To Tell the Truth

To Tell the Truth is also the title of Charles Robert Jenkins' autobiography

To Tell the Truth
File:Tttt.jpg Show logo, 1973-78
Created by	Bob Stewart, for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions
Starring	Bud Collyer (host, 1956-1968) Garry Moore (host, 1969-1977) Joe Garagiola (host, 1977-1978) Robin Ward (host, 1980-1981) Gordon Elliott (host, 1990) Lynn Swann (host, 1990-1991) Alex Trebek (host, 1991) John O'Hurley (host, 2000-2002) Numerous regular panelists (see article)
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	30 minutes with commercials
Original release
Network	CBS, Syndicated, NBC
Release	1956 – 2002

To Tell the Truth is an American television game show created by Bob Stewart and produced by Goodson-Todman Productions that has been aired intermittently in various formats since 1956, hosted by various television personalities. It is one of two game shows in the United States to have aired at least one version every decade for the past five decades. (The other is The Price Is Right, also originally created by Stewart for Goodson-Todman and currently American TV's longest running daily game.) To Tell the Truth has been seen first-run either on network television or in syndication a total of 25 seasons, just exceeding the 24 of What's My Line? and outpacing the 20 of I've Got a Secret.

The show has been hosted by numerous game show hosts of various backgrounds, and has aired mostly in syndication after the Collyer years, with the lone exception being the 1990-91 version. Bud Collyer hosted during the original years, with various people subbing in for him whenever he was sick, most notably Bert Convy, Merv Griffin and even producer Mark Goodson himself. The original show aired in daytime and primetime, with daytime version outlasting the primetime version by one year.

Garry Moore hosted in the 70's for syndication, with Joe Garagiola taking over for the final season after Moore was diagnosed with throat cancer. Canadian comedian Robin Ward took over for the 80's version, with Gordon Elliott, Lynn Swann and Alex Trebek all hosting the 90's version. John O'Hurley hosted the recent 2000 revival.

Many famous celebrities have appeared on the show as guests, including Alan Freed, Orville Redenbacher, Ally Sheedy and Caroll Spinney.

Gameplay

The basic premise of the show consists of a panel of four celebrities correctly uncovering a contestant's identity from a choice of three possibilities. One of the contestants normally holds an unusual occupation (a premise similar to the show's sister, What's My Line?) or has done something noteworthy, and it is this person that the panel must attempt to identify. Each of the three contestants claims to be this person, and is interrogated in turn by the panel who will then vote whom they think is telling the truth. However, if one of the panel actually knows the guest, then they would abstain from voting, which would automatically count as an incorrect vote for the panel.

Once the votes have been cast, the host asks "Will the real [person's name], please stand up?" The truthful contestant stands, often after some brief playful feinting and false starts among all three guests, and the other two then reveal their proper identity. Prize money is awarded to the contestants based on how many incorrect votes were placed by the panel; the more successfully the contestants bluff, the larger their final cash award.

History

First edition (1956–1968, CBS)

To Tell the Truth premiered on Tuesday, December 18, 1956, on CBS in prime time as Nothing But the Truth but changed its name to To Tell the Truth the following week. A daytime five-day-per-week edition was introduced on Monday, June 18, 1962, running at 3 p.m. Eastern, and 2 p.m. Central.

Bud Collyer was the host of this version; major panelists by the 1960s included Tom Poston, Peggy Cass, Orson Bean, and Kitty Carlisle. Earlier regular panelists had included Johnny Carson, Polly Bergen, Jayne Meadows, Don Ameche, columnist Hy Gardner, Dick Van Dyke, John Cameron Swayze, and Ralph Bellamy. Betsy Palmer also appeared on several episodes in 1956.

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The title card from the 1956-1968 edition.

The daytime show featured a separate panel its first three years with actress Phyllis Newman as the only regular. However, the evening panel took over the afternoon show in 1965, and in early 1968, Bert Convy replaced Poston in the first chair. In the prime time version, three panel games were played per show; the producers reduced it to two games on the daytime version. Each incorrect guess from the panel paid the challengers $250 on the prime time run, for a possible $1000. But if the entire panel was correct, the challengers split $150. A design element in the set of this series is that the challengers were introduced from an upper level stage directly above and behind the host's desk, and then traveled down a curved staircase to the main stage level.

