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Let's Make a Deal

Season 1

29 listed hours · 1963–1976 · NBC/ABC

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How this season is filed

Filed by Rex Fontaine · Golden Age Dispatch

Let's Make a Deal turns the studio audience into the game: costumes, trades, and Monty Hall offering Door Number Three while a zonk waits in the wings. Stefan Hatos and Hall built carnival psychology into daytime television. Audience-as-contestant chaos starts here, which is why economists still use the Monty Hall problem as a parable about switching.

TV Flash files Season 1 of Let's Make a Deal (1963–1976) on NBC/ABC as the first listed season of 4 — 29 listed hours, 1963-12-30–1964-02-07 from “Pilot” (S01E01) to “Friday February 7, 1964” (S01E31). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S01E01 Pilot

    The pilot is the trade contract: Monty Hall, a studio audience in costume, Door Number Three already waiting with a zonk.

  2. S01E13 Tuesday January 14, 1964

    Tuesday, January 14, 1964 — early daily craft, Hatos-Hall already treating the crowd as the board.

  3. S01E23 Tuesday January 28, 1964

    Tuesday, January 28, 1964 keeps the first-season trading floor hot: deals as spectacle, not a quiet quiz.

  1. S01E01

    Pilot

    Pilot — Season 1, Episode 1 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1963-12-30. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  2. S01E02

    Tuesday December 31, 1963

    Tuesday December 31, 1963 — Season 1, Episode 2 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1963-12-31. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  3. S01E03

    Thursday January 2, 1964

    Thursday January 2, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 3 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-02. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  4. S01E04

    Friday January 3, 1964

    Friday January 3, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 4 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-03. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  5. S01E07

    Monday January 6, 1964

    Monday January 6, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 7 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-06. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  6. S01E08

    Tuesday January 7, 1964

    Tuesday January 7, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 8 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-07. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  7. S01E09

    Wednesday January 8, 1964

    Wednesday January 8, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 9 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-08. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  8. S01E10

    Thursday January 9, 1964

    Thursday January 9, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 10 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-09. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  9. S01E11

    Friday January 10, 1964

    Friday January 10, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 11 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-10. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  10. S01E12

    Monday January 13, 1964

    Monday January 13, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 12 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-13. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  11. S01E13

    Tuesday January 14, 1964

    Tuesday January 14, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 13 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-14. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  12. S01E14

    Wednesday January 15, 1964

    Wednesday January 15, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 14 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-15. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  13. S01E15

    Thursday January 16, 1964

    Thursday January 16, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 15 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-16. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  14. S01E16

    Friday January 17, 1964

    Friday January 17, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 16 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-17. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  15. S01E17

    Monday January 20, 1964

    Monday January 20, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 17 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-20. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  16. S01E18

    Tuesday January 21, 1964

    Tuesday January 21, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 18 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-21. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  17. S01E19

    Wednesday January 22, 1964

    Wednesday January 22, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 19 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-22. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  18. S01E20

    Thursday January 23, 1964

    Thursday January 23, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 20 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-23. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  19. S01E21

    Friday January 24, 1964

    Friday January 24, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 21 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-24. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  20. S01E22

    Monday January 27, 1964

    Monday January 27, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 22 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-27. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  21. S01E23

    Tuesday January 28, 1964

    Tuesday January 28, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 23 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-28. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  22. S01E24

    Wednesday January 29, 1964

    Wednesday January 29, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 24 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-29. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  23. S01E25

    Thursday January 30, 1964

    Thursday January 30, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 25 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-30. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  24. S01E26

    Friday January 31, 1964

    Friday January 31, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 26 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-01-31. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  25. S01E27

    Monday February 3, 1964

    Monday February 3, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 27 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-02-03. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  26. S01E28

    Tuesday February 4, 1964

    Tuesday February 4, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 28 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-02-04. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  27. S01E29

    Wednesday February 5, 1964

    Wednesday February 5, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 29 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-02-05. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  28. S01E30

    Thursday February 6, 1964

    Thursday February 6, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 30 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-02-06. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  29. S01E31

    Friday February 7, 1964

    Friday February 7, 1964 — Season 1, Episode 31 of Let's Make a Deal. Aired 1964-02-07. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

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