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To Tell the Truth with guest William M. Gaines

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Thanks, Jim, for that specific clip! I've never seen that before. My family watched TTTT every night (was it every night or just once a week?). I grew up reading Mad and have some of the old MAD comic books. Unfortunately I don't have #1. A 2006 comic book value guide lists a value of $15,000. I have #5 which lists at $1,500 NM. But mine has a torn cover patched up with scotch tape.

JSngry Grand Master

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My family watched TTTT every night (was it every night or just once a week?).

As i remember it, it was on weekly in prime time, then went to daily afternoons, all on CBS. This was with Bud Collier. Then it went syndicated w/Garry Moore & was daily/nightly/whatever your local broadcaster wanted.

GSN ran reruns of the Moore-hosted shows forever, and I tell you what, other than the cosmetics, the show is timeless. Simple premise - who's a liar, and who's not? Really doesn't matter what the story is or when it's told, it's all about can you spot a liar.

Greatest show ever. I mean it.

Christiern Newbie

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There was a very similar show on NBC in 1961, produced by Goodson/Toddman and with Merv Griffin as host--anyone remember that one? I don't particularly care for this type of show, but I remember the one on NBC because they called me and wanted Ida Cox as a contestant. I brought her there and she did well, but I wish I knew the name of the show and wonder how there could be more than one based on the same ID game.

Jim, I don't share your enthusiasm for TTT, but thanks for pointing me to that site--it is addictive. I watched Ginger Rogers on the Jack Benny show and Tom Snyder interview Albert Goldman re his Elvis bio (Albert had Snyder get rid of the studio audience—he was better at attracting attention than he was at writing biographies, imo).

Apropos Goldman (and pardon the aside), here's how he inscribed his Lennon and Elvis books to me—"dark arts", the "N" word?

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Christiern Newbie

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Sounds very familiar. Could Merv have been a producer? The reason I know Merv was involved is that he called me (at Riverside) several days later and told me that I owed him one, meaning that he pulled strings to get Ida accepted (the Goodson/Toddman people panicked when I told them Ida had an appointment with an eye doctor). Merv asked me to come over to the NBC studio after the show, took me and one of the show's ushers (Vince Mauro) into another studio where he seated himself at a piano and accompanied Vince. He sounded okay, nothing special, but good enough for me to agree to do a single, which I did. The single was issued but went nowhere. Anyway, I will now look up "Play Your Hunch" and see if Merv was involved. Thanks for the tip.

Bingo!!!!

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I remember Play Your Hunch well. It was an NBC daily morning show hosted by Merv Griffin.

Allen, Ed McMahon was Johnny Carson's sidekick on Who Do You Trust?, which was an ABC daily afternoon show starring Johnny Carson. It was a copy of Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life, with Carson playing Groucho and McMahon playing George Fenneman.

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