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NFL wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. competes during Nickelodeon’s ‘Double Dare Takes the Gridiron’ at Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta in 2019. Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Nickelodeon

Philadelphia’s rich history of children’s television includes ‘Double Dare’ and a golden age of local hosts like Chief Halftown and Captain Noah

Philadelphia produced some of the most popular and longest-running local children’s shows in television history.
Host Jack Barry, middle, is flanked by contestants on ‘21,’ a 1950s TV game show. Orlando Fernandez/New York World-Telegram and Sun/Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons

Think presidential debates are dull? Thank 1950s TV game shows

The only satisfactory debate arrangement everyone agreed to nearly 60 years ago largely remains in place today – the game show format.
The sports gambler from Las Vegas has dominated the game like no one else in its 35-year history. Jeopardy Productions

Can James Holzhauer be stopped? A former ‘Jeopardy!’ champion weighs in

There have been ‘Jeopardy!’ greats who can easily answer all the questions, who have mastered the buzzer and who bet big on the Daily Doubles. But Holzhauer possesses an unprecedented level of daring.

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