Play Your Hunch was an American game show first hosted by Merv Griffin from 1958 to 1962, and was then hosted by Robert Q. Lewis until 1963. The announcers for the show were, respectively, Johnny Olson, Wayne Howell and Roger Tuttle. In 2001, Play Your Hunch was ranked #43 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time. Play Your Hunch was a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production. It has been considered to be something of a "spin-off" of another more successful Goodson-Todman game, To Tell the Truth. The show first aired on CBS from 1958–1959. ABC picked it up in the same year, and then... NBC aired it for the rest of its run, concluding in 1963. During the NBC run, two different prime time versions aired - one in 1960, and one in 1962. The series was originally hosted by Merv Griffin. After he left on September 28, 1962 to begin his talk show, Robert Q. Lewis took over the following Monday for the rest of the run. Announcer Johnny Olson substituted for Griffin on December 29, 1961 and March 6, 1962. Gene Rayburn substituted for Lewis from October 15 to November 16, 1962. This was Olson's first regular announcing job with longtime employer Mark Goodson.
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| On the air: | June 30, 1958-September 27, 1963 |
| Producer: | Bill Todman, Mark Goodson |