Thursday, October 18, 2012
WILL THE REAL ____ PLEASE STAND UP: Slate has a fascinating reminiscence from one of the last imposters to ever appear on the New York-taped version of To Tell The Truth. While NYC is now again a robust TV production town, both in terms of daily talk/chat shows and for scripted dramas, the game shows (with the exception of Millionaire) have never returned.
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I used to love Black & White Sunday Night on the Game Show Network. A whole night of To Tell the Truth, What's My Line?, I've Got a Secret, Beat the Clock, The Name's the Same, and original The Price Is Right. With random other ones thrown in from time to time. So many great panelists AND guests.
ReplyDeleteAnd the OUTFITS. My goodness, did audience members get dressed up to go watch a tv show get made. You'd see women IN CRINOLINES as contestants on Beat the Clock. If it was a potentially messy challenge, they'd get a coverall, but they'd still be in their high heel pumps!
iO9.com had an article today about "I've Got A Secret" from 1956, which had a 96-year-old man....who had been in Ford's Theatre at the Lincoln assassination. (Coincidentally, the last veteran of the US Civil War died in 1956).
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I was planning to blog that at some point. Absolutely fascinating, up there with the John Tyler's grandchildren thing.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many times he was asked, "other than that, how was the play?"
ReplyDeleteSince we're on the topic of old game shows. How cool was Bill Cullen? I never knew he had a severe disability until I went to his wiki page to see why he was famous at the time in the first place.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE Bill Cullen. I liked him best as a panelist on "I've Got a Secret" where he got to show more of his personality.
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