To Tell The Truth- September 14, 1970 (Moore Season 2 premiere)

Garry Moore kicks off his second year as host as the most popular panel show of all time, To Tell The Truth, with Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, Orson Bean, and Kitty Carlisle this week's guest panel. The first subject involves a TV makeup man, followed by boy who writes numerous letters for servicemen abroad.

[@tommypeak9644]

That's my daddy, the real Charley Hurst!!!!! I am so proud!

[@Dee-1969]

You should be. I believed it was him

[@PaulTesta]

Seriously??

[@onion6foot]

I couldn't understand where in Virginia he was from?

[@tommypeak9644]

Hiwassee Virginia

[@christinedewing4577]

Just watched this episode and wondered what he ended up doing in life?

[@OldRustySteele]

Bill Cullen was extremely witty and excellent with ad-libs. He was also scary smart in a variety of topics, especially sports, science, and mechanical devices.

[@greenbrown7776]

I'd love to watch a vid compilation of every panel introduction Gary Moore did. There's something about that moment when the four panelists come out that's just electric to me.

[@BillyAlabama]

Kitty always dressed so beautifully, hair styled, and so gracious! Just a lovely woman!

[@dennismclaurin1487]

She had nice legs, too

[@KatyWatson173]

My mom used to play bridge with her in the late 1970s when we lived in Pennsylvania. 🙂🐈‍⬛🐈💖🌈

[@christopherthorkon3997]

I really hope that approach comes back. We need more gentlemen and ladies in our world.

[@MaryBeth1965]

She was age 60 here...looks much younger

[@C.O._Jones]

She was in one of my all-time favorite movies, “A Night at the Opera.”

[@trentaccid2177]

This was the greatest show of this series. Paul Alter the director and Peggy Parker Mark Goodsons secretary were just great. Peggy was friends with my Aunt Dottie who was Mike Douglas's Liaison between Mike and Group W and Westinghouse Productions. Peggy was a really great person. When we use to go up and see To Tell The Trruth Peggy would always meet us before the show.

[@LifesanAdventure1202]

Sounds like you have lots of fond memories. How nice.

[@paulyricca3881]

🚬👱🏻‍♂️🥃 YOUR AUNT DOTTIE STOLE A TOW TRUCK IN NYC AND STOLE MY GOLD WATCH AND RAN DOWN OLDE BROADWAY.

[@paulyricca3881]

@@LifesanAdventure1202🚬👴🏿🥃SOOO HOWS YO MOTHER DOIN?

[@johnblair8146]

I literally LOVE Graphic Artist Sam Cecere's modification of the Lucian typeface. The best of 1970 swashed type!!!!!! ❣

[@themoviedealers]

Kitty Carlisle remains resolutely parked in 1955 with her hair and outfit

[@jackbusby9602]

I once read about her in a magazine where someone asked her why she always wore the same dresses. Her response was that she hadn't gained or lost a pound in (I forget how many) years and that she knew they would eventually be back in style some day any way.

[@weltonvillegal6258]

And she still looked fantastic.

[@bernadettelovespie4734]

Crazy, I was 5 when this first aired. I guessed them both correctly, it was fairly easy to eliminate one after listening closely. You just know that blond haired boy wasn’t sitting in his room writing letters to anyone, he was too upbeat. The makeup artist guy.. the one clearly had a woman’s voice. Ha ha. Thanks for posting.

[@merricat3025]

I was 6 when this aired. I got them right too. Make up artist was easy.

[@MaryBeth1965]

I was 5 also in 1970 ☺

[@kevinfitzmaurice4072]

11:03--Garry Moore mentions that CBS make up people worked on the participants in the first game. Although this version of "To Tell the Truth" was syndicated, it initially taped at CBS's Ed Sullivan Theater in New York. "Truth" moved to NBC at Rockefeller Plaza in New York in 1971.

[@Royelsworth]

Orson Bean became the adoptive father to the late Andrew Breitbart.

[@alexckelly1]

Father in law.

[@TehSaviorRemixer]

I was 15 when this first aired

[@designsonyouinparis]

Best episode!

[@meyerj75]

When GSN first aired this version back in 1996, they started off with this episode but skipped everything else from the first season which hasn't been seen since. Hello? Earth to GSN?

[@nintendonerdsvideos4727]

I think the 1st season has been wiped

[@witherblaze]

There is no first season. This episode here is the premire of the second season.

[@Trefoile]

The set looks like "Laugh-In."

[@pannoni8449]

It was the psychedelic era after all, with the 1968-74 What's My Line? set being the second best game show example IMO.

[@Trefoile]

@@pannoni8449 I was in early-mid-elementary school during that era and remember all the psychedelic stuff very well!

[@Trefoile]

@@pannoni8449 Everybody watched "Laugh-In," at least during its first two or three seasons. It was a cultural phenomenon.

[@kenbrown438]

Peggy you can't say that on TV !!!!

