Tag: CBS
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LUCY on I’VE GOT A SECRET
1956 – 1966 “I’ve Got a Secret” is a panel game show derived from “What’s My Line?.” Instead of celebrity panelists trying to determine a contestant’s occupation, the panel tries to determine a contestant’s ‘secret’; something that is unusual, amazing, embarrassing, or humorous. The show premiered on June 19, 1952 on CBS and ran until…
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RIP Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Philip Roth. His 1969 novel PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT was so popular that a reference to it made its way into “Lucy the Crusader” (HL S3;E5) in October 1970. At a meeting of neighborhood consumer advocates, Lucy Carter asks if anyone has any other complaints, and calls upon Mrs. Pornoy (Kathleen Hughes), who talks…
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RIP Clint Walker ~ who is probably best remembered as the title character in “Cheyenne” (1955-1962), TV’s first hour-long western. In addition to his many film and TV credits, Walker appeared as Lucy Carmichael’s boyfriend, construction worker Frank Winslow in two episodes of “The Lucy Show” (1965 & 1966). In real life, he also had…
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LUCY on WHAT’S MY LINE?
1954-1965 “What’s My Line?” was a panel game show that aired on television from 1950 to 1967 on CBS. The game requires celebrity panelists to question a contestant in order to determine his or her occupation with panelists being called on to identify a weekly celebrity mystery guest. Guests entered and signed-in on a chalk…
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THE DANNY KAYE SHOW WITH LUCILLE BALL
November 11, 1962 Directed by Greg Garrison Written by Herbert Baker, Ernest Chambers, Sylvia Fine Danny Kaye (Host) was born David Kaminsky in 1911 and left school at the age of 13 to work in the Borscht Belt of Jewish resorts in the Catskill Mountains. It was there he learned the basics of show biz.…
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LUCY on HOUSE PARTY
February 1965 Art Linkletter (Host) was born in 1912 in Moose Jaw, Canada. He was the host of “House Party” (aka “The Linkletter Show”) which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and “People Are Funny,” on NBC radio and TV for 19 years. Linkletter had one of the longest marriages of any…
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LUCY ON “THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW” ~ PART 3
November 24, 1969 ~ S3;E9 Directed by Dave Powers Written by Bill Angelos, Stan Burns, Mike Marmer, Hal Goodman, Larry Klein, Don Hinkley, Kenny Solms, Gail Parent, Buz Kohan Cast Carol Burnett got her first big break on “The Paul Winchell Show” in 1955. A years later she was a regular on “The Garry Moore…
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LUCY ON “THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW” ~ PART 2
November 4, 1968 ~ S2;E6 Directed by Dave Powers Written by Bill Angelos, Stan Burns, Mike Marmer, Hal Goldman, Al Gordon, Don Hinkley, Kenny Solms, Gail Parent, Buz Kohan Cast Carol Burnett (Herself) got her first big break on “The Paul Winchell Show” in 1955. A years later she was a regular on “The Garry…
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