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The panelists in a color episode.

On the CBS daytime run, each wrong vote paid the team $100. During the show's final year and a half, the studio audience also voted, with the majority vote counting equally with that of each of the celebrity panelists. If two or all three challengers tied for highest vote from the audience, that counted as an incorrect vote and a guaranteed $100 for the contestants.

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Three challengers, with the audience' and panel's votes.

Bern Bennett, Collyer's announcer on Beat the Clock, was the lead voice of To Tell the Truth in the 1950s. Upon Bennett's transfer to CBS' Los Angeles studios, Johnny Olson joined the show in 1960 and remained through the end of its CBS runs. Other CBS staff announcers filled in as the show's voices during various times.

On 05/25/67 and 05/26/67, during one of Collyer's absences from the show, the guest host was packager Mark Goodson himself. Robert Q. Lewis, a comedian and game show host as well, also hosted in place of Collyer, often in the 60's being the one asked to sub-host in the place of Bud when Bud was ill or on vacation. Lewis substituted during Collyer's extended illness from May through July of 1967, beginning with the episode following the two Mark Goodson hosted shows. One episode during this stretch, from the nighttime edition, is one of the few from the CBS run preserved on color videotape. This is as opposed to kinescope, which at the time was still being used to record television shows. Other game show hosts who have subbed for Bud during the show were Bert Convy, Merv Griffin, Orson Bean, amongst others.

Second edition (1969–1978, syndicated)

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Host Garry Moore.

This first version of the show was cancelled on September 6, 1968, but returned only a year later, in autumn of 1969, in first-run syndication. G-T experienced success the previous season with relaunching What's My Line? as an off-network daily feature for local stations, so the company tried emulating that approach with To Tell the Truth; it too reaped great success for the packager, who would lose all its network shows, daytime and primetime, during the 1969-1970 season. During the early years of its run, the syndicated Truth would become 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 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 the network's primetime schedule for the evening. Still 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 the evening newscasts.

Based again in New York, To Tell The Truth was videotaped at CBS-TV Studio 50 (later known as the Ed Sullivan Theater), until 1971, when it moved to the NBC studios in Rockefeller Center. To Tell The Truth had moved to Studio 50 late in its CBS network run after having been based at CBS-TV Studio 52, now the disco-theatre, Studio 54.

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Nipsey Russell, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen and Kitty Carlisle from the 1969-78 version.

Garry Moore, formerly host of Truth's sister show I've Got a Secret, hosted until 1977. Regular panelists included Orson Bean during the first year, Peggy Cass, Kitty Carlisle and Bill Cullen, who substituted for Moore when needed. In fact, Garry Moore often took vacations in the middle of a few of the seasons. Bill Cullen was always the person in charge of substituting for Moore. Kitty Carlisle switched places with Garry for one game in an episode, while Peggy Cass and Bill Cullen switched places during an episode that Bill subbed.

Many of the earlier regulars appeared, including Tom Poston and Bert Convy. Other quiz-show hosts, including Tom Kennedy, Kennedy's brother Jack Narz, Hugh Downs, Allen Ludden, Gene Wood, Joe Garagiola, and Goodson-Todman stalwarts Larry Blyden and Gene Rayburn appeared as occasional guest panelists. Cullen, Rayburn, and Garagiola were all interviewer or presenters on the NBC radio show Monitor at the time, and Downs was on The Today Show.

Each incorrect vote in this version was worth $50 to the challengers. Fooling the entire panel won the challengers a total of $500.

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Three contestants.

In late 1976, Moore was diagnosed with throat cancer. His place was taken originally by Bill Cullen. However, Mark Goodson noted how Bill Cullen being the host and not a panelist hurt the chemistry he had with Cass and Carlisle. Joe Garagiola was then hired and took over on an interim basis, stating that he was "pinch-hitting" for Moore. At the beginning of the 1977–1978 season, Moore appeared for one final time to explain his sudden absence, banter with the panel after the first game and to formally hand the show over permanently to Garagiola. Moore's introduction that day prompted a loud applause and standing ovation. After this episode, Garagiola hosted the program for the remaining season of its run.

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Joe Garagiola took the place of Garry Moore in the 1977-78 season.

