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Break the Bank
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Break the Bank is an American quiz show which aired variously – and sometimes co-existed in separate radio and television forms – on Mutual Radio, ABC Radio and NBC Radio Network, as well ABC, CBS and NBC television, from 1945 to 1957. From October 1956 to January 1957, NBC aired a short-lived prime-time television version called Break the $250,000 Bank.
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Cast & Crew
Bud Collyer
Announcer
WWin Elliot
Announcer
BBess Johnson
Cast
DDurward Kirby
Cast
J
Jack Rubin
Director
Bert Parks
Host
Peter Van Steeden
Musician
C
Clayton 'Bud' Collyer
Host
John Reed King
Emcee
J
LJohnny Olson
Emcee
Lew White
Organist, Musical director
E
Edwin R. Wolfe
Producer
J
Joseph Nathan Kane
Writer
W
Walt Framer
Writer
W
Walter Kramer
Writer
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