A regular set of three celebrities,
paired each week with three guest celebrities, tried to identify famous
personalities from their partners' responses to odd questions.
("If
you were a piece of furniture, what piece of furniture would you
be?")
In a different game played occasionally by one of the three teams,
partners
took turns describing famous personalities any way they could for
additional
points, a precursor to the Pyramid main game.
Bill, Peggy Cass and
Larry Blyden
made up the original regular team, and Bill Leyden was the host.
Cullen left the show after a few weeks and his chair became a fourth
guest
seat. Starting on September 29, approximately halfway through the
show's
six-month run, Blyden took over as host. Bill returned the
following
week and stayed with the show for the final three months while Blyden's
chair became another rotating position.
All-celebrity games never
seem to
click with the viewing public (witness Personality and Password
All-Stars) and this oddity was no exception. It did, however,
manage to draw a few exceptional names in its half year on the air,
including
Burt Reynolds, William Shatner and Eli Wallach (see below).
VIDEO
No regular episodes are
known to
exist. The pilot, hosted by Broadway and soap veteran Ron
Husmann,
is available for viewing at The Paley Center in New York and Beverly
Hills. (The picture above is also from that pilot.) In the pilot, Bill,
Betsy Palmer and Larry
Blyden
were the "regular" panelists and in one round, they even played with
civilian
contestants.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
A detailed description of
the pilot
episode is available from Mike Burger's Game
Show Pilot Light.
The You're Putting Me On page on Wikipedia
EPISODE GUIDE
The series is almost
certainly lost
forever, but here, courtesy of researcher extraordinaire Brendan
McLaughlin,
are the celebrity line-ups for virtually every week of the series'
six-month
run. Why? Because he's as obsessive as we are, and his hard
work shouldn't go to waste.
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PILOT
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Bill Cullen
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Betsy Palmer
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Larry Blyden
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Joan Rivers
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Soupy Sales
|
Peggy Cass
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June 30
|
Bill Cullen
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Peggy Cass
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Larry Blyden
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Totie Fields
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Orson Bean
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Betsy Palmer
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July 7
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Bill
Cullen
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Peggy
Cass
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Larry Blyden
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Pat
Carroll
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Soupy
Sales
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Joan
Fontaine
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July 14
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Bill Cullen
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Peggy Cass
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Larry Blyden
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Brenda Vaccaro
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Jack Cassidy
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Kaye
Ballard
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July 21
|
Bill Cullen
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Peggy Cass
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Larry Blyden
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Vivian Vance
|
Nipsey Russell
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Shari
Lewis
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July 28
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Bill Cullen
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Peggy Cass
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Larry Blyden
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Rita Moreno
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Milt Kamen
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Anne
Meara
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August 4
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Jack Carter
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Peggy Cass
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Larry Blyden
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Vivian Vance
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Milt Kamen
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Joan
Fontaine
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August 11
|
Bill Cullen
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Peggy Cass
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Larry Blyden
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Vivian Vance
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William Shatner
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E.J.
Peaker
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August 18
|
Jack Cassidy
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Peggy Cass
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Larry Blyden
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Nancy Dussault
|
Jerry Stiller
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Anne
Meara
|
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August 25
|
Eli Wallach
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Peggy Cass
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Larry Blyden
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Chelsea Brown
|
Burt Reynolds
|
Anne
Jackson
|
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September 1
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Orson Bean
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Peggy Cass
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Larry Blyden
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Brenda Vaccaro
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Robert Morse
|
Anne
Meara
|
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September 8
|
Jack Carter
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Peggy Cass
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Larry Blyden
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Phyllis Newman
|
Jack Cassidy
|
Anne
Meara
|
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September 15
|
Dick Shawn
|
Peggy Cass
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Larry Blyden
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Sheila MacRae
|
Corbett
Monica
|
E.J.
Peaker
|
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September 22
|
Marty Allen
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Peggy Cass
|
Larry Blyden
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Brenda Vaccaro
|
Burt
Reynolds
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E.J.
Peaker
|
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September 29
|
Milt Kamen
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Peggy Cass
|
Mel Torme
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Joan Rivers
|
William
Shatner
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E.J.
Peaker
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October 6
|
Bill Cullen
|
Peggy Cass
|
Jack Cassidy
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Kaye Ballard
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Alejandro
Rey
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E.J.
Peaker
|
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October 13
|
Bill Cullen
|
Peggy Cass
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Nipsey Russell
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Tammy Grimes
|
Eli
Wallach
|
E.J.
Peaker
|
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October 20
|
Bill Cullen
|
Peggy Cass
|
Jack Carter
|
Phyllis Newman
|
Robert
Klein
|
E.J.
Peaker
|
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October 27
|
Bill Cullen
|
Peggy Cass
|
Orson Bean
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Brenda Vaccaro
|
Barry
Nelson
|
Phyllis
Diller
|
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November 3
|
Bill Cullen
|
Peggy Cass
|
Marty Allen
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Brenda Vaccaro
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Tiny Tim
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Phyllis
Diller
|
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November 10
|
Bill Cullen
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Peggy Cass
|
George Maharis
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Brenda Vaccaro
|
John
Forsythe
|
Emily
Yancy
|
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November 17
|
Bill Cullen
|
Peggy Cass
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Corbett Monica
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Brenda Vaccaro
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Alejandro
Rey
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Joan
Fontaine
|
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November 24
|
Bill Cullen
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Peggy Cass
|
Dick Shawn
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Totie Fields
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Soupy
Sales
|
Meredith
MacRae
|
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December 1
|
Bill Cullen
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Peggy Cass
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Jack Carter
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Brenda Vaccaro
|
Alejandro
Rey
|
Gwen
Verdon
|
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December 8
|
Bill Cullen
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Peggy Cass
|
Jim Backus
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Brenda Vaccaro
|
James
Mason
|
Nancy
Ames
|
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December 15
|
Bill Cullen
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Peggy Cass
|
Peter Lawford
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Brenda Vaccaro
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Corbett
Monica
|
Rita
Moreno
|
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December 22
|
Bill Cullen
|
Peggy Cass
|
Milt Kamen
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Brenda Vaccaro
|
Eli
Wallach
|
Barbara
McNair
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