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You Bet Your Life

Season 9

23 listed hours · 1950–1961 · NBC

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How this season is filed

Filed by Rex Fontaine · Golden Age Dispatch

You Bet Your Life is Groucho, a duck, and the secret word: quiz structure as a license to ad-lib. George Fenneman straight-mans while Marx roasts civilians into comedy gold. Watch it now as proof a comic personality can carry a 'game' better than the game — merchandising and meme before either word mattered.

TV Flash files Season 9 of You Bet Your Life (1950–1961) on NBC as a mid listed season (9; 9 of 11) — 23 listed hours, 1958-09-25–1959-06-11 from “Roof” (S09E01) to “Chair” (S09E38). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S09E01 Roof

    Roof: late-1950s restart, the secret word still a gong, Marx still roasting civilians into comedy gold.

  2. S09E07 Money

    Money — the titled hour that names the quiz's alibi; the duck drops, the roast is the format.

  1. S09E01

    Roof

    Roof — Season 9, Episode 1 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1958-09-25. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  2. S09E03

    Grass

    Grass — Season 9, Episode 3 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1958-10-09. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  3. S09E04

    Shoe

    Shoe — Season 9, Episode 4 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1958-10-16. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  4. S09E06

    Food

    Food — Season 9, Episode 6 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1958-10-30. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  5. S09E07

    Money

    An organ grinder and his monkey, and Lois Bootzin, the wife of Gypsy Boots, are among the guests.

  6. S09E08

    Roof

    Roof — Season 9, Episode 8 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1958-11-13. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  7. S09E15

    Name

    Name — Season 9, Episode 15 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1959-01-01. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  8. S09E18

    Voice

    Voice — Season 9, Episode 18 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1959-01-22. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  9. S09E19

    Nose

    Nose — Season 9, Episode 19 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1959-01-29. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  10. S09E21

    Face

    Face — Season 9, Episode 21 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1959-02-12. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  11. S09E22

    Hand

    Hand — Season 9, Episode 22 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1959-02-19. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  12. S09E23

    House

    House — Season 9, Episode 23 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1959-02-26. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  13. S09E25

    Tree

    Tree — Season 9, Episode 25 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1959-03-12. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  14. S09E26

    Chair

    Chair — Season 9, Episode 26 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1959-03-19. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  15. S09E28

    Hand

    Hand — Season 9, Episode 28 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1959-04-02. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  16. S09E29

    Cherry

    Cherry — Season 9, Episode 29 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1959-04-09. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  17. S09E30

    Water

    Water — Season 9, Episode 30 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1959-04-16. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  18. S09E31

    Grass

    Grass — Season 9, Episode 31 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1959-04-23. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  19. S09E33

    Money

    Money — Season 9, Episode 33 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1959-05-07. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  20. S09E34

    Street

    Street — Season 9, Episode 34 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1959-05-14. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  21. S09E36

    Table

    Table — Season 9, Episode 36 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1959-05-28. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  22. S09E37

    Paper

    Paper — Season 9, Episode 37 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1959-06-04. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  23. S09E38

    Chair

    Chair — Season 9, Episode 38 of You Bet Your Life. Aired 1959-06-11. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

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