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Date Posted: 07:42:04 04/25/12 Wed
Author: SWC
Subject: What's My Line

There are hudnreds of segments on U-Tube from the old quiz show "What's My Line?", from their original prime-time Sunday Night Run from 1950-67, (it was on Sunday Nights on CBS at 10:30- you could have watched Bonanza on NBC and then flipped over to watch first Candid Camera and then WML).

A typical show would have the panle trying to guess the professions of non-celebrities but the highlight of each show would be a "mystery gust: who would use a fake voice while the panel was blindfolded. Naturally, they preferred CBS stars rather than NBC but there were sone "western" mystery guests.

Paladin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LREIkfPPsuA

Rodd Redwing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPrsx_A1arY&feature=related

Steve McQueen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJZISP75SCU

James Garner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=GMfiuHHXwIw&feature=endscreen

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRIV8qrviCg

Here is a list of all the mystery guests they had:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_My_Line%3F_Mystery_Guests

Other TV western mystery guests I couldn't find clips for were Clint Eastwood, Hugh O'Brien and Clayton Moore. It's fun to look for WML mystery guests on U-Tube. Just type in the name and "What's My Line? They aren't all thyere but a great many of them are.

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[> Re: What's My Line -- Leah, 19:51:39 04/27/12 Fri [1]

Hey, that was a fun show. I think I must have missed out on the television good days. :(
Leah


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[> [> It's addictive -- SWC, 15:16:26 04/28/12 Sat [1]

Look at one and there's something in the right-hand column you want to see, too. I often play them for an hour or more, while I'm doing something else.

And it's such a simple concept, reliant entirely on the wit of the panel, host and guests and the oldest thing in comedy: the audience knowing something that somebody on stage doesn't know.


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[> [> [> They also have non-celebrities -- SWC, 19:11:21 04/28/12 Sat [1]

Most of the games invovled non-celebrities. This is one of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE7A4UFY0II


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