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131-429: William Lawrence Cullen (February 18, 1920 – July 7, 1990) was an American radio and television personality whose career spanned five decades. Known for appearing on game shows and later as a prolific game show host, he hosted 23 shows, earning the nickname "Dean of Game Show Hosts". Aside from his hosting duties, he appeared as a panelist/celebrity guest on many other game shows, including regular appearances on I've Got

262-453: A spin-off of Whose Line Is It Anyway? . It was canceled by the WB, but picked up shortly afterward by Comedy Central. The show's premise relied on the use of a green screen for some of the actors' improv interaction with each other. Animation on the screen was visible to the live audience and it was also inserted during post-production for the television audience. In 2011, Carey began hosting

393-697: A "dummy" crown. Starting with the August 11, 2019, episode, panelists who earn a perfect score win the "Doris Award," a gold-colored bust of Bowman. To date, three panelists have won the Doris Award: Oliver Hudson , on September 22, 2019; Deon Cole , on June 25, 2020; and Michael Strahan , on August 6, 2020. (Bowman had to play one round on Strahan's behalf, as he knew the central characters.) The first season featured three regular panelists: Betty White , NeNe Leakes , and Jalen Rose ; White has appeared on all three broadcast network versions of

524-756: A Millionaire , Carey selected the Ohio Library Foundation to receive his $ 500,000 winnings. He later went on to win an additional $ 32,000 on the second celebrity Millionaire , making him one of the biggest winning contestants on Millionaire who did not win the top prize. Carey also has played on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games for the Cleveland Public Library charity. In June 2007, he offered to donate up to $ 100,000 (in $ 10,000 increments) to

655-697: A Secret and To Tell the Truth . Cullen was born in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, the only child of William and Lillian Cullen. His father was a Ford dealer in Pittsburgh. He survived a childhood bout with polio that left him with significant physical limitations for the rest of his life. Cullen was a pre-med student at the University of Pittsburgh , but had to withdraw because of financial problems. After he achieved some success in radio, he returned to

786-627: A Secret , What's My Line? , To Tell the Truth , Personality , The Cross-Wits , Password , Password Plus , Match Game , Tattletales (with his wife Ann), Break the Bank , Shoot for the Stars , and all of the versions of Pyramid (excluding the $ 50,000 and $ 100,000 versions). Cullen hosted a number of pilots for his close friend, quiz producer Bob Stewart , who created The Price Is Right , Truth , and Password for Goodson-Todman and Pyramid for his own company. Cullen thus became

917-412: A backup to Wendell and Kalter. To Tell the Truth used three distinctive sets throughout its nine-year syndicated run. The first, designed by Theodore Cooper and making heavy use of the psychedelic art styles popular in the period, was used for the first two seasons and the first four weeks of the third; those designs were muted somewhat with pastel shades on the second set used from that point through

1048-593: A beat similar to "Peter Pan", and then to a Score Productions tune during its final CBS daytime season. Most episodes of the original nighttime run of the series were preserved on black-and-white kinescope , along with a few color videotape episodes. Only a handful of shows remain from the CBS daytime series' first three years because of the then-common practice of wiping videotapes and reusing them due to their high cost and limited storage space. Many daytime episodes (including some in color) from 1966 to 1968 exist, including

1179-535: A card with the number of their choice, without consulting the other panelists. Any panelist who knows one of the challengers or has another unfair advantage is required to recuse or disqualify themselves, which, for scoring purposes, is counted as an incorrect vote. They would also sit out of the questioning. Once the votes are in, the host asks, "Will the real [person's name] please stand up?" The central character then stands, often after some brief playful feinting and false starts among all three challengers. Occasionally,

1310-429: A curved staircase to the main stage level to play the game. Some subsequent versions would use a variation of the original set design; others did not and had all the action at floor level. On Monday, June 18, 1962, a daytime five-day-per-week edition was introduced, running at 3 p.m. Eastern Time. The daytime show, also hosted by Collyer, featured a separate panel for its first three years, with actress Phyllis Newman as

1441-488: A diet and exercise plan in 2010 and lost considerable weight, which he also claimed had cured his Type 2 diabetes. He had cataract surgery in 2020. Carey is an outspoken Libertarian . He said: I believe the answers to all the problems we face as a society won't come from Washington, it will come from us. So the way we decide to live our lives and our decisions about what we buy or don't buy are much more important than who we vote for. Carey expressed his distaste for

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1572-420: A game that resulted in five incorrect votes was worth $ 10,000 for the challengers. According to Steve Beverly's tvgameshows.net, this edition of Truth never received a rating higher than 1.8. It was cancelled on January 28, 2002, only 96 episodes into its second season. However, repeats continued to air through March 15, 2002. Episodes of this series have aired on GSN in reruns. ABC ordered six episodes of

1703-662: A genuine personality since the listeners complained that the voice sounded "soulless" and unlike the "real Drew". On April 21, 2023, it was announced that Carey would be featured in an upcoming four-episode documentary by ABC News titled The Game Show Show , covering the history of game shows in America over the last eight decades. The four-part documentary premiered on May 10, 2023. Carey has routinely written throughout his career. He wrote his own material in his early stand-up career before writing sitcoms. In 1997, Carey published his autobiography , Dirty Jokes and Beer: Stories of

1834-435: A group of 11 actors who perform in unscripted skits. The group joined Carey in all three of his improv shows, Whose Line Is It Anyway? , Drew Carey's Green Screen Show , and Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza , the 90-minute television special Drew Carey's Improv All Stars , and some members had major roles or guest-starred on The Drew Carey Show . The Improv All-Stars travel on comedy tours performing at comedy clubs throughout

1965-433: A half hour (a full hour, usually, on Eastern Time Zone stations) to fill with non-network fare between either the local or network evening newscast and the start of their networks' primetime schedules for the evening. Other stations found success running the program in place of a daytime network game or soap opera , or in the afternoon fringe time period between the end of network daytime programming at 4:30/3:30 Central and

2096-421: A lyrical, pop music-styled theme song written and composed by Score Productions chief Bob Israel and Truth producer Paul Alter , along with veteran theme composer Charles Fox ; an instrumental, and orchestral, version would be used for the 1990 series. The bulk of this version is intact. However, the current status of the first season is unknown, and is presumed to be lost to wiping . GSN has never rerun

