Take a Chance is an American game show that aired live on NBC on Sunday night from October 1, 1950, to December 24, 1950.
Nescafé coffee sponsored the program, which was broadcast from New York at 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Sundays.
[3] Art Cullison wrote in the Akron Beacon Journal that Take a Chance was canceled "due to lack of an audience and heavy costs.
The trade publication Variety called Take a Chance "just another in a seemingly unending string of audience participationers breaking into television, and an exceedingly slow-paced one at that.
Additionally, the review said that Ameche "seemed to lack the quizmaster's requisites of sprightly ad libbing and rapid-fire delivery.