Season 2

From the desk

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 2 of Let's Make a Deal (1963–1976) on NBC/ABC as a mid listed season (2; 2 of 4) — 1 listed hour, 1964-07-13 opening on “1964-1965 season” (S02E01). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.

Desk essentials in this season

1. S02E01 1964-1965 season

   The 1964–65 season door: the costume-and-zonk grammar fully national, NBC still Monty Hall's original storefront.