Longest Running Game Shows on US Television

Producers Jack Barry and Dan Enright created the show with Robert Noah and Buddy Piper based on children’s Memory game. In the show, matching pairs of cards, which represented the prizes, were gradually removed from the board to eventually reveal the elements of a rebus puzzle which the contestants had to solve to win a match. The show was aired on and off between 1958 and 1991, with Classic Concentration being the final edition. It survived for almost 4000 episodes over 15 seasons, due to a solid format, even amidst general implication about 50’s game shows being rigged.