Take a Good Look (TV series)

Take a Good Look
Kovacs and wife Edie Adams in a promotional photo for the show, 1960
Created byErnie Kovacs
Directed byBarry Shear
Joey Behar
Presented byErnie Kovacs
Narrated byJohnny Jacobs
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes53
Production
ProducersMaury Cohen
Milt Hoffman
Peter Arnell
Running time25 minutes
Original release
NetworkABC
ReleaseOctober 22, 1959 (1959-10-22) –
February 9, 1961 (1961-02-09)
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Take a Good Look is an American television game show created by and starring Ernie Kovacs, which aired from 1959 to 1961 on ABC's Thursday-night block at 10:30 PM Eastern Time.

Season 1 consisted of 39 episodes, from October 22, 1959, to July 21, 1960. Season 2 was far shorter, airing just 14 episodes between October 27, 1960, and February 9, 1961.[1][2] Twenty episodes were repackaged for syndication in September 1978.[3] In October 2017, all 49 surviving episodes were made available on a DVD set released by Shout Factory.[4]

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  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference EKinfoTAGL was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Terrace, Vincent (1985) Encyclopedia of Television Series, Pilots and Specials, Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG/Zoetrope (NY), page 404 ISBN 0-918432-61-8
  4. ^ "DVD Calendar Feature Articles - Metacritic".