Talk:What's My Line?

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Contents 1 Mystery Guest List 2 Jimmy Carter 3 Guest Panelists 4 Guest Panel-list 5 Question mark

[edit] Mystery Guest List

I think if there is going to be a full listing of WML mystery guests, it should be on its own page. googuse 19:22, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jimmy Carter

Does anyone remember when then-Governor Jimmy Carter was on as the Mystery Celebrity Guest? I had thought it was early in the 1976 campaign -- but that can't be right if the show went off the air in 1967.... --Michael K. Smith 16:16, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Maybe it was a syndicated version? Did they have those? Mike H 16:18, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC)

Good question. I wonder if it ran in syndication, say, until 1975 or so. Somebody should check that Wikipedia site... maybe they have an article that says... Chowbok 16:35, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

There is no need to be a smartass. Mike H 16:38, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC)

According to this site, the Jimmy Carter episode aired on 12/13/73. - 16:49, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC) Lee (talk)

Thanks ever so much. I'll leave a note on the man's talk page. Mike H 19:16, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, guys. My error -- I read as far as "last show" and missed the note on later syndication. I used to be a fan of the show and wanted to add the relevant item to the Jimmy Carter article. (And I'm impressed by how quickly my question was replied to.) --Michael K. Smith 19:13, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Guest Panelists

Originally, the list of guest panelists in this article was for 'notable guest panelists'. In my reading, that should probably be reserved for those that did paneling duties several times and were regulars or known for it like Bishop, Randall, Carson, Gabel, etc.

If it's just going to be a list of everyone who ever guest-paneled, it should probably have it's own article, don't you think? (tv.com has pretty good records for WML including episode guides that usually include who's on the panel and includes descriptions of all the guests). But the list in the article is getting unwieldy. If the preface says 'notable guests include', the list should only be a few (perhaps 5 or so) notables as an example, such as the most common/popuplar guest panelists. An encyclopedia wouldn't list an incomplete 'example' list this long unless it was the complete list, which this isn't.

I wouldn't do this on my own volition, but I'd like to hear what other people think about it TheHYPO 13:36, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree unequivocally. Lambertman 14:04, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

I would like to suggest that a semi-reversion go on to your edit about the 70's logo. My implication wasn't that there were different logos, but that over the period of the series, the actual main logo on the wall there was recolored and remade, so this was just one of the main logos on the set. TheHYPO 07:36, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I see what you're saying - something like "one of the onstage representations of the logo" - and while I think that may be more detail than what is necessary, I won't revert it if you want to put it in. Lambertman 12:16, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I used a less wordy explaination as I could think of, but I'm not too worried about it simply because of the image float, and the menu float - the table of contents menu leaves plenty of space for the image and its caption that isn't being used (at least on the default wiki skin... I don't know if other skins alter this look). That's why I put the image below the intro paragraph, instead of at the top. I thought it would save space. Anyway, maybe some time later, I'll embark on a cutting down of the panelist list. Not today though. Thanks for your input TheHYPO 02:51, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Guest Panel-list

I've pulled this from the main article. Therea re just far too many panelists that appeared on the show, and listing them all in the article would be counter-productive. If someone wants to start a guest panelist article, I believe 95% or more of the episodes that have guest panelists have the panelists noted in the episode summaries and trivia on tv.com for WML. Here is the contents of that paragraph when I excised it:

Notable guest panelists included, in alphabetical order: Nick Adams, Woody Allen, Shelley Berman, Joey Bishop, Richard Boone, Victor Borge, Johnny Carson, Chuck Connors, Jane Fonda, Rita Gam, Dave Garroway, Merv Griffin, Hugh Hefner, Danny Kaye, Alan King, Ernie Kovacs, Steve Lawrence, Robert Q. Lewis, Art Linkletter, Groucho Marx, Dina Merrill, Barry Nelson, Phyllis Newman, Hugh O'Brian, Suzy Parker, Anthony Perkins, Jane Powell, Tony Randall, Debbie Reynolds, Cyril Ritchard, Dennis Weaver, Betty White, and Paul Winchell.

I've left in three of the most frequent and popular guests, (Tony Randall, Buddy Hackett, and Joey Bishop). Perhaps this just invites people to keep adding again, but I will leave it until it becomes I problem I suppose? Hopefully someone will put up a listing article like they did for the mystery guests. TheHYPO 20:17, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, I went and gave the guests their own article. I admit that so far it's not complete in the least, but hopefully now people will add names to THAT instead of the main article here. I wasn't sure of the best way to reference that list in the article (I thought it should be referenced in the article though instead of only at the very end in related articles), but the 'main' tag to say the 'main article on guest panelists' didn't seem appropriate since it's a list not a main article. Feel free to do what you will with it.TheHYPO 06:39, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

The 'additional articles' CBS list appears to have disappeared; not sure what happened to it, but if there's no complaint, and no explaination to come, I plan to move the two existing list article links back to the sections they represent in the main article. TheHYPO 07:02, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question mark

For what it's worth, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows gives the title as What's My Line, without the question mark. The 1970s sydication logo shown is obviously different from this. I know it's a quibble, but wasn't the network title absent the question mark? (In case you are wondering, Who's the Boss? and What About Joan? are entered under those titles, with question marks, so it's not a question of that work's format. Additionally, the deriviative, short-lived NBC show which premiered six weeks later, What Happened, is likewise entered without the question mark. Does anyone know with more certainty? Rlquall 22:57, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

There was never an episode produced that didn't include the question mark. Lambertman 23:09, 2 November 2006 (UTC)