Twenty Questions (American game show)

Twenty Questions
Photo from DuMont advertising the show, with 14-year-old Dick Harrison, Herb Polesie, Fred Van Deventer, Florence Rinard, and actor Aldo Ray as guest panelist (February 1, 1954)
Created byFred van de Venter (1949-1955)
Ron Greenberg by arrangement with Dick Rubin Ltd (1975 pilot)
Directed byRoger Bower (1949–1955)
Dick Sandwick (1949–1955)
Harry Coyle (1949–1955)
Bill McCarthy (1949–1955)
Arthur Forrest (1975 pilot)
Presented byBill Slater (1949–1952)
Jay Jackson (1952–1955)
Jack Clark (1975 pilot)
Dick Wilson (1989 pilot)
Narrated byFrank Waldecker (1949–1955)
John Gregson (1949–1955)
Bob Shepard (1949–1955)
Wayne Gossman (1975 pilot)
Burton Richardson (1989 pilot)
ComposerScore Productions (1975 pilot)
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons6
Production
Executive producersFred van de Venter (1949–1955)
Ron Greenberg (1975 pilot)
ProducersNorman Livingston (1949–1955)
Jack Wyatt (1949–1955)
Duane McKinney (1949–1955)
George Elber (1949-1955)
Gary Stevens (1949–1955)
Production locationsNew Amsterdam Theatre, New York (1949–1955)
ABC Television Center, New York (1975 pilot)
KTLA Studios, Hollywood (1989 pilot)
Running time25 minutes
Production companiesFred van de Venter Productions (1949–1955)
Mutual Broadcasting System (1949–1955)
Ron Greenberg Productions (1975 pilot)
MCA-TV Ltd (1975 pilot)
Original release
NetworkWOR (1949)
NBC (1949)
ABC (1950–1951, 1954–1955)
DuMont (1951–1954)
ReleaseNovember 2, 1949 (1949-11-02) –
May 3, 1955 (1955-05-03)
Related
20Q (2009)
Infobox instructions (only shown in preview)

Twenty Questions, based on the guessing game Twenty questions, started as a radio quiz show in 1946. The television series ran on NBC in 1949, on ABC from 1950 to 1951 and on the DuMont Television Network from 1951 to 1954.