‘Queen For A Day’ Set For Syndication

Fri., Aug. 14, 1998

The Hollywood Reporter

“Queen for a Day,” television’s most famous feel-good show, is set for a revival in syndication from Twentieth Television.

The show that ran on radio and television from 1956-64 and had a brief syndication revival in 1970 enjoyed an audience of more than 13 million viewers in its heyday.

The format was simple. Five contestants were selected from the audience each day to compete for the title of “queen” by telling, usually through gushing tears, why they had to have the prizes. The audience would vote its choice of “queen for a day” through an applause meter.

It is understood that the new version will be much more upbeat and studiously avoid the reputation the original version got as “a vulgar exploitation of human misery in an orgy of commercial plugs.”

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