America's Got Talent

An adventure to look at the cutest and fascinating baby animals on the planet.

Tales of fright were presented each week with different guest actors. 'Lights Out' first delivered chills as a radio program from 1934 to '47. Its transition to television included appearances by Boris Karloff, Veronica Lake, Vincent Price, Anthony Quinn, Arlene Francis, Leslie Nielsen, John Forsythe and Burgess Meredith.

Unsuspecting folks react to outlandish situations as hidden cameras roll. 'Smile,' they're told, 'You're on 'Candid Camera'.' This forerunner of reality TV got its start (without the camera) on radio, in a show called 'Candid Microphone,' which moved to TV in 1948. 'Camera' (the name changed in '49) has aired on ABC, CBS and NBC, as well as on cable and in syndication.

Audience members dress up in outlandish costumes to get host Wayne Brady's attention in an attempt to make deals for trips, prizes, cars or cash, while trying to avoid the dreaded Zonks.

This weekly NBC reality/game show combined elements from several similar TV series as well as from such recent theatrical films as National Treasure and The Da Vinci Code. The contestants were divided into ten three-person teams, bearing such designations as "Geniuses," "Miss USA," and "Ex-CIA." Five of the teams were dispatched in one direction, five in another, whereupon all the players trotted around the globe, stopping at various historical sites to seek out hidden clues and code words that would enable them to find a "buried treasure" of gold. Along the way, the players were also expected to outperform each other in various mental and physical challenges -- many of them extremely embarrassing and humiliating in nature (especially toward those players who had the misfortune to be too fat, too thin, too short, or too tall -- at least by the prevailing "beautiful people" standards). Hosted by Laird Macintosh, Treasure Hunters debuted June 18, 2006.

Seven men and seven women are put through the reality wringer to see if they have the right stuff to star in a made-for-TV thriller. Corinne Van Ryck de Groot and Sean Carrigan won the competition and wound up in the Joel Silver-produced flick 'Bet Your Life.'