Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Like & Subscribe for MORE! Seen here is Channel 6's "Dialing for Dollars" with Bob McLean. It was pretty unusual to have a studio audience for a Dialing for Dollars broadcast!
Many a housewife in the 1960s, well into the mid-1970s, would be sitting at home eating Bon Bons when the phone rang and a familiar voice asked, "This is [whoever] from Channel [whatever]'s Dialing for Dollars calling. Do you know the count and the amount?" If fair maiden was watching the morning or afternoon movie she would know that the "count" was the number spun on the wheel early in the program, and the "amount" (what she could win) would be the money accumulated since the last winner.
Dialing for Dollars was a local production but a national concept, a weekday game played on the air live three or so times during a movie or a block of sitcom reruns. The host would start with an amount of money usually associated with the channel number (channel 8 would start with $8.00, for instance) and that number was added to the pot each day that someone failed to provide the correct answer when the host called.
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Like & Subscribe for MORE! Seen here is Channel 6's "Dialing for Dollars" with Bob McLean. It was pretty unusual to have a studio audience for a Dialing for Dollars broadcast!
Many a housewife in the 1960s, well into the mid-1970s, would be sitting at home eating Bon Bons when the phone rang and a familiar voice asked, "This is [whoever] from Channel [whatever]'s Dialing for Dollars calling. Do you know the count and the amount?" If fair maiden was watching the morning or afternoon movie she would know that the "count" was the number spun on the wheel early in the program, and the "amount" (what she could win) would be the money accumulated since the last winner.
Dialing for Dollars was a local production but a national concept, a weekday game played on the air live three or so times during a movie or a block of sitcom reruns. The host would start with an amount of money usually associated with the channel number (channel 8 would start with $8.00, for instance) and that number was added to the pot each day that someone failed to provide the correct answer when the host called.
For more Dialing for Dollars go to: tvparty.com/games-dialing-for-dollars.html