2227-487: A model on Bill's The Price Is Right and made several appearances with him on Tattletales . She died on July 21, 2018, aged 90. Cullen contracted polio in August 1921, when he was 18 months old. The long-term effects of that illness, combined with injuries sustained in a serious motor vehicle accident in 1937 requiring a nine-month hospitalization, made it difficult for him to walk or stand for an extended period of time. Directors on his game shows took great care to limit

2358-400: A number of ways. Episodes lasted 60 minutes rather than 30 minutes. Most contestants introduce themselves solely by claiming the central character's story, rather than by name (e.g., "I was a Bond girl " rather than "My name is ..."); some panels have contestants of different genders. The questioning period is not split distinctly among the panelists, and Anderson and Bowman often participate in

2489-588: A primetime improv show, called Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza . It was filmed at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, and first aired on April 11. The show took on the premise of Whose Line? and Drew Carey's Green Screen Show in that it features many of the same performers from both shows and did improv based on audience-provided suggestions. Carey was one of the founders of the Improv All-Stars,

2620-492: A prop just a few steps from his podium. Similar accommodations were made when he appeared as a guest on other game shows. As a consequence of these arrangements, many of Cullen's peers were likewise unaware of his disability, which occasionally led to awkward situations. In the August 2010 issue of GQ under the heading "Epic Tales of Embarrassment", Mel Brooks related the following story to writer Steve Heisler: The week of October 17–21 in 1966—that would make me about 40—was

2751-522: A result of his dismissal, Carey sued A&W for compensation. Disney's Hollywood Studios (then "Disney-MGM Studios"), part of Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, debuted a 12-minute attraction in 1999 titled Sounds Dangerous! . In the show, a camera follows Carey through a day as an undercover detective. When his video camera fails, the audience is left in complete darkness wearing earphones following his adventure through sound cues. The attraction

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2882-598: A run that lasted only eight months, from September 3, 1990 (Labor Day) to May 31, 1991. Unlike previous versions that originated from New York, the 1990 version was taped at NBC's The Burbank Studios in California. The show's theme music was an orchestral remix of the 1969–78 theme (minus the lyrics), and the show utilized the block-letter logo from 1973 to 1978. All episodes of this series exist and have aired on GSN in reruns. Actor Richard Kline hosted two pilot episodes with Charlie O'Donnell as announcer; one of these

3013-538: A shower of feces, urine, tobacco spit, and cigarette butts. Shortly thereafter, celebrities Donnie Wahlberg , Jenny McCarthy and Montel Williams matched Carey's offer. Several teens were eventually charged and admitted to the prank, though they denied that there were feces in the bucket or that they knew the victim was diagnosed with autism. During the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, Carey arranged to pay for free meals for striking writers at two Los Angeles restaurants, Swingers and Bob's Big Boy . According to

3144-636: A special celebrity week on Eye Guess . Bill Cullen was the host. The game was very similar to Concentration . I was teamed up with Julia Meade . Remember her? Actress, very pretty young lady, blonde... Okay, never mind. I don't think I won, but I did get the take-home game. Anyway, the show is over, and I start walking toward the podium to say good night to Bill, to thank him for having me on. He starts coming toward me cross-stage, and I don't know what he's doing. His feet are flopping. His hands are flying everywhere. He's doing this kind of wacky walk-of-the-unfortunates that Jerry Lewis used to do. So I figured, what

3275-436: A taping with their son Matthew. The announcer for the 1990 series was Burton Richardson (O'Donnell served as his substitute). The celebrity panelists for To Tell the Truth during this period included several of the 1970s panel stalwarts, including Kitty Carlisle , who appeared on a majority of the shows, taking the fourth and most upstage seat. The first seat, furthest downstage, saw Ron Masak and Orson Bean alternate on

3406-479: A three-hour radio show called "Drew Carey's Friday Night Dance Party" which aired the last Friday of every month. In August 2018, Carey turned his monthly show into a weekly show called "The Friday Night Freak Out" which airs every Friday from 8:00pm to 11:00pm ET on SiriusXM. In 2018, Carey appeared in an episode of NCIS as a retired Marine. His character was a sergeant, the last rank he held in real life. Real pictures of him in dress blues and everyday garb were on

3537-424: A tie for the highest vote from the audience, and for each panelist who was disqualified, a wrong vote was counted. There was no consolation prize for no wrong votes. For the majority of the primetime run there was no audience vote, thus each wrong vote from the four-member panel paid $ 250, divided among the three challengers, for a possible $ 1,000 for a complete stump of four wrong answers. A consolation prize of $ 150

3668-539: A two-year run in syndication, starting in 2000, with John O'Hurley hosting, and Burton Richardson returning as the announcer. The series was again produced at NBC Studios in Burbank, California . Gary Stockdale supplied the music for this edition. In most markets, it was paired up with Family Feud , which was then hosted by Louie Anderson ; O'Hurley would eventually join that program in 2006 and host it until 2010, when Steve Harvey took over. Actor Meshach Taylor

3799-687: Is a minority owner of the Major League Soccer team Seattle Sounders FC , which won the MLS Cup, first in 2016 and again in 2019. Carey briefly participated in professional wrestling , entering the 2001 Royal Rumble , and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011. Carey was born in Cleveland , Ohio on May 23, 1958 to Lewis Carey and Beulah (née Neal). He is the youngest of three brothers (Neil, 1946–2010, and Roger, born 1952) and

3930-482: Is as big as getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame." In 2001, Carey was the first television actor to enter World Wrestling Federation's 30-man " Royal Rumble " match, which he did to promote an improv comedy pay-per-view at the time. He appeared in a few backstage segments before his brief participation in the match. Upon entering the ring, Carey stood unopposed for more than half a minute, but after

4061-667: Is now closed. In 2000, Carey was given a cameo appearance in the House Party expansion pack of the computer game The Sims . To make him appear, the characters in the game must throw a successful party, which causes Carey to arrive in a limo and join the festivities. Carey is a fan of The Sims series and during one April Fool's episode of The Drew Carey Show a scene takes place completely within The Sims . Carey made several other cameo appearances in music videos , including "Weird Al" Yankovic 's 1999 video for " It's All About

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4192-601: Is really crippled! It was my worst moment — and if you weren't me, probably the funniest thing that ever happened. In the fall of 1969, shortly after Eye Guess ended, Cullen fell seriously ill. Diagnosed with pancreatitis and requiring major surgery, Cullen took time off from work to recuperate. When he returned to television, particularly his position on the panel for To Tell The Truth , his physical appearance had drastically changed; along with letting his hair grow out, his pancreatitis had caused him to lose over 30 pounds (14 kg), leaving his face gaunt and wrinkled. Cullen

4323-674: The Bush administration 's management of the Iraq War , specifically on the September 14, 2007, episode of Real Time with Bill Maher . He made donations to Ron Paul 's presidential campaign for the 2008 election . On the September 26, 2008, episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson , Carey defined "libertarian" to host Craig Ferguson as "a conservative who still gets high ." In 2016 , he supported Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson in his run for office, and

4454-839: The Ed Sullivan Theater late in its run. The existence of an audience ticket for a taping indicates that the show originated in color at the CBS Broadcast Center in late 1966. Bud Collyer was the show's host ( Mike Wallace hosted the pilot); recurring panelists by the 1960s included Tom Poston , Peggy Cass , Orson Bean , and Kitty Carlisle . (Cass and Carlisle stayed on as panelists for most subsequent editions.) Earlier regular panelists included Johnny Carson , Polly Bergen , Jayne Meadows , Don Ameche , Hy Gardner , Dick Van Dyke , Faye Emerson , Hildy Parks , John Cameron Swayze , Betty White , and Ralph Bellamy . Bern Bennett , Collyer's announcer on Beat

4585-602: The Los Angeles Galaxy in 2006. Carey has shown his support for the Cleveland baseball team by throwing the first pitch at an August 12, 2006 game against the Kansas City Royals . He was rewarded by them for being "the greatest Indians fan alive" with a personal bobblehead doll made in his likeness that was given to fans. Carey responded to his bobblehead likeness by saying "Bobblehead Day, for me,

4716-708: The Travel Channel . In this series, Carey traveled throughout Germany to photograph multiple FIFA World Cup soccer games while he immerses himself in the culture of the towns and states he visits. Carey appeared in Matt Groening 's The Simpsons as part of the season 19 episode " All About Lisa " as a guest on the Krusty the Clown Show and again in Treehouse of Horror XXVII . He also surfaced in

4847-754: The United States Marine Corps . He underwent refractive surgery to correct his vision and, for a time, did not require glasses, but continued to wear them for purposes of recognition and celebrity identity. On the May 17, 2006, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! , Carey revealed that when he turned 40, he developed a need for bifocals. Carey proposed to Nicole Jaracz in 2007. The couple did not wed and called off their engagement in 2012. In January 2018, Carey announced his engagement to sex therapist Amie Harwick . They ended their engagement that November but remained close. On February 15, 2020, Harwick

4978-519: The pilot episode for Power of 10 , Carey was contacted by CBS about replacing Bob Barker who had earlier announced his own retirement as host of The Price Is Right . After initially turning down the offer, Carey announced on Late Show with David Letterman that he would succeed Barker as host of the program beginning in the fall of 2007. Carey's first episode of The Price Is Right was taped on August 15, 2007, and his shows began airing on October 15, 2007. In response to replacing Barker as host of

5109-508: The 1,800 guests, President George W. Bush , noting Carey's improv work, made a joke of his own: "Drew? Got any interest in the Middle East?" In 2003, he joined Jamie Kennedy to host the WB's live special Play for a Billion . In September 2003, Carey led a group of comedians, including Blake Clark and The Drew Carey Show ' s Kathy Kinney , on a comedy tour of Iraq. On June 8, 2006, Drew Carey's Sporting Adventures debuted on

5240-560: The 1956–1978 seasons. On September 8, 1980, a new To Tell the Truth series premiered in syndication. The new series emanated once again from Rockefeller Plaza in New York, and Canadian TV personality Robin Ward served as the host, with Alan Kalter returning as announcer. A new theme and set were commissioned for this edition of Truth. Even though previous regulars Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, and Kitty Carlisle made frequent appearances, there

5371-462: The 1970s; and later in his career Chain Reaction , Blockbusters , Child's Play , Hot Potato and The Joker's Wild (his final hosting job from 1984 to 1986, following the death of Jack Barry ). In a 1984 TV Guide article, Cullen commented on the ease with which he seemed to land his hosting jobs: "This is how it happens every time," says Cullen. A known packager comes up with

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5502-543: The American version of the improvisational comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway? in 1998. He would announce the improv cast, direct the games, and usually take part in the final game of the episode by improvising alongside the regular cast of performers. The show ran for a total of 220 episodes until cancellation in 2006 (it returned with host Aisha Tyler in 2013). In 1998, the New York Friars' Club made Carey

5633-460: The Clock , was the inaugural announcer of To Tell the Truth in the 1950s. Upon Bennett's transfer to CBS's Los Angeles studios, Johnny Olson , who in time became the best-known of all Goodson–Todman Productions announcers, joined the show in 1960 and remained with the show until 1972. On the pilot and the primetime run, three games were played per episode. For the pilot, a wrong vote from each of

5764-656: The Marine Corps Historic Half Marathon in 1:57:02; then, on September 4, 2011, he completed the Disneyland Half Marathon in 1:50:46. On October 30, 2011, Carey finished the Marine Corps Marathon with a chip time of 4:37:11, placing 10,149th out of 20,940. Carey is a supporter of libraries, crediting them for beginning his successful comedy career. On May 2, 2000, in a celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be

5895-585: The Mooch Myernick Memorial Fund if anybody could beat him at the video game FIFA Soccer 07 for the Xbox 360 . Carey dared five players from both the U.S. Men's and Women's National Teams to compete against him. He ended up donating $ 100,000, plus $ 60,000 for losing two games out of the six he played. In October 2009, Carey made a bid of $ 25,000 in a charity auction for the @drew Twitter account. He later increased his offer to $ 100,000 if

6026-754: The Pentiums " and Fountains of Wayne 's 2004 video for "Mexican Wine", giving an introduction to the video as if it were on a stage. On January 21, 2001, Carey entered as Vince McMahon 's guest entrant in the Royal Rumble match. Although primarily known for his television work, Carey has done limited film work with his first appearance in 1993's Coneheads . His next film was the 2000 television film Geppetto which debuted on The Wonderful World of Disney . The film, an adaptation of Pinocchio , included actor Wayne Brady who had joined Carey on his improv shows. Carey took singing lessons to prepare for

6157-511: The Truth ended production at the end of the season. Johnny Olson stayed with To Tell the Truth when it moved to syndication. He left in 1972, when he moved to Los Angeles to announce the Goodson-Todman revivals of The Price Is Right and I've Got a Secret . NBC staff announcer Bill Wendell succeeded Olson from 1972 to 1977, with Alan Kalter taking over during the final season. Don Pardo , also an NBC staff announcer, served as

6288-428: The Truth series that emanated from New York. The $ 50,000 Pyramid , which premiered at the midway point of the 1980-81 season, was the other; the series was taped at ABC’s Studio TV-15, the former Elysee Theater, on West 58th Street. These two would be the last non-cable productions to tape regularly in New York until 1999 when Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? premiered on ABC. To Tell the Truth returned to NBC for

6419-428: The U.S. version of the improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway? , both of which aired on ABC . He then appeared in several films, television series, music videos, a made-for-television film, and a computer game. Carey has hosted the game show The Price Is Right since October 15, 2007, on CBS . Carey is interested in a variety of sports and has worked as a photographer at U.S. National Team soccer games . He

6550-565: The United States. Beginning in 2007, Carey began hosting game shows , beginning with his April selection as host of the CBS game show pilot Power of 10 . The show ran from August 7, 2007, to January 23, 2008, and aired twice weekly during the late summer and early fall. Each game featured contestants predicting how a cross-section of Americans responded to questions covering a wide variety of topics in polls conducted by CBS. After taping

6681-471: The Unrefined , wherein he shared memories of his early childhood and of his father's death when he was eight. He also revealed that he was once molested , had suffered bouts of depression , and had made two suicide attempts by swallowing a large number of sleeping pills. The book discusses his college fraternity years while attending Kent State University and his professional career up to that time. It

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6812-540: The audience during this part of the game. For example, Hank Ketcham , the creator of Dennis the Menace and a challenger on the original To Tell the Truth in May 1962, tried during the show's Christmas Day episode to convince an audience member that he was really the songwriter to " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer " ( Johnny Marks had actually done this), but was unsuccessful in doing so. The show then had

6943-454: The central character would be asked to do something else related to his or her story instead of standing up. The two impostors then reveal their real names and their actual occupations. Prize money is awarded and divided among all three of the challengers, based on the number of incorrect votes received by the impostors. To Tell the Truth was to have premiered on Tuesday, December 18, 1956, on CBS in primetime as Nothing But The Truth , but

7074-408: The central character. The announcer typically asks the challengers, who stand side by side, "What is your name, please?" Each challenger then states, "My name is [central character's name]." The celebrity panelists then read along as the host reads aloud a signed affidavit about the central character. The panelists are each given a period of time to question the challengers. Questions are directed to

7205-413: The challengers by number (designated "Number One," "Number Two" and "Number Three"), with the central character sworn to give truthful answers, and the impostors permitted to lie and pretend to be the central character. After questioning is complete, each member of the panel votes on which of the challengers he or she believes to be the central character, either by writing the number on a card or holding up

7336-515: The character of a hapless middle-class bachelor. In 1993, Carey had a small role in the film Coneheads as a taxi passenger. In 1994, he co-starred with John Caponera in The Good Life , a short-lived sitcom on NBC . After the show was cancelled, Bruce Helford , a writer on the show, hired Carey as a consultant for the television show Someone Like Me . After their stint on Someone Like Me , Carey and Helford developed and produced

7467-610: The color finale. Reruns of the black-and-white kinescopes have been shown on Buzzr and Game Show Network . To Tell the Truth returned only a year later, in autumn of 1969, in first-run syndication. During the early years of its run, the syndicated Truth became a highly-rated component of stations' early-evening schedules after the Federal Communications Commission imposed the Prime Time Access Rule in 1971, opening up at least

7598-491: The couch next to his desk; this was considered a rare honor for any comedian. In that same year, Carey joined the 14th Annual Young Comedians Special on HBO and made his first appearance on Late Night with David Letterman . In 1994, Carey wrote his own stand-up comedy special, Drew Carey: Human Cartoon , which aired on Showtime and won a CableACE Award for Best Writing. Carey's early stand-up career led to supporting roles on television shows during which he developed

7729-399: The daytime series featured regularly starting in 1965. The episode was one of the large majority of To Tell the Truth daytime episodes that were destroyed because of the common practice of wiping videotape for reuse, prior to the development of less expensive technology. This was a different half-hour telecast from the 1962 primetime episode on which Kilgallen can be seen and heard as one of

7860-493: The evening newscasts. Like the network editions that preceded it, the syndicated To Tell the Truth taped its episodes in New York for its entire run. Initially occupying the same studio space at the Ed Sullivan Theater that it had for the last few years of the network series, the show would eventually move operations to NBC's studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in the early 1970s. Each wrong vote in this version

7991-418: The extent that Cullen was shown walking on camera. Each show's set was designed to accommodate Cullen's limited range of motion ; the podiums, game boards, props, and any physical movements by contestants were arranged so that Cullen could, for the most part, remain stationary. Rather than making an elaborate entrance like most game show hosts, Cullen began each show either already seated or hidden on set behind

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8122-410: The fact applied to that impostor. Wrong votes still paid $ 100, with $ 500 paid if the panel did not correctly determine to whom the fact pertained. The 1980 edition of To Tell the Truth was a rarity in that it was still based in New York while nearly all television game show production had moved to California by this point. There was only one other game show in production during the run of this To Tell

8253-418: The final bonus round puzzle. On March 24, 2023, Carey experimented with an artificial clone of his voice on his "The Friday Night Freak Out" Underground Garage radio show, using a beta version of ElevenLabs and ChatGPT -generated jokes. The line "even Drew Carey can use it" was generated by prompting the chatbot to create a joke about how easy it can be used. Carey concluded that the audience still prefers

8384-420: The first 30 weeks of the fourth season. The third—and longest-lived—set, which Cooper also designed, was a mostly-blue block motif with gold accents, and included a large on-stage representation of the show's new logo, which made use of stacking and interlocking letters, behind the panel. This set was used for the remainder of the run, and the logo would be reused on the future 1990 revival. This version featured

