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You Bet Your Life

Specials 1945 - 2016

  • 1952-04-07T05:00:00Z on NBC
  • 25m
  • 5h 25m (13 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy, Game Show
Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of competitive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.

29 episodes

1952-04-07T05:00:00Z

Special 1 Behind the Scenes of

Special 1 Behind the Scenes of

  • 1952-04-07T05:00:00Z25m

This 17 minute film was shot the same evening as the fall 1952 season premiere. The film was shown exclusively at the Desoto Dealer's Convention. The pretty young secretary in the film is an actress named Eden Hartford, who would become the third Mrs. Groucho Marx on July 14, 1954

The racier moments that were removed from You Bet Your Life were saved and compiled into annual presentations for DeSoto conventions. The Program staff referred to these as "Stag Reels". This 11 minute collection, hosted by George Fenneman was the first of these reels. It contains outtakes from the first three television seasons of the show

1947-09-15T04:00:00Z

Special 3 Radio Audition Demo

Special 3 Radio Audition Demo

  • 1947-09-15T04:00:00Z25m

This is The demonstration recording that Groucho and John Guedel financed and recorded at CBS studio were Guedel produced Art Linkletter's "House Party".

1947-03-27T05:00:00Z

Special 4 The Walgreen Hour

Special 4 The Walgreen Hour

  • 1947-03-27T05:00:00Z25m

The Walgreen drug store chain was celebrating its anniversary. The star-studded syndication special was just one of the numerous radio appearances that Groucho made in the 1940's. But this is the one that led to his Your Bet Your Life audition. This recently discovered recording of Groucho and Bob Hope's 1 minute segment had long been though lost.

The second Collection of outtakes compiled for the annual DeSoto Convention is an eighteen minute reel that starts off with a gag at Groucho's expense.

In December 1950 Desoto distributed a twelve inch 78rpm record featuing highlights from yYou Bet Your Life and a Holiday Message from Groucho. to their dealers.

The third collection of outtakes compiled from the Desoto Convention is a 7 minute reel of clips, mostly taken from the 1955-1956 season.

The fourth collection of outtakes from You Bet Your Life

This collection cotains outtakes from mostly the eighth and ninth season.

A series of outtakes from the 1959-1960 seasons

2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

Special 17 Pilot

Special 17 Pilot

  • 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z25m

Pilot Filmed but never shown.

1965-07-01T04:00:00Z

Special 18 Special UK Episode

Special 18 Special UK Episode

  • 1965-07-01T04:00:00Z25m

1962-04-19T05:00:00Z

Special 19 Tell It To Groucho

Special 19 Tell It To Groucho

  • 1962-04-19T05:00:00Z25m

1962-04-26T05:00:00Z

Special 20 Tell It To Groucho

Special 20 Tell It To Groucho

  • 1962-04-26T05:00:00Z25m

Special 22 The Hollywood Palace - 1

  • 1964-03-14T05:00:00Z25m

Special 23 The Hollywood Palace - 2

  • 1965-04-16T05:00:00Z25m

Special 24 See You At The Polls

  • 1956-10-09T04:00:00Z25m

1962-04-02T05:00:00Z

Special 25 Anybody Can Play

Special 25 Anybody Can Play

  • 1962-04-02T05:00:00Z25m

Special 26 Dinah Shore "Open House"

  • 1945-11-22T05:00:00Z25m

Radio program from 1945

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