(CBS Primetime, 1956 - 1957) [Students competed for a college scholarship in this game show on a floor which was painted as a giant game board with 8 squares, if they gave the correct response to questions asked by M. C. Parks they moved forward toward a college education...but if not -- well it was sort of like "You're the weakest, so goodbye..." 1950s audiences were not apparently ready for such a heartless idea -- not until 1999 apparently... :-)]
[above is the title as it was filed for copyright] [The "Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows" by David Schwartz, Steve Ryan and Fred Wostbrock states the THEME derived from Englebert Humperdinck's 1894 opera "Hansel and Gretel", whose most famous duet tune was "Abendsegen", translated usually as "Evening Prayer" or sometimes called the "Children's Prayer"] Composer/Adapter: Morris Mamorsky (ASCAP) 1978 Publisher: [not found in the 1978 ASCAP Index of performed compositions] 2001 Publisher: [not found in ASCAP/BMI databases] [Original Copyright Claimant: Morris Mamorsky]: Copyright Date: Oct. 1, 1956; Eu 541 860. Renewal Date: [not found] Recordings: