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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1666263, member: 289"] The first great era of TV quiz shows, from 1950-67, was dominated by the producer team of Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, who created the classic shows “What’s My Line”, (WML), “I’ve Got a Secret” (IGAS), and “To Tell the Truth”, (TTT), among others. They were all guessing games- WML to guess the profession of the guest or the identity of a “mystery guest”, IGAS to guess the guest’s secret, and TTT to guess which of three contestants was actually who they claimed to be. Unlike flashier shows like “The $64,000 Question”, which got into trouble by feeding answers to guests the viewers liked, these shows just gave guests one shot and didn’t pay much money. As a result they were on a lot longer. The networks finally decided they had had their day and cancelled them all in 1967, although syndicated daytime versions appeared on and off in the years after that. In 1994, the Game Show Network was created. They got the rights to the Goodson-Todman shows and began showing them. They became very popular and many viewers taped them. Their rights to the G-T library then terminated and they showed other programs. They got the rights back in 1998-2003 and again the old shows were popular and many were taped by fans. These fans have posted many segments from these shows onto U-Tube. Many of them involve prominent sports figures. I decided to make a list of the ones I could find, with some comments about their appearances and post them on the Syracusefan.com “Other Sports” board in case anybody would like to view them. TTT, by its nature, avoided celebrities. A rare segment I could find of it that features a famous athlete was a 12/5/60 appearance by Wilma Rudolph, a few months after she’d won three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics in Rome. Can you imagine Michael Phelps appearing on TTT now with two other guys and the panel doesn’t know which one is him? But things were different in 1960. IGAS had celebrity guests and some were athletes but there are far fewer IGAS clips on U-Tube than WML, for some reason. Because of this, I’ve label this the “WML Project”, even thought I’ve included IGAS and TTT segments where I could find them. My plan is to make one post a day, although that might invovle multiple clips on the same celebrity or subject. I hope you enjoy them. [/QUOTE]

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