Take a Chance (Canadian game show)

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Take a Chance
Genregame show
Presented byRoy Ward Dickson
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons5
Production
Production locationsCFTO-TV Studios
Scarborough, Ontario
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkCTV
Release9 October 1961 (1961-10-09)[1] –
1965 (1965)[2]

Take a Chance was a Canadian quiz show by Roy Ward Dickson adapted from radio. It was one of the first series on CTV when the network began in 1961. The program was produced in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough at CFTO-TV studios and was broadcast Mondays at 9:30 PM (EST).[2] Sheila Billing, the Miss Toronto pageant winner of 1955, was a co-host of the program.[3]

On its premiere, Toronto Star television critic Jeremy Brown deemed the show to be "painful to watch" and "dreary", complaining that the programme lacked structure, suspense and substantial prize monies.[1]

At one point, 438,000 viewers participated in the contests by submitting chewing gum wrappers as Chiclets was the programme's key sponsor.[4]

Take a Chance aired until 1965.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Brown, Jeremy (10 October 1961). "CTV Premieres Western with Australian Accent (multi-topic column)". Toronto Star. p. 34.
  2. ^ a b c Wedge, Pip (November 2002). "Take a Chance". Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
  3. ^ Muncie, Colin (1998). "The unsinkable Sheila Billing". Arthritis News Magazine. The Arthritis Society (Canada). Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
  4. ^ McLean, Ross (30 March 1985). "'Father of quiz shows' showed how". The Globe and Mail. p. 30.