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What's My Line? 75th Anniversary
BillCullen1:
--- Quote from: Neumms on February 10, 2025, 04:27:05 PM ---Seeing a BUZZR bumper with Althea Gibson made me wonder, did the CBS runs of WML? or the others have any Black panelists? This isn’t to condemn them, I’m just curious. Maybe Nipsey toward the end of the run?
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IIRC, Nipsey was a panelist on the syndie WML. He was never on Daly's version.
Eric Paddon:
Harry Belafonte-6/11/61 and 10/21/62
Sammy Davis, Jr.-10/11/64.
Joan Murray-8/20/67 (The last "First time" guest panelist in the history of the CBS run. She was a journalist with WCBS-TV at the time)
calliaume:
--- Quote from: Eric Paddon on February 10, 2025, 06:49:14 PM ---Joan Murray-8/20/67 (The last "First time" guest panelist in the history of the CBS run. She was a journalist with WCBS-TV at the time)
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You wonder if the scheduled female panelist canceled on short notice. I was born and raised in the NYC area, and I had never heard of Joan Murray until reading this, although admittedly she left WCBS when I turned seven. (I just watched the intro of her episode on YouTube -- I wonder why her panel card said "Joan Murray" instead of "Miss Murray.")
Back to the subject at hand, I don't get the sense that Daly was super popular with the G-T family. Gil Fates' book seemed rather reserved about his contributions to the show (whereas he positively gushes over Larry Blyden), and Paul Alter's book proposal listed Daly as one of the worst people he had to work with (the others: Frank Sinatra, Steve & Eydie, Dawson, and Barker). TV Tropes claims (with no evidence) CBS discussed doing a M-F version of Line in 1963 but decided not to go forward when Daly refused to take part.
chris319:
How can one obtain a copy of Paul Alter's book proposal?
What was Paul's grievance against Barker?
Was 1963 the year CBS took over ownership of WML?
Adam Nedeff:
--- Quote from: calliaume on February 10, 2025, 09:13:12 PM ---Back to the subject at hand, I don't get the sense that Daly was super popular with the G-T family. Gil Fates' book seemed rather reserved about his contributions to the show (whereas he positively gushes over Larry Blyden), and Paul Alter's book proposal listed Daly as one of the worst people he had to work with (the others: Frank Sinatra, Steve & Eydie, Dawson, and Barker). TV Tropes claims (with no evidence) CBS discussed doing a M-F version of Line in 1963 but decided not to go forward when Daly refused to take part.
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When I interviewed Don Morrow 10 years ago, he told me this story--CBS called Allen Ludden one day during the run of College Bowl and asked if he was interested in becoming the new host of What's My Line? The network and Goodson/Todman were apparently having some issues with John during negotiations and John was starting to play hardball. Allen said yes, he'd be interested in taking over the show, and pretty much the moment that John Daly learned that Allen was interested in the job, he signed his new contract. So Goodson-Todman was absolutely ready to unload him at one point.
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