Television
In 1976, Braden hosted a quiz show for London Weekend Television called The Sweepstakes Game. Two contestants decided which of six star guests was most likely to help them to win cash and prizes. The first show was broadcast on Saturday, 3 July 1976 and ran for 13 weeks, plus a special show for Christmas 1976. The show proved to be unsuccessful and no further programmes were made after the original series.
Braden later presented the show All Our Yesterdays, and published an autobiography, The Kindness of Strangers, a reference to his role as Mitch in the London stage production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Braden independently produced and shot an extended series of interviews conducted by himself (and sometimes by his wife) of public figures in 1967-68 for a series called Now and Then but the series was never completed or sold to a broadcaster.
Bernard was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1991 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel outside the Aldwych Theatre.
Bernard Braden died in Camden, London, aged 76, following a series of strokes.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)
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—Marianne E. Neifert (20th century)