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+ Break the Bank is an American quiz show which aired variously on Mutual Radio and ABC, CBS and NBC television from 1945 to 1957. Sponsored by Vicks, the series began on radio October 20, 1945, heard Saturdays on Mutual until April 13, 1946. Initially, it featured different hosts each week, including John Reed King and Johnny Olson. Bert Parks became the full-time host in 1946. With Vitalis as the sponsor, the series returned Friday, July 5, 1946, on ABC for a run until September 23, 1949. Bud Collyer and Bob Shepherd were the announcers, and Peter Van Steeden provided the music. The questions were written by Joseph Nathan Kane, the author of Famous First Facts, who hand-delivered the sealed envelopes to the radio studio. Jack Rubin directed for producers Walt Framer and Ed Wolfe. On October 5, 1949, the series moved to NBC, continuing until September 13, 1950. It was heard weekdays on NBC in 1950-51 and weekdays on ABC (1951–53). With Miles Laboratories as the sponsor, it moved back to weekdays on NBC (1953–55), overlapping with a weekdays series on Mutual (1954–55).-WikiPedia Click here to read more about Break The Bank

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Air Date	Title	Synopsis
02.01.1950	break the bank	+ Sponsored by: Vitalis, Trushay, Minit-Rub. The Jackpot question starts at $4120. The first catego...
10.05.1949	break the bank	+ Sponsored by: Vitalis, Trushay, Bufferin. The first show of the series on NBC. "The Bank" climbs ...
N/A	last round about presidents
N/A	mr and mrs ganya

Thank you for your great site. I don’t know if you can help me, but in 1945, my father, Air Force Captain Charles F. Daly, was the third-ever contestant to “Break the Bank”, on the radio (according to the old newspaper article I read), winning approximately $1,150.00. It was after the war, he was visiting NYC during his discharge, or “terminal" 30 day period of the end of his commission in the Air Force, as they called it at the time. My mother was with him, on stage, that night, and my aunt who was a paralyzed invalid listening at home when he won, got up and walked around the room because she was so excited! She never walked again after that night. Of course, they have all passed away, by now, but I was wondering, on the centennial of my mother’s and his birth, this year, if by any chance there is a way that I could find and pay for the archive (If it exists) of that night, when my father “Broke the Bank”. I would dearly love to hear his voice, again.

Susan