 He co-hosted the annual West Coast Chabad Lubavitch telethon for eighteen years.In the 1950s and early 1960s, Murray hosted a number of TV game shows such as "Blind Date" (DuMont, 1953), "Dollar a Second" (1953–1957), his creation "Treasure Hunt" (1956–1959), "Charge Account" (also known as "The Jan Murray Show", 1960–1962), and "Chain Letter" (1966).Between 1966 and 1980, he was a regular panelist on "The Hollywood Squares", appearing in nearly 250 episodes.