8515-525: The first season of the show, and had always begun with the second season, in 1970. One episode from the first season exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive . Buzzr began airing episodes from 1973 in October 2018. On the October 5, 1973, episode, one of the challengers was Georg Olden , who disclosed that he was the graphic designer who created the "To Tell the Truth man" icon that was used during

8646-544: The first seasons, then renegotiated for $ 300,000. By the final season, he was earning $ 750,000 per episode. The show had high ratings for its first few seasons, but declining ratings and increasing production costs (around $ 3 million per episode) precipitated its cancellation. The program had a total of 233 episodes over its nine-year run and Carey was one of four actors to appear in every season. While still starring in The Drew Carey Show , Carey began hosting

8777-401: The first year, Peggy Cass , Kitty Carlisle and Bill Cullen , who was also the designated substitute host whenever necessary. Many regulars from the original run appeared, including Tom Poston and Bert Convy . Semi-regulars during the 1968–73 time period included Gene Rayburn , Joe Garagiola , Alan Alda , Tony Roberts and Nipsey Russell . In late 1976, during the eighth season, Moore

8908-400: The four-member panel and one wrong vote derived from the majority vote of the audience (a total of five votes) paid $ 300, the total prize money divided among the three challengers. The studio audience also voted, with the majority vote counting equally with that of one by a celebrity panelist; thus, the maximum of five incorrect votes resulted in $ 1,500 divided among the challengers. If there was

9039-437: The game show, Carey stated, "You can't replace Bob Barker. I don't compare myself to anybody... It's only about what you're doing and supposed to do, and I feel like I'm supposed to be doing this." When Carey began hosting, the set, theme music, and show logo were updated. Carey has retained the application of Barker's closing comment about spaying and neutering pets. In 2022, Carey celebrated his fifteenth anniversary as host of

9170-530: The guest's secret was anything sports-related or mechanical, because chances were good that he would guess it immediately. During his television career, Cullen was nominated three times for Emmy Awards; his only win was a Primetime Emmy for hosting Three On A Match (1973). He was later nominated for Daytime Emmys for his work on Blockbusters (1982) and Hot Potato (1985). Throughout his entire career in radio and television, Cullen hosted more than 25,000 individual episodes of radio and television shows. Cullen

9301-541: The hell, I'll join him. I start doing, I dunno, this multiple-sclerosis walk, flapping my arms and doing the Milton Berle cross legs—my own Jerry Lewis impression... And Julia is whispering, "No! He's crippled, Mel!" I don't even hear her. Finally we meet in the middle, we hug, and he says to me, "You know, you're the only comic who's ever had the nerve to make fun of my crippled walk. Everyone's so careful, it makes me feel even worse." And I realize, Oh, my God, this guy

9432-409: The hosting position. Using a baseball term for "substitute," Garagiola stated that he was " pinch hitter " for Moore, who returned to the series for a farewell performance on the ninth-season premiere in 1977. Moore explained why he had left the program, then after presiding over one last game, announced his final retirement from television and handed the host position to Garagiola permanently. To Tell

9563-483: The idea for a new show. The network says, do a run-through. They do. The network likes it, and they say, we'll give you a pilot. Then the network says, Who are we going to get to host it? Packager: Who do you have in mind? Network: Let's go with someone new. Packager: Great idea. Who? Network: Don't you know anybody? Packager: No. There's so-and-so, but we tried him in a run-through and he didn't work out ... How about you? You know someone? Network: No. Now,

9694-419: The impostors, Bowman also plays on their behalf. When Anderson's family appeared on Celebrity Family Feud , the behavior of "Mama Doris" was so outrageous that the producers approached Anderson about having her on To Tell The Truth . The first season also included a house band, Cheche and His Band of Liars, and David Scott as an offstage announcer. The 2016 version of the show departed from prior versions in

9825-454: The initial daytime and primetime versions of The Price Is Right , another Goodson-Todman production. He was also a panelist on I've Got a Secret from 1952 to 1967, and To Tell the Truth from 1969 to 1978, where he also guest-hosted on occasion. After relocating to Southern California , Cullen guest-hosted Password Plus for four weeks in April 1980 while original host Allen Ludden

9956-658: The library and check out books on how to write jokes. The following year, after winning an open mic contest, Carey became Master of Ceremonies at the Cleveland Comedy Club. He performed at comedy clubs over the next few years in Cleveland and Los Angeles. Carey's first national exposure was competing in the 1988 Star Search . Carey was working as a stand-up comedian when he appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in November 1991. His performance that night impressed Carson, who invited Carey to

10087-406: The male panelists escorting the female panelists down the set's main staircase, followed by the host. For one week, Monty Hall (who would later replace Bob Hilton as a permanent guest host on the 1990 version of Let's Make a Deal ) sat in the first seat. Two games were played with two sets of impostors. Any incorrect votes up to two paid $ 1,000. If three of the panelists had voted incorrectly,

10218-594: The newest inductee of the group's Comedy Central Roast . His friend Ryan Stiles (who costarred in The Drew Carey Show and Whose Line Is It Anyway? ) served as the roastmaster. Carey's income from Whose Line Is It Anyway? and The Drew Carey Show led to his inclusion on the Forbes list of highest-paid entertainers of 1998, at 24th with $ 45.5 million. For the WB's 2004–2005 prime time schedule, Carey co-produced and starred in Drew Carey's Green Screen Show ,

10349-468: The next entrant, Kane , refused a monetary bribe, Carey eliminated himself from the match by jumping over the top rope and retreating from ringside. On April 2, 2011, Carey was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Kane. Carey competed against five other celebrities in the first celebrity edition of the 2003 World Poker Tour . He placed fifth, beating the only other actor, Jack Black . Carey won $ 2,000 for his charity. On May 15, 2011, Carey completed

10480-485: The number of followers of his account @DrewFromTV reached 100,000 by the end of the auction. In an interview with CBS News, he said he would instead donate $ 1 million to the charity Livestrong Foundation if his follower count reached one million by December 31, 2009. In September 2014, Carey promised $ 10,000 to help find the perpetrators of a faked "ice bucket challenge" involving an autistic 15-year-old Ohio boy who, instead of being doused in ice cubes and water, received

10611-420: The only person to host each of these formats on a full- or part-time basis. He also appeared as a panelist on game shows hosted by his favorite understudy, Bob Eubanks , including Trivia Trap , Rhyme and Reason , and All Star Secrets , and he made guest appearances with Eubanks on Family Feud . In 1982, Cullen made an appearance on The Price Is Right to promote his new game show, Child's Play . It

