To Tell the Truth - Jim Brosnan, MLB pitcher/author; Editor of "Modern Bride" (Jun 13, 1966)

PANEL: Tom Poston, Peggy Cass, Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle
CONTESTANT #1: Cookie Lockhart (Auctioneer)
CONTESTANT #2: Robert Houseman (Editor-in-Chief of "Modern Bride" magazine)
CONTESTANT #3: Jim Brosnan (Former pitcher, baseball expert, & author of "The Long Season")
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[@suzanneharris8339]

#3 Robert Houseman was my uncle. He also was an editor at American Home. Quite the dapper gentleman with a wicked sense of humor & generous to a fault. RIP Uncle Bob - still loved & missed. 😚😟

[@stjudeprayer7]

Nice to know.... thank you for this background --

[@walkingtrails7776]

THE BEST feature on you tube is the fact you can FAST forward through EVERYTHING Orsen Bean says!

[@peternagy-im4be]

Bean was a hoot. A riot.

[@OldRustySteele]

Aw, c’mon! Orson’s random ramblings we’re the best and funniest part of the show. My favorite was when he talked about “the dreaded Gaboon viper. He bites you in the gaboon and waits around to see what happens. Terrible snake!”

[@kentetalman9008]

I love Orson. Wish I could have met him.

[@pixelcoffee568]

Wow, this is amazing. I am so excited to see that this KZbin channel exists. My father was on an episode around 1968 (I believe), and I have wished for many years to see it. He is now 70 years old, and I am sure he'd be floored if I could find it for him someday. I am sure this process of uploading takes a lot of time, so I will happily wait and see if his episode shows up in the future. I can't imagine how much work it must be to put all of these videos together. But I really appreciate what you are doing. Thank you so much!!

[@rmelin13231]

I completely agree with you, and I hope you have located the episode with your father.

[@pixelcoffee568]

@@rmelin13231 thank you, we actually did end up tracking it down! I researched the exact episode my dad was in so that I could find the year and episode number. (It was 1971-1972, Episode 0813, the segment with Colonel Samuel Loboda). I then contacted an individual named Marshall who used to run a website called “To Tell The Truth on the Web”, who has put a ton of work into archiving information and footage from these episodes. It looks like the site is mostly gone now, so I’m thankful I reached out before then. Marshall was able to hunt down the clip and share it with me on KZbin. My Dad was absolutely dazzled being able to finally see this footage! And my Mom and I got a real kick out of watching it too. :)

[@rmelin13231]

@@pixelcoffee568 That is so great! These folks put a lot of time and effort to assemble these classic shows, and I hope they know their work is appreciated. I grew up with these programs, so it's a bit of a walk down memory lane, as well as just plain enjoyable. I'm so glad your dad was able to enjoy it (again).

[@mrjack4808]

Mr. Brosnan wrote The Long Season a diary of the 1959 season he had started the season with the St. Louis Cardinals but was traded to the Cincinnati Reds midway thru that season. He also wrote Pennant Race his diary of the 1961 season in which he was a relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds won the NL pennant that year and played the New Yankees in the 1961 World Series.

[@massvt3821]

Yes, Jim Brosnan, i.e Broz, Meat, the Professor, etc. I can highly recommend both of his books (The Long Season, 1959, and Pennant Race, 1961. The best baseball diaries ever written, from the point of view of a relief pitcher for the Reds. Well written, and lots of fun, and actually written by Broz, and no ghost writer..

[@dejpsyd0421]

I couldn’t believe the pitcher was #2. He had to have lied and acted dumb on many of the questions. That’s not fair 😢😅

[@OldRustySteele]

@@dejpsyd0421 I agree. He missed a lot of Tom Poston’s and Peggy Cass’s questions which should have been easy to answer.

[@grdn02100]

@@OldRustySteele I guess they didn't have the ridiculous salaries back then that we see today, but yeah even I knew Yogi Berra was from St Louis and I'm a mathematician.

[@nickandmikec]

The panel was hilarious. I love these panelists. Orson Bean brought much humor to the show, as did Tom Poston and Peggy Cass. Kitty Carlisle was always so good natured. Missing at this airing was long-time panelist Polly Bergen.

[@OldRustySteele]

I agree. These 4 were the best panel mix on TTTT!

[@epaddon]

Jim Brosnan's book "The Long Season" was groundbreaking in that it was the first time an active MLB player had ever written a semi-candid diary of a baseball season, though it was not as controversial as Jim Bouton's "Ball Four" would be several years later, which was the first book to offer more salacious gossip about the players and their habits.