While there were two panel games per episode, fans and critics widely praised the 1969-1978 version for two reasons: the use of a live demonstration or video to illustrate the story after many of the games (much like I've Got a Secret), and for the warm panel banter during and after games.

Possibly the most famous example of the cartoonish atmosphere of the show was an episode from 1971. Garry Moore brought out an armadillo during the introductions, which proceeded to defecate during the panelist introductions on camera. Garry was still holding on to the armadillo, everyone refusing to shake his hand (Guest panelist Carol Burnett even refusing to look at Garry,) and laughing about it.

Johnny Olson, the show's lead announcer in the 1960s CBS run, stayed with To Tell the Truth when it moved to syndication. He left in 1972, when Mark Goodson and Bill Todman appointed him announcer of the revivals of The Price Is Right and I've Got a Secret (which both shot in Los Angeles). NBC staff announcer Bill Wendell replaced Olson until 1977, with Alan Kalter taking over during the final season.

To Tell The Truth used three distinctive sets throughout its nine-year syndicated run. The first set, which was designed by Ted Cooper, dubbed by some as the "psychedelic" set, recycling the one man on the door, was used from 1969 to 1971; a toned-down set was used from 1971 through early 1973, two additional men were added on that door. The longest-lived set — a blue-hued, gold-accented, block-motif set sporting the show's name in large block letters — was used for the remainder of the run. The doors on the final set bore a strong resemblance to the sliding doors on The Price is Right.

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Larry Blyden votes in an episode from 1975.

1,715 episodes of this version had been produced by the time the show's final syndicated season ended in September 1978. Because this version of the show was syndicated, markets that added the series after its 1969 release often opted to carry the show for another season or two in order to catch up on the episodes that had not aired in their viewing area. This meant Truth was seen on some smaller stations up until the end of the decade, a fact that may have influenced Goodson, whom by now was working without Bill Todman, to revive it again, much as Ralph Edwards had done with Truth or Consequences in 1977 in response to the continuing popularity of episodes hosted by Bob Barker.

During the final season with Garagiola, fancy wipes were used for the open, close and commercial bumpers, as well as canned applause and a music cue called "Brioche" (which would later be used as a prize cue on The Price is Right). The microphones in the audience were turned on so that the viewers at home could hear the audience chattering over who they thought was the real person.

The show was first released to local stations on September 8, 1969, a date with a sad coincidence: original host Bud Collyer died that day at the age of 61 from emphysema.

Third edition (1980–1981, syndicated)

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The title card for the 1980-1981 edition.

With the Moore/Garagiola episodes still running in smaller markets, Mark Goodson, now working alone since the death of his longtime partner, interpreted their popularity as a demand for a revival. Thus, To Tell the Truth returned for a one-year run, from September 8, 1980 to September 11, 1981, with Canadian game show host Robin Ward emceeing. Each wrong vote paid the challengers $100. $500 was awarded for fooling the entire panel.

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Host Robin Ward.

Some fans disliked this version because the level of panel banter was decreased in favor of more game play. In addition to the two regular panel games, a minigame called "One on One" was added to the program. In the "One on One" segment, the four impostors from the previous two games returned. One fact about one of them was purposely withheld from the panel in their previous introductions. After revealing that information, each of the panelists questioned the impostor directly across from them. After 20 seconds, the panelist was asked if that person was the one to whom the fact applied. An incorrect vote was worth $100 and a full stump was worth $500 to be split among the four people participating in the segment.

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The One on One game in progress.

This version was also known for its "disco-like" set and music. It had no regular panel, though Cullen, Cass, Carlisle, Soupy Sales, Dick Clark, and others showed up occasionally. Alan Kalter, who was the off-camera voice of the show late in the Moore-Garagiola run, was its main announcer. Recorded at Studio 6A of NBC's Rockefeller Center, this version of To Tell The Truth (along with the concurrent The $50,000 Pyramid) was the last New York City-based game show to air on broadcast television, as opposed to cable, until Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in 1999 on ABC-TV.

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Challengers on the Ward version.

Negative factors such as the decreased interaction among the panelists, the absence of fixtures like Carlisle, Cass, and Cullen on most episodes, and a host unknown previously to American audiences (Ward) inhibited the show from getting many stations, and To Tell the Truth disappeared quietly after one season, not to return again for nearly a decade.

Fourth edition (1990–1991, NBC)

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The set for the 1990-1991 edition.

