Biography Channel
The ‘Biography Channel Card Game’, 2002
The ‘Biography Channel Card Game’ published by A&E Television Networks media company, 2002, with portraits of celebrities and historic figures in sets of five, instead of four as in typical quartet games. The sets are colour-coded and cover themes such as: gangsters, inventors, famous male and female roles, musicians, revolutionaries, explorers, hollywood film stars and artists.

Above: The ‘Biography Channel Card Game’ published by A&E Television Networks media company, 2002. Images courtesy Amit Benyovits.


By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
View ArticlesCurator and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.