audience-participation show

Barker was hosting his own audience-participation show in 1956 on KNX, the local CBS radio affiliate, when game-show producer and TV host Ralph Edwards heard him on his car radio.

Then, one day, he was asked to fill in as host of an audience-participation show.

As he recalled in a 1996 interview with The Times, his wife had heard him on the audience-participation show and told him, “Barker, this is what you should do because you do it better than you’ve done anything else.”

That’s the vehicle for fantastical transportation in this audience-participation show presented by the Brooklyn company the Good Idea Bears.

“Can YOU imagine doing an audience-participation show at 8:30 in the morning?”