10742-448: The only regular. The evening panel took over the afternoon show in 1965; in early 1968, Bert Convy replaced Poston in the first chair. The daytime show was reduced to two games to accommodate a five-minute CBS news bulletin towards the half-hour mark. On the CBS daytime run, each wrong vote paid the three challengers $ 100 for a possible total of $ 400 divided among the three challengers for a "complete stump" of all four wrong votes. If all

10873-580: The panel for 34 of the 39 weeks the series was on air. The chair next to that was occupied by rotating guests, although voice actress Dana Hill appeared in the seat most often. The third chair most often featured David Niven Jr. as a panelist, although Masak and Bean would also sit there if both were to appear on the same program. Polly Bergen and Peggy Cass , who began appearing on the original series, would appear from time to time, and other frequent panelists included Vicki Lawrence , Cindy Adams , and Betty White . The panelists were introduced in twos, with

11004-491: The panelists. Panelists receive 10 points for correctly identifying the central character, or 20 points for the final round (1 and 2 points in earlier episodes). At the end of the episode, the losing panelist is subjected to some sort of minor humiliation; if panelists are tied, Bowman chooses the loser. In season one, the losing panelist was subjected to "Tweet a Lie," in which Anderson posted an embarrassing tweet to that panelist's Twitter account. Losing contestants are given

11135-462: The panelists. Game Show Network repeated that episode decades later. The primetime show ended on May 22, 1967, with the daytime show ending on September 6, 1968. The latter was replaced by the expansions of Search for Tomorrow and Guiding Light , the last two remaining 15-minute programs on daytime television, to 30 minutes apiece, in a scheduling shuffle with The Edge of Night , The Secret Storm , and Art Linkletter's House Party . Like

11266-470: The plasma screen in the squad room. In 2020, Carey appeared as a contestant in season three of The Masked Singer as "Llama" where the costume had a centaur-like build to it. He was the second to be eliminated. In 2021, Carey participated in Celebrity Wheel of Fortune alongside Teri Hatcher and Chrissy Metz . He beat his fellow competitors in the first bonus round, but failed to solve

11397-412: The players split $ 1,500. On the pilot, each incorrect vote earned $ 500. If the panel was fooled entirely, the players split $ 3,000. After the second game, a new version of the "One on One" game from the 1980 series was played. A seventh civilian player was brought out with two stories, and a member of the studio audience was given an opportunity to win money by trying to figure out which of the two stories

11528-413: The primetime version, the daytime show's popularity underwent a steady decline toward the end of its run, as it faced two popular daytime dramas on ABC and NBC, General Hospital and Another World , respectively. Metropole Orchestra leader Dolf van der Linden composed the show's first theme, "Peter Pan", used from 1956 to 1961. From 1961 to 1967, the show switched to a Bob Cobert -penned theme with

11659-474: The program title was changed to To Tell the Truth the day before the show's debut. (There was one pilot episode titled "Nothing But The Truth"; both the planned and eventual titles derive from the standard English court oath "to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.") The series was recorded in New York City, initially at CBS Studio 52 (the future Studio 54 ), before moving to

11790-420: The questioning. Once in each episode, the two impostors from a single round participate in "Before You Go," a second round in which one is the central character and the other is again an impostor. Many episodes include a demonstration by one of the central characters. No mention is made of financial compensation for the impostors or the central characters, as the show presents itself mainly as a competition between

11921-411: The role. In 2005, Carey appeared in three films: the animated film Robots where he provided a voice-over for the character Crank ; The Aristocrats where he retold a dirty joke along with other celebrities; and the documentary Fuck where he was interviewed. Carey provided the entertainment for the 2002 Annual White House correspondents' dinner. Once Carey completed his stand-up routine for

12052-510: The second season of Community playing a well-liked former boss to Jeff Winger. On March 4, 2014, it was announced on Good Morning America that Carey would compete on the season 18 of Dancing with the Stars . He was partnered with professional dancer Cheryl Burke . They were eliminated during the sixth week of the competition, finishing in 8th place. Carey has also been a longtime host on SiriusXM channel, Little Steven's Underground Garage radio channel, where for 10 years he hosted

12183-467: The series after its initial 1969 release opted to carry the show for another season or two after 1978 in order to catch up on the episodes that had not aired in their viewing area. To host the revival series, Goodson and Todman made a call to original host Bud Collyer; however, Collyer had been suffering from a series of health issues that led to his death on the day the 1969 series premiered, and he told them "I'm just not up to it." The next call they made

12314-403: The sets are constructed, the game is worked out, the staff is hired, it's two weeks before the show is to go on, they are ready to shoot the pilot. Network: Well, have you thought of anybody yet? Packager: No. Network: Let's go with Bill Cullen. That's almost exactly how NBC picked the host of Hot Potato . Cullen appeared as a celebrity guest on many other game shows, including I've Got

12445-431: The show was revived in syndication , with Garry Moore as the first host. Former panelist and frequent guest host Joe Garagiola took over in 1977, following Moore's health issues. Garagiola hosted until the show's cancellation. Robin Ward hosted a 1980–81 syndicated revival of the program, and a 1990–91 revival on NBC featured a succession of different hosts: Gordon Elliott , Lynn Swann and Alex Trebek . The show

12576-408: The show's daytime host until his retirement in 2007. Occasional references to Cullen have been made by current The Price Is Right host Drew Carey . Other game shows Cullen hosted included Eye Guess in the 1960s; Three on a Match , Blankety Blanks , The Love Experts , How Do You Like Your Eggs? (QUBE cable interactive program) and the syndicated version of The $ 25,000 Pyramid in

12707-473: The show, hosted by Anthony Anderson , which taped in July 2015 and began airing on ABC on June 14, 2016. Anderson is the second African-American host of the franchise; the first was Lynn Swann on the short-lived 1990 NBC daytime version. Also appearing on the new series was Doris Day Bowman, Anderson's mother, presented as the "scorekeeper." In some cases, where a panelist knows the central character or one of

12838-433: The show. In season two, the regular panelists were eliminated (as was the house band), although Rose still made occasional appearances. Drew Carey Drew Allison Carey (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedian, actor, and game show host. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and making a name for himself in stand-up comedy , Carey gained stardom in his own sitcom , The Drew Carey Show , and as host of

