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JohnXXVII:
--- Quote from: Matt Ottinger on May 17, 2023, 04:19:30 PM ---
--- Quote from: JohnXXVII on May 17, 2023, 12:12:15 PM ---It's interesting how many "special" episodes have ended up missing. It's almost as if someone at the time decided to set those episodes aside, maybe so that they wouldn't end up lost, and by so doing, those episodes ended up lost.
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I have a slightly different theory that certain special episodes were probably meaningful to certain important people, so they just took them. It couldn't have possibly occurred to anybody that this archive was going to have value decades later, and therefore it had to be maintained perfectly. I strongly believe, for example, that Gil Fates took the 1960 election special out of the collection when he was writing his What's My Line? book, and then never bothered to return it.
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That's interesting! Do you think that makes it more likely that these special episodes still exist and could be recoverable? Maybe descendants still have them lying around some where?
Matt Ottinger:
--- Quote from: JohnXXVII on June 13, 2023, 01:54:22 PM ---That's interesting! Do you think that makes it more likely that these special episodes still exist and could be recoverable? Maybe descendants still have them lying around some where?
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I absolutely think that. A few years back, a couple dozen of us acquired an unsold Goodson-Todman pilot from a dealer who told me she picked it up at an estate sale in New England, and I am 100% convinced it was the estate of one of those old-school G-T staffers who were around the company forever.
JohnXXVII:
I notice that, especially in the later years, at the start of the show, whenever Bill is introduced, he is always mumbling to himself or trying to talk to others on the panel. He also does that during the intro on some other shows, like He Said, She Said; Tattletales; To Tell the Truth. Was there a reason for it? Or was it a joke? Or was it just a bad habit he got into?
Adam Nedeff:
--- Quote from: JohnXXVII on December 14, 2023, 01:34:07 AM ---I notice that, especially in the later years, at the start of the show, whenever Bill is introduced, he is always mumbling to himself or trying to talk to others on the panel. He also does that during the intro on some other shows, like He Said, She Said; Tattletales; To Tell the Truth. Was there a reason for it? Or was it a joke? Or was it just a bad habit he got into?
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You know how your local news opens with a shot of your anchorman looking at a stack of papers and then looking into the camera, as if he was in the middle of something when he was introduced? I'm thinking Bill's habit here was the same idea. It looks more natural than just blankly smiling for 10 seconds while waiting for somebody to say his name.
chris319:
I think Bill's mutterings are directed toward the audience; he's just saying them sotto voce. It's not like he's communicating with the demons in his head.
Has anyone else noticed that on IGAS Garry always seems to have a lit cigarette in his hand? Always. He's very adroit at changing hands when he needs to. I imagine he took puffs when he was not on camera.
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