What Might've Been: Crossword (1966)

Nearly a decade before The Cross-Wits, there was a simple little show called Crossword that didn't quite make it.

George Fenneman, who'd been Groucho Marx's sidekick on You Bet Your Life, and would share announcer's duties on Dragnet during its 1967-70 revival, was tapped to host. I had previously seen this on the TV4U website some time back, but now is available on YouTube. Let's scope it out. 

Edit, 1/30/22: The video's been deleted. In its place is a sampler with Carolyn Jones, fresh from The Addams Family, and Michael Landon (Bonanza):



The more recent Merv Griffin's Crosswords fell more into line with this show than the much more successful Cross-Wits. Small wonder, then, that it ended up failing.

Rating: C.