What's My Line?, I've Got A Secret, and To Tell the Truth

Colonel Sanders

 

If you feel very low, and ask what's the use,
watch To Tell The Truth w/ guest Dr Seuss;
it'll make you feel good, perhaps even great,
so let's take a trip to 1958...

 

Good clip! Wow...Merv plays the piano quite well.

It's Jerry Lieber's peak. Burt would dominate the next decade and his face would actually become famous.

And Norman Gimble would write dozens of songs after this!

 

Linda Laurie - "Ambrose Part 5"

 

The Name's the Same - Wikipedia

The Name's the Same was an American game show produced by Goodson-Todman for the ABC television network from December 5, 1951 to August 31, 1954, followed by a run from October 25, 1954 to October 7, 1955.

Game play
Each standard round featured a contestant who had a "famous name": the contestants full name was the same as either an actual person ("Jane Russell," "Abraham Lincoln," "Napoleon Bonaparte"), a place ("Virginia Beach," "Monte Carlo"), a thing ("A. Lap," "A. Table," "Ruby Lips", “A. Mattress”), or an action ("I. Draw", "Will Kiss").​

Note Reagan discussing the pronunciation of his name. IIRC it's pronounced "Ree-gan" in his WML appearance. My mother always pronounced it "Ree-gan", insisting that was the way she'd always heard it pronounced.

 

To Tell the Truth - Anne Frank's "hider", Victor Kugler (Sep 16, 1958)

 

Feb. 18 1963, features the story of Polish spy Pawel Monat who defected to the US in 1958, and has a surprise ending.​

 

Hair stylist Jay Sebring, who inspired the movie Shampoo. He was later murdered by the Manson family.

 

John T Scopes (Subject of the Scopes monkey trial & "Inherit The Wind")

 

Gene Roddenberry

 

Standby TTTT impostor

 

Berry Gordy. The Supremes; Orson Bean's father

 

Ray Yeager, wannabe country singer and brother of pinup photographer-model Bunny Yeager, discoverer of Bettie Page.



Musical Musings.: What ever happened to Ray Yeager and his "Big Ole Red" Guitar?

 

Eight-year-old musical child prodigy Joey Alfidi, "world's youngest symphony conductor"



Joseph Alfidi - Wikipedia

 

One of the classic WML guests. See if you can guess his line.(This board apparently doesn't allow time stamping so close your eyes from :52 to 1:05)

 

Bette Davis sings "Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte" on IGAS.

 

Ella Fitzgerald is the Mystery Guest

 

I spent many years working with Tom Poston.

 

Two icons have a secret: Buster Keaton and, in his only appearance in the medium he invented, Philo Farnsworth.

 

What's My Line? - Groucho Marx destroys the show; mystery guest Claudette Colbert (Sep 20, 1959)

Here it is, my vote for the single funniest episode of "What's My Line?" I suspect there are some folks out there who will find it irritating how much Groucho demolishes the format of the show around him, but everyone on stage appears to be loving it just as much as the audience is. One of Groucho's finest (half) hours after the breakup of the Marx Brothers as a team.​

 

Ann Southern demonstrates the Chamberlin (predecessor to the Mellotron) on I've Got A Secret