Play Your Hunch

Play Your Hunch
Play Your Hunch title logo.
Created byMark Goodson and Bill Todman
Directed byMike Gargiulo
Presented byMerv Griffin
Gene Rayburn
Robert Q. Lewis
Narrated byJohnny Olson
Wayne Howell (substitute)
Roger Tuttle (substitute)
Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes1370
Production
ProducerIra Skutch
Running time30 Minutes
Original release
NetworkCBS (1958–1959)
ABC (1959)
NBC (1959–1963)
Release30 June 1958 (1958-06-30) –
27 September 1963 (1963-09-27)
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Play Your Hunch was an American game show first hosted by Merv Griffin from 1958 to 1962 and then hosted by Gene Rayburn and finally by Robert Q. Lewis until 1963.[1] The announcers for the show were, respectively, Johnny Olson, Wayne Howell and Roger Tuttle. In 2001, Play Your Hunch was ranked #43 on TV Guide's "50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time".[citation needed]

Play Your Hunch was a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production.[2] It featured one of Robert Redford's first professional acting roles, with Ted Koppel also making an early career appearance.[3]

  1. ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. p. 346. ISBN 978-0823083152. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference vrev was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Griffin, Merv; Bender, David (30 October 2007). Merv: Making the Good Life Last. Simon and Schuster. pp. 67–. ISBN 978-0-7434-5696-8.