12969-535: The show. When Bob Barker died on August 26, 2023, at the age of 99 from natural causes related to Alzheimer's disease , Carey hosted a one-hour special detailing the life and career of his predecessor. Carey began appearing in commercials for restaurants in the late 1990s in Canada with The Great Root Bear , but his two-year contract with A&W Food Services of Canada was cut short in November 1998 after an episode of The Drew Carey Show featured McDonald's . As

13100-453: The storyline for The Drew Carey Show . The sitcom revolved around a fictionalized version of Carey, as he took on the stresses of life and work with his group of childhood friends. The show premiered on September 13, 1995, on ABC . In his autobiography, Carey revealed his frustration with having to deal with censors and being unable to employ the off-color humor common in his stand-up routines. Carey initially earned $ 60,000 per episode in

13231-458: The subject. After the second game, a new game called "One on One" was played with the four impostors from earlier. One fact had been purposely withheld from the panel about one of the impostors and it was up to the panelists to determine correctly to which of the impostors it applied. One at a time, each panelist would be given twenty seconds to question the impostor sitting directly across from him or her and would then say whether he or she believed

13362-783: The summer of 1950, he was quizmaster on Hit the Jackpot , the summer replacement for Amos 'n' Andy on CBS radio. After a brief stint at WNEW in 1951, he hosted a popular morning show at WNBC radio from 1955 to 1961. Cullen was a pilot for the United States Army Air Forces in World War II. Cullen served in the Civil Air Patrol as an instructor and patrol aircraft pilot in his native Pennsylvania during World War II (having failed to qualify for combat duty due to his physical disabilities), and

13493-466: The university and earned a bachelor's degree. Cullen's broadcasting career began in 1939 in Pittsburgh at WWSW radio, where he worked as a disc jockey and play-by-play announcer or color commentator for Pittsburgh Steelers ( NFL ) and Pittsburgh Hornets (minor league hockey) games. In 1943, Cullen left WWSW for a brief job at rival station KDKA before leaving Pittsburgh a year later to try his luck in New York. A week after arriving in New York, he

13624-697: The university, Carey enlisted into the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1980 and served for six years as a field radio operator in the 25th Marine Regiment in Ohio. He moved to Las Vegas for a few months in 1983 and for a short time worked as a bank teller and a waiter at Denny's . In 1985, Carey began his comedy career by following a suggestion by David Lawrence (a disc jockey friend who had been paying Carey to write jokes for Lawrence's radio show in Cleveland) to go to

13755-424: The votes were correct, the challengers split a consolation prize of $ 75. During the show's final year and a half, the studio audience also voted, with the majority vote counting equally with that of one of the celebrity panelists, thus a maximum of $ 500 divided among the challengers could be awarded for the maximum five incorrect votes. If there was a tie for the highest vote from the audience, and for each panelist who

13886-570: Was a midget-car racer , and he was a member of the United States Civil Air Patrol . Cullen was a heavy smoker, and died of lung cancer in 1990. His widow, Ann Roemheld Macomber, died on July 21, 2018. To Tell the Truth The show was created by Bob Stewart and originally produced by Mark Goodson–Bill Todman Productions . It first aired on CBS from 1956 to 1968 with Bud Collyer as host. From 1969 to 1978,

14017-587: Was accidentally aired as the premiere episode in the Eastern and Central time zones. Australian A Current Affair reporter Gordon Elliott hosted To Tell the Truth for its first eight weeks (September 3 to October 26, 1990). The bespectacled Elliott bore a passing resemblance to former To Tell the Truth emcee and panelist Bill Cullen. A dispute with Elliott's former employers in Australia temporarily forced him off American television altogether; his replacement

14148-403: Was awarded and divided among the three challengers if there were no wrong votes. For each panelist who was disqualified, a wrong vote was counted. A design element in the set for this series was a platform situated directly above and behind the emcee's desk. The contestants stood on this platform during their introduction, allowing the camera to pan directly down to the host. They then traveled down

14279-430: Was being treated for stomach cancer. Cullen was initially in the running to host the 1972 revival of The Price Is Right , but the physical demands of the new format were deemed too strenuous for him. Consequently, when CBS picked up the daytime version, Bob Barker was selected to host the daytime version while Dennis James (who sold the pilot with Mark Goodson) hosted the syndicated nighttime version. Barker remained

14410-487: Was circulated by wire services. The breaking news story prompted CBS newscaster Douglas Edwards to announce her death immediately after the episode ended. She had videotaped the program six days earlier, according to the New York Herald Tribune . The newspaper added that Kilgallen and Arlene Francis both pretended to be Joan Crawford while sitting next to the real Crawford in a celebrity segment that

14541-466: Was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and left for the remainder of the season to deal with his illness. As he had done numerous times before, Bill Cullen became his replacement. As Cullen's time as host continued on, Mark Goodson noted how Cullen's serving as host, rather than as a panelist, hurt the chemistry he had shared with Cass and Carlisle. A decision was made to have Cullen return to the panel permanently and give semi-regular panelist Joe Garagiola

14672-414: Was disqualified, a wrong vote was counted. The audience vote was utilized on the nighttime show for its final six episodes (increasing the maximum possible payout to $ 1,250). One CBS daytime episode featuring Dorothy Kilgallen , best known as a regular panelist on What's My Line? , was broadcast in the Eastern, Central, and Mountain time zones on Monday, November 8, 1965, as news of her sudden death

14803-404: Was featured in every show that year. Kitty Carlisle appeared as a panelist for one episode in the first season, making her the only panelist to have appeared on all incarnations of this show to that point. It was Carlisle's final appearance in the franchise before her death in 2007. This edition of To Tell the Truth brought back the audience vote that the original series had last used. Its vote

14934-438: Was featured on The New York Times bestseller list for three months. Carey can sometimes be seen on the sidelines of U.S. National Team soccer games as a press photographer. His images are sold via wire services under the pseudonym Brooks Parkenridge . He was at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in the summer of 2006, for his television show Drew Carey's Sporting Adventures . Carey adopted his crew cut hairstyle while serving in

15065-500: Was found dead in a Hollywood Hills neighborhood and her ex-boyfriend, Gareth Pursehouse, was arrested in Feb, 2020, and in 2023 convicted of her murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Carey is a Buddhist . After suffering chest pains while filming The Drew Carey Show in August 2001, Carey underwent a coronary angioplasty . Although his weight was a comedic topic throughout his sitcom and improv shows, Carey began

