Classic TV Challenge

"Let's Make a Deal" involved contestants making a deal with Hall and selecting prizes, whether real or bogus, from behind doors.

"My Mother the Car," typically named the worst TV show of all time, aired on NBC from 1965 to 1966. It starred Jerry Van Dyke as the owner of a 1928 Porter convertible possessed by his deceased mother (Ann Sothern), whose voice came out of the car radio.

The first television drama aired in 1928, but it wasn't until after World War II that TV really took off.

Ricky Nelson's weekly, televised performances on "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" helped skyrocket Ricky onto the pop charts, making him a teen idol as well as a successful recording artist.

Airing for 430 episodes, "Bonanza" was set in the mid-1800s on a Nevada ranch called The Ponderosa.

When JR was shot in the finale of the third season of "Dallas," people across the country wondered who killed him. The episode, titled "Who Done It?", was the second most-watched show in the history of television.

"Gunsmoke" reigns supreme with 635 episodes spanning across 20 years. In fact, "Gunsmoke" began as a radio program in 1952, and then switched to the visually dominant medium that was television.

Soap operas have been around since the 1930s, when Procter & Gamble (P&G) produced 15-minute episodes of love and drama for radio. Allegedly, the term "soap opera" was coined because these shows were sponsored by a company that made cleansers.

Not only is "Guiding Light" the longest-running soap, with more than 15,000 episodes (and still going), it's also the longest-running, non-news program in U.S. television history.