To Tell The Truth returned yet again, lasting from September 3, 1990 to May 31, 1991 with Gordon Elliott, former football player Lynn Swann, and then finally Alex Trebek of Jeopardy! fame in the host's seat. The reason for all of these changes was because Elliott was fired eight weeks into the run due to a contract dispute with his former employers. Because of this dispute, Elliott could not appear on television for some time, which ended when he hosted a talk show almost four years later. Swann, a former football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers had formerly been a panelist and took over as host in the interim. After 14 weeks as emcee, due to scheduling conflicts with his job as an ABC Sports commentator, Swann was replaced at the helm by the producers of the show with Trebek.

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The first host of the 90's version of To Tell the Truth, Gordon Elliott.

Besides Swann, the celebrity panelists for To Tell the Truth during this period included Carlisle and other stalwarts. Also serving were former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley, columnist Cindy Adams, actor Ron Masak, actress Betty White, producer David Niven Jr. (son of David Niven), actress Polly Bergen, attorney Gloria Allred, TV personality Sarah Purcell, and actor Tom Villard. The panelists were introduced in twos with the male panelists escorting the female panelists down the staircase, followed by Elliot, Swann, or Trebek.

There are two more hosting oddities related to this show. On the first day of the show's run, NBC inadvertently aired the pilot episode of the show which was hosted by actor Richard Kline in the East Coast feed only. The second oddity occurred when Trebek's wife went into labor just before airtime. Mark Goodson guest hosted these two shows while Trebek attended to his wife. This would be Goodson's final appearance on the show before his death in 1992.

Hosting To Tell The Truth made Trebek the first and only person to host three national American game shows simultaneously, as he was also hosting Classic Concentration on NBC and Jeopardy! in syndication.

Fooling the whole panel won the challengers $3,000. Three wrong votes won $1,500, while any less than that awarded $1000.

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Panelists Orson Bean, Peggy Cass, Chris Lemmon, and Kitty Carlisle from a December 25, 1990 episode.

Two games were played followed by a reworked "One on One" feature. In this version of the game, one additional contestant presented two stories, of which only one was correct. Each panelist asked one question of the person on each story. After this was completed, a selected member of the audience, introduced by Richardson or O'Donnell, tried to guess which story was true. If they were correct they won $500, otherwise the contestant gets $1000 for stumping that audience member. Occasionally, celebrities whose faces were not well known would attempt to stump the audience during this part of the game. For example, Hank Ketcham, creator of Dennis The Menace, almost but unsuccessfully tried during one episode to convince an audience member that he was really the songwriter to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

This version show could be considered more "retro" than the 1980 edition: octogenarian Carlisle appeared more often than anyone else and old regulars Bean, Bergen, Cass and others made frequent appearances. By the end of the run, Masak and Bean alternated at the downstage end of the panel desk, with Carlisle regularly in the upstage seat. Additionally, 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 1973–78.

To Tell the Truth, after spending many years originating from New York, originated for the first time from NBC Studios in Burbank, California. Burton Richardson was its main announcer; however, Charlie O'Donnell also sub-announced for Richardson on occasion.

Fifth edition (2000–2002, syndicated)

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The opening title from the 2000-2002 edition.

The show then had a two-year run in syndication starting in 2000 with John O'Hurley as the host, and Burton Richardson returning as the announcer.

Actor Meshach Taylor was the only regular to appear on every episode of this edition, while Paula Poundstone was a regular during the first season. Following Poundstone's departure, several actors sat in Poundstone's former chair, including Kim Coles, Jackée Harry, Mother Love, Liz Torres, and Hattie Winston. At the time, the To Tell the Truth website touted Coles and Brooke Burns as regulars for season two, though neither panelist was featured in every show that year. The series was produced in Burbank at the NBC Studios.

Notable guest panelists on this version include Dave Coulier during season one, Brad Sherwood for season two, Cindy Margolis, Brooke Burns, Melody Thomas Scott, Patrick Duffy, Kermit the Frog, Richard Kind, Greg Proops, and for one episode, Kitty Carlisle, who had appeared on the show in six consecutive decades.

As on the 1967-68 CBS run, the studio audience voted. Each wrong vote awarded the challengers $1,000 meaning that $5,000 could be split by the challengers for fooling the panel. In the first few weeks of the series, stumping the entire panel, including the audience, won the challengers $10,000.

