What's My Line? (1950) - Video Detective

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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, with a dozen international versions and subsequent U.S. revivals. The game uses celebrity panelists to question contestants in order to determine their occupation, i.e., "line [of work]," with panelists being called on to identify a weekly celebrity "mystery guest" while blindfolded. It is the longest-running U.S. primetime network television game-show. Moderated by John Charles Daly and 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 for Best TV Show in 1962.

Original Release

02/02/1950 on CBS

US Release

02/02/1950

Cast

Name

Character

John Daly

Himself - Moderator / Himself - Moderator (as John Charles Daly) / Self - Moderator / Himself - Moderator (as John Charles Francis Daly) / Himself - Moderator (as John Francis Daly)

Arlene Francis

Herself - Panelist / Self - Panelist / Panelist

Bennett Cerf

Himself - Panelist / Self - Panelist / Panelist / Himsel - Panelist / Himself - Moderator / Himself - Panelist (as Bennett Alfred Cerf)

Dorothy Kilgallen

Herself - Panelist / Self - Panelist / Herself - Mystery Guest / Herself -Panelist

Johnny Olson

Himself - Announcer / Self - Announcer / Himself - Guest / Himself - Announcer (voice)

Steve Allen

Himself - Panelist / Himself - Mystery Guest / Himself - Guest Panelist / Himself - Guest Contestant

Hal Block

Himself - Panelist

Martin Gabel

Himself - Panelist / Himself - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist

Hal Simms

Himself - Announcer / Self - Announcer

Lee Vines

Himself - Announcer

(see additional cast & crew)

#	Title	Air Date
1	Joey Bishop - 3rd appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 04 September 1966
2	Warren Beatty	Sunday, 11 September 1966
3	Two Mystery Guests: Opera Soprano Leontyne Price; actor Peter Ustinov	Sunday, 18 September 1966
5	Two Mystery Guests: Connecticut Senator Abraham E. Ribicoff; actor Danny Kaye (4th appearance as mystery guest)	Sunday, 02 October 1966
6	George Hamilton - 2nd appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 16 October 1966
7	Two Mystery Guests: columnist Suzy Knickerbocker; television host Ed Sullivan (4th appearance as mystery guest)	Sunday, 23 October 1966
8	Michael Caine	Sunday, 13 November 1966
9	Virna Lisi	Sunday, 20 November 1966
10	Two Mystery Guests: actor/singer Frank Sinatra; actress Mia Farrow	Sunday, 27 November 1966
11	Angela Lansbury	Sunday, 04 December 1966
12	Two Mystery Guests: The panel from To Tell the Truth (Kitty Carlisle, Tom Poston, Peggy Cass, Orson Bean); actor George Segal	Sunday, 11 December 1966
13	Steve McQueen	Sunday, 18 December 1966
14	Eva Marie Saint - 2nd appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 25 December 1966
15	Gina Lollobrigida - 3rd appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 01 January 1967
16	Jane Fonda - 3rd appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 08 January 1967
17	Abbe Lane - 2nd appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 15 January 1967
18	Two Mystery Guests: instrumental group Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass; football coach Vince Lombardi	Sunday, 22 January 1967
19	The Smothers Brothers	Sunday, 29 January 1967
20	Two Mystery Guests: actress Chris Noel; actor Tony Randall	Sunday, 05 February 1967
21	Yves Montand - 2nd appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 12 February 1967
22	Andy Griffith - 4th appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 19 February 1967
23	Marty Allen and Steve Rossi - 3rd appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 26 February 1967
24	Two Mystery Guests: author Jacqueline Susann; actress/singer Judy Garland	Sunday, 05 March 1967
25	Two Mystery Guests: Jonathan Cerf & Peter Gabel (sons of Bennett Cerf & Arlene Francis); actor Robert Morse	Sunday, 12 March 1967
26	Two Mystery Guests: hair stylist Vidal Sassoon; actress Ursula Andress	Sunday, 19 March 1967
27	Two Mystery Guests: actor Orson Bean (2nd appearance as a mystery guest); comedy team Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca	Sunday, 26 March 1967
28	Soupy Sales - 3rd appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 09 April 1967
29	Candice Bergen (2nd appearance as the Mystery Guest)	Sunday, 16 April 1967
30	Groucho Marx - 2nd appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 23 April 1967
31	Raquel Welch	Sunday, 30 April 1967
32	Leslie Uggams	Sunday, 07 May 1967
33	Allan Sherman - 3rd appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 14 May 1967
34	The Supremes - 2nd appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 21 May 1967
35	Lawrence Welk	Sunday, 28 May 1967
36	Two Mystery Guests: supermodel Jean Shrimpton; singer Jack Jones (2nd appearance as the Mystery Guest)	Sunday, 04 June 1967
37	Two Mystery Guests: newscaster Kelly Lange; actress Melina Mercouri (2nd appearance as mystery guest)	Sunday, 11 June 1967
38	Two Mystery Guests: attorney F. Lee Bailey; actress Betty Grable (2nd appearance as mystery guest)	Sunday, 18 June 1967
39	Betty Comden and Adolph Green	Sunday, 02 July 1967
40	Senator Everett Dirksen	Sunday, 09 July 1967
41	Goodson-Todman game show hosts (Bud Collyer, Allen Ludden, Ed McMahon and Gene Rayburn)	Sunday, 16 July 1967
42	Lauren Bacall - 3rd appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 23 July 1967
43	Peggy Cass - 3rd appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 30 July 1967
44	Jack E. Leonard - 3rd appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 06 August 1967
45	Woody Allen	Sunday, 13 August 1967
48	Jill St. John - 2nd appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 20 August 1967
49	Hugh O'Brian - 3rd appearance as mystery guest	Sunday, 27 August 1967
50	Last Show - Moderator John Daly is the Mystery Guest	Sunday, 03 September 1967

Directors

Franklin Heller, Frank Satenstein, Paul Alter, S. Robert Rowe, Paul Monroe, Ira Skutch