Quiz with Hale
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| Quiz with Hale | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Game show |
| Presented by | Lionel Hale |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC |
| Release | 1946 – 1947 |
Quiz with Hale was a British television game show that aired on the BBC from 1946 to 1947. Presented by Lionel Hale, the 30-minute series invited viewers to play along by marking their own quiz paper with the suggestion that you got 1 mark for a brave try, 2 marks for a near miss and 3 marks for a bullseye.[1][2]
Page 29 (31 of file) of volume 147 of The Chemist and Druggist says episode telecast 28 December 1946 asked viewers to identify three substances from their Latin labels.[3]
The programme is lost, as methods to record live television were not developed until late 1947, and were used very rarely by the BBC until the mid-1950s, additionally U.K. game shows were usually wiped into the 1980s.