According to Steve Beverly's tvgameshows.net, this edition of Truth never received a rating higher than 1.8. It was cancelled in late 2001, only 65 episodes into its second season. However, repeats continued to air through March 15, 2002. GSN began airing reruns on July 18, 2007.

Theme music and set

Metropole Orchestra leader Dolf van der Linden composed the original series theme, "Peter Pan", used from 1956–1961. From 1961–1967, the show switched to a Bob Cobert-penned theme, with a beat similar to "Peter Pan", then to a Score Productions anthem during its final CBS daytime season. For the 1969, 1980, and 1990 versions, the music was again composed by Score Productions. Gary Stockdale supplied the score for the 2000 edition.

The 1969 version is known by many for its original psychedelic set and its lyrical theme song, penned by Score Productions chief Bob Israel and To Tell the Truth producer Paul Alter, along with veteran theme composer Charles Fox; the psychedelia was toned down somewhat in 1971, and replaced altogether with a more conservative, but decidedly modernistic, blue-toned block-motif set in early 1973. However, the lyrics—much in the style of British Invasion bands of the day—remained throughout the run. The 1990 score was an orchestral rendition of the 1969 theme sans the lyrics (a re-recorded version of the vocal theme, as performed by the a cappella group Take 6, was originally going to be used for this version, but was scrapped before the show made it to air).

Famous contestants

Several people who would go on to fame appeared on the various incarnations of this show:

• Frank Abagnale, Jr. - He appeared on the show years after he had given up his con artistry. The biopic based on his life, Catch Me If You Can opens with his appearance on the show, with actors (Leonardo DiCaprio playing Abagnale) taking the place of the contestants. Footage of panelist Carlisle and host Garagiola from the original To Tell the Truth is used.
• Sissy Biggers - When she was 16 years old, she was one of the impostors on a 1973 show in which she was pretending to be a baton twirling magician named Abbey Lee Green. She later hosted Biggers & Summers with Marc Summers on The Lifetime Television Network. In 1996 she replaced Robin Young as host of Ready.. Set... Cook! on the Food Network.
• John E. DuPont - the heir to the DuPont fortune, appeared on a 1966 broadcast. He was training in the sport of modern pentathlon and was hoping to make the 1968 Olympic team that was to compete in Mexico City. He later would gain infamy for murdering Olympic wrestling champion Dave Schultz.
• Rock and Roll impresario and deejay Alan Freed was correctly guessed by two of the panelists, including Polly Bergen, in a 1950s episode hosted by Bud Collyer.
• American popcorn promoter and guru Orville Redenbacher was first seen on national T.V. in 1973, long before his signature commercial appearances as himself promoting his gourmet kernels. Redenbacher appeared on an episode of the show and he stumped the panelists: Kitty Carlisle, Bill Cullen, Joe Garagiola, and Peggy Cass, all of whom were shown eating and enjoying samples of Redenbacher's then-"new" novelty popcorn flavors including "chili," and "bar-b-que."
• A New York detective named Richard Buggy, known for working the city streets in various disguises, appeared on the show in 1974, with each of the three challengers dressed accordingly. At the end of the game, after Buggy's identity had been revealed, the two imposters did the same; they were revealed to be Kitty Carlisle's son Chris Hart (#2) and Joe Garagiola Jr. (#3).
• West Virginia governor Cecil Underwood was To Tell The Truth's first "Truth Teller" in 1956. He was the youngest person ever elected governor in West Virginia. He would go on to be not only the oldest person elected governor in West Virginia in 1997, but the oldest person ever to be elected governor of any state in US history.
• Caroll Spinney, better known as the man in Big Bird ever since the beginning of Sesame Street, appeared in a Moore episode from 1971.
• Actress Ally Sheedy appeared in a Moore episode from 1975 when she was twelve years old, in a story about a book that she wrote. The book was titled She Was Nice to Mice, and later on became a best-seller. This was well before she became famous as an actress. Sheedy later on even became a panelist for a few episodes.
• Rosa Parks appeared in an episode of the Robin Ward version in 1980, with the three panelists being stumped by her (Nipsey Russell, the fourth panelist, knew who she was and disqualified himself).
• Some celebrities have dressed up as imposters. Soupy Sales, Bill Todman, Tom Poston, Henry Morgan, Christopher Hewett and Rip Taylor all dressed up in costumes to try and fool the panel.
• Famous cartoonists Chuck Jones, William Hanna, and Garry Trudeau appeared with other imposters in episodes from 1980, 1975, and 1971 respectively. In the episode with William Hanna, a person in a Yogi Bear costume picked out Bill, and Daws Butler provided the voice of Yogi Bear as Yogi introduced the panel in a cartoon.
• Stan Lee (of Marvel Comics fame) appeared on the 2000 revival. In order to prevent people from recognizing him, he and the two impostors dressed up in costumes with glasses and large colorful hats.
• Rick Bynes, Amanda Bynes' father, appeared on the 2000 revival as an imposter. He was claiming to be the founder of an underwater hotel.

