WIDE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT SPECIAL: "WHAT'S MY LINE?" AT 25 (TV)
Summary
One in this series of late-night variety specials. This program looks back on twenty-five years of "What's My Line?," a quiz show in which panelists try to guess a contestant's occupation and in which a celebrity mystery guest tries to baffle the blindfolded panel. Individuals shown include Gerald Ford, Groucho Marx, Fred Allen, Woody Allen, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Crawford, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Buster Keaton, Claudette Colbert, Sophie Tucker, Ed Wynn, Paul Muni, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Mike Todd, Duke Ellington, Edgar Bergen, Gloria Swanson, Richard Boone, Gary Cooper, Steve Allen, William Bendix, Errol Flynn, Carol Channing, Garry Moore, Danny Kaye, Robert Taylor, Jane Russell, Tyrone Power, Wally Cox, George Raft, Gypsy Rose Lee, Billy Graham, Chief Justice William O. Douglas, Lana Turner, Bert Lahr, Peter Ustinov, Barbra Streisand, Arnold Palmer, Jesse Owens, Mia Farrow, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Jimmy Durante. Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: May 28, 1975 11:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:26:48
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T78:0637
- GENRE: Specials; Game/Quiz
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; Game/Quiz programs; U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1973-1976
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Gil Fates … Producer
- Bob Bach … Associate Producer
- William Egan … Associate Producer
- Lloyd Gross … Director
- Franklin Heller … Director
- Mark Goodson … Host
- John Daly … Host
- Arlene Francis … Host
- Fred Allen
- Steve Allen
- Woody Allen
- William Bendix
- Edgar Bergen
- Richard Boone
- Carol Channing
- Claudette Colbert
- Gary Cooper
- Wally Cox
- William O. Douglas
- Jimmy Durante
- Duke Ellington
- Mia Farrow
- Errol Flynn
- Gerald Ford
- Danny Kaye
- Buster Keaton
- Bert Lahr
- Gypsy Rose Lee
- Groucho Marx
- Garry Moore
- Paul Muni
- Paul Newman
- Jesse Owens
- Arnold Palmer
- Tyrone Power
- George Raft
- Edward G. Robinson
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Jane Russell
- Barbra Streisand
- Gloria Swanson
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Robert Taylor
- Mike Todd
- Sophie Tucker
- Lana Turner
- Peter Ustinov
- Joanne Woodward
- Ed Wynn