15196-466: Was hired as a staff announcer at CBS . To supplement his then-meager income, he became a freelance joke writer for some of the top radio stars of the day, including Arthur Godfrey , Danny Kaye , and Jack Benny ; he also worked as a staff writer for the Easy Aces radio show. His first venture into game shows was in 1945, when he was hired as announcer for a radio quiz called Give And Take . In

15327-565: Was interested in mechanics. Cullen's first television game show was the TV version of Winner Take All , which premiered on NBC in 1952. In 1953, Cullen had The Bill Cullen Show , a weekly morning variety program on CBS. He hosted Bank on the Stars in 1954. From 1954 to 1955, he hosted NBC's Place the Face , a program in which celebrities identified people from their past; he simultaneously hosted CBS's Name That Tune . From 1956 to 1965, he hosted

15458-530: Was made an Honorary Chair of the campaign for California. Carey has voiced his political beliefs in several interviews, and in 1998, led a "smoke-in" in defiance of California's newly passed no-smoking ordinance inside bars and restaurants. He has hosted a series of mini-documentaries, The Drew Carey Project, on Reason.tv, an online project of Reason Foundation , a libertarian-oriented nonprofit think tank on whose board of trustees he sits. The first episode, "Gridlock", addresses private highway ownership and

15589-489: Was married three times and had no children. His first marriage was a brief one while still living in Pittsburgh. His second marriage (1948–1955) was to singer Carol Ames. On December 24, 1955, Cullen married former dancer and model Ann Roemheld Macomber, born Elise Ann Roemheld (whose sister was, at the time, married to game show announcer and future emcee Jack Narz ), the daughter of composer Heinz Roemheld ; this marriage lasted until his death in 1990. She occasionally worked as

15720-433: Was no regular panel for this edition. The new Truth aired for one season in syndication, but it never recaptured the popularity of the original, and aired its final episode on June 12, 1981, with reruns airing until September 11, 1981. Two games were played, and each wrong vote paid the challengers $ 100; $ 500 was paid if the entire panel had been fooled. No consolation prize was given if the entire panel correctly identified

15851-663: Was part of the pregame ceremonies at the first game of the return of the Browns, televised on ESPN . Carey attended the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany and the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Carey is a minority owner of the Seattle Sounders FC who began to play in Major League Soccer on March 19, 2009, and won two MLS Cups (2016, 2019). Carey is a fan of FC Barcelona and was a season ticket holder for

15982-527: Was raised in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland. When Drew was eight years old, his father died from a heart attack . Drew played the cornet and trumpet in the marching band of James Ford Rhodes High School from which he graduated in 1976. Carey continued on to college at Kent State University (KSU) and was a part of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity . He was expelled twice for poor academic performance and left KSU after three years. Upon leaving

16113-485: Was released on October 15, 2007. Other episodes discuss topics such as eminent domain , urban traffic congestion, and medical marijuana . Carey endorsed and donated money to Joe Biden in the 2020 United States Presidential Election . Earlier in the cycle, he also donated to Tulsi Gabbard and Bill Weld . Carey is a devoted fan of the U.S. National Soccer Team , Cleveland Browns , Cleveland Cavaliers , Cleveland Guardians , and Columbus Blue Jackets . In 1999, he

16244-423: Was revealed after the panel had cast their votes, just before O'Hurley asked for the subject to identify himself or herself. Each incorrect vote paid $ 1,000, with a maximum of $ 5,000 available if the challengers managed to completely fool both the panel and the audience. (A tie in the audience vote or panel disqualification counted as a wrong vote, as they had in previous versions.) In the first several weeks of shows,

16375-452: Was revived again in syndication from 2000 to 2002 with John O'Hurley as host. The most recent version aired on ABC from 2016 to 2022 with Anthony Anderson as host. Although there have been some variations in the rules over the years (including the addition of a secondary game in some versions), certain basic aspects have remained consistent throughout all versions of To Tell the Truth. Three challengers are introduced, all claiming to be

16506-409: Was the only regular to appear on every episode of this edition, while Paula Poundstone was a regular during the first season. Panelists appearing in at least six weeks of episodes included Brooke Burns , Dave Coulier , Brad Sherwood , Traci Bingham , Kim Coles , and Cindy Margolis . The show's website touted Coles and Burns as regulars for season two in place of Poundstone, though neither panelist

16637-411: Was the only time he ever appeared on the revival of The Price Is Right , but no mention was made of his role as the show's original host. Cullen did color commentary on college football games early in his career, and also broadcast track and field on NBC. On I've Got A Secret, producers Mark Goodson and Bill Todman and host Garry Moore quickly learned to never start the questioning with Cullen if

16768-562: Was then-frequent panelist Lynn Swann . Swann, the first African-American host of To Tell the Truth , hosted the show for the next 14 weeks (October 29, 1990 to February 1, 1991) until his job as a reporter for ABC Sports at the time forced him to leave. Alex Trebek was brought in as his replacement for the remainder of the run (February 4 to May 31, 1991), at the same time he was hosting Classic Concentration on NBC and Jeopardy! in syndication. Mark Goodson filled in for two episodes Trebek missed when his wife Jean went into labor during

16899-407: Was to Garry Moore , the former host of I've Got a Secret as well as the CBS variety series The Garry Moore Show . Moore had largely been away from television since his variety series was cancelled in 1964 (he left I've Got a Secret around the same time), but he decided the time was right to return and he accepted the offer to host the new series. Regular panelists included Orson Bean during

17030-497: Was true. Each panelist was given the opportunity to ask the contestant one question for each story, and after both stories had been presented the audience member chose which one he or she thought was the truth. After the choice was made, the contestant revealed the right answer and if the audience member came up with it, he or she won $ 500. If the contestant stumped the audience member, that player won $ 1,000. Occasionally, celebrities whose faces were not well known would attempt to stump

17161-460: Was worth $ 50 to the challengers; complete stumps of the entire panel won the challengers a total of $ 500. There were two games per episode, and there was often a live demonstration or video clip to illustrate the central character's story after many of the games. The show was first released to local stations on September 8, 1969. A total of 1,715 episodes of this version were produced, with the series ending on September 7, 1978. Some markets that added

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