 August 2011. External link in |title= (help)

External links

Shenanigans at the Internet Movie Database

Children's programming on the American Broadcasting Company in the 1960s

First-run animated series	Rocky and His Friends (1959–64) The New Casper Cartoon Show (1963–70) Hoppity Hooper (1964–67) The Beatles (1965–69) The Porky Pig Show Milton the Monster (1965–68) The King Kong Show (1966–69) Fantastic Four (1967–70) Spider-Man (1967–70) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1967–69) George of the Jungle (1967–70) The Adventures of Gulliver (1968–70) Fantastic Voyage (1968–70) The Smokey the Bear Show The Cattanooga Cats Show (1969–71) Hot Wheels (1969–71) The Hardy Boys (1969–71) Skyhawks (1969–71)

First-run live-action series	Lunch with Soupy Sales (1959–61) The Magic Land of Allakazam (1962–64) Discovery (1962–71) American Bandstand (1957–87) Shenanigans (1964–65)

Rebroadcasts	Top Cat (1962–63) The Bugs Bunny Show (1962–68) My Friend Flicka The Jetsons (1962–64) Beany and Cecil (1962–88) Buffalo Bill, Jr. Annie Oakley The Magilla Gorilla Show

Schedules	1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70

Related	Animation in the United States in the television era

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