What do you know about
1958 In TV? Try
this Year In TV Easy Quiz. "Check Your Answers" at the end
of the page.
1.
Senator Estes Kefauver holds congressional hearings on the rising rates
of juvenile crime and publishes an article in Reader's Digest called
"Let's Get Rid of Tele-Violence."
True or False?
2. The Donna Reed Show premieres. What
network was it on?
CBS
NBC
ABC
3. What actress was born on November 22, 1958?
Jamie Lee Curtis
Agnes Moorehead
Irene Morgan
4. What super hero series ended its run in April 1958?
Batman
The Adventures of Superman
Super Heroes
5. Top-rated prime-time game show "Twenty One" was
abruptly dropped by NBC in October after former contestant Herb Stempel
charged that the show was rigged and that he had been ordered to lose a
match to the popular Charles Van Doren.
True or False?
6. On October 2, The Huckleberry Hound Show premieres. It is
Hanna Barbera's first television series.
True or False?
7. Actress Brett Butler was born on January 30, 1958. What was the
show she starred in in the 1990s?
Grace Under Fire
American Amy
No Time
8. Who demonstrates their design for a color Video Tape Recorder?
Ampex
Morgan Stanley
Sylvania
9. The scandals involving rigged network quiz shows spread,
resulting in the cancellation of the original big-money game show and creating havoc within the US
television industry. What was the TV show?
The 64,000 Question
Quiz America
Q & A
10. What was the first show prerecorded on color videotape, wins
nine Emmy Awards?