Blind Date (also known as Your Big Moment) is an American television game show which aired on ABC, NBC, and then DuMont after many years on radio.
Winners received a night on the town, which on the premiere episode included a nightclub invitation to the Stork Club, $5 in pocket money, and a chaperoned ride home.
The losers received a friendly kiss from Francis, $15 in cash, and tickets to a popular local theater production as consolation prizes.
Blind Date was created by Joe Floyd, Cliff Gill and Vera Thomson as a between-movie entertainment feature.
[4] Seeing its success, Floyd peddled the idea around to other markets, eventually selling it to NBC radio where it first aired July 8, 1943, hosted by Arlene Francis.
[citation needed] Media critic Jack Gould wrote in The New York Times, "Blind Date does not seem very real.