It was also during this period that Downs also narrated and reported for a number of news documentaries and specials, including The American Wilderness, The Ice People, The First Americans, and The Great Barrier Reef.
Actually, if you were watching TV anytime in the 1950s through the 1990s, it would have been extremely rare for you to have not either seen Hugh Downs or heard his voice.
He announced for comedian Sid Caesar’s Caesar’s Hour for one season, from 1956-1957, and in 1958 began hosting the game show Concentration, which he continued to do for over a decade, and while also an anchor on Today.