[@acousticshadow4032]

This was one of the most enjoyable TTTT episodes ever.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

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

[@JeffW77]

I laughed out loud at the outcome of Game 1 (auctioneer/identical twins) Amazing game construction. Also, I have read "The Long Season" by Jim Brosnan. Great book.

[@RachelDavisMatthews]

Cookie is alive and well at 81.

[@juangalt3496]

Kitty should have shown up in a "Mod" dress at least once for the fun of it. I guess back then women didn't try to dress like 20 year olds - like some do today.

[@janeiwasduncan8463]

Kitty always dressed elegantly, ladylike, and to impress her audience. I watched to see what she and other ladies wore. I was rarely disappointed. The show got better when it went to color. I can still remember a stunning red full length red evening gown. WOW!!!

[@donnawoodford6641]

Is she wearing ostrich feathers?

[@Dubyular]

Peggy’s hand held spectacles

[@kenyongray2615]

All the Connies had pleasant features. Jim Brosnan was a decent pitcher and an even better author. Yes, I did see him pitch.

[@michelinaporemba9567]

I swear the twin interior decorators were on What's My Line.

[@greglehmann7234]

The panel struck out on this one!

[@9094nancyj]

Orson Bean wastes a lot of his questioning time joking around

[@peternagy-im4be]

He was brought in for that very reason

[@ThatsnewsTV]

Was that Orson's mike buzzing after he spilt water on it?

[@watchman1178]

So, former MLB pitcher Jim Brosnan didn't know what a southpaw was? Somebody must've forgotten to tell him that the "real person" has to tell the truth.

[@stuartrubin5730]

He did not say that he did not know what a southpaw was. All he said was that he did not know how the word orginated as relates to baseball.

[@519djw6]

Constance Talmadge?" I know that there was one silent movie star who is rumored to have "slept with" every member of some sports team. But I think that was Clara Bow. What in the hell was Kitty Carlisle referring to? (And by the way, Constance Talmadge was still alive when this program aired.)

[@tomservo56954]

Bow is supposed to have been "involved" with every member of the 1927 University of Southern California football team, known as "The Thundering Herd"...including Marion Morrison, better known to the world as John Wayne.

[@kenowens9021]

@@tomservo56954 Joan Crawford.

[@tomservo56954]

@It's 1984: The Fact Checkers are here! I read it in a fairly reputable source that also did not claim it as hard fact.

[@jacquelinebell6201]

6'11" was an amazing height!

[@MidKid61]

BTW The Boston Bees are now the Atlanta Braves.

[@OldRustySteele]

You got it. They were the Boston Braves, then the Milwaukee Braves, and finally the Atlanta Braves. They had moved to Atlanta in 1965, not long before this episode of TTTT was aired. BTW, Were they ever officially the Boston “Bees”, or was it the “B’s” as short for Braves much like the A’s are short for Athletics. I’m not sure and would need to look it up.

[@carmenilardi276]

I think I know why Robert Houseman is a bachelor.

[@jimmygoodrich9590]

And why

[@kentetalman9008]

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[@kenowens9021]

I'm not sure but I think the blond twin sister sitting down was killed in a plane crash within a year of this showing.

[@joeambrose3260]

What's your source ?

[@peternagy-im4be]

​@@joeambrose3260correct. She was.

[@joeambrose3260]

That was pointless. They saw the twin for a few seconds from a distance

[@audw2534]

Orson Bean is my least favorite panelist. He adds nothing to the show.

[@nickandmikec]

Give us a break.

[@peternagy-im4be]

He was entertaining. A hoot. A riot.

[@kentetalman9008]

He adds at least as much as anyone else.

[@joeambrose3260]

Tom, Peggy and Orson are my 3 least favorite panelists of all time

[@peternagy-im4be]

OK.

[@markcornish2519]

Well don't watch, they couldn't have kitty alone!

[@JohnnylMr]

These 4 panelists are horrendous. Their questions are impudent and irrelevant. Also, they fail miserably in their pathetic attempt at humor.

[@janeiwasduncan8463]

They might have had a pre program party:-):-):-)

[@jamesanthony5681]

What else do you like about them?

[@garyzell2135]

i agree with the previous comment. they are terrible.

[@Walterwhiterocks]

@@garyzell2135 I like Tom, and Kitty is harmless. but have never cared for Peggy and Orson tries to hard to be funny and he simply is not.

[@donnawoodford6641]

I don't understand many of the people of that era.