To Tell the Truth - Professor turned circus clown; PANEL: Pat Carroll, Betty White (Apr 3, 1961)

[@kenyongray2615]

It was great having Betty White and Pat Carroll on the panel. A very heroic young man in game 3.

[@leannsherman6723]

The cameramen on the show were great too. They always caught the celebrities’ expressions when they heard the answer.

[@keithnaylor1981]

13:27 - Don Ameche obviously and rightly shocked by how little questioning time he had compared to the others!

[@leannsherman6723]

Betty White was both charming and smart.❤

[@stanbrown32]

Donny McGregor performed his rescue in 1959 when he was 15 years old, and his congresswoman nominated him for the Carnegie Medal. Sadly, he died as a result of a car crash at age 20, in 1964, when he was a passenger in a car drag-racing in Brunswick, Georgia.

[@938quilt]

how sad

[@HannibalFan52]

I looked up Erica Wilson, because the name was familiar, and she is who I thought she was. She was a prolific writer and designer, and several of her books were published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She died in December of 2011, so it's nice to see this close to the 10th anniversary of her passing.

[@CoxJoxSox]

I knew a few professors who were clowns - but they never made a living from it.

[@keithnaylor1981]

That last round was a real tearjerker. What a man !

[@loissimmons6558]

Watching this exactly 59 years to the day this aired. Doesn't happen very often. As it turns out, we could use a lot of heroes on April 3, 2020.

[@vocalartistsmgmt]

The real hero in Game 3 seemed so humble.

[@r.rahman12]

tom poston had such an amazing success rate of identifying the correct person.

[@JayTemple]

I was hoping all three in the first segment would have clown make-up. as it is, #2 reminded me of Johnny from the "Airplane!" movies.

[@519djw6]

At the very end of this tape, there is a voice-over telling us that "Pete and Gladys" is coming up next. I remember this show, but none of the details about it. That said, I think Gladys was a kind of Lucy Ricardo figure, and Pete the more "grounded" of the two.

[@jethro1963]

Pete=Colonel Sherman T Potter

[@alanfollett6242]

/Pete and Gladys/ was a spinoff of the 1950's sitcom /December Bride/. Harry Morgan's Pete Porter was a running character on the earlier show, a neighbor who was always recounting stories about his scatterbrained wife Gladys; she, however, was never shown. When the spinoff was introduced in 1960, red-headed Cara Williams was cast as Gladys; she might be described as a sort of watered-down Lucy, without the comic genius. The show lasted only two seasons.

[@davidfritz2957]

R.I.P., Pat Carroll. A funny, funny lady.

[@leesher1845]

Why would the Goodson Todman VP’s be receiving any of the winnings?

[@stanbrown32]

Hopefully the professor clown got the whole prize--but then it is unfair to the regular contestants who always have to divide the prize 3 ways.

[@billbryant7194]

Pat Moss BROTHER of Stirling, sister surely.

[@loissimmons6558]

Oops!

[@jacquelinebell6201]

Absolutely lol😅

[@leannsherman6723]

Don Ameche always ask questions if he were a prosecuting attorney. Nice what he said though about the swimmer.

[@CoxJoxSox]

Lenin was Russia's most famous clown

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

In the second game, why did Pat Carroll get a full minute of questioning? The others didn't.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

Man #1 in Game #1 Lady #1 in Game #2 Man #3 in Game #3

[@edf1584]

Correct spelling: DONALD E. MCGREGOR

[@eugenehechler8608]

the clown should have been disqualified. you don't forget voices.

[@leannsherman6723]

Also, a carton of Camel’s 😖

[@ALKAHESTBOY]

Betty White is not good on this show. She's too me-me-me.

[@kristabrewer9363]

I'm gonna post this on as many episodes as I can cause I'm curious and maybe someone will know. I wasn't paying attention this before, but if Bud's a Christian, why would he be promoting cigarettes? He's probably not still alive, huh? This is a question I'd love to ask him directly

[@walkingtrails7776]

Christians arent perfect just forgiven. 10 commandments doesn't include " do not smoke camel cigarettes". Different time .. it wasn't known yet how bad smoking was for your health ...just like MSM nowadays ...people won't find out until later how bad it is for them...it was pretty much like indulging yourself in lots of chocolate cake...you know what I mean. 😉

[@jerrycruitt5375]

@@walkingtrails7776 Of course the dangers were well known many years ago. Mark Twain commented several times on the health hazards of smoking, and on its ubiquitous use by many, including himself as a 9 or 10 year old in Missouri. Any moron who has smoked is aware of it's personal health implications leastways ostensibly. That the severe implications take 40,50, 60 years to manifest lend credence to the safety of smoking. The big difference was not some great, illuminating scientific breakthrough, but rather simple personal freedom. Take the falsely applied arguments of the right to women to have an abortion on their personal freedom to what they will with their own body ( regardless of another body within ), and correctly apply it to smoking ( and drugs for that matter ). We live in an effete, effeminate world now.

[@HannibalFan52]

@@jerrycruitt5375 While you are correct that knowledge about the dangers of smoking have been known for a long time, they were not well known to the public at large until relatively recently. That you bring up the right of women to determine their own healthcare issues is a false analogy. Being a man, you will never have to make that decision. Science has *proven* that most abortions (including spontaneous abortions, aka miscarriages) take place while the embryo (*not* 'body') is a parasitic clump of cells about the size of a kidney bean - no organs, no heart to 'beat', no limbs to be 'ripped apart'. Abortions after the first trimester are *extremely rare*, and occur only when the life of the woman would be in danger if the pregnancy continued, if the embryo has died in utero, or is so massively underdeveloped that it would not survive. I'll bet you're against birth control, too, even though its use has reduced the need for abortions by at least 60%. That macho world you so long for included hundreds of thousands of women dying in back-alley abortions, and we are NEVER going back to that.

[@stanbrown32]

Some conservative Christian sects then opposed smoking, but most didn't then. You might think of Christians today involved in the alcohol industry as a similar situation.

[@keithnaylor1981]

Holy smoke that’s a tough question.