Shenanigans (game show)

{{Infobox television

| image = Stubby Kaye Shenanigans 1964.JPG

| image_size = 220

| caption = Stubby Kaye, the host of the show.

| runtime = 30 minutes

| developer = Milton Bradley Company

| executive_producer = Merrill Heatter
Bob Quigley

| presenter = Stubby Kaye

| narrated = Kenny Williams

| company = Heatter-Quigley Productions, in association with Four Star Television

| country = United States

| network = ABC

| first_aired = {{Start date|1964|09|26}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1965|12|18}}

| num_episodes = 39

}}

Shenanigans is a children's television game show produced by Heatter-Quigley Productions which aired on ABC Saturday mornings from September 26, 1964 to March 20, 1965, and again from September 25 to December 18, 1965.{{cite book |last1=Hyatt |first1=Wesley |title=The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television |date=1997 |publisher=Watson-Guptill Publications |isbn=978-0823083152 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofda00hyat|url-access=registration |accessdate=22 March 2020|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofda00hyat/page/393 393]}} The series began as local programming in New York City and later aired nationally on ABC. The show was similar to Video Village Junior, another program produced by Heatter-Quigley which featured children as contestants moving about a life-sized game board.

Stubby Kaye hosted the program, dubbed "the Mayor of Shenanigans," and Kenny Williams was the announcer, known as "Kenny the Cop". Williams portrayed a similar role on Video Village.{{cite book |last1=Ingram |first1=Billy |title=TVparty! Television's Untold Tales |date=2002 |publisher=Bonus Books |isbn=9781566251846 |page=106 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FezBbNPAoYoC&dq=shenanigans+game+show&pg=PA106}}

Game play

Children stood on a giant game board; a button was pressed that stopped a set of flashing lights with the numbers one through four, and the children advanced on the game board the corresponding number of spaces. The children then answered a question or performed a stunt and earning "Shenaniganzas", scrip that could be traded for items from the Top Value Stamp Catalog.{{cite book |last1=Woolery |first1=George W. |title=Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series |date=1985 |publisher=The Scarecrow Press |isbn=0-8108-1651-2 |page=451}} Possible prizes were also suspended from the ceiling in the studio.

Most of the spaces on the game board were references to popular board games by the show's sponsor Milton Bradley Company, such as Operation. In 1964, a board game was published by Milton Bradley as a companion to the show.{{cite web|title=Shenanigans Game|url=http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3713/shenanigans-game|accessdate=24 August 2011}}