Get the Message is a television game show produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman which aired on ABC's daytime schedule for nine months in 1964.
Both celebrities on the team playing first showed and read their clues to their teammate, who then attempted to guess the message.
If the opposing contestant failed to guess the message, one more round of clue-writing and reading took place.
Each additional word the contestant provided decreased the bonus amount for that message, from $100 to $50, $25, and finally $10.
Despite its short-lived run, Milton Bradley issued a board game adaptation of Get the Message in 1964.
In 1986, an unsold pilot for a remake of Get the Message called Oddball[2] hosted by Jamie Farr was made for NBC.