Mystery at Jacob's Well by Marcia Allen Bennett

ET slot where it would remain until the end of its network run on September 3, 1967. After airing alternate Wednesdays, then alternate Thursdays, finally on October 1, 1950, it had settled into its weekly Sunday 10:30 p.m. Produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS, the show was initially called Occupation Unknown before deciding on the name What's My Line? The original series, which was usually broadcast live, debuted on Thursday, February 2, 1950, at 8:00 p.m. TV Guide ranked it #9 in its list of the 60 greatest game shows ever and Time Magazine ranked it as one of the 100 'All-Time' TV shows ever.

New episodes have not been created for American television since December 12, 1974. Revivals in the United States were proposed several times, but all of them failed to go past the planning stages. There have been a dozen international versions, radio versions, and a live stage version. It was seen by viewers from 1968 to 1975.

This version originally was hosted by Wally Bruner and later by Larry Blyden. Īfter the Sunday-night series' cancellation by CBS in 1967, it returned in a syndication package for local television stations that committed to airing it five days a week. Every episode between July 1952 and September 1967 existed for a long time in the archive of producers Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, but some of these were lost in 1975. Many early episodes were lost because of economic decisions made by CBS executives between 19. More than 700 episodes exist as kinescope recordings (filming a television screen in 16mm), which was the only way moving pictures and sound from spontaneous, unscripted television shows could be preserved on a long-term basis before the digital era. Originally moderated by John Charles Daly and most frequently with regular panelists Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, and Bennett Cerf, What's My Line? won three Emmy Awards for 'Best Quiz or Audience Participation Show' in 1952, 1953, and 1958 and the Golden Globe Awards for Best TV Show in 1962. It is on the list of longest-running U.S. However, there was one weekly celebrity 'mystery guest' for which the panelists were blindfolded. The majority of the contestants were from the general public. The game uses celebrity panelists to question contestants in order to determine their occupation, i.e. What's My Line? is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, originally in black and white and later in color, with subsequent U.S. Lloyd Gross (1968–1975 syndicated version) American TV series or program What's My Line?

Mystery at Jacob's Well by Marcia Allen Bennett