WE CAN WELL remember the short, but spirited life of this as a game show. Being about eight years old at the time, there are many details that have been forgotten; that is if they ever really sunk in to our little collection collection of gray matter.
IT WAS A GIMMICK panel show, not unlike Groucho Marx's YOU BET YOUR LIFE*, in the sense that the game gave us an excuse to participate in the Droodles phenomenon. "Droodles" was the title given to the rather abstract use of a few lines juxtaposed against another set of equally puzzling set of line abstractions. Droodles creator, Roger Price, who had several books and some sort of home game published, served as the M.C.
A FULL SIZED ILLUSTRATION of one of those nonsensical non-sequentials would be displayed and the panel would take turns guessing just what it represented. A guest challenger would show up to present one of those bizarre drawings; which were said to be one of their own creations.
WE ARE UNABLE to recall just what was the prize for stumping the panel.
ALTHOUGH MR. PRICE and his "Droodles" fad seem to be fondly remembered today, particularly by 'Boomers', such as this writer, one can readily see why it didn't last very long as a TV game show.
NOTE: * Both Groucho's YOU BET YOUR LIFE and Ernie Kovacs' TAKE A GOOD LOOK both were thinly constituted game shows that existed for the sake of having their respective hosts ply their trade and make us laugh. Unfortunately, the DROODLES Show's Mr. Price lacked any sort of comparable persona; at least off of the printed (or drawn) page.
