Concentration

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Concentration is an American television game show based on the children's memory game of the same name. Matching cards represented prizes that contestants could win. As matching pairs of cards were gradually removed from the board, it would slowly reveal elements of a rebus puzzle that contestants had to solve to win a match. The show aired intermittently from 1958 to 1991, hosted by various presenters, and has been produced in several different versions. The original daytime series, Concentration, aired on NBC for 14 years, 7 months, and 3,770 broadcasts, making it the longest-running game show on that network. This series was hosted by Hugh Downs and later by Bob Clayton, but for a six-month period in 1969, Ed McMahon took over hosting duties. The series began at 11:30 AM Eastern, then shifted to 11:00 and finally to 10:30. Nearly all episodes of the NBC daytime version were produced at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City. A weekly nighttime version aired in two separate runs: the first from October 30 to November 20, 1958, with Jack Barry as host, and the second from April 24 to September 18, 1961, with Downs as host.