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chris319:
If you're old enough to remember when Bob Barker's Truth or Consequences contestants received Jungle Gardenia perfume by Tuvache you can probably contribute to this list. Below are some of the \"standard\" prizes that seemed to be ubiquitous on so many game and quiz shows of the fifites:

Jungle Gardenia perfume by Tuvache
My Sin perfume by Lanvin
Puritron air purifiers
Evinrude outboard motors
Anything from Michael C. Fina
Carpet from the looms of Mohawk
The Spiegel Catalog (obviously the catalog itself was not the prize)
The World Book encyclopedia

What can you add?

joshg:
Maybe not in the fifties but definitely in the 70's:

TURTLE WAX!!

(and Kentucky Fried Chicken in that attractive softside cooler thing...)

JOSH

DrBear:

--- Quote ---The World Book encyclopedia
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Or, on Art Fleming Jeopardy!, Compton's Picture Encyclopedia.

uncamark:

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--- Quote ---The World Book encyclopedia
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Or, on Art Fleming Jeopardy!, Compton's Picture Encyclopedia.
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Au contraire--it was the Encyclopedia International--along with the (insert number here) edition of our \"Jeopardy!\" game.

According to Harry Eisenberg's book, when the editorial staff went into the office to start the current \"J!\", the only reference material in there was a set of the Encyclopedia International left over from the Fleming days and transported cross-country by Merv.  If you remember the credits sequences from the first several seasons plugging various publishers, they did do something about replenishing the reference library.

DrBear:
[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Jul 24 2003, 03:52 PM\']
--- Quote ---Or, on Art Fleming Jeopardy!, Compton's Picture Encyclopedia.

Au contraire--it was the Encyclopedia International--along with the (insert number here) edition of our "Jeopardy!" game.
 
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Maybe in the later years, but I still remember Compton's from earlier seasons.

Can we get Don Pardo in here to settle this? Or even Jimmy Pardo?

And why hasn't anybody remembered Rice-A-Roni, The San Francisco Treat?

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