Blankety Blanks (US game show)

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Blankety Blanks
Genre	Game Show
Creator(s)	Bob Stewart
Starring	Bill Cullen; Announcer: Bob Clayton
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	30 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	1975 – 1975

Not to be confused with the Australian game show with the same name hosted by Graham Kennedy, or with the British game show Blankety Blank

Blankety Blanks was an American game show that aired on ABC from April 21, 1975 to June 27, 1975 hosted by legendary game show emcee Bill Cullen. Bob Clayton was the announcer. It involved two teams (each with a celebrity) trying to fill in the blanks on puns (an example: When Richard Nixon spilled the coffee on Gerald Ford's lap, he said Pardon Me!). The show didn't last very long. Many had criticized it as being a Match Game clone. It had originally replaced reruns of The Brady Bunch. When Blankety Blanks was cancelled, The Brady Bunch came back in the timeslot.

[edit] Trivia

• Bill himself has been quoted in a magazine saying that this show "didn't get a fair shake". It only lasted ten of thirteen weeks.
• The theme to this show was later used on another Bob Stewart show, Double Talk.

[edit] Episode Status

Only the pilot and the premiere episode with Anne Meara and William Shatner are known to exist. It is assumed that the rest of the series is destroyed, due to a common practice known as wiping, which ABC itself was known to do.