|
 A
panel questions a team of three challengers trying to figure out which
one is actually the person all three claim to be.
For the entire run of this version, Bill, Peggy Cass and Kitty Carlisle were the regular panelists. In the mid-sixties, Cass and Carlisle had been appearing as regulars on the network version of TTTT while Bill was a panelist on I've Got A Secret. 195 episodes of To Tell The Truth were produced each season, enough for 39 weeks of programming. According to a 1975 magazine article, the shows were taped on Tuesdays, five per day, from mid-September to mid-June each season. In addition to being a panelist throughout
the long syndicated run of this series, Bill made frequent appearances
as host during Garry Moore's vacations and illness. According to Gil Fates,
in his marvelous book What's My Line?, Joe Garagiola took over as
the permanent replacement after Moore's retirement in 1977 because "Bill's
superlative gamesmanship was so missed on the panel."
To Tell The Truth has proven to be the most durable of the Goodson-Todman panel shows. From its original network run in the mid-fifties to the two-season remake that debuted in 2000, there have been five distinct versions and about twenty different people have filled the host's chair (probably more than for any other game show). Kitty Carlisle made a single appearance on the most recent version, making her the only celebrity to appear on the same game show in six different decades. VIDEO
FOR MORE INFORMATION
|
Two
years after this version ended, most of the same production staff worked
on a new version hosted by Canadian personality Robin Ward. Cullen,
Cass and Carlisle all made appearances on this one-season version, though
never all at the same time. Bill's panel work on the 1980 version
is chronicled on our page of Bill's 