The Name's the Same
American TV game show series (1951ā1955) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Name's the Same is an American game show produced by Goodson-Todman for the ABC television network from December 5, 1951 to August 31, 1954, followed by a run from October 25, 1954 to October 7, 1955. The premise was for contestants to guess the names of persons whose actual name corresponded to a famous person, celebrity, a place, common object or action.
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The Name's the Same | |
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Directed by | Jerome Schnur Herbert Hirschman |
Presented by | Robert Q. Lewis Dennis James Bob Elliott & Ray Goulding[1] Clifton Fadiman |
Narrated by | Lee Vines[2] |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 4 |
Production | |
Producers | Mark Goodson Bill Todman |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | December 5, 1951 (1951-12-05) ā October 7, 1955 (1955-10-07) |
It was alternately sponsored by Swanson and Johnson Wax, for the majority of its run. It was also sponsored by the Bendix home appliance division of Avco early in its run,[3] and Clorets and Chicken of the Sea tuna midway through its run. The show's second run sponsor, Ralston Purina,[4] also sponsored Ethel and Albert, the program that replaced The Name's the Same on the ABC schedule.