[@sacredwolf2012]

Even though Bud Collyer was the original host of To Tell The Truth, Garry Moore will go down as the greatest To Tell The Truth host ever.

[@norfolk03]

mike wallace was first host then bud collyer took over

[@williamanthony9090]

Says you... I prefer Bud any day of the week, and twice on Sunday!

[@norfolk03]

i love them both nut bud collyer was my favoite host on there

[@mooncrab]

I'd say it's a toss off between them both

[@PaulTesta]

@Paula Carson According to IMDb, he only hosted the show 6 times in the '77-78 time frame.

[@kenbrown438]

Only $50.00 for each wrong vote !!!!

[@lenb7275]

I knew # 3 was a woman in the first round

[@annalee117]

Charlie is my hero ❤

[@brianarbenz1329]

So Watergate is the fault of the first guest!

[@kenbrown438]

Gary touched his nose !!!!

[@sugarjoe50]

Regarding # 3's voice, Peggy Cass's comments wouldn't fly in todays PC world.

[@LinkRocks]

Define "PC".

[@peregrino9154]

Don't say anything that could offend minorities (i.e, homosexuals).

[@greggsheaffer2521]

The real TTTT

[@nextbarker2702]

Why couldn't GSN air Season 1 of the syndicated TTTT?

[@pannoni8449]

The first season is believed to be lost. An episode taken from a reel-to-reel recording from Season 1 recently turned up not too long ago, so it's not totally gone. But given that the first two seasons of syndie WML? survives leads me to wonder the tapes were probably misplaced instead of wiped, especially surprising considering this was Mark Goodson's favorite show.

[@nextbarker2702]

@@pannoni8449 Did Garry Moore mention Bud on the premiere?

[@gsnfan]

I think the imposter desks were holdovers from the original.

[@pannoni8449]

Not really, since during the final year of the Bud Collyer era, there was an extra light for the audience vote. This set was all-new.

[@kenbrown438]

Is that Peggy's new wig !!!!????

[@michaelwascom62]

Peggy Cass looks a bit like she had a face-lift; compared to her appearance on TTTT just a year or two prior.

[@arthuridis]

#1 had Brett Somers glasses

[@stephenr3910]

I don't think I would want credit for creating Nixon's look.

[@jchow5966]

Lol.

[@weltonvillegal6258]

Remembering how men that age looked back then (I was very young), it would take a lot of make up to make them look presentable, let along good.

[@markwhitman9029]

Wow the politically incorrect calling the man a sissy!!! 1970 a different time and it is obvious Peggy means gay which is what I thought Number 3 is. SHOCKED me that it was a woman and secretary to Goodson!

[@michaelwascom62]

No. 1 looks like Charles Manson!

[@terrykelly6113]

Where is Dorothy Kilgallen?

[@pannoni8449]

She died in 1965.

[@deanomarshall2926]

She was a regular panelist on "What's my Line?"

[@Danmark30]

Todays counter culture, Peggy would lose her career! I love this show.

[@LinkRocks]

Grow up. She wouldn't say that today because it's not the slang it was back then.

[@randilevson9547]

"Sissy"! Really??? Peggy Cass really showed her ignorance. How times have changed. Thank goodness!!!

[@peregrino9154]

If she was still alive, you could try to cancel her.

[@Jeremiah7-ox2nj]

Homophobia was opening displayed back in the day.

[@covidkid1482]

2 n 3 woman ....lol close

[@BrittneyCooper-yb3td]

The makeup artist first instinct was number 3 because he sounds gay.

[@bradbobhayhurst8604]

Back in those days it was sissy now it’s sussy..

[@voiceover-impressionist]

At the beginning of this clip, tap right here --> 0:33 Gary Moore says, would you believe that you right now, that your not looking at Gary Moore. Well here we are in late November of 2023. Where technology can reproduce Gary's likeness with deepfake and artificial intelligence. Which is both fascinating, as well as scary and a concern for many of us.

[@t.edmonds7813]

Peggy Cass was so offensive. I'm sure there were gay people in that studio. I hope she evolved during her life.

[@justrelax1539]

I bet she was friends with CNR also, and he was GAY

[@kathrynfauble9053]

@Creagh Roberson You are speculating. How do you know Peggy Cass met Charles Nelson Reilly?

[@firstlast5499]

@@kathrynfauble9053 Peggy Cass and Rip Taylor were celebrity panelists for a week on Match Game 74. No, he’s not CNR… but Rip is at least as flamboyant.

[@gummodude]

I think that director’s hairpiece was more offensive.

[@firstlast5499]

@Will N Actually I have a memory from watching a syndicated What’s My Line episode hosted by either Wally Brunner or more likely Larry Blyden… CNR was a panelist, the mystery guest was a male, and he started questioning and after he got the answer CNR commented something about, “I thought you might be someone I dated the other night.” CNR, Paul Lynde, and Rip Taylor were all open yet closeted. They never were public about it but they never truly hid it and on the game shows, all three of them cut loose a bit here and there.

[@seancasey2296]

I thought number three was gay