Geographically Speaking is an American travel series

Travel documentary

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 that debuted on June 9, 1946 on NBC

NBC

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, and aired Sundays at 8:15 pm EST immediately following the game show

Game show

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 Face to Face

Face to Face (US TV series)

Face to Face is an early American television game show running 15 minutes. It began broadcasting on the NBC Television network on June 9, 1946 and ran until January 26, 1947 on Sundays at 8:00 pm EST, immediately before Geographically Speaking....

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The weekly 15-minute program was one of the first TV shows to have a regular sponsor, Bristol-Myers

Bristol-Myers Squibb

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. The show consisted of hostess Mrs. Carveth (Zetta) Wells narrating her 16mm home movies of her trips with her husband to unusual and exotic places. When she ran out of home movies, the series ended in October 1947.

Mrs. Wells later appeared as a contestant on Groucho Marx

Groucho Marx

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's You Bet Your Life

You Bet Your Life

You Bet Your Life is an American quiz show that aired on both radio and television. The original and best-known version was hosted by Groucho Marx of the Marx Brothers, with announcer and assistant George Fenneman. The show debuted on ABC Radio in October 1947, then moved to CBS Radio in September...

, on TV and radio, in February 1958.

Episode status

No episode of the series is known to survive in any archive, as it was broadcast live and there was no way to record live TV until the development of kinescopes in 1947. Even then, only a few TV shows were recorded.