Legacy

To Tell the Truth is the most enduring of the panel-based Goodson-Todman game shows—the type also exemplified by What's My Line? and I've Got a Secret—having been in active production at least once in every decade since the 1950s, a total of six decades. The only other game show that can claim this distinction is The Price is Right. The next four longest-running US game show formats to have been produced and aired in five consecutive decades are Let's Make a Deal, starting in 1963, Jeopardy!, from 1964, The Hollywood Squares from 1966, and Truth or Consequences, for five decades starting in 1940 on the radio and ending in 1988. (You Bet Your Life was produced in five nonconsecutive decades, the 40s, 50s, 60s, 80s and 90s.)

To Tell the Truth's place in American culture is such that the show's famous catch phrase "Will the real [name] please stand up?" became a well-known and frequently used cliché, often in a humorous context when someone's identity was in question. Rapper Eminem paraphrased the tagline in his 2000 breakout hit The Real Slim Shady, saying "Won't the real Slim Shady please stand up?"

Almost as famous is the line used by the announcer to begin each game: "Number One, what is your name, please?"

Saturday Night Live had a parody of the 1980-81 version (using the actual theme) with three people who claim to be George Kennedy. The show would be interrupted when a camera shorted out.

Sesame Street had a parody of To Tell the Truth called To Tell a Face, hosted by Guy Smiley and featuring Baby Bobby as a contestant who had to tell which of the three panelists really was his grandmother.

In 2008, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Steve Novick of Oregon released a political ad parodying the show.

Episode status

Only a handful of shows remain from the CBS daytime series' first three years because of a then-common practice known as wiping videotapes and reusing them to save money and storage space. Many daytime episodes (including some in color) from 1966 to 1968 exist, including the color finale. One particular episode was described in many newspaper obituaries in 1965 because it contained a rare appearance by Dorothy Kilgallen, best known as a regular panelist on What's My Line?. It was broadcast on the East Coast on a Monday afternoon as news of her sudden death was circulated by wire services, which prompted CBS newscaster Douglas Edwards to announce her death immediately after To Tell The Truth ended. She had videotaped it six days earlier, according to the New York Herald Tribune. The best description of how Kilgallen appeared on the air (as a contestant pretending to be Joan Crawford) was reported by a columnist for the Washington Star who watched the show. Although the episode could interest a large audience today, it is gone as far as anyone has determined. Most of the nighttime run of the Collyer series exists, along with a few color kinescope episodes.

The bulk of the Moore/Garagiola version is intact. However, the current status of the first season is unknown, and is presumed to be lost. A check into the Goodson-Todman catalogues by a fan yielded no episodes from the first season. However, that version of To Tell the Truth had multiple copies of the same episode, due to the bicycling done by stations, so it is possible that those episodes exist in a television archive at another station.

The Robin Ward version, the 1990-1991 edition, and the 2000-2002 series have all of their episodes intact. The Game Show Network has aired all of the versions through 1991, and began airing the O'Hurley series on July 18, 2007.

External links

• The To Tell the Truth Memories Board
• General page on To Tell the Truth
• A comprehensive TTTT site that looks at all of the versions of the program
• Cliffhanger's To Tell The Truth website
• Mike Dudas' TTTT 90's page
• To Tell The Truth (1956–1968) at IMDb
• To Tell The Truth (1969–1978) at IMDb
• To Tell The Truth (1980–1981) at IMDb
• To Tell The Truth (1990–1991) at IMDb
• To Tell The Truth (2000–2002) at IMDb