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I had no idea, I mean, it's maybe a little too "cute" for my taste, but it explains a lot of things. And when Jackie steps out from behind the piano to reveal those black stockings...mission accomplished!

per Wicketpedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Collyer During his 1950s heyday with Beat The Clock and To Tell The Truth, he was a leader in an overtly anti-Communist faction of the New York chapter of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. That faction supported such publications as Red Channels (the famous list of 151 reputed Communists or reputed fellow travelers, as the term was then, in radio and television) and interest groups that shared the authors' politics—groups like AWARE, Inc. (co-founded, in fact, by the man who wrote Red Channels' introduction), purporting to screen broadcast performers for actual or alleged Communist ties, pressuring networks and advertisers to shun them under threat of boycott. An opposing faction, led by CBS radio personality John Henry Faulk and Orson Bean, defeated Collyer's faction in an election to run the New York union. Soooo.....that's some pretty intense stuff, yet Collyer & Orson Bean never appeared at odds on years of To Tell The Truth. I guess they worked it out? Or faked it really well? Or what, is Wicketpedia providing me with alternative facts here?

The original, then called "Keep Going Strong".

http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/02/to_kill_a_mockingbird_author_h.html Harper Lee's "second novel" will be released this July. (Actually a prequel novel she wrote before her famous only other novel, that has